HEAVEN FM
Artist: HONG KONG EXILE (Vancouver)
Partnered Mainstage Presentation
January 23 @ 7pm, January 25 @ 8pm, January 26 @ 4:15pm
Duration: 65 minutes
HEAVEN FM – Hong Kong Exile
Photo by Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Image description: A black silhouette of a person with their fists clasped. From their fists come many rays of light emanating outward and towards the camera.
Five artists climb towards the edge of the universe with radios and headlamps. Hong Kong Exile’s HEAVEN FM is a multimedia dance-theatre work that conjures spirit and story through light play and radio frequency. Powered by joy, grief, and lo-fi precarity, HEAVEN FM places modern existential melancholies alongside the celestial; the absurd alongside the sublime. Together, we tune into the unseen and dance with the ever-shifting gravity of our times.
Led by: Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Created by: Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Alex Mah, and Ellis Cheadle with Juolin Lee, Alex Tam and Kaylee Louie
Stage Management by: Song Xin Xuan
Cultural Consultation by: Rosemary Georgeson
Workshop collaborators: Milton Lim, Remy Siu, Eddy Van Wyk, Daisy Thompson, Chu-lynne Ng, Don Chow, Kelly McInnes, Julia Siedlanowska, Zahra Shahab, Sudhee Liao, Antonio Somera, Eric Cheung, Sandy Wang, Chong Gua Khee
Produced by: Hong Kong Exile/Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Please note, this show uses bright lights, strobe-light effects and water-based haze.
Made possible with support from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, SFU Cultural Programs, PushOFF, the Cultch, Left of Main, Plastic Orchid Factory, Spring 2020 SFU Repertory class.
HONG KONG EXILE (HKX) is an interdisciplinary arts company co-founded by Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim, and Remy Siu, based on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Since its inception, Hong Kong Exile has created fourteen original works presented in dance, theatre, film/media and new music contexts across Canada and internationally. HKX creates performance through collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation, drawing from our diasporic experience as first-generation Chinese-Canadian settlers.
Information for Presenters: Available for touring. Seeking presenters for world premiere.
CONTACT
Natalie Tin Yin Gan
gannat.12@gmail.com
hongkongexile.com / nataliegan.com
Instagram: @pinki_yinki / @hongkongexile
Facebook: /HongKongExile