East Kowloon Cultural Centre | CCDF 2026 : 'HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform' China III

Description

We are (not) Romeo and Juliet

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.

Choreography: Terry TSANG, Bobo LAI

Performance: Blue Ka Wing, POON Chun Ho

Set and Costume Design: Jeff MUI

Original Lighting Design: HO Fu Lung, Paul WONG Tsz Chung

Original Music and Sound Design: LEUNG Po Wing#

Original Video Design: Heiness YEUNG, Manhong LO

Producer: Jaye CHAN

#With kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

A Commissioned Work for the 2nd Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival presented by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio