The Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee organised the annual Hong Kong Week 2019 from 18 to 29 September in Taipei City. Under the theme of “From Text to Stage”, a series of renditions of classics in diversified adaptations of text to the stage were presented to the Taiwan’s audiences to demonstrate the unlimited creativity of Hong Kong’s arts.
The City Contemporary Dance Company has invited eminent Hong Kong choreographer Helen Lai to create Winterreise．The Rite of Spring which interweaves dance and classical music. Renowned theatre director Tang Shu-wing instills a rich imagination into Shakespeare’s classic with physical theatre in The Tragedy of Macbeth. Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s A Soldier’s Story 5.0 – The Devil Returns, also featuring Taiwanese violinist Tseng Yu-chien and dance artist Chen Wu-kang, fuses music, dance and text. A chamber opera Ghost Love, sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office, is based on Xu Xu’s novella in the 1930s. It is an operatic exploration interacting music and literature.Committee convenor Dr Fredric Mao also held a talk to share his fond memories of the inspirations from texts to the stage.
Apart from performing arts activities, the Innovative Entrepreneur Association presented a large-scale exhibition “HK Illustration x Original Design Brands Exhibition” in which a wide array of original illustration works and design brand products were displayed to show the abundant creativity in Hong Kong.