Unlock Body Lab Israel Aloni Online Residency Project

Showing and Workshop

Unlock Body Lab has invited Israel Aloni, a well-known choreographer, producer, performer, educator, to have a two-week residency project with local artists in Unlock Dancing Plaza and The Hong Kong Art Centre in October 2021. Due to the pandemic, we are trying to explore the possibility of relocating it to a virtual space.

For the two-week online residency project, Israel Aloni will work with local artists through various digital tools, while thinking about the possibility of cross-regional and cross-cultural collaboration in the era of the epidemic. As a choreographer, Aloni is interested in the mediation of the physical human body with other bodies, space, and its relationship to time. From the understanding of the physical body that has a connection to past events and histories, Aloni is interested in creating work that pushes the boundaries of the utterances that we let our physical body express, whether knowingly or unknowingly.

Unlock Body Lab Israel Aloni Online Residency Project

Public workshop

Israel Aloni will share with participants the movement vocabulary and his creation focus on a public workshop, especially the construction, understanding and presentation of past history and events. It will also share the performance tools and methods used by the artists in their creations, so as to explore more possibilities in our body.

Date: 24/10/2021

Time: 1600-1800 (GMT+8) (European time: 1000-1200 (GMT+0))

Price: $150

Venue: Dance Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Workshop Registration: ART Factory

*The workshop will be carried out online instead if on-site events are not permitted due to the pandemic situation.

Unlock Body Lab Israel Aloni Online Residency Project

Public Sharing

In the two-week online residency project, overseas artist Israel Aloni will work with local artists via digital means. This sharing will make use of the public space of The Hong Kong Arts Centre to show to the public on the exchanged material, the connection between the body and the local history and architecture, and a wrap up of research and acquisition.

Date: 31/10/2021

Time(Showing): 1715-1815 (GMT+8) (European time: 1115-1215 (GMT+0))

On-site showing will happen in the period of time in the public space of Arts Centre

Time(Post-talk): 1815-1845(GMT+8) (European time: 1215-1245 (GMT+0))

Post-Talk will be held in Dance Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Post-Talk Registration: https://forms.gle/QdjWsm5mP4xLWZe28

*The Sharing will be carried out online instead if on-site events are not permitted due to the pandemic situation.

About Unlock Body Lab

Unlock Body Lab conducts a series of research on dance. Through cross-media, cross-regional, and cross-cultural cooperation and exchanges, research and experiment the possibility of the development and deepening of contemporary dance in the local context. With the showcase, space and workshop as the primary forms, the Unlock Body Lab creates an alternative spectator-performance relationship between artist and audience. It also encourages artists to re-examine the established creative mode and framework and provide a more organic communication way for the industry and the public.