• Programme duration is about 1 hour and 15 minutes with an intermission of 15 minutes
• Post - performance talk on
  11 November.
• Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company will host a dance workshop.
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Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company (UK)
City Contemporary Dance Company


World Première

An eye-opening collaboration between home-grown talent Mui Cheuk-yin and London-based Shobana Jeyasingh that sees two sets of dancers creating and rehearsing simultaneously in two different locations, thousands of miles apart. Renowned for their articulate use of trans-cultural body language, each award-winning choreographer will draw from their unique vocabulary to produce an unprecedented dance work. city:zen is a Chinese / Indian crossover narrative that showcases two distinctive styles and identities bound together by a shared passion for honesty and power.

Commissioned by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

With live music

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company

"Choreographically ingenious and visually stunning."
- Evening Standard

Using Bharata Natyam, an Indian classical dance form as a starting point, Shobana Jeyasingh has invented a startling dance vocabulary. The avant-garde British-Asian choreographer has won numerous dance and even digital arts awards with her compact contemporary dance style that is both surprising and unpredictable. In her signature piece Exit No Exit, a sense of urgency propels seven powerful dancers into a dynamic and visually stunning dimension, characterised by multimedia images and a computerised score by iconic composer Michael Nyman.