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Littlebreath Creative Workshop's latest mixed arts production "Absent Presentee" will be staged in March. Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the production includes a performance and an installation exhibition.
"Absent Presentee" is the group's second full-length work in its "Border Series". Directed by young artist Chan Kwun-fee, the work explores the hidden passion behind silence and apathy. Chan describes her feelings on discovering that people who once shared her viewpoints can turn silent and apathetic when confronted with the judicial process. Such apathy is even more "violent and terrible" than firearms and explosives.
In staging this production, a silent world in the wilderness is depicted through audiovisual installations, live music and dance theatre. The stage design and audiovisual installations for the performance create a seamless stage, allowing the audience and performers to be drawn close together for enhanced effect. Participants can also touch the installations when they visit the exhibition.
Also participating in this production are young choreographer and dancer Ivy Tsui and sound designer Leung Po-wing.
Littlebreath Creative Workshop was founded in 2009. Most of its works are interdisciplinary and experimental, always trying to explore and question our times with bodily movements. Previous works included "Tides In Limbo", "448 Things to Do at 4.48", "Woman.Appetites", "Border States" and "Present Absentee".
Programme details are as follows:
"Absent Presentee"(in Cantonese and English)
March 5 to 8 (Thursday to Sunday) 8pm
Unit 12, Cattle Depot
Tickets: $160
Post-performance talk (to be conducted in Cantonese) will be held after the performance on March 6 (Friday).
"Absent Presentee"(Installation Exhibition)
March 6 to 8 (Friday to Sunday) 11am to 5pm
Unit 12, Cattle Depot
Free Admission
Tickets are now available at URBTIX. Half-price tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and their minders, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (limited tickets for CSSA recipients are available on a first-come, first-served basis). There are group booking and "Multimedia-Motion Series" package booking, please refer to the programme leaflet for details.
For programme enquiries, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/multi_arts/program_720.html. For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For Internet bookings, please visit www.urbtix.hk.
Ends/Thursday, January 22, 2015
Issued at HKT 10:30
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