City Contemporary Dance Company
Over the past 28 years, through the leadership of its founder and artistic director, Willy Tsao, City Contemporary Dance Company has inspired and elated audiences in Hong Kong and around the world with superb modern dance performances. Since 1979, in productions by leading choreographers such as Helen Lai, Mui Cheuk-yin, Pun Siu-fai, Yuri Ng, and Tsao himself, and in innovative collaborations with the best and brightest artists from other media, this company of Hong Kong¡¯s finest dancers has presented over 200 original works with popular and critical acclaim.
CCDC¡¯s renown in reflecting the vigour and creativity of Hong Kong¡¯s vibrant, multifaceted contemporary culture has increased its home audience to 53,000 annually and earned it 68 international tours to the world¡¯s foremost dance stages and festivals in over 30 major cities including New York, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Lyon, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Manila, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Munich, Stuttgart, Mumbai, Delhi, Brisbane, Copenhagen, Prague, Karmiel (Israel), St. Petersburg, Moscow, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
¡°HerStory¡±
Choreography: Helen Lai
A Dance on N¨¹shu: Women of Language, the Language of Women
N¨¹shu, literally "female writing", is a unique written language that has been developed and used exclusively over generations by women in the Jiangyong county, Hunan province. At a time when this 400-year-old secret language is on the brink of extinction, Helen Lai tells HerStory in another, altogether different, vocabulary.
In her much-acclaimed Loose Pages From A Woman's Diary, Lai delves into women's fantasies, revealing feelings that are at once delicate and violent. Inspired by the alluringly embroidered N¨¹shu missives, as well as the shimmering prose of two contemporary Hong Kong female writers, Xi Xi and Wong Bik-wan, HerStory may prove to be Lai's magnum opus on the subject of women. Three languages are at play here: ancient N¨¹shu, modern womanhood, both infused and interpreted by Lai in an excursion between the secret and overt, between text and non-text, all through the perceptive artistry of CCDC dancers.
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