Future of Performance: Bright Day

Future of Performance: Bright Day

Future of Performance: Bright Day

Future of Performance: Bright Day

Future of Performance: Bright Day

Future of Performance: Bright Day

Freespace The Room

Overview

A co-created waking dream experience exploring the city’s collective unconscious

Description

Part of the Future of Performance series, the experimental participatory experience Bright Day invites the audience to be central participants in a co-created waking dream. Over a period of a week, trans-disciplinary artists Chan Kwun-fee, Fiona Lee and AK Kan collaborate with audience-participants on a two-part exploratory journey that delves into the city’s collective unconscious.

 

The first part of the journey, “Dreaming Alone”, is conducted by audience-participants individually at home. The second part, “Dreaming Together”, involves a communal experience – part dream, part waking reality – in a constructed environment of soundscapes and imagery. This part takes place at Freespace and can only be conducted during daylight hours.

 

Notes on the Production
The two-part experience requires active participation by audience-participants.

 

Part 1: Dreaming Alone
The individual part of the experience takes place over seven days at your home. Please collect a “Dream Kit” at the Xiqu Centre ticket office between 25 October and 27 November 2022, and complete the seven-day guided dream practice before the group part of the experience at Freespace. If you are unable to collect the Dream Kit before the event at Freespace, you may also collect it from us on the day and conduct the individual experience afterwards.

 

Xiqu Centre ticket office opening hours: 10:00am–9:00pm daily

 

Part 2: Dreaming Together
The group part of the experience takes place in The Room at Freespace according to the date and time selected.

 

Artistic Concept
Ghosts and memories are everywhere. If night-time experiences occur during the day, are we dreaming or awake? Channelling the collective dreams of the people of this city, we create an urban collective unconscious – a shared experience beyond waking, beyond dreams.

 

About the Future of Performance series
In 2020, Freespace commissioned three teams of young local artists to explore the future of contemporary theatre and performance through innovative new creations. These collaborations evolved into three new works: A Thousand PlateausBright Day and Presence.

 

Creative Team:
Co-creators: Chan Kwun-fee, Fiona Lee, AK Kan
Live Performance: Ho Ming-yan, Paula Wong Po-na#
Video Performance: Sung Boon-ho
Video: Natalie Lo Lai-lai
Lighting Designer: Wong Ka-ki
Video Projection Designer: Yu Ka-ming
Deputy Set Designer: Tiffany Lau
Creative Co-ordinators: Thomas Yau*, Maurice Yim
Project Co-ordinator: Meredith Wong*
Project Assistant: Charlotte Man
Assistant Producer: Franco Yau*
Producer: Bobo Lee*

* Staff of West Kowloon Cultural District

# Appearance by kind permission of Unlock Dancing Plaza

 

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China 25th Anniversary

 

 

Creative Tomorrow

The Programme is part of “Creative Tomorrow” exclusively sponsored by
The Hong Kong Jockey Club.

 

Exclusive Sponsor:

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

 

Presented by Freespace

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