The Last Dance – CANCELLED

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Hong Kong Dance Company joins hands with acclaimed choreographer Mui Cheuk Yin to premiere her much-anticipated new work The Last Dance in Feb 2022. Adapted from preeminent author Pai Hsien-yung’s short story The Last Night of Madam Chin from his Taipei People series, the long-awaited dance theatre The Last Dance will be presented at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium from 18 to 20 Feb 2022.

Pai’s 1971 literary work narrates the events of Chin Zhao Li at her last night working as a dance hostess, as she reminisces about the memories of love she has experienced in the past twenty years.

Hong Kong dance doyenne Mui Cheuk Yin is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Dance Awards. She is famous for her choreographic style of ‘Travelling between traditional and contemporary, between East and West’. As the concept creator and choreographer of The Last Dance, Mui portrays Madam Chin’s three unforgettable love stories against the backdrop of a glitzy dance hall. Led by principal dancer Hua Chi-yu, Hong Kong Dance Company’s versatile dancers will indulge the audience with elegant movements in the dance hall, taking you back to the dazzling days of the 1960s.

Tonight is an ending to a past; while glamour and melancholy dance together, Madam Chin takes her final glimpses and murmurs. One’s life lessons are witnessed in one’s fate—is this salvation, or is this destiny?

Schedule

18 – 19 Feb 2022 (Fri – Sat) 7:45pm

19* –20 Feb 2022 (Sat – Sun) 3:00pm
(*Meet the Artists)

Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes without an intermission