Tai Kwun Circus Plays 2022

Tai Kwun Circus Plays 2022

Tai Kwun Circus Plays 2022

Circus Playground

Ting-koo-ki Mad Skills Battle

Only Bones v1.0

Ho! Ho! Ho! Monkey King is Coming to Town

PLI

New Boom in Circus

Rock It! Unicycle

Lunchtime Circus Playground

LIFE Event No. 2

Circus Camp for Professionals

Date & Time

1 Dec 2022 - 2 Jan 2023

Location

Site-wide

Price

Free of charge

General

"Tai Kwun Circus Plays" proudly enters its fifth edition! From December to January, circus veterans in town and around the world will get together at Tai Kwun to present an array of breathtaking contemporary circus performances. Let's have a merry juggling festive season with your friends and family together! The pioneering British circus group Gandini Juggling will return to Tai Kwun after their stunning work SIGMA in 2018, bringing us LIFE Event No. 2 with ingenious use of body language. On Christmas Eve, UniCircle Flow from Japan which wowed America's Got Talent last year will come to town and stun the audience with their vigorous unicycling dance show, Rock It! Unicycle. Local art group TS Crew and veteran choreographer Mui Cheuk Yin join hands in Ho! Ho! Ho! Monkey King is Coming To Town that brings together various circus elements – tricking, parkour, bungee jumping and contemporary dance. With a local touch of Hong Kong culture, it will bring the mythical figure of Monkey King from Journey to the West to life.

With emerging circus talents in Hong Kong, we have New Boom In Circus inviting dance and circus artist Patrick Pun and CBO Juggling Team to stage new contemporary circus works at Tai Kwun, and Circus Playground gathering new local circus and juggling performers to have fun with the crowd in a performance full of street vibes.

Only Bones v1.0, the sold-out solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe created by New Zealand physical theatre and mime artist Thom Monckton, is sure to burst you into laughter. The show will tell a story by involving only one light, one chair, one performer, no text, and a mini stage area of 1.2 metres, filling the audience with fun and amusement. PLI, a mind-blowing solo work from Czech multidisciplinary artist Viktor Černický, will use 22 conference chairs as props to construct an incredible circus universe. Excitement guaranteed!

The finale of the annual circus carnival is the Ting-koo-ki Mad Skills Gala and Battle (TKK), with local juggling elites and contestants from Taiwan, Costa Rica, Belgium and Brazil to bring the audience a passionate circus battle to welcome the arrival of 2023. This year, we also provide training for juggling experts at Circus Camp for Professionals – the world’s leading jugglers Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala are invited again as instructors, leading local circus artists and contemporary dancers to explore the possibilities for circus acrobatics. Any juggling tricks for laymen and newbies? Yes! You're welcome to take part in Circus Challenge on Instagram to learn at home from our circus experts, or watch the newly produced circus short film: No. Infinity (∞).

Come and immerse yourself in the joyful and superb art experience at Tai Kwun Circus Plays 2022 this Christmas and New Year holidays!

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Production Team & Participating Artists

Production Team:

Creative Producer : Frieda Ng

Programme Coordinators: Mimi Lam, Chesna Ng, Blanche Wu, Scarlet Mak

Participating Artists and Organisations (Non-local):

Gandini Juggling (UK)

UniCircle Flow (Japan)

Hsingho Co. (Taiwan)

Thomas Monckton (New Zealand)

Viktor Černický (Czech Republic)

Alonso González Barría (Chile)

Keivin Benavides (Costa Rica)

Ivano Huang (Taiwan)

Amber Gibson (Taiwan)

Lin Cheng Kuan (Taiwan)

Lin Han Yu (Taiwan)

Takehiro Nagaoka (Hachiro) (Japan)

Participating Artists and Organisations (Local):

NOĒMA

TS Crew

Circus Box

CBO Juggling Team

Rare Circus

Hong Kong Rope Skipping Club

OSA Academy

Mui Cheuk Yin

Patrick Pun

Pun Ho Lam

Lai Yee

Lyson Sze

Pedro de Oliveira

Liu Chek Hei Kenken

Wong Tsz Hin

Tsang Tsz Wa

Jason Lee

Li Chi Yin

Lego Shum

Dennis Law

Sentiment Clowns

Grace Hoop

Mok Chi Keun

Pang Kin Fat x Ng Chi Hei

Stina Din

Tracy Tra

Rhyn Cheung

Joyce Lai

Victoria Yu

Yuki Yuen x Tommy Tong x Ted Ma x Dai Tsz

Anson Ng

Ariel Yim

Harris Cheung x Clayton Cheung

Cheng Ho Fung x Jayden Lee

Chui Ching Nam x Maris Yu x Kelsey Koo x Wong Yat Laam x Alvin Cheng x Mike Chan x Bruce Mok

List in no particular order