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Sounding Bodies

Intermedia In Hong Kong

Dance as Intermedia Installation-Performance 

Assistive Technologies for Multi-Sensing Bodies Listening to the Earth

Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Limited announces Sounding Bodies:  Intermedia in Hong Kong, a dance and intermedia project that examines everyday life in urban and natural sites across Hong Kong through dance laboratories, sculptural installations, and mobile performance events. The project is spearheaded by choreographer, director, curator, and scholar Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Ph.D., the Founding Director, Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Limited. As a hard-of-hearing,

Indian-American choreographer and researcher— who works in Hong Kong and India—her current arts cycle focuses on the devising of a methodology for and practice of “sounding bodies” in ways that can awaken multi-sensory listening practices and lead to stories for the future through blended forms of dance-sound-sculpture-film.

Sounding Bodies involves a research-and-creation process that explores sound sculptures, multi-sensory objects, portable architectures, and methods for dance-music jamming in ways that honour the cultural diversity of Hong Kong. The project will investigate Buddhist influences on classical and contemporary dance in Hong Kong and India; the history and practices of intermedia; and disability aesthetics.

Sounding Bodies: Light, Image, and Empty Spaces premiered at the Jao Tsung-I Academy May 7-9, 2021. The Sounding Bodies: Light, Image, and Empty Spaces House Programme is available here.

For highlights of Sounding Bodies: Light, Image, and Empty Spaces click here.

Image Description: A performer on a balcony on each side with single lights above them. In the center of the image are three performers walking.

Image Description: A performer on a balcony on each side with single lights above them. In the center of the image are three performers walking.

Sounding Bodies Collective

Executive Producer and Artistic Director: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

Dancers: Pak- Hong Lau, Christine He, Soraya Chau, Ophey Sankofa Chan, Rhyn Cheung, Florence Woo, and Chun To Yeung

Musicians: Jeremy Leung; Fode Alex Cheung; and Peter Wong

Designers: Tiffany Yu, Yu Wing Yan, LAI Tze Yu, To Wun, and Jasper Dowding

Research Assistants: Chan Mei Tung; Soraya Chau; Teaching Artists: Chan Mei Tung; Crystal Chu

Sounding Bodies: Intermedia in Hong Kong Online Archive: As an artistic research project, Sounding Bodies has investigated a range of histories and practices in the multidisciplinary arts, with a specific focus on intermedia dance. This project seeks to expand methods for cross-arts, cross-abilities, and cross-cultural experiences that can be made accessible to a wide range of participants and diverse audience members. This section will draw on the mixed media components of the project findings into order to develop and showcase here three digital articles. The articles will cover a range of project topics, and they will, among other things, focus on: 1) Intermedia Dance; 2) Disability Aesthetics; 3) Empty Spaces; and 4) Engaging Diverse Audiences.