8/F Platform X - A Decade of Creativity

X stands for the unknown & endless possibilities

8F Platform X – A Decade of Creativity shines a light on Asia, gathering artists from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Shanghai and Hong Kong to fuse together the old with the new. Daniel Yeung turns Hong Kong's lion dance tradition on its head. Two stylistic divergent Korean ensembles reconceive traditional ritual music and dance, adding humour and wit while extending body language. There’s Butoh, dance of darkness that is unique to Japan. And there’s an energetic athletic piece paring up Hong Kong and Japanese dancers, sparking limitless creative possibilities. A new work from Taiwan, inspired by Nordic myth that has received international recognition, receives its Hong Kong premiere. Members of the Hong Kong Dance Company also present new works based on numbers and card games. The best talents of Asia meet local stars in a glittering crossover dance extravaganza!

REST  Company SIGA (Korea)
Choreographer: Lee Jae-young
Dancers: Lee Jae-young, Shin Jea-ho 

A ball restlessly bouncing on the ground.
A body imbued with inexhaustible energy.
And both yearning for a rest.

**Selected as PAMS Choice, Performing Arts Market in Seoul, PAMS (2014)**
**Best Performer Award, The International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands (2015)**

拉人Dance　Daniel Yeung & Dancers (Hong Kong) 
Choreographer: Daniel Yeung
Co-Choreographers & Dancers: Mao Wei, Tracy Wong, Hugh Cho, Li Tuokun*, Soames Lee
Costume and Props sponsor for Shooting: Kwokslion Kung-Fu & Dragon Lion Dance Team
*Li Tuokunis currently an Apprentice with Hong Kong Dance Company. (This position is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Artistic Internship Scheme)

Rising, emerging from the cave, greeting the guests, flaunting its prowess, passing through mountains, bowing out of deference, keeping a static stance, plucking the green …

This is a crossover of dance and martial arts: “The space between lion and man” vs “dragon and lion motivating the crowd.” A pas de deux where dancers merely lift each other morphs into high-energy physicaltheatre in an innovative style of lion dance. Here, dance and martial arts revel and collide with the old and new!

Hugin/Munin    B.DANCE (Taiwan)  
Choreographer: Tsai Po-cheng
Dancers: Chang Chien-chih, Chang Sheng-ho

In old Norse mythology there are two ravens sitting on either shoulder of Odin: Hugin and Munin, whose names mean "thought" and "memory" respectively. Flying over Midgard (as their world is called), they serve as Odin's eyes and report back to him what they have seen.

Hugin, Munin, please send our warmest regards to God Odin.

**First prize & Italy Balletto Di Siena Production Award, Burgos-New York International Choreography Contest (2015) **
**First Prize & Tanz Luzerner Theater Production Award, Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (2015)**
**Sliver Prize, Jerusalem International Choreography Competition (2015)**