New Vision Arts Festival 2021 Moving a memory

A breathing space
Gymnasiums involve scheduled exercises and body movements that activate a wide range of emotions – a space charged with fear, joy and potential freedom.
Moving a memory, a Hong Kong–Nordic co-production, is a performance plus exhibition created for gymnasiums and other physical learning spaces. Convoi Exceptionnel explores experiences and memories connected with these spaces where our bodies are trained, challenged and disciplined. 
For New Vision the production will take place in a dance studio. Walk inside, sense your feet on the floor, and get yourself ready for encounters between the known and the unknown. A chance to explore the poetic and atmospheric imagery first crafted in a Nordic gymnasium which now unfolds in a dance studio in Hong Kong. 

Date: 18/11-21/11
Time:  3pm & 8pm
Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre Rehearsal Room
Progamme details: https://www.nvaf.gov.hk/programmes/13/

About the Artist

Jon R. Skulberg
Concept / Space / Stage Direction
A Norwegian artist based in Copenhagen, Jon R. Skulberg (b. 1985) studied scenography at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and Institute of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University. Currently he works as a stage director, choreographer and scenographer. In 2016 he founded Convoi Exceptionnel, a production company focusing on interdisciplinarity and spatial-somatic relationships within theatre, opera, dance and installation.
Skulberg has been an associated artist and stage director at Hotel Pro Forma, a Danish performance group, on several opera productions. His works have been performed and exhibited in Oslo, Copenhagen, Brussels, Brisbane, Aarhus, Malmö, Gothenburg, Poznan, Riga, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow and Prague.

Wayson Poon
Choreography / Dancer
A locally-based Hong Kong contemporary dance artist, Wayson Poon creates, performs and researches around the world. He integrates Asian philosophies and the essence of “qi” in Taoism into his unique concept of contemporary dance. Extremely delicate in motion, his works induce audiences to travel through poetic dimensions in the experience of "non-duality" – that is awakening people's consciousness of body and mind and providing the possibility of changing fixed ideas . Poon won the Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Dance) in 2016, and received the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2019.