Curated by Eric Kay

Italo Calvino once pondered that time manifests visibly in the city, where architecture and monuments endure as fossils of humanity’s shared odyssey, beckoning remembrance and compassion.

“Body and Landscape” presents four dance films woven into diverse urban realms, where dancers wander through cityscapes seeking intimate dialogue with fragments of history buried within.  Macau Blank Diary unfolds at Macau’s Praça de Ponte e Horta, once the Qing Dynasty’s inaugural opium pier and fiscal stronghold, transformed through time from bustling dock to teahouse, from vibrant marketplace to tranquil refuge.  The Lost Note inhabits Taiwan’s enigmatic Japanese-era edifices, where the director wields tension-filled montage, deliberately misaligning sound and vision to evoke dissonant harmonies that shadow the dancer’s elegant movements.  A City, A Body and A House follows Hong Kong artists across 9,450 kilometers to Kortrijk, tracing cross-cultural echoes of growth, displacement, and emotional resonance in this distant European enclave.  Loop/Hole returns to Hong Kong’s tong lau tenements, where dance unfurls in labyrinthine corridors, revealing how body and lens alchemize everyday spaces into dreamlike visions.

Dance transmutes into the body’s land art, subtly infiltrating the city’s rhythmic breath before merging with the landscape itself. These films unveil fresh portals for beholding the city’s hidden soul and whispered mysteries.

Macau Blank Diary

A city surrounded by the ocean, its people nurtured by its water, fragile awareness being tortured by the illusion of beauty, the vulnerable body dragged by the rhythm of the city.  Struggling against the currents of time, the sedate body struggled to write this unrecordable diary about the blank pages of this old city.

Director / Alexis Kam, Dynamic Wang
2025 / 12‘28

Taiwan Dance Platform (2024)

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The Lost Note

An old, weathered piano abandoned in a Japanese-style building sparked inspiration for director/cinematographer Maurice.  Working with dancer Yeh An-ting, they improvised through interwoven camera and body movements, set against the deceptively casual yet rhythmic piano tapping. This exploration captures the emotional turbulence of life’s struggling moments, accompanied by a Chopin piece performed by former CCDC dancer Chan Yi-jing—a performance that awakens dormant emotions from the past.

Director / Maurice Lai
Choreographer / Yeh An-ting
Cast / Yeh An-ting, Chan Yi-jing
2024 / 6‘18

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A city, A body And a House

During her time away from home, artist Alysa Leung embarks on a journey to explore her identity and sense of belonging to her hometown, Hong Kong. Through her artistic research on Kortjrik’s urban renewal, she rediscovers the profound connection between space, body, and identity.  As she delves into her choreography, she gradually uncovers vivid memories that shape her struggles toward who she is.

Director / Anson Sham, Alysa Leung
2025 / 17‘01 / English, Cantonese

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Loop / Hole

When his soul finds its dwelling, everything looks different. Ruins transform into palaces, narrow spaces open up, and even wasteland enchants.  As time goes by, what is about to vanish becomes eternity.  He tries to redraw a map of his home with his body, leaving a mark for the future.

*World Premiere

Director / Wong Tan-ki
Choreographer / Wong Tan-ki
Cast / Wong Tan-ki, Jusytine Li
2025 / 19‘00

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