Contemporary Performance Festival

Live at Eaton 2026

Presented by Eaton HK, Live at Eaton is a new contemporary performance festival aiming to expand the boundaries of performance aesthetics and contexts in Hong Kong. The festival addresses gaps in the local performing arts and live art scene by constructing interdisciplinary perspectives on performance-making beyond mainstream theatre, dance, music, and performance art. By examining performance as knowledge production and community building, Live at Eaton seeks to develop contemporary ways of making and experiencing performance—merging methodologies such as choreography, materiality, research, lived experience, the body, and identity.

The concept of Live at Eaton was initiated by its co-directors: Tang Fukuen, a Singapore-born dramaturg, curator, and Joseph Chen, Director of Culture at Eaton HK. It brings together diverse perspectives on the idea of “live” in both art and life, exploring the liveness of contemporary performance, the performativity of everyday life, lived experience as a context for artmaking, and art and life as an interconnected co-learning and co-working process.

The inaugural edition of Live at Eaton takes on the theme ‘workshop as performance’, blending interactive education with live art. By exploring storytelling, media, movement, and objects, workshop performance turns practice-based learning into a creative, critical, and communal performative experience.

HIGHLIGHT PROGRAMS

Brown Madonna by Ea Torrado

Created by the Filipina contemporary choreographer, performer, and founder/Artistic Director of the award-winning Daloy Dance Company, Brown Madonna queers and reclaims two iconic feminine archetypes—Mama Mary and Madonna—while interrogating how Philippine society condition women.

Antichambre by Élie Autin

By French/Swiss dancer and performer Élie Autin, winner of the 2026 Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize (one of Switzerland’s most prestigious emerging artist prizes), Antichambre ritualizes grief, power, seduction, and opulence through a speculative lens on Bacchanalian mythology and the French monarchy.

Love Tenderly by Tony Tran

Norwegian-Vietnamese dancer and choreographer Tony Tran questions inherited generational trauma stemming from refuge and migration, alongside closeted desires within a conservative religious upbringing.

Contemporary Repertoire by Hong Kong Ballet

A ballet intervention within the architectural space of Eaton HK—taking place in the multi-story atrium based at The Astor, where audiences can view the performance from the G/F Lobby, LG Food Hall, and B1 The Astor, honoring the festive spirit of the season of giving.