Hong Kong Chapter I
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Hong Kong Works
Snowmelt
ALAN (Artists who Love Animals and Nature)
Snowmelt is a large‑scale immersive experience merging interactive exhibition, Mixed Reality and live performance into one evolving mountain world.
Audiences enter not as spectators, but as participants. Across a responsive landscape of projection, sound and digital interaction, visitors move through installations that invite self‑exploration — reflecting on instinct, adaptation and the shifting dynamics between predator and prey.
At the core of the experience is a Mixed Reality live performance where physical performers and spatial digital environments coexist in real time. Wearing MR headsets, audiences step inside a shared terrain where virtual landscapes unfold around live bodies, dissolving the boundaries between stage and spectator. The performance redefines theatrical space as something mapped, inhabited and collectively experienced.
Throughout the environment, live performances activate the mountain in 360 degrees. Contemporary dance, physical theatre and movement practices unfold among the audience, creating a space where exhibition, technology and embodied performance are fully intertwined.
In Snowmelt becomes a living system — one that invites audiences to explore resilience not from a distance, but from within.
Art Form: Multidisciplinary Arts
ALAN (Artists who Love Animals and Nature)
ALAN (Artists who Love Animals and Nature) is a non-profit creative platform dedicated to reconnecting art, technology, and the natural world, in an effort to rebuild the fading bond between humanity and nature. ALAN brings together local and international artists to create cross-disciplinary and new media art. Their works question humanity’s place within the greater web of life, opening up new ecological perspectives. By seeing others and listening to difference, ALAN explores deeper possibilities for coexistence – turning empathy into action and demonstrating how compassion and creativity can evolve together.
100 CYMBALS
Toolbox Percussion
100 Cymbals / Ryoji Ikeda is a groundbreaking sound installation and performance that reimagines the humble cymbal as a vessel for profound sonic exploration.
The original 100 Cymbals was created in 2019 by visionary composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Hong Kong adaptation debuted at TICAFEST in February 2025, under Toolbox Percussion’s curation.
The core concept is an infinite crescendo: an array of 100 suspended cymbals gradually rise in volume from near-silent murmurs to overwhelming harmonic waves. Ikeda meticulously traces the thin line between noise and resonance, where seemingly rudimentary acoustic strikes evolve into polyphonic, choral-like strata. Performers employ unconventional techniques – stroking, tapping, vibrating, and triggering – to elicit rich overtones, micro-variations in timbre, and spatial diffusion. This creates an “abyss of vibration”: a sonic sea that engulfs the listener, blurring distinctions between acoustic purity and electronic precision, minimalism and maximal density.
At its heart, the piece probes perceptual thresholds, or how sustained sonic accumulation affects time, space, and collective listening. The visual element is stark and monumental: a field of gleaming brass discs forms a shimmering landscape, illuminated subtly to emphasise movement and reflection. This fusion of acoustic instrumentation with Ikeda’s signature data-driven aesthetic invites audiences to experience immersion beyond traditional concert formats, akin to an audiovisual installation that unfolds live.
Art Form: Music
Toolbox Percussion
Founded in 2012, Toolbox Percussion is a leading Hong Kong-based contemporary percussion collective dedicated to the promotion, production, and innovation of cutting-edge percussive arts. Driven by a bold artistic vision, the ensemble creates ambitious projects that challenge traditional boundaries through experimental collaborations, interdisciplinary performances, and impactful cultural exchange.
Toolbox Percussion has established itself as a dynamic creative platform and incubator for new percussive arts in Asia. The collective curates and produces innovative programming that explores the full sonic and artistic potential of percussion, often blending acoustic instruments with technology, visual arts, and other disciplines. Key initiatives include Toolbox Core, TICAFEST (Toolbox International Creative Academy Festival), and Outreach Education Series.
Under the artistic leadership of Founder and Artistic Advisor Louis Siu, together with TICAFEST Guest Artistic Director Bei Bei Wang, Associate Artistic Developer Abby Chan, and Executive Producer Shirley Lam, Toolbox Percussion continues to push the boundaries of contemporary percussion.
With a strong commitment to international dialogue, the ensemble actively builds global partnerships and touring opportunities. Recent highlights include the Hong Kong adaptation of Ryoji Ikeda’s 100 Cymbals, successful showcases at major arts expos, and new multi-year partnerships with internationally acclaimed ensembles such as Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion (USA) and leading Australian artists for the presentation of “Song to the Earth” at Asia Society Hong Kong Centre in April 2026.
The ensemble regularly performs at prestigious venues and festivals across Asia and beyond, including West Kowloon Cultural District, East Kowloon Cultural Centre, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field (Japan), Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Tianjin Juilliard School, and MPavilion by Tadao Ando in Melbourne.
Toolbox Percussion is a Two-Year Grant grantee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and has also received support from the China National Arts Fund 2026.
Maybe Tomorrow: A Drifting Landscape of Nowhere and Now Here
Chloegraphy Project
“What are you pushing forward in the face of endless absurdity?”
Maybe Tomorrow is a responsive, ever-evolving environmental performance featuring the monumental, inflated, mirrored spheres. The reflective vessel captures the surrounding environment and the faces of its audience, transforming its surroundings into a multisensory stage for the here and now.
Drifting through public space like a vessel of memory, Maybe Tomorrow collects local voices, written words, and physical interactions from passers-by. It reflects back fragmented traces of "being and action", distilling them into a living landscape of the “now".
With its profound roots in the emotions of a specific locale, this project is a cultural movement extending from Hong Kong to the world, seeking dialogue with diverse communities. In 2025, the work was featured at Scenofest during World Stage Design (WSD2025) in Sharjah, proving its powerful cross-cultural adaptability and resonance.
This is more than a performance; it is a collective cultural action! Through the tides of transformation, we seek kindred echoes and leave behind deep, human bonds.
Art Form: Dance
Chloegraphy Project
Chloegraphy Project was founded in 2018 by performing artist Chloe Wong. Its creative practice originates from profound inquiries into life and our times, interweaving dance, scenography, text, the physical body, visual media, and public participation, to transform social observations into a poetic framework. Emphasising environmental responsiveness and participatory engagement, the company’s works explore themes such as belonging, identity, and hope. In an ever-changing era, the project seeks to carve out spaces that respond to life, continuously pushing the boundaries and possibilities of performing arts and action within a contemporary context.
Through interdisciplinary and cross-cultural artistic practices, Chloegraphy Project maintains an open stance toward international dialogue and collaboration. Its signature work Maybe Tomorrow was invited as a featured performance for Scenofest at 2025 World Stage Design (WSD) in Sharjah, UAE; its spatial, installation, costume design, and music composition was also shortlisted for the professional Performance Design exhibition. In 2023, the company represented Hong Kong in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) with Our Atlas; during the 2019 edition, it presented Heaven Behind the Door II at PQ Studio. The group's international footprint extends to the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Düsseldorf, the Busan International Dance Market (BIDAM), and the Zawirowania Dance Festival in Poland. Furthermore, the group actively participates in professional networks such as APAM (Australia) and CINARS (Canada), as well as residency programs with OzAsia Festival and Dancehouse Melbourne.
Chloegraphy Project is dedicated to creating moments of genuine connection amidst an age of absurdity. By inviting diverse audiences to rediscover joy and hope through shared experiences, it embodies the power of individual and collective consciousness, offers a sanctuary for the soul, and connects the symbolic traces of humanity within contemporary contexts.
Boom Boom Battle of the Big Bad Bosses (Excerpt)
Yat Po Singers
When rival bosses gather, rumours swirl of a fierce musical showdown.
Their weapons of choice? Ancient melodies and rhythmic beats.
This non-verbal A Cappella showdown emerges from Yat Po Singers’ genre-defying practice of A Cappella theatre, in which vocal performance, movement, and theatrical storytelling are tightly woven into a distinctive performance language. On each side of the divide, human voices imitate and intertwine with the traditional Chinese instrument, the Sheng, while precise body percussion traces shifting power dynamics. Throughout, the rhythmic qualities of Cantonese infuse their rivalry with humour and cultural texture, revealing resilience within tension and absurdity within competition.
Even without words or other weapons, Boom Boom Battle of the Big Bad Bosses is a wild, unforgettable clash – of music, choreography, and epic storytelling.
Art Form: Music
Yat Po Singers
Yat Po singers is the first professional A Cappella theatre company in Hong Kong. The founding directors were Patrick Chiu, Ng Cheuk Yin, and Yuri Ng. Currently led by Co-Artistic Directors Ng Cheuk Yin and Anna Lo, the company produces original works that promote A Cappella art and demonstrate the innovative interaction of music and theatre. The company further enriches the arts scene by nurturing young composers and artists while facilitating audience building and arts education.
The company’s first A Cappella theatre production, Rock Hard, received the Golden Sail Music Award in the Best Serious Composition category from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong in 2009. In 2015, the company received the Award for Arts Promotion from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. At the Hong Kong Drama Awards, the company has won Best Original Music and Lyrics, Best Sound Design, and a Best Production of the Year award for Our Immortal Cantata (2017); Outstanding Large Venue Production for Requiem HK (2019) with City Contemporary Dance Company; Best Lyrics for Love, Death, and Everything In-between (2020); and Best Original Music (Musical) for Om Encounter (2024).
With the support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the company organised the elderly A Cappella choral and life enrichment project: “Jockey Club Yat Po ‘Happy A-ge-cappella’”. In 2023, the company was awarded the Award for Arts Promotion and Education by the 17th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards for the project.
Yat Po Singers is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Art Development Matching Grants Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
No Sugar No Milk
TS Crew
TS Crew transports audiences to the nostalgic, vibrant heart of a Hong Kong cha chaan teng – a quintessentially local diner.
In these iconic eateries, stories of struggle, dreams, and belonging are shared over quick, affordable meals. No Sugar No Milk transforms one of these humble diners – with its clink of ceramic cups and aroma of milk tea and buttery pineapple buns – into a dynamic stage for an exploration of home, identity, the restless drift of life, and the city’s dualities of East and West, tradition and modernity.
Using elements of physical theatre, martial arts, dance, street art, and circus, No Sugar No Milk merges physical prowess with heartfelt storytelling of Hong Kong’s cinematic daring and street-level grit.
Art Form: Dance
TS Crew
TS Crew is a professional dance and physical theatre ensemble that places a significant focus on contemporary dance, circus, traditional arts, and martial arts disciplines.
TS Crew consists of performers from varied fields, including film, drama, xiqu, dance, martial arts, and stunt work, under the artistic direction of Hugh Cho. Together, they are the driving creative team for “Hong Kong Soul”, the Hong Kong performing arts season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
As a recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Year Grant, TS Crew has been able to present their productions on local and global stages at various festivals and events. Highlights include the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2023 at New York’s Times Square, the Busan International Dance Festival, Budapest’s Sziget Festival, and the UK’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their show No Dragon No Lion received the Asian Arts Award for Best Show at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their most recent work, No Sugar No Milk, debuted at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was praised by The Guardian: "Scoring high for TS Crew from Hong Kong, who in No Sugar No Milk combined hip-hop, beatbox, martial arts, circus and lot of physical humour in silly skits."
Remarks
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