Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui | Inherited Tides

Description

After a farewell, an echo grows inside the body and becomes a boat.

Inherited Tides is choreographer Kenny Leung’s latest dance-theatrework. Rooted in the family memories he carries as a descendant of Aberdeen’s boat-dwellers, it reflects on loss and parting, and asks what “home” and “roots” truly mean. Leung performs alongside five dancers, embarking on a voyage of memory onstage.

Using the “boat” as a metaphor, the work draws the tides of memory back into the present through movement, sound, and stage imagery. Shifting through the imagery of sinking, stillness, setting sail, and arriving, the body becomes a vessel carrying memory, relationships, and inheritance. As the city changes and the familiar recedes, Inherited Tides invites audiences, between drifting and coming ashore, to rediscover the memories and sentiments held within this city, and to seek direction and a place to settle.