The 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival 2015
NEW WORKS / WORLD PREMIERES
Opera:
1. Jockey Club Local Creative Talents Series – Datong: The Chinese Utopia*
Music:
2. Hong Kong Sinfonietta – Clear Light by Joyce Wai-chung Tang
3. Arvo Pärt – 80 by 8, Pärt at 80 celebration concert by Theatre of Voices
Theatre:
4. The Amahs*
5. The Crowd^
Dance:
6. Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series –
The Trouble-maker’s Concerto* by Justyne Li and Wong Tan-ki
7. Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series –
Fleeing By Night2* by Wayson Poon
8. Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series –
From the Top* by Victor Fung
9. Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series –
Diffusion of the Silence* by Chloe Wong
10. Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series –
7 new works* by Hugh Cho, Li De, Ivy Tsui, Ata Wong, Tracy Wong, Rebecca Wong, Allen Yuan
* Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
^ Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Co-produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
ASIAN PREMIERES
Opera:
1. The Tsar’s Bride by the Bolshoi Opera
Music:
2. Chiara’s Diary – My Life at the convent in Venice (1730-1780) by Europa Galante
3. the little match girl passion by David Lang (to be performed by Theatre of Voices)
4. The Sound of Colours/Petrushka/Metamorphosis – 3 works featured in the Mikhail Rudy & Marc Chagall – The Sound of Colours
Dance:
5. The Flames of Paris by the Bolshoi Ballet (Premiere on 3 July 2008)
6. Jewels by the Bolshoi Ballet (Premiere on 5 May 2008)
7. Cinderella by Dutch National Ballet
Theatre:
8. Pride and Prejudice produced by the Gate Theatre
9. Lionboy by Complicite
10. Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby by the Royal Court Theatre and Lisa Dwan production in association with Cusack Projects Ltd