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* Destiny Travel Limited * samples Destiny Travel Limited is a performance about journeys. Journeys gone wrong. Hong Kong based composer Kung Chi Shing, artist Joshua Hon and writer Valerie C. Doran collaborate with an ensemble of Hong Kong international musicians and actors to present a story of "modern travel": of tourists without goals, of disappearing destinations and of the obscurity of a journey's true meaning. The three threads of music installation and theatre weave a path of many dimensions - like travellers each going their own way, yet crossing paths unexpectedly, on their way to chaos or to discovery.

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* Floating Bridge * samples A Hong Kong composer explores the musical elements inherent in the historical signs of ancient China. But what he discovers is something new, something related to present-day Hong Kong. But related now? How can this be? Is something to do with time, memory, or something else? View critics on Floating Bridge

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* City Inside a Broken Sky * samples A pop opera about one Hong Kong man living in rapid motion between heaven and hell. Deconstructed opera for the 21st century, City Inside a Broken Sky is a live-music concert of international musicians and alternative pop artists in a visual landscape of performance art and video poetry, strange and fantastical spirit machines and unidentified flying objects, conjuring the true and imagined life experiences inside and outside the mind, eyes and heart of a man in the city. Conceptually, musically and artistically, City Inside a Broken Sky represents a new level of performance. As a work of music-theatre, it acts both as a concert and as a deeper visual and narrative experience. In this work, Hong Kong alternative composer and musician Kung Chi Shing is bringing together an international group of exceptionally talented artists, including musicians Hahn Rowe from New York, Robert Een from Los Angeles, Peter Jarvis from New York and Nancy Loo from Hong Kong; the performance artist Makoto Matsushima from Tokyo; visual artists Wong Chi Fai and Lee Man Seng from Hong Kong and kinetic sculptor Masato Tanaka from Tokyo. Kung has also invited the participation of two well-known Chinese pop stars, Jun of Hong Kong and Sandee Chen of Taiwan. Not a musical "story" in the way an opera is, City Inside a Broken Sky presents a musical and visual mosaic whose many pieces create an emotional picture: the real and imagined life experiences of a man in the city. On another level, it is an abstract statement about modern existence. The performance will be divided into a series of musical segments performed by a live ensemble. At the same time, each of these segments will be expanded on by performance and visual artists using movement, voice, film, words, objects, creating a multi-dimensional human experience. The ultimate aim is to directly engage the audience in the way Pop music does, but at the same time to create a deeper, more challenging emotional encounter. View the production team of City Inside a Broken Sky

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