Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon | Freespace Dance 2025: FIRST Creation Platform

Description

FIRST is a research and development platform supporting independent Hong Kong choreographers. It offers first looks at emerging ideas and insights into their creation process, inviting feedback and discussions from audiences and industry peers.

Now in its third edition, the platform features presentations by six groups of independent artists selected through an open call: Cheung Wai-yin, a pole dancer with a PhD in marine ecology; Ching Chu, a choreographer dedicated to interdisciplinary performative collaborations and research; Keung Hoi-ling, a performer exploring identity, cultural legacy and decolonial resistance; Lau Pak-hong, a dance artist, accountant, and Pilates instructor interested in various somatic approaches; Tsang Wing-fai, nominee for “Tom Brown Emerging Choreographer” at the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards; and the collective by Noon, a dance artist with international experience and award-winning solo work and domting, a video and film practitioner.

22 November 2025 (Saturday) 2pm

Participating Artists:

Cheung Wai-yin – Pole Dance and Zebra Mussel: A Case Study on Cultural Materiality (working title)

Ching Chu – My Body is a Battle Field and These are My Armors

22 November 2025 (Saturday) 5pm 

Participating Artists:

Noon x domting – Capital Body (working title)

Lau Pak-hong – Step 0

23 November 2025 (Sunday) 2pm 

Participating Artists:

Keung Hoi-ling – Call Me By My Name

Tsang Wing-fai – Doing lor!

Duration Approximately 2 hours