City Contemporary Dance Company
Kwai Tsing Theatre
Tomorrow-Sat
The City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) kicks off its 30th anniversary with a new piece inspired by Krzysztof Kieslowski movies. Choreographer Helen Lai Hoi-ling says her latest work, No End, is more about the emotions evoked by watching the Polish director's works than their themes.
'It's a real challenge to express something so abstract using a physical language and movement ... but I will also be using Zbigniew Preisner's Requiem for My Friend to help with the expression. The dance is more like a requiem now.'
Preisner is a close collaborator of the late filmmaker and composed the film scores for classics such as The Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, White, Red.
In the mid-1990s, the composer was working on a new concert piece when Kieslowski died, in 1996. He changed the focus of the work by combining the operatic concert with a requiem written in the memory of the director.