"A Room of One's Own - Hermaphroditus" - Concert & Performance

Time: 2023 May 6 (Sat) 20:00 or 7 May (Sun) 20:00

Venue: Albergue SCM

Admission: MOP 200

Directed & Choreographed by: Jay Zheng (Beijing), Tina Kan

Performed by: Helen Ko, Karen Hoi, M.Chow, Ezaak Ez

Live music: Evade

Tickets: https://forms.gle/Nmu2qYnv7qBbZZXv9

The music and dance performance “Hermaphroditus” of “The Script Road” – 12th Macau Literature Festival will be held on 6 and 7 May at Albergue SCM as the second part of its two-year project “A Room of One’s Own”. The performance is based on the idea of “androgyny” as proposed by Virginia Woolf, the pioneering British female writer of 20th century modernism and feminism, in her work “A Room of One’s Own”. Through a series of discussions and creative experiments, the creative team and workshop participants have transformed the ideas in the texts into a combination of dance, live music, scenography and costume design, exploring the subtleties and impermanence of human nature in relations.

The performance “A Room of One’s Own – Hermaphroditus” is a non-storytelling performance narrative which was inspired by Woolf’s work. The performance is choreographed by Tina Kan and her Beijing-based creative partner Jay Zheng, who has been dancing in Beijing for over ten years, and incorporates live music into contemporary ballet. Together with two local dancers, Helen Ko and Karen Hoi, accompanied by interpretations by Macau-Portuguese poet Ezaak Ez and local poet M. Chow, and a live performance by Macau’s renowned dreamy electronica group Evade, the show takes the audience into an aesthetic intensity among relations from a contemporary literary perspective.

Filming: lamchantong

Stylist & Makeup Artist: MandyCheuk Makeup

Studio: shotcut.production