Dean’s Special Artist Series: Dance & Technology
Mio & Raphael’s Public Talk - Rethinking Digital Poetry
5.10.2019 SAT 11:00am - 1:00pm
Dance Studio 1
Choreographers: Christian Mio Loclair, Raphael Hillebrand
Raphael Hillebrand and Christian "Mio" Loclair are the first choreographers in residence of a new programme of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Hongkong. Naoto Hieda, a Japanese multidisciplinary artist, will be supporting the programme as a media expert in the realisation of several workshops and the development of a project with the students of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, as well as with the professional exchange with the partners of the Academy.
In each of the session in the dialogue series, Christian Mio Loclair will focus on one of his work, sharing it to demonstrate the creative process of his work: from an investigative question, to finding various solutions. He would talk about the attempts that fell short and what led him to the most satisfying result in his work.
Participate can do online pre-registration 3-4 weeks before the workshops and talks until all tickets are reserved. All the updated information including the pre-registration link will be posted up on our APA website soon: https://www.hkapa.edu/dance/event/upcoming
Participants will receive a notification about where they can collect the tickets before the workshops and talks. For general enquiries, participate may contact School of Dance Office: 2584 8541.
Mio’s Dialogue Series Balance between abstraction and ascertainment - “PATHFINDER”
30.9.2019 MON 5:30pm - 6:30pm
OCE Dance Technology Lab
Duet of man and machine - “POW2045” & “FLOW 1”
1.10.2019 TUE 5:00pm - 6:00pm
OCE Dance Technology Lab
Artificial body in a real time generative project - “PILGERWEISE”
2.10.2019 WED 5:30PM - 6:30pm
OCE Dance Technology Lab
Generating dance using machine learning - “BLACKBERRY WINTER”
3.10.2019 THU 5:30pm - 6:30pm
OCE Dance Technology Lab
In the following workshops, Raphael Hillebrand would share the design concept of PATHFINDER, participants will experience how to use this choreographic tool:
Born in Hong Kong, rooted in Germany and West Africa, raised in Berlin and educated by Hip Hop: Choreographer Raphael Hillebrand uses his background to realize his visions of Hip Hop dance theatre. He began his career as a dancer, initially taking part in numerous B-Boy Battles and winning national and international battles, while simultaneously working on stage productions - first as a performer, then increasingly in collective creations and today as a choreographer, director, curator. By working on an international level, he takes up his instinct for socio-political themes and cultural identities. Raphael is one of the most important choreographic representatives of the Goethe-Institut. He regularly leads cultural and cooperation programmes worldwide and develops various creations with local dancers*. He has toured worldwide with the dance-theatre video performance "Gemeinsam Einsam". As a member of the Battle Squad and Animatronik groups, he is an integral part of today's hip hop community.
Christian “Mio” Loclair
"Christian "Mio" Loclair, Art Director at Waltz Binaire, investigates in his works the tensions between sensual experiences and digital aesthetics. His interdisciplinary works create gradients between new media, art and technology and use technology as a microscope for human needs. Mio studied Human Machine Interaction at HPI (Pinchwatch, Paper HCI Lisbon), was named one of the 16 best dance soloists in the world in 2007 and 2010 (Sony Championships) and won the Honory Mention of Ars Electronic (Pathfinder). His design studio Waltz Binaire designs and develops interdisciplinary cutting-edge projects in collaboration with advertising agencies and cultural institutes".
Naoto Hieda
Naoto Hieda is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist. He received Bachelor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan, 2012) and Master of Engineering from McGill University (Canada, 2015). His work focuses on neurodiversity, specifically autism spectrum disorder, and embodied alchemical process integrating new media and contemporary dance. He is a recipient of danceWEB Scholarship (Austria), Pola Art Foundation Fellowship (Japan) and a scholarship from School for Poetic Computation (US).
Location
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Hongkong (SAR)
