About Toolbox Manoeuvre Percussion x Contemporary Dance x Literary Arts
Kafka speaks, the city stirs. Strange synthesis. The train rages, footsteps hasten. Hustling existences. The disoriented heart’s negotiating a new arrangement of reality. We’ll listen. Just listen. In Toolbox Manoeuvre, a team of cross-media artists join forces to construct a dreamy and mystifying mindscape of contemporary life. Choreographer Alice Ma and Wayson Poon will dance to new music and arrangements performed by Toolbox Percussion and Artistor Director Louis Siu. This is conceived as a sequel to Toolbox Mouvement, a collaborative project by Toolbox Percussion which has toured Gwangju in Korea, San Francisco in USA and Shanghai in China as well as locally in different forms since 2017. As a cross-disciplinary performance that blends percussion, contemporary dance and literary arts, rhythm plays an important role in connecting these three genres. Rhythm lays the foundation for percussion, and is also an important element for the other two genres. To the dancer, every move, pause and breathe is connected by rhythm. Rhythm also has a delicate relationship with literature – different literary types each has its own rhythm. For novels and prose passages, the pace of how one recites also attributes different emotions to the same texts.
Dancer credit: Alice Ma
JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power
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