Dance x Literature "The Last Dance"

Flowers fade, good days pass

Hong Kong Dance Company joins hands with acclaimed choreographer Mui Cheuk Yin to premiere her much-anticipated new work The Last Dance in Feb 2022.  Adapted from preeminent author Pai Hsien-yung’s short story The Last Night of Madam Chin from his Taipei People series, the long-awaited dance theatre The Last Dance will be presented at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium from 18 to 20 Feb 2022. Tickets are available at URBTIX from 3 Dec 2021.

Pai’s 1971 literary work narrates the events of Chin Zhao Li at her last night working as a dance hostess, as she reminisces about the memories of love she has experienced in the past twenty years.

Hong Kong dance doyenne Mui Cheuk Yin is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Dance Awards. She is famous for her choreographic style of ‘Travelling between traditional and contemporary, between East and West’. As the concept creator and choreographer of The Last Dance, Mui portrays Madam Chin’s three unforgettable love stories against the backdrop of a glitzy dance hall. Led by principal dancer Hua Chi-yu, Hong Kong Dance Company’s versatile dancers will indulge the audience with elegant movements in the dance hall, taking you back to the dazzling days of the 1960s.

Tonight is an ending to a past; while glamour and melancholy dance together, Madam Chin takes her final glimpses and murmurs. One’s life lessons are witnessed in one’s fate—is this salvation, or is this destiny?

Programme Summary

The Hong Kong Dance Company joins hands with acclaimed choreographer Mui Cheuk Yin to stage her much-anticipated new work The Last Dance in Feb 2022. The work is adapted from preeminent author Pai Hsien-yung’s literary work The Last Night of Madam Chin from his 1971 ‘Taipei People’ series, the tale of an aged dance hostess Chin Zhao Li who, in her last dance, reminisces about her glorious days and lost love, and reflects on the cycle of life.

18 – 20 Feb 2022; Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre 

The Last Dance - Programme Plus

Pre-show Talk: Literature in dance 

Moderator: 
Ms Li Meng (Columnist, Art Critic, Founder of “HeyArt”) 
Speakers: 
Ms Mui Cheuk Yin (Concept & choreographer)
Dr Yip Ka Wing (Lecturer, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong )
Date & Time:  8 Jan 2022 (Sat)  14:30-16:30 
Venue:  the HUB @The Commercial Press, Tsim Sha Tsui Book Centre

Pre-show Conversation: Madam Chin’s love and passion

Moderator:
Ms Li Meng (Columnist, Art Critic, Founder of “HeyArt”)
Speakers:
Ms Mui Cheuk Yin (Concept&choreographer)
Ms Bernice Chan (General Manager, International Association of Theatre Critics (HK))
Date&Time: 8 Jan 2022 (Sat)17:00-18:30
Venue:  the HUB @The Commercial Press, Tsim Sha Tsui Book Centre

 Programme Exhibition (1)

Date: 3-31 Jan 2022
Venue: Eslite Causeway Bay 9F Forum

Programme Exhibition (1)

Date: 15-27 Jan 2022
Venue: Foyer, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Meet the Artists 

Date: 19 Feb 2022 (Sat)
To be held after the performance 
For valid ticket holders of this performance session only