Image Description: A performer on a balcony on each side with single lights above them. In the center three performers walk.
Image Description: A stack on six boxes with one dancer starting to put the seventh box on top. The other six dancers surround the stack.
Image Description: Oblong bamboo and paper sculpture, hollow on the inside, with bamboo rods that can be plucked to make touchable sound
Image Description: A dancer looks off into the distance and pushes a 7-foot-tall Lighting Trolley.
Image Description: Hong stands, head bowed, projection of a rocky cliff.
Image Description: Two dancers twist about before projections of rocks and water. One dancer in the architectural costume flails on the floor.
Image Description: The dancer in the architectural costume, now downstage, gestures toward something far away that only she can see.
Image from the Show: Christine in her architectural costume uses her IPhone to project the live feed of her face on the screen.
Image Description: A metal sculpture on a stand with three metal resonators and a set of glass rods.

Sounding Bodies: Light, Image, and Empty Spaces

Sounding Bodies: Light, Image, and Empty Spaces, a dance and intermedia project that examines everyday life in urban and natural sites across Hong Kong through dance laboratories, sculptural installations, and mobile performance events.  Sounding Bodies involves a research-and-creation process that explores sound sculptures, multi-sensory objects, portable architectures, and methods for dance-music jamming in ways that honour the cultural diversity of Hong Kong. The project will investigate Buddhist influences on classical and contemporary dance in Hong Kong and India; the history and practices of intermedia; and disability aesthetics.  

Sounding Bodies features dancers 
Pak- Hong Lau, Christine He, Soraya Chau, Ophey Sankofa Chan, Rhyn Cheung, Florence Woo, Chun To Yeung

Musicians
Jeremy Leung; Peter Wong, Fode Alex Cheung;

Designer
Tiffany Yu, Yu Wing Yan, LAI Tze Yu, To Wun, Jasper Dowding.

Sounding Bodies is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Cooperating organizations include HKU’s Common Core+; JTIA (with Venue Support); SLCO-CR; Accessibility Partner: Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong; HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre

Services for Ethnic Minorities; Yarnda; Buddhist Fat Ho Memorial College; MakerBay; Sense 99; and Panlab as well as generous friends of Folded Paper.

A Folded Paper Dance and Theatre Project

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