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another Excerpt from Quando Sr Bastos encontra Sra Chan @ Hong Kong Fringe Club City Festival 2009

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When acclaimed Hong Kong dancer-choreographer Abby Chan and Brazilian dancer-choreographer Otávio Bastos first met in New York, they were both delighted by how much they understood each other’s body language. The encounter sparked a productive artist-in-residence scheme spanning New York – São Paulo – Hong Kong. The result is “When Mr Bastos Meets Ms Chan”, a celebration of bodies, movement and body language, expressing the truths of two very different cultures.

Excerpt from Quando Sr Bastos encontra Sra Chan

When acclaimed Hong Kong dancer-choreographer Abby Chan and Brazilian dancer-choreographer Otávio Bastos first met in New York, they were both delighted by how much they understood each other’s body language. The encounter sparked a productive artist-in-residence scheme spanning New York – São Paulo – Hong Kong. The result is “When Mr Bastos Meets Ms Chan”, a celebration of bodies, movement and body language, expressing the truths of two very different cultures.

Excerpt from Quando Sr Bastos encontra Sra Chan

Quando Sr Bastos encontra Sra Chan – work in progress (brazil)

A collaboration between Abby Chan and Otávio Bastos comprising a six-month exchange of ideas and cultural perspectives as they explored each other’s dance vocabularies, plus one month of intense creative work in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pipe Dream 2002

Commissioned work by the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company

Hong Kong Dance Alliance Dance Award

Spectrum 2003

Commissioned work by the Little Asia Dance Exchange Network – Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Hong Kong

Lost and Found 2006

New York Debut at Joyce SoHo, New York

Dance theater performance inspired by Chinese adopted girls’ stories.

Commissioned work by the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company

With famous Hong Kong fashion designer Henry C.W. Lau’s whimsical designs,
Chan poses the notion that “You are what you wear”.

Through simple episodes and lighthearted encounters among the dancers, Chan captures the play that goes on between fashion and people.