{"id":8732,"date":"2025-11-04T07:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:43:57","slug":"architecture-meets-movement-at-coming-performances-at-hong-kong-freespace-dance-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"Architecture meets movement at coming performances at Hong Kong Freespace Dance festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/03\/353273af-bbeb-4179-9c5a-f8e51a9b85c3_e7dac894.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Visual artist Nadim Abbas and Chan Wai-lok, a choreographer and dancer, are keeping their cards close to their chests about their coming performance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to spoil too much ahead of the show,\u201d said Abbas when the Post visited them after a rehearsal. They did allow a glimpse of the intriguing set: part domestic interior, part logistics warehouse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Their cross-disciplinary collaboration is called \u201cNo Time To Die: An Inert Liquid Assembly\u201d, and it comprises an exhibition and a series of performances which premiere on November 20 and are part of this year\u2019s Freespace Dance festival in Hong Kong\u2019s West Kowloon Cultural District.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The title is derived from Cantonese slang used by overworked employees: \u201cI have time to die but no time to get sick,\u201d they say, fearing the wrath of their bosses.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This play on local humour poses the question: how does economic disillusionment and techno-exhaustion affect our ability to navigate, let alone control, our existence when everything is liquid and fast-changing?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Abbas has filled the rehearsal space in Hong Kong\u2019s Xiqu Centre with what looks like cardboard architectural models with claw grabbers and bubble wrap resting on them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3331306\/architecture-meets-movement-coming-performances-hong-kong-freespace-dance-festival?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual artist Nadim Abbas and Chan Wai-lok, a choreographer and dancer, are keeping their cards close to their chests about their coming performance. \u201cWe don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8031,613,8034,1901,8033,3569,5231,797,3464,8032],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-architecture","tag-coming","tag-dance","tag-festival","tag-freespace","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-meets","tag-movement","tag-performances","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}