COMIC DIALOGUE Co-presented by HKAC and Les Halles, a comic dialogue between HK and Brussels featuring 12 comic artists each from both side in creating a wordless dialogues of the cultural misinterpretation of the two continents. This “Comics Dialogue” project has generated 24 pieces of comic artworks, which act as the “give and take” of the two cities. The full series was showcased in the Comic Strip Festival 2016 and is avaliable online at comicsdialogue.tumblr.com.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: CHI-KIT KEUNG X GUILLERMO GANUZA DOLLY X LUCIE BRYON PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) and Les Halles de Schaerbeek “A Taste of Hong Kong” in Brussels, Belgium on 1618 September 2016, carries out cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary exchanges between Hong Kong artists and their European counterparts to produce 9 intense site-specific performances. Along with the performances, comics arts of the two cities produce 24 pieces of comics dialogue to heat up the performance in advance, while culinary treat will also be offered during the performance to give the European audience a taste of the contemporary art and cultural landscape of Hong Kong. Committed to promoting Asian contemporary arts, the HKAC takes the helm in nurturing local talents and brings not only their artistry but also a co-creation platform to the international scene. Following a successful exchange trip to Brussels in August 2015; “A Taste of Hong Kong”, will further develop the tie between Hong Kong and Brussels. The programme breaks away from the conventional model of outputting production, instead, it emphasizes cross-continental exchange that will create cultural product made in and for the international stage. 10 local performing and multi-art artists will go to Brussels and work with Belgian artists to embark an intensive Artist-In-Residence to co-create 9 sitespecific dance x multi-art performances at Les Halles de Schaerbeek.
KYLIE CHAN X BERTRAND PANIER SIUMOU CHOW X KARO PAUWELS KONGKEE X XAVIER BOUYSSOU ANGRYANGRY X ELORA DE PAPE FAT GHOST X MATHIEU Z BONNIE PANG X CYRIL ELOPHE JOAN CHAN X JEANNE BALAS AHKO X THOMAS MATHIEU CHIHOI X FANNY MICHAELIS JUSTIN WONG X MANUEL
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
DANCE
MUI CHEUK YIN Mui learnt chinese dance in Hong Kong when she was 14. She joined the Hong Kong Dance Company from 1981 to 1990 as the principle dancer, then she became independent choreographer, teacher and dancer. Her works have been shown in locally & internationally. Mui also has been invited to the festival of 25th&35th Anniversary of Piña Bausch Tanztheater in 1998 and 2008. She received Asian Cultural Council grant to study modern dance in New York, also a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance Award, her works included Whispering Color commissioned by Folkwang Tanz Studio, Awakening in a Dream by HK Dance Company, Eulogy by City Contemporary Dance Company and As Quick As Silver by the HK Arts Festival.
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“A Taste of Hong Kong” in Brussels, Belgium, carries out cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary exchanges between Hong Kong artists and the European counterparts to produce 9 intense site-specific performances. The coproductions will be the outcomes of the Hong Kong and Belgian artists’ artistic journey of experimenting with different media and carrying out dialogues between different cultures. They will reflect the artists’ thoughts on culture, tradition, space, body, violence and terrorism, and even relationship between arts and the latest technology, virtual reality. To give the European audience a taste of the contemporary art and cultural landscape of Hong Kong, culinary treats will also be served during the performance.
TEXTILE ARTS AND INSTALLATION
ELISE PÉROI Elise lives and works in Brussels. She studied textile and visual arts in Belgium. Weaving is her way of expressing herself and taking part in our society. Like our ancestors, she sees the act of making as important as the final product.
DANCE
YANG HAO
DANCE
Yang is a contemporary dancer based in Hong Kong. He grew up in Chongqing and studied in Beijing until he moved to Hong Kong to study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2007. Yang has toured with the Chinese Opera and Dance Drama Theater, China Song and Dance Troupe from Guangzhou, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, and the City Contemporary Dance Company.
DANIEL YEUNG A self-trained dancer/choreographer upon his graduation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (major in Fine Arts and minor in Music). Yeung went to Holland to begin his training in choreography with scholarship at the age of 29 in 1996. In 2000, he was awarded the “Hong Kong Dance Award” by Hong Kong Dance Alliance for his first full-length solo work Dance Exhibitionist. Daniel is now active both as a curator and choreographer in different major festivals both in Asia and Europe.
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ERIC ARNAL BURTSCHY At the Sorbonne University, Eric studied history, philosophy and geopolitics before moving to the performing and visual arts. In 2012, he won the Marcel BleusteinBlanchet foundation prize and became an artist in residence at L’L - A place dedicated to the research for young artist, Brussels. Since then, he has been working on various projects, often in collaboration with other artists.
He was a member of ImpulseTanz DanceWEB 2014, and Arts Fellow of Yale China Association and HKETO in New York Office. He has recently present his work Outspoken in Tanzmesse in September 2016, and his solo Pied A Terre and Middle has been presented in the New Haven International Festival Arts And Ideas.
VIDEO AND VISUAL ARTS
LOLA MEOTTI Lola is a visual artist based in Brussels. She creates installations made up of videos, images and sculptures. Integration of these elements in the space, adjusting them to the architecture of the exhibition space, is an integral part of Meotti’s creative process. Her work is mainly composed of pre-existing images or videos from private or official archive.
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DANCE
VISUAL ARTS AND INSTALLATION
MOVING IMAGES
MAO WEI + TRACY WONG
CAMILLE PANZA + PIERRE MERCIER
JADE CORAL ( 曾翠珊 )
Mao was born in China. A full scholarship student and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He has worked with many artists from around the world. He is now an independent artist focuses on body research and choreography. His works were being invited to different arts festivals in Seoul, Macau, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Japan.
Born in 1989, Camille studied at the Nancy Theatre Conservatory and the universities of Nancy and Florence, after which she obtained an Art History and Modern Languages degree in 2010. She obtained a Master Degree in “Theatre et Techniques de Communication,” production and staging option in 2014, and wrote a master thesis on the subject of hybrid projects and their alternative ways of production. In 2015 she founded the pluri disciplinary project Espace Jungle, along with scenographer Marie-Laetitiaa Cianfarani, actor/ lighting designer Leonard Cornevin, sound designer Noam Rzewski and illustrator Pierre Mercier to create the protean project Jungle Space in America. This project is currently in its research phase.
Born in Macau, Wong was one of the only two students from her batch to graduate with First Class honours from the Dance stream in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). Majoring in Contemporary Dance, she has performed in Korea, Spain, Vienna, Philippines and Singapore. She has been working with the Hong Kong Dance Company, performing in a duet as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, as well as dancing for well-known choreographers based in Hong Kong.
Born in Saumur, Pierre began his art study in arts and design from high school, and obtained Master in the graphic and scientific category, illustration and comics specialization in 2015. He wrote a thesis exploring the links between information design and comics, and the way the first allows to bring a story into the second. He also draw illus¬trations for students in pharmaceutic research and microbiology at Université libre de Bruxelles and Geneva University. He’s now a member of Espace Jungle collective, and is especially active in the Jungle Space in America project.
Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on the humanitarian grounds. In 2008 her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake succeed internationally, it won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. Tsang finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories in 2014, and her latest Drama Scent also released in Mid of August 2014. In recent years, Tsang has actively participated in projects relating to environmental issues and disadvantaged communities, which has been recognised by the FilmAid Asia Humanitarian Award in 2016.
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THEATRE AND DANCE
GAÏA SAITTA Gaia graduated in 2003 from the National Conservatory Silvio D'Amico in Rome. She has worked in Italy with Luca Ronconi at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and with Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, whose company she joined in 2006. In Belgium, she started in Chants de Sisyphe by Olivier Coyette at the Théâtre de la Balsamine. She also translates contemporary Italian plays. She was recently directed by Manuela Cherubini in La Modestia by Rafael Spregelburd; this performance will tour Italy next year. In 2010, she presented a work about Chekhov at the Théâtre de l'Atalante in Paris directed by Anatoli Vassiliev.
ANIMATION AND MULTIMEDIA
COMIC ARTS
TSUI KA HEI HAZE
KONGKEE
Haze Tsui is a passionate and creative visual artist in moving images. In 2006, he gathered a team with his friends and formed Zcratch. With all those wonderful ideas in them, they have been more than prepared to share their works to the audiences.
A wry comics writer who cannot tell comedy from tragedy, hence he chooses to create animations and comics in Hong Kong. In 2009, Kongkee founded Penguin Lab together with Law Man-lok for multimedia development and product making. Their latest animation Saveur Térébenthine was selected to animation group of the 20th Incubator for Films & Visual Media in Asia (ifva), and was presented at the 16th Japanese digicon6 Awards. In 2015, he has collaborated with international renowned band BLUR to publish “Travel to Hong Kong with Blur” . From 2016, his comic character "Ding Ding Penguin" has been selected as one of the statues in "Hong Kong Avenue of Comic Stars".
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SABINA SCARLAT Sabina is a director and works with her life companion Nicanor de Elia. She created The Departure of Hesperiens a docu-fiction project developed with the inhabitants of a district in Brussels while collaborating with Halles de Schaerbeek, including Municipality and RenovaS; Monsters, a contemporary dance creation, premiered in Balsamine Theater, Brussels. Since 2009, she is the co-founder and co-director of GARAGE29 project, a Creation and Presentation Space for Performance Arts, a permanent resident contemporary dance company and a Performance Arts Festival.
DANCE
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NICANOR DE ELIA
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Nicanor, studied at the Toulouse circus school "Le Lido" in France, but his career started in Argentina in 1998 where he created dance and circus companies. In 2006 he creates G.Bistaki company and in 2009 the GARAGE29, a company with his own dance studio and creative space. With this two projects evolved into the European art scene. He then receives regular invites by dance and circus companies to share his perspective and artistry. His shows were presented in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Chilli, Spain, France, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, USA.
DANCE
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PIERGIORGIO MILANO Piergiorgio is a choreographer, dancer and acrobat. He has been a performer in the world tour of Tabac Rouge directed by James Thiérré . He also worked for many internationals artists like: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, David Zambrano, Rodrigo Pardo, Raffaella Giordano. As choreographer with his solo Denti he won the prizes: Mas Danza (ES), Baltic Movement (PL), Dance Factory (IT). With the show Ai Migranti he won the prize Equilibrio 2010. At the moment he is touring with his new production: PESADILLA which is also winner of the prize Equilibrio 2015.
THEATRE
INK ART
CHU PAK HIM
FRANK TANG
Chu is the Creative Leader of Actors’ Family, a member of the band Juicyning and the host of the RTHK TV programme Artspiration. He was an Artist Associate of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and a full-time actor of Chung Ying Theatre Company (CYTC). Currently he is a columnist for the art and culture magazine Delta Zhi and a part-time actor for CYTC. He was awarded Best Actor (Comedy/ Farce) in the 23rd Hong Kong Drama Awards for his performance in Big Big Day (CYTC). Recent works include The Lesson I Learnt in Bangkok.
Tang is a Hong Kong based artist whose artworks consist of Chinese painting, moving images and installation. His works always reflect the relationship between humans and nature, a relationship that is no longer so present in our daily lives. Tang received his Bachelor of Visual Arts(Hons) from Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU. In 2014, he was selected for an artist-in-residence in Zurich University of the Arts.
CIRCUS AND THEATRE
ROSA-MARIE SCHMIDT Rosa Schmidt was born in Germany and grew up in Portugal. She studied circus for three years in Lisbon circus school before joining ESAC in Brussels. As a student, she grew fond of doublerope and made it her main cat. She also studied dance, theatre, acrobatics and more academic courses like anatomy, circus history, art history as well as law and production.
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CULINARY ART
Hong Kong Arts Centre
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
GEORGE TANG
The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) is a selffinanced and non-profit organisation. For the past 38 years, the HKAC has played a unique role in promoting contemporary art and culture in Hong Kong and abroad. The HKAC’s main building is situated in Wan Chai, with facilities including a cinema, theatres, galleries, classrooms, studios, restaurants and office space. The HKAC provides a wide range of programmes on performing arts, visual arts, film and video arts, public art projects, conferences, art festivals and more, connecting the arts to the general public. Its education arm, the Hong Kong Art School (HKAS), is an accredited institute established in 2000 and is staffed by a group of dedicated artists. The focus of its award-bearing curriculum lies in four core academic areas—Fine Art, Applied Art, Media Art, and Applied Theatre and Drama Education. The HKAC is also the Main Operator of the “Comix Home Base” (CHB) , operating it as the platform for exchange and interaction for the comics industry, locally and internationally.
Les Halles showcase their independence right in the heart of Brussels, the European capital, in a metal and glass structure dating back to 1901, which has been saved from destruction and wonderfully renovated. Its space is unrivalled and perfectly suited for celebrations, extraordinary projects, as well as both artistic and human adventures. Ever since their beginnings, Les Halles have captured and crystallised movements stemming right from the edges of art and society, in an unprecedented alliance of both learned and popular culture.
Born into a family of restaurateurs, George learned to cook in her family’s restaurant since she was 15. In 2010, she started her own business, George Kitchen, of which she takes the helm as executive chef. She is the 2011 Canton/Macau/Hong Kong Professional Cooking Competition champion, and a 2014 recipient of the Grand Diplôme in French Cuisine and French Pastry from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. Her talents in fashion designing, painting, writing, and French and Chinese cooking bring a distinctive flare to her culinary art. George has been passionate about food her whole life.
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It is an ideal space to create new performative formats, going beyond the classic partition between creators and spectators. Unconcerned with the barriers separating disciplines, willing to shake up the norms, Les Halles resonate with a desire for participation and involvment, be it individually or collectively, thus characterising the digital age. Open to contemporary hopes and upheavals spanning from the neighbourhood right out to the world at large, Les Halles keep on looking for what Europe, still on a quest for its own destiny, has to offer: exploration of new passions, reason seeking out adventure, the utmost freedom of style.
Acknowledgement Sponsored by
Supported by
Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles