"Infinite Extension"【SPOTLIGHT: A Season of Performing Arts 2025】Tai Kwun

Infinite Extension features dance works by three young choreographers from Hong Kong and Guangzhou—Keung Hoi-ling, Fu Binjing, and Paula Wong—offering an experiential contemporary dance theatre experience. Tai Kwun's F Hall is transformed into a personal space, prompting viewers to reflect on their bodies and spatial perception from various angles. The choreographers use movements to explore the multifaceted meaning of "space" through live performances, participatory presentations, and stage installations.

The choreographers revisit their histories and memories in dance, revealing the tension between individual and dance while re-examining technique, aesthetics, and self-composition. They summon desires and imagination through body-space interactions, navigating the boundaries between consciousness and movement systems.

Keung Hoi-ling's I Saw a Ping-Pong. I Crushed It. It Was an Egg. redefines the relationship between individual and system using language, imagery, and bodily movements. She traverses between analysis and stream of consciousness that intertwines thoughts with the body. Fu Binjing's Neverland presents an imaginative realm, reflecting on standardised bodies using artificial materials and waste to connect the body with the external world while questioning "beauty," "standardization," and "meaning." Paula Wong's Come Closer, go deeper! explores the female bodily experience and gaze through body postures, inviting the audience to feel the resulting pain, pleasure, tension, and ease with the postures’ flow and shift carrying the gaze of the audience.

Just like the pursuit of infinite outward extension in dance training, the choreographers connect their thoughts to the spaces within and outside the body, transcending the boundaries of the physical form and resonating in space.

I saw a Ping-Pong. I Crushed it. It was an Egg.
Choreographer: Keung Hoi-ling
I resonate deeply with a line from "The Perceptual Body":
Creation is giving a body to concepts.
If I were to give my consciousness a body for 30 minutes,
I am aware of my existence; you are aware of your existence—what would that look like?


Come closer, go deeper!
Choreographer: Paula Wong

Come closer, go deeper!
Caress the limits of boundaries,
Let the flexibility of the body become the remedy for liberation,
Embrace every inch of pain,
Teetering between love and pain,
We breathe together.


Neverland
Choreographer: Fu Binjing

"…Everyone yearns for a paradise of happiness, a land that creates beautiful dreams..."
This is a paradise of reality and virtuality.
Here, perfection and splendor exist.
Here, intimacy and companionship thrive.
Here, the present and the future coexist.
In this place, one can forget all worries,
And possess infinite joy and strength.
This place never stops, always open for you!

Remarks
• Duration: approximately 1 hour 30 minutes
• In Cantonese with no surtitles
• Recommended for ages 12 and above
• There will be interactive sessions between the audience and the performer. The audience may be seated on the floor, so comfortable clothing is recommended. Please assess your physical condition to ensure it is suitable for participation.
• Programmes are subject to change without prior notice. Tai Kwun reserves the right to make the final decision regarding the arrangements.