HKIIDF: 'Capturing Live Dance Movement with Film and Photography' screening & seminar

The relationship between the dance artist and the camera : Explore how to capture live dance movements of the differently-abled dancers in regard to two artistic mediums : Film and Photography.

Breeze Across Us (BAU)
Breeze Across Us (BAU) | Hong Kong | 15 mins

Dance/ body movement is the core artistic training foundation of "Breeze Across Us". Participants are inspired to teach, create, share, experiment and express themselves through the use of the five senses, kinetic energy, poetic interpretation, cultural exchange, body and soul connection and the uniqueness of each person.

 

Touch.ing
Centre for Community Cultural Development | Hong Kong | 3 mins

The other senses of the two dancers remain sensitive even though they are blind. When they feel it at that moment, their bodies naturally move, and their hearts... also move.

 

Journey of Jumping Symbiosis
Chan Ting Ching | Hong Kong | 18 mins

It is basically curated to coincide with the first Hong Kong International Inclusive Dance Festival. The content comes from my personal photography of inclusive dance performances in different venues and with different groups in the past ten years, mainly the inclusive dance team in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The concept of the exhibition is to reproduce my feelings at the scene through the photos taken. The inclusive form of disabled dance and the showcasing of the appearance are only the superficial framework. The emphasis is on the mentality of the two dancers and the audience, mutual respect, mutual trust, physical contact, eye contact, expressions, immersion in the dance, and a state of joy from the heart, leaving a deep impression. Slideshows are composed of hundreds of photos edited and combined, with the meticulousness of staring at the photos, and the emotional impact is connected in series. It is different from the general rhythm of film video dynamics. It is the use of another image style, using two large and  four small screens to play 8 slideshows in the same exhibition hall, and a simple wheelchair device is used to experimentally create a space for inclusive viewing of images. The focus is to bring out the visual journey of communion of souls.

 

Seminar Speakers:

Chan Ting Ching 

Co-founder and co-editor of "City Entertainment Magazine", a member of the "Phoenix Cine Club", and a film critic. Film author of Super 8 experimental cinema. His creations - 《冷燃》、《跡》、《無》have become the collection in Hong Kong Film Archive.  Participating photographer (1972-1975) in the Group Photography Exhibition  - the "7 Photography Exhibition" at the Hong Kong City Hall, and the "Five Photography Exhibition" at the Hong Kong Arts Center. The documentary "《麥少棠與手托木偶》(16 mm) Mai Siu-tong and the Puppet" (16 mm) was selected as an outstanding documentary in the Independent Short Film Festival and screened at the 6th Hong Kong International Festival in 1982. 1994 Hong Kong Arts Center Independent Film, Drama Section Jury 2010 Independent DVD film 《活到 …》"Live to..." (funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council). Photography works exhibited at the 2014 "Affordable Art Fair". 2015 "Positive Space Sixteen People Exhibition" at the Cowshed, exhibited works: performance installation, photography 《告別:痕迹》 "Farewell: Traces". 2016 〈正空間: 黑左右白〉"Positive Space: Black, Left, Right and White". The 2017 《人人照相館》”Photo Studio for everyone" joint exhibition was held in Green Wave Art, and 〈正空間: 離地〉 "Positive Space: Off the Ground" was held in the Cowshed. 2020 《紗鷗麗X深水埗X攝影》 "Saori X Sham Shui Po X Photography" at CCCD. Exhibition curator of the 2023 first Hong Kong International Inclusive Dance Festival 《跳躍共生之旅》 "Journey of Jumping Symbiosis", Examiner in  Film and Media Arts  of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

NG Sze Wan 

Graduated at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, further studied ‘New Dance’ and graduated at European Dance Development Center, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Ng was the founder, artistic director, choreographer & instructor for “Breeze Across Us