It’s not my body 3.5 / this is
by wong tan-ki / dick wong
Edinburgh
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Edinburgh ::
2 – 11 Aug (not 5)
16:05 – 17:05
Assembly @ Dance Base, Dance Base 1,
14-16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2JU
From £13
In a double-bill performance that uses different approaches to interpret the body and dance, two contemporary choreographers grapple with existential questions. In It's Not My Body: Chapter 3.5, Wong Tan-ki wrestles with his own shadow. The dancer’s every move, pause and limbo on stage builds a picture of the effect a life in dance has on the artist and their body. A show that has been developed and revised over eight years, the latest chapter sees Wong Tan-ki on stage with just himself and his frenetic, precisely performed movement. This Is by Dick Wong looks to visual art – from Duchamp to Kosuth to Lewitt – to reinvestigate time, space and the body on stage.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Wong Tan-ki currently works as a freelance dancer, teacher, choreographer and multimedia designer. His creation Division was awarded the 1st prize at the 7th Jerusalem International Choreography Competition. His other creation Galatea & Pygmalion received Hong Kong Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in independent Dance in 2011 and Galatea X received the Outstanding Choreography in 2014. Wong himself had received the Award for Young Artist at The Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2015 . He also got the 3rd place of male solo in IDO World Tap Dance world Championships 2012. His video work Come Rain Or Shine got the Outstanding Cinematography Award & Outstanding Film Award in Manifest Dance-film Festival 2022.
A graduate of Journalism, Dick Wong left the publishing industry in the mid 90s to pursue a career in contemporary dance and theatre. In 2004, he was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival to create B.O.B, which was later developed into two versions and toured extensively in Europe and Asia until 2017. He was chosen as a laureate of the French International Residence Programme at Recollets in 2010 and presented 1+ 1 in Cartier Fondation during his stay in Paris. Commissioned by the In Transit Festival, he premiered Be Me in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2011. More recent works include 0|2 (2014), a collaboration with Xing Liang, The World According to Dance (2015), a dance/theatre work on four generations of contemporary dance makers in Hong Kong and The Rite of Spring (2016－17). He was named Artist of the Year (Dance) in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2018.