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Chen Kai's "Movement with Fan" to launch Dance On Series (with photo)
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   The Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s Dance On Series will open at the end of September with Chen Kai's latest programme, "Movement with Fan".
 
     Dancer and choreographer Chen Kai founded "Classifiable Movement" and puts it into practice, visualising the notion of "let the movement speak for itself". The theory will be further elaborated in Chen's latest production, "Movement with Fan".
 
     Chen said, "The delicacy of the fan and the rhythm of creating postures aroused my interest in discovering movement with the feature - it is smoothly coherent. I am captivated by such smooth and coherent movement and keen on studying it to unlock my discovery of antiquity as well as understanding of orientalism."
 
     Chen said he has been charmed by the movement of a fan in Chinese opera, such as folding, unfolding, waving, rotating, throwing, covering, swinging, fluttering, shaking, carrying and rowing. He hopes to grasp the detailed essence of its origins in pursuit of being well-founded in each movement.

     Chen's "classifiable movement" choreographic method categorises movements according to their features, including linear, flex, turning, twist and rolling. Focusing on just one feature at each time, a series of dance pieces have been developed, among which are "Line", "Line and Aureola", "Sweep" (overture), "Twist", "Flex", "Circle", "Circle II", "Line II" and "Sweep".

     "Movement with Fan" will be staged at 8pm on September 30 and October 1 (Friday and Saturday) and at 3pm on October 1 and 2 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Black Box Theatre of Kwai Tsing Theatre. Tickets priced at $160 are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999.

     For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/dance/program_1225.html.

 
 
Ends/Friday, August 19, 2016
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Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Chen Kai's "Movement with Fan" will be staged from September 30 to October 2 at the Black Box Theatre of Kwai Tsing Theatre.