About this Event
Presented by Eaton HK, Movement Festival was first initiated in 2018 and has hosted two editions in 2019 and 2022. Movement Festival brings performance art to a mixed audience: from performance enthusiasts to passersby, as well as hotel clients, dining guests, and hotel staff. Brought together in the same space either by chance or by their own will, audiences will experience curated movement activations in unusual spaces. Site-specificity lies at the core of the festival. With no stage, performers, audience members and anonymous passersby all share the same space. The constraints of the hotel space require artists to work around the blurred lines between the audience and the artists; performers may decide to attract the crowd’s attention or disappear into their surroundings to manipulate the space between performance and “real life”.
This year, the Movement Festival reverts to a 24-hour format, reminiscent of its inaugural 2019 edition, providing an uninterrupted viewing experience featuring a diverse array of dance styles and performances, ranging from traditional (ballet, Cantonese theater) and popular (Bollywood and flash mob) to internet-inspired (ASMR, mukbang) and conceptual (automatic writing, participatory performance). The 24-hour format offers a durational spectatorship that attends to time as a key element as important as movement. The extension of time is not intended for performers and the audience to endure their physical limits of exhaustion, but to destabilize the internal clock used to discipline their movement and expectations. The 24-hour format opens up curiosity for aesthetic experience by extending the period of attention to others' actions and "accidents", as well as their own. In these observations, we find the beauty of uncertainty over time.
This year’s theme “Speaking From Afar” originated from “The Man and the Snake” (Book X, Fable 1, 1678), a fable by French writer Jean de La Fontaine. The moral of the story concludes that people in high places do not listen to reason and believe they are entitled to everything. La Fontaine advises to speak from afar or keep quiet: “And this being so, when you wish to teach the truth to such people, keep out of their reach.” The theme encapsulates the experience of movement and connects it to the act of speaking. Speaking as a form of movement, through the use or non-use of gestures, is the motive behind each of the performances and interweaves the various forms of expression together in the festival. Addressing the shortcomings of common language between different communities is one of the potentials offered by performance art.
Movement Festival has always been a platform for cultural exchange. This year, we are partnering with regional and Hong Kong arts and cultural organizations, including Alice Theatre Laboratory, Hong Kong Ballet, NOWNESS ASIA, TS Crew, Unlock Dancing Plaza, Yinzi Theater with the support from the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau, Current Plans, and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia - Shanghai and Tin Project. Over 50 artists and academics from Hong Kong and overseas are featured in the festival to create over 30 performances, films, lectures, and workshops. This year’s festival will highlight members of different ethnic groups from within Asia and Africa to enrich the program with their traditional dances, including representatives from Asian Migrant Coordinating Body, Africa Center Hong Kong, BEYOND Bollywood, and One Billion Rising HK.
Learn More: https://www.eatonworkshop.com/en-us/hong-kong/eaton-hk-movement-festival-2024/
由香港逸東酒店主辦的「舞動節」於2018年首次發起，並於2019年和2022年舉辦了兩屆。 無論是出於偶然還是出於自願，表演愛好者、酒店房客、用餐客人和酒店員工等不同類型觀眾聚首一堂，在不尋常的空間中體驗精心策劃的舞動表演。場域特定性是舞動節的核心，表演沒有舞台，表演者、觀眾和路人均共享同一個空間。酒店空間的限制要求藝術家必須繞過觀眾和藝術家之間模糊的界線；表演者可能會決定吸引人群的注意力，或消失在周圍的環境中，以操縱表演和「現實生活」之間的距離。
今年，舞動節恢復2019 年首屆的24 小時的形式，提供不間斷的觀看體驗，包括各種舞蹈風格和表演—— 從傳統（芭蕾舞、粵劇）到流行（寶萊塢、快閃）到網路啟發（ASMR、吃播）和概念性創作（自動書寫、參與式表演）。 24 小時的形式提供一種持續的觀看體驗，將時間視為與動作一樣重要的關鍵元素。延長時間並不是為了讓表演者和觀眾忍受疲憊的身體極限，而是為了擾亂約束他們的動作和期望的生理時鐘之穩定性。 24小時的形式透過延長對他人以及自己的行為和「意外事件」的關注時間，開啟了對美感體驗的好奇心。在這些觀察中，隨著時間的推移，我們發現了不確定性的美妙之處。
今年的主題「來自遠方的話語」源自法國作家 Jean de La Fontaine 的寓言《人與蛇》（寓言一，第十卷，1678年）。這個故事的寓意是，身居高位的人不講道理，認為自己有權獲得一切。La Fontaine 建議帶有距離跟他們對話或保持安靜：「既然如此，當你想向這些人傳授真理時，請遠離他們。」這個主題概括了舞動的體驗，並將舞動與言說行為聯繫起來。說話作為一種動作形式，透過使用或不使用姿勢，是每場表演背後的動機，並將舞動節中的各種表達形式交織在一起。而表演藝術提供的潛力之一，正是為不同群體尋求共通語言的方法。
舞動節一直是文化交流的平台。今年，我們與鄰近地區及本地的藝文機構合作，包括愛麗絲劇院實驗室、香港芭蕾舞團、NOWNESS ASIA、TS Crew、不加鎖舞踊館、寅子劇場等，並獲在法國駐港澳總領事館、Current Plans 、瑞士文化基金會-上海辦公室和小田工作室的的支持。超過 50 位來自香港及海外的藝術家和學者將參加舞動節，創作超過 30 場表演、電影、講座和工作坊。今年舞動節更邀請在香港不同亞洲和非洲族裔的群體，展示豐富的傳統舞蹈，其中包括來自亞洲移居人士聯盟、BEYOND Bollywood、香港非洲中心、One Billion Rising HK 的代表。
了解更多: https://www.eatonworkshop.com/zh-hant/hong-kong/eaton-hk-movement-festival-2024-tc/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)
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