23 Oct 2014

Pier Windows, On the Edge of the Pier: project by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Steve Hui and Nadim Abbas

Pier Windows, On the Edge of the Pier
project by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Steve Hui and Nadim Abbas

29.10 - 2.11.2014 @ Kwun Tong Ferry Pier, Hong Kong

The signature event of On the Edge of the Pier, Pier Windows will be launched from October 29 to November 2, 2014, at Kwun Tong Ferry Pier, Hong Kong. It is an interactive performance installation, with special features including Ghosts and Wanderers, an experimental musical theatre work that explores the naamyamsinging tradition with Chinese and Indian musicians. Dance works on Ghosts, Water and the Marvelous—based on classical texts, such as Journey to the West and the Odyssey—will draw from Indian classical dance, American modern dance, and site-specific dance improvisations. Writing Windows, four short dance works, explore Chinese, American, and South Asian histories in Hong Kong. An ongoing feature, Nadim Abbas's installation project along with Steve Hui's environmental sound compositions, will invite meditation on the nature of ghosts, memory, and the pier itself.

'As we collect and perform personal, community, and cultural stories about ghosts, water, and the marvelous, we will experience new ways of seeing the city's environment, its histories, and each other through the literal and metaphorical windows of the Kwun Tong Pier, an everyday site that links land, water, and people at a transit point for departures and arrivals within and across the corridors of Hong Kong's city scape.' – Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

Lead Artists and Program Partners:

US and Hong Kong based artist Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren (choreographer, playwright, director, theatre scholar and professor)
Hong Kong artists Steve Hui (AKA Nerve, sound artist, musician and theatre director)
Nadim Abbas (a visual artist and set designer)
soundpocket
ADAHK
YMCA of HK (CSW Centre)

Participating Artists:

Oxana Banshikova, Hong Kong
Rush Benson, US
Benny Fung, Hong Kong
Christine He, Hong Kong
Lee Hin, Hong Kong
Chin King, Hong Kong
Sen Jansen T F, India
Sally Rousse, US
Rag Saseendrababu, India
Nirmal Selvamony, India
Kenneth Sze, Hong Kong
Mary Tang, Hong Kong

Program Details:

:: Visual Arts Installation: A site-specific intervention
Nadim Abbas, with contributions from:
Josie Chu Shuk Ling, Lai Wing Ki, Yolinda Lau Lai Ling, Law Hoi Lok , 
Rayven Sin Wai Chi, Willis Tung Ho Man, Sandy Yip Tsz Shan

:: Performance Events/ Installation Dates and Times
29-31.10(Wed-Fri) | 4-10pm

1.11(Sat) | 10am-10pm

2.11 (Sun) | 10am-6pm


Venue information:


Kwun Tong Ferry Pier
Kwun Tong Ferry Pier, Hoi Yuen Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (near Hoi Bun Industrial Building)
www.fortuneferry.com.hk

Contact / Enquiry / Information:

Denise Cheuk, Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Production Assistant
denisecheuk@gmail.com; Tel: (852) 97292163

www.pierwindows.com