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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department has invited Australia's Stalker Theatre Company to perform its acclaimed production "Encoded" for the "Dance x Multimedia Series" in June.
"Encoded" is a visually stunning work that creates a mesmerising immersive world of shimmering images that dissolve and reform as the performers sweep across the stage. It is an aerial dance performance, and uses the latest interactive technologies to construct a projected digital environment that responds to the movements of the performers. The production is a meditation on the fragility of space and our place within it. It explores how digitised space alters our perceptions of physical space, and how digital media change our relationship with the body. "Encoded" utilises interactive 3D images and audio technologies to dynamically revision public spaces in real time through synthesising live performance, immersive interactive image projection and audio-scapes. By utilising simulated fluid animations of particles and architecture as a mediating layer between performers' physical gestures and the images and sounds they generate, the performers blur the boundaries between physical and digital space.
According to the Sydney Arts Guide, " 'Encoded' is a powerful and hypnotic, at times almost trance-like work that combines fabulous contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics and the latest in computer images and technology."
Stalker Theatre Company is one of Australia's leading physical theatre companies. Founded in 1989, it has over two decades of outstanding achievement in the production of innovative, inter-disciplinary, physical and visual theatre. The company has toured across Australia and to Europe, Asia and Latin America etc. The company makes high quality contemporary physical theatre works across a range of cultural, social and political contexts, at both regional and national levels, and delivers its works to diverse audiences. Its striking physical and visual productions communicate powerfully and imaginatively far beyond the constraints of traditional theatrical contexts. Its challenging new approach to physical performance draws on contemporary dance, new circus, martial arts, innovation and inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural practices and processes.
"Encoded" by Stalker Theatre Company will be staged at 8pm on June 5 and 6 (Friday and Saturday) at the Auditorium of Kwai Tsing Theatre. Tickets priced at $130, $200 and $280 are now available at URBTIX. Half-price tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and their minders, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (limited tickets for CSSA recipients are available on a first-come, first-served basis). Please refer to the programme booklet or individual programme leaflet for group booking and series discount schemes.
For programme enquiries, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/multi_arts/program_795.html. For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For Internet bookings, please visit www.urbtix.hk.
Ends/Monday, May 4, 2015
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