Dance, if you want to enter my country!Hong Kong Arts FestivalThe 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival ( Asia Pacific Dance Platform X )
Beyond Asia Pacific:
shaking up identity in contemporary dance
INTRODUCTION
Entering its tenth edition, this year’s Asia Pacific Dance Platform brings together emerging and established choreographers from Japan, Australia and Israel, who explore the theme of identity in its different dimensions. From national identity to the shifting identities of two cities, the dance works illuminate the breakdown of boundaries on and beyond the stage.
Dance, if you want to enter my country!
Performance: Michikazu Matsune (Japan/Austria)
Feb 23 - 24
Fringe Upstairs, Fringe Club
Dance against globalisation paranoia
On arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv in 2008, African-American dancer Abdur Rahim Jackson, a member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, was taken to a separate room. In a bizarre twist, Jackson was forced to dance before the border security officers to prove his profession.
In Dance, if you want to enter my country!, Vienna-based Japanese artist Michikazu Matsune investigates this peculiar incident through his sharp analysis with poetical irony. An interdisciplinary performance merging dance, text, video and photography, it examines the extent to which the borders between nationality, ethnicity and identity may be challenged from the position of the individual.
An artist who seeks to reflect socio-political issues of today with his works, Matsune puts globalisation paranoia, profiling and surveillance critically under the spotlight.
Performance: Michikazu Matsune (Japan/Austria)
Performed in English
Approx 1 hr 10 mins
