West Kowloon Cultural District The Room, Freespace WestK｜The 2nd Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival: Shakespeare Dance Theatre

Description

1. Planting Shakespeare (Guangzhou)

If emotions could photosynthesise, how might the body grow in Shakespeare’s soil?

Planting Shakespeare treats text as "fertile soil," from Hamlet’s melancholy to Richard III’s ambition, these effects are transmuted into vegetal strategies of rooting and phototropism. By evolving the dancer into a "Plant-Body," this ecological experiment dismantles anthropocentrism. Guided by mathematical sketches of emotion, the work captures trajectories of growth and decay, offering a radical re-reading of classics through multi-species perception and somatic critique.

2. We are (not) Romeo and Juliet (Hong Kong)

Love is one of humanity’s most enduring emotions - but what is it that binds two people so tightly?

Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet, this performance begins with the original’s vision of a fate-scorched love - fierce, absolute, and irrevocable - and turns its gaze toward the questions it leaves behind: what we believe love is worth, and how it might exist.

Deconstructing the classic text, the work reimagines it through physical language and stage storytelling, focusing on the push and pull between two people - love, encounter, survival, and learning how to be with one another. Looking back on the meaning of every meeting and every moment of staying, it excavates, layer by layer, the weight of “love” suspended between the instant and the eternal.

Presented by: Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio

# Planting Shakespeare
Creative Team
Choreographers: Wu Hui, Guo Rui
Dramaturge: Ho I-Fan
Dancers: Da Yueqi, Liu Qinyu, Li Hualong, Su Zihao
Set Designer: GuoGuoHuiHui
Lighting Designer: Low Shee How
Costume Designer: Wu Hui
Music Composer: Huang Junhao
Audio Sampler: Wen Danni
Producer: Zhu Ningdan

# We are (not) Romeo and Juliet
Creative Team
Choreographers and Performers: Terry Tsang, Bobo Lai
Composer and Sound Designer: Leung Po-wing
Set and Costume Designer: Jeff Mui
Lighting Designers: Ho Fu-lung, Paul Wong Tsz-chung
Producer: Jaye Chan

Leung Po-wing's participation in this production is with kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Additional Information
- General admission.
- The running time of the performance is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with an intermission. 
- Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable break.
- Children under the age of 12 will not be admitted.
- Concessionary ticket holders must present proof of eligibility on admission.