2015 » Hong Kong » Student Section

We Are Dreamers

We chose politics as the theme for the exhibit, and as a result the exhibited works all have politics at their core. The statements written up on the walls of the exhibit are those of the directors, writers and choreographers of the four works – the artists who provided the initial stimulus for the designs.

In choosing material for the exhibit, we also wanted to demonstrate the range of performance work that is generated by the Academy – drama, opera, dance, Chinese theatre. All four works were made over the last four years, and are examples of work that reflect the dialogue between Eastern and Western creative practice, which is one of the central exchanges in our Academy.

We have chosen to use the scale model as a centerpiece for three of the four works, and costume renderings for the final piece, as training at the Academy is still strongly connected to traditional ways of describing design, with students engaging in rigorous drawing, model making and technical classes. In addition, there are iPads providing digital images for each production.