2021.06.19
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「舊時王謝堂前燕，飛入尋常百姓家。」
《遊園驚夢》是文學大師白先勇的意識流小說，感悟時光流逝，今非昔比。這段舞蹈短片由編舞家梅卓燕重新演繹，通過旗袍與褶扇，既富有東方的傳統美感，又具備西方現代舞的簡約，是香港融合東西文化的精粹之作。黃勁輝導演擅於文學與電影的藝術實驗，特別選取香港老殖民建築物的烘托，讓梅卓燕現代舞的香港味道，游走古雅與現今，穿梭時代與歷史，更添一種本土地緣解讀的可能性。
黃梅再度合作，影像與舞蹈交錯，集中探索舞者動作如何穿越老建築空間與意識流的關係，尋找與別不同的香港舞蹈片神采。過去的記憶，弄不清屬於個人生活，還是本地歷史。太虛幻夢的影像，是一個符號？是一個意象？還是一場驚夢？
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Garden of Forking Dreams
Presented by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Produced by: Wong King-fai, Mui Cheuk-yin
Platform: Facebook
Synopsis: Sparrows that used to gather in the courts of Wang and Xie, now scattered around commoners’ houses.
Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream is preeminent writer Pai Hsien-yung’s stream-of-consciousness novel, discerning the passage of time and reminiscing the bygone days. In choreographer Mui Cheuk-yin’s reinterpretation, she makes use of cheongsam and folding fans, which are full of traditional oriental beauty, while embracing the minimalism of Western modern dance. It is a work illustrating Hong Kong’s fusion of Eastern and Western culture. Director Wong King-fai is skilled in doing artistic experiments with literature and films. He has specially chosen Hong Kong’s old colonial buildings as the backdrop to evince the city’s flavours in Mui’s modern dance. Travelling between the quaint and present, the eras and history, this work adds possible interpretations in geo-localism.
Wong and Mui collaborate again in this work, where moving images and dance are intertwined, to focus on exploring the dancer’s movements. The work examines how the dancer transcends the relationship between old building spaces and the stream of consciousness to obtain a distinctive essence of Hong Kong dance videos. It is unclear whether past memories belong to personal life or local history. Is the illusory images a symbol, an imagery or just a dream?
Scheme/ Festival: Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme
Art Form: Dance
Choreographer: Mui Cheuk-yin
Director: Wong King-fai
Performer: Mui Cheuk-yin
