When & Where

2015
16 -18 Nov / The World According To Dance (Premiere) / Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre / HK SAR, China
11 - 12 Jul / Fissure (Premiere) / Theatre, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre / HK SAR, China  

2014
14 - 16 Nov / 0 | 2 (Premiere) / Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre / HK SAR, China
3 Apr / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / Para Site Int'l Conference / HK SAR, China

2012
1 Dec / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / HK Taipei Dance Exchange / Taipei, Taiwan
16 - 17 Nov / 0382 (Premiere) / Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre / HK SAR, China
16 - 17 Mar / Tri_K / SESC / Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 - 14 Mar / Tri_K / Funarte / Belo Horizonte, Brazil
18 - 19 Feb / 1+1 @ Kobe / Asian Contemporary Dance Festival #2 / Kobe, Japan
14 - 15 Jan / Tri_K / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa, Japan

2011
9 - 11 Dec / U & I (Work in Progress) / Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre / HK SAR, China
3 - 4 Dec / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre / HK SAR, China
5 - 18 Sep / Matchpoint Exchange Program / Hau / Berlin, Germany
18 Jun / Be Me (Premiere) / In Transit Festival / Berlin, Germany

2010
22 Jul / 1+1 @ Paris / Les Soirees Nomades, Fondation Cartier / Paris, France
26 - 27 Jun / Member of Jury at Danse Elargie, Theatre de la Ville / Paris, France
24-25 May / Tri_K / Alkantara Festival / Lisbon, Portugal

Apr - Jun / Artist Residency at Recollet Centre / Paris, France

13-14 Mar / Tri_K / Hong Kong Arts Festival / HK SAR, China

30-31 Jan / Tri_K / Asian Contemporary Dance Festival #1 / Kobe, Japan

23-26 Jan / Tri_K / Morishita Studio / Tokyo, Japan

2009
27-28 Feb / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / Hong Kong Arts Festival / HK SAR, China

2008

19 - 21 Sep / 1+1 @ Tokyo / Morishita Studio / Tokyo, Japan

1 - 2 Jul / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / Festival Belluard Bollwerk Int’l / Fribourg, Switzerland

9 - 10 Jun / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / Festival Body Mind / Warsaw, Poland

30 May / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / China Now Series, Sadler’s Wells, London, United Kingdom

25 - 27 Jan / 1+1 @ Hong Kong / Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre / HK SAR, China

2007

16 - 18 Aug / 1+1 @ Bangkok / Live Art Bangkok / Bangkok, Thailand

18 - 19 Apr / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / Festival 100 Dessus Dessous / Paris, France

23 - 24 Mar / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / Monsoon Series / Leuven, Belgium

27 - 28 Feb / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / Huayi Festival / Singapore

2006

23 - 24 Aug / B.O.B.* The Final Cut / Festival Tanz Im August / Berlin, Germany

13 - 14 Jan / B.O.B.* The Rough Cut / Centre National de la Danse / Paris, France

1 + 1 @ Kobe Feat. Takeshi Yazaki

1+1 @ Kobe

Conceived and directed by Dick Wong / Performed by Dick Wong, Takeshi Yazaki

3pm 18 - 19 February 2012 / dB Dance Box, Kobe

A program of Asian Contemporary Dance Festival #2

http://www.db-dancebox.org/04_sc/1202_kacdf02_c/index.html

1 + 1 is a collaborative performance project on collaboration. From knowing a name to seeing an image, meeting the real person to sharing the stage, the project chronicles and reflects on the journey of how two dancer-performers make exchange and work together. Comparison and competition, similarities and differences, manipulation and accommodation, the work in itself is like a mirror, in which one sees himself through the reflection of others. 

1+1 @ Kobe is the 5th edition of the project, previous presentations include Bangkok (L.A.B., 2007), Hong Kong (a program of Craze Explosion, East Side Dance Company, 2009), Tokyo (a program of Encounter, 2009) and Paris (Les Soirees Nomades, Cartier Foundation, 2010).

Tri_K @ Kanazawa, Japan

Tri_K

Concept and Performance: Dick Wong / Takao Kawaguchi / Imaizumi Koichi

14 - 15 Jan, 2012

Theatre 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Synopsis: Tri_K is a dialogue of the body, between two Japanese and one Chinese, of how a man as human being and the male gender, finds his place in the world. Based on the actual observation and exploration of what’s common and what’s not common among the three performers, and taking advantage of their different expertise, skills and knowledge, the team of Dick Wong, Takao Kawaguchi and Koichi Imaizumi will then make different approaches to the above theme to make a multi-dimensional collage of dance, text, drama and film.

U & I @ Hong Kong

U & I (Work in Progress)
Conceived and directed by Dick Wong     
Performed by Dick Wong
Text of Monologue by Pamela Tsui / Dick Wong
9 - 11 December 2011 Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong.
Part of the program "Crazy" presented by the East Side Dance Company. 


You are you. I am I. Together are we "we"? Do we have a future? Or is it going to be just another one-night stand?

B.O.B.* The Final Cut @ Hong Kong

B.O.B.* The Final Cut returns to Hong Kong after 5 year of touring, with a new reference point in language combining Mandarin, Cantonese and English in the performance.
Conceived and Directed by Dick Wong
Performed by Joy Cho, Huang Nui, Matthew Bailey, Dick Wong
Date: 2 - 3 Dec 2011
Venue: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Matchpoint @ Berlin

Matchpoint, a choreographic exchange in the framework of Festival Leaving The Comfort Zone organised by HAU, Berlin

07 - 16 Sep 2011

Curator: Anna Wagner / Hosts: Jochen Roller, Dick Wong / Guest Artist: Shigeyuki Kihara

Participating Artists: Fitri Setyaningsih, Ayelen Parolin, jane McKernan, Matan Zamir, Nicola Mascia, Noha Ramadan, Donna Miranda, Daniel Kok, Andros Zins-Browne, Cat Ruka

Tri_K @ Kanazawa

###Postponed to 2012 due to injury of Imaizumi Koichi in a work accident ###

Tri_K

Concept and Performance: Dick Wong / Takao Kawaguchi / Imaizumi Koichi

27-28.08.2011

Theatre 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Synopsis: Tri_K is a dialogue of the body, between two Japanese and one Chinese, of how a man as human being and the male gender, finds his place in the world. Based on the actual observation and exploration of what’s common and what’s not common among the three performers, and taking advantage of their different expertise, skills and knowledge, the team of Dick Wong, Takao Kawaguchi and Koichi Imaizumi will then make different approaches to the above theme to make a multi-dimensional collage of dance, text, drama and film.

Be Me @ In Transit Festival, Berlin

Be Me

Concept and Direction: Dick Wong / Guest Performer: Judith Rosmair

18.06.2011 / Commissioned by In Transit Festival 2011

Auditorium, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Synopsis: I am not what I am. I am what I want to be. I am not what I am. I am what I don't want to be. Be Me is about otherness. The me in others. The others in me.

1 + 1 @ Cartier Fondation

1 + 1

Concept and Direction : Dick Wong / Guest Performer : Mickaël Phelippeau

22 July 2010 / Les Soirees Nomades / Cartier Fondation, Paris

The work is the result of Encounter Project carried out in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo from 2007 - 2008.

Synopsis: a duet about suspending or reinforcing the differences, about power-play or peace making, fairness or inequality, manipulation or accommodation. It is also a mirror in which one sees oneself through the reflection of others.

Recollets Artist Residency 2010 > Paris

Dick Wong is laureate of Artist in Residency Programme 2010 at Center International des Recollets, Paris, France. During his stay from 1 April to 30 June, he will carry out research for two projects - U&I, a new solo performance to be premiered in 2011 and I Was There - A Hong Kong Travelogue of Paris, a web blog which reflects on how Paris is perceived through the memories and imaginations of people in Hong Kong.

Tri_K > Journal #2

7 Days In January

(for the programme note of Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010)

1) When a language becomes nothing more than melody, on a good day it sings like a song, on a bad day it is like having a flu and sitting in a noisy restaurant. In the midst of a discussion, someone turned around and spoke to me in Japanese as if I knew the language. I held my breath, listened and at one point I nod. I thought I understood – not exactly a good start in collaboration.
2) From my head to my mouth, my mind to my body….from what I wanted to say to what I said….from what I wanted to be to what I am…..from what I said to what you wanted to hear…can what lost in translation be ever found again? Probably not. But isn’t that one of the most interesting things between you and me? Lost in translation is a must.
3) Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor. Judy Ong, Agnes Chan, Auyeung Fei Fei. Momoe Yamaguchi, Sakurada Junko, Masako Mori. Takao Kawaguchi. Koichi Imaizumi, Dick Wong. Who is who?
4) Momentary silence in a conversation while resting at the lobby of Morishita Studio. Sound of food chewing versus cigarette sucking. Stomach gas versus heartbeats. In a few hours, on the green sofa across the room, someone would be snoring. Air waved, the cleaning lady in fur coat walked by in a time stretching speed. Sitting next to me, Takao stared at the air and had his eyes focused on an empty spot. Melancholy on his face, something I could resonate with years ago. Koichi was yet to arrive. The kimonos, the white wedding dress, the sailor school uniform, the dark suits and the body bags were all waiting. So was the deadline.
5) Differences we have, uncertain we remain but very soon united we must be. 15 minutes to 7pm, 23 hours and 24 days since I arrived, the work is about to greet the world. Tension is mounting, adrenalin rushing and hand sweating. When in doubt, make belief. Let’s make believe that out there we will shine and inspire.
6) Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge. Emotional discharge.

7) Leader or follower, choose one. Honesty or self-image, choose one. Love or respect, choose one. One against two. Three against the world. The journey of Tri_K goes on.

Tri_K > Journal #1

In autumn 2008, Dick Wong went to Japan to present Encounter@Tokyo. Takao Kawaguchi was his interpreter and Koichi Imaizumi was in the audience. After they met, it didn’t take long for them to agree upon doing something together. Three begets all things, as the Chinese saying goes, they were inspired by the number “3” and started to exchange emails between Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The title Tri_K is derived from the common alphabets in their names. To Dick Wong, it denotes a collective identification which becomes his point of departure in the collaboration. Similarities and differences. Individuality and collectivity. Norms and nonconformity. These are the issues that he wants to talk about in the performance.

To Takao Kawaguchi, Tri_K represents “trick”. It has a nuance of trap, danger, caution and is related to the question of truth or false. He also associates the word with game, tension, mischief, the number "3", issues of identity, interactions in a collaboration and manipulation of time, space and history.

As for Koichi, after hearing the title, he pondered a little bit and then mumbled: “I think it will work.”

To begin with, the three collaborators will take on different roles. Dick Wong is to initiate and propose. Koichi Imaizumi is to observe and document. Takao Kawaguchi is to comment and recompose. It is like when they first met - Wong presented his work, Takao was the interpreter and Koichi was in the audience.

An initiator, an observer and a commentator, the juxtaposition resonates with the archetypical relationship among the director, the audience and the critics in a performance. Only that the three collaborators will be the creator as well, with the objective of staging a performance which is as much about the collaboration itself as it is about the world at large.

Tri_K > Tokyo / Kobe / Hong Kong / Lisbon

Tri_K is a conversation of the body between choreographer Dick Wong, Dumb Type performance artist Takao Kawaguchi, and independent filmmaker/actor Koichi Imaizumi, investigating how a man - as human being and of the male gender - find his place in the world. Based on observations and explorations of their similarities and differences, Wong, Kawaguchi and Imaizumi employ their individual expertise, skills and knowledge to form a multi - dimensional collage of dance, text, drama and film.

Co-produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Takao Kawaguchi Project with support from The Saison Foundation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space.

Tokyo, Japan
23 Jan 6pm Morishita Studio
24 Jan 3pm Morishita Studio
25 Jan 7:30pm Morishita Studio
26 Jan 7:30pm Morishita Studio

Kobe, Japan
30 Jan 7pm Art Theatre dB
31 Jan 3pm Art Theatre dB

Hong Kong
13 Mar 7:30pm Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong
14 Mar 2:30pm Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong

Lisbon
24 May 9:30pm Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

25 May 7pm Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

POSTAL BOOKING FOR HONG KONG DATES STARTS NOW UNTIL 27/11 : http://www.hk.artsfestival.org/en/prog/34

B.O.B.* > The Rough Cut > Hong Kong

In 2009, B.O.B.* returns to Hong Kong, the place where it was first conceived. As part of the Asia Pacific Dance Platform in the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009, B.O.B.* - The Rough Cut will be presented from 27(3pm) - 28(6pm) February at the Fringe Theatre, sharing a dance marathon program with 5 other teams coming from Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Beijing and New Zealand. Tickets for both dates have already been sold out but there will be a post performance talk at 6:30 pm, 27 Feb which is open to the public. For more information please check out the website : http://www.hk.artsfestival.org/

Encounter @ Tokyo

After Bangkok last August, the Encounter Series marches on to Tokyo this month. Presented by the newly formed Dance Asia, Encounter @ Tokyo will be a collaboration of Dick Wong and Japanese artist Neji Pijin. It will be a further investigation into the idea of exchange, of suspending or reinforcing the differences, of power play or peace making, fairness or inequality, manipulation or accommodation. The dates are 19 - 21 September, venue Morishita Studio. There will also be a workshop and a talk, for more information please go to: http://danceasia.jugem.jp/?eid=27 and http://danceasia.jugem.jp/?eid=28

B.O.B.* - The Final Cut > Europe '08

B.O.B.* - The Final Cut is part of Sadler's Wells' China Now series in 2008 and will be played in Lilian Baylis Theatre on Friday, 30th May. Following London will be the Body/Mind Festival in Warsaw, Poland from 7th - 8th June, and then the Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg, Switzerland, in early July.

Encounter #1 > Hong Kong > 1 + 1 ≠ 2

Encounter No.1 was further developed and renamed 1 + 1 ≠ 2, a short piece of around 28 minutes and staged in a mixed bill program titled Craze Explosion presented by the E-Side Dance Company in January. With Abby Chan as the partner this time, gender issue is inevitably blended into the performance. Click HERE for a review of the full program in ballet.co.uk.

Encounter #1

Before B.O.B.* The Final Cut returns to Europe next summer, I have recently initiated a performance project titled Encounter Series. The concept is to get to know a person of a different culture within a limited period of time and then reflect the process in the context of a performance. Encounter #1 was recently presented in Bangkok with Thai performing artist Kuck, under the umbrella of Live Arts Bangkok. After the premiere, Encounter #1 will be subtitled 1+1≠2 and presented in Hong Kong in Jan 08 in a shared evening program. Details to follow.

B.O.B.* > Paris > Festival 100 Dessus Dessous

Paris was burning. During the ten days I was there, not a single drop of rain and sunshine everyday. At some afternoons temperature rose to 29 degrees and felt lik mid summer in Europe. Can't complain but may be what they said in An Inconvinient Truth is true. Met interesting people, Cuqui Jerez, Bettina Kogler, Michikazu Matsune etc.And Maria Jerez and Mihai Mihalcea, who joined B.O.B.* - The Final Cut this time, were just divine to work with. First time to go straight into the performance without a proper dress rehearsal. Intense but fun.

B.O.B.* > Singapore > Guest Performers

Yuri Ng

As a curator, Yuri initiated Body Talk, a dance project funded by the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2002. I was invited to present a piece in the series and that gave birth to Body/Language (Version 2.0), the prototype of B.O.B.*. Coming from a very solid background in ballet, Yuri is very precise when he works, no matter as curator, choreographer or dancer. We have worked together in quite a few projects since we first met in ’97 and the latest one being B.O.B.* - The Final Cut in Singapore. Recently, Yuri is keen to develop his interest in digital photography and we will work together again soon in Zuni’s new production in June.