CAI YING

Hong Kong Arts Festival 2016 －The Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series
第44屆香港藝術節2016－香港賽馬會當代舞蹈平台

 

《wǒ-mén》

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wǒ-mén, "we" in Chinese, loosely homophonous with "women", explores how could the identities and roles of the "other" gender(s) can assume in an open space. 

"What is within, myself, and what is outside, separate." -Iris Marion Young

Prompted by this call for philosophical reflection, choreographer Cai Ying invites the audience to explore with her the interiors of the mind where everything is absurd and beyond reason, as she also seeks to disclose the affective conditions and dimensions of female embodied consciousness as shaped by social pressures and dynamics.

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編舞的話 Choreographer’s Note 

2015年11月12日23點10分
於台灣台東都蘭好的窩民宿
Written from the Good Nest hostel in Dulan Village, Taidong, Taiwan
November 12, 2015, 11:10 pm: 

 

 

「甚麼位於我體內、是我自己，甚麼又是外在的、分離的」？
“what is within, myself, and what is outside, separate”？-- Iris Marion Young 

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忘了從甚麼時候，創作不再是一個目標，「她」是生命渡過的方式。正在經歷這次旅程的自己，感受到與以往不同的是一種由內到外的探索。或許這就像打開一個窗口，將問題與情緒送到你面前，讓作為獨立個體之間的理解和不理解縮短距離。I forgot when creation ceased to be a goal for me. “She” is a way of living. Going through this journey, I experience something new: an exploration from the inside out. Maybe it’s an opening through which emotion reaches outside the self, bridging the distance between comprehension and incomprehension.

「be」和「become」。「她」從來是流動的，既分離亦同存。“be” and “become”, they are fluid, they are separate and coexist at the same time. 

在曖昧混沌的界線具備批判性思考並欣賞「她」的錯綜複雜，有時候真讓我頭暈，天啊！每個人都是怪胎，每個人都是天使，你我說不準都是都蘭海上浮沉的一塊漂流木。In this chaos, it makes me dizzy to cast a critical yet admiring glance at“Her” complexity. My goodness! Everybody is a freak; everybody is an angel. You and I may be a piece of wood drifting in the sea by Dulan.

感謝Alice Rensy、肖呈泳、盧韻淇及林曦在我創作成長道路上的幫助與支持。
I would like to thanks all the helps and support from Alice Rensy, Sarah Xiao, Wiki Lo and Lindsay Lin.