Fantasies as the Engine to Create: choreographic workshop by Joseph Lee
Joseph Lee, the Artistic Director of a Hong Kong contemporary dance company Unlock Dancing Plaza is leading a choreographic workshop for dance-makers to unleash creative potentials by building up an open space and community to fuel your process through a series of guided creative tasks.
As a performance curator, choreographer and performer himself, Lee wants to take this three-hour workshop as a point of encounter and create a safe space to support creative works. In the workshop, each individual is expected to work on their materials as well as with the rest of the group under Lee’s facilitation, with specific questions, tools and feedback methodology, each participant will then transform their ideas into performative acts. By incorporating questions and fantasies in each individual’s work, Lee hopes to stretch the critical distance between the work and the creator, of which the distance will then allow freedom, playfulness and creativity to emerge.
Joseph Lee is a choreographer, performer, and performance curator. He is currently the Artistic Director of Unlock Dancing Plaza, a Hong Kong-based contemporary dance company.
His curatorial interests focus on the overlooked aspects of local contemporary dance ecology and explores different forms of curatorial projects to expand the perspectives on creative work that centers around the body as the primary medium. In doing so, he curates a series of contemporary dance performances and platforms for exchange, including contemporary dance festival #DANCELESS complex with residencies as its core, the local creation companion program dance-to-be, and the co-learning platform Open Research Week. The curatorial focus lies in knowledge production, preservation, and dissemination within the creative process; dialogues across cultural and artistic contexts; and the embodiment of creativity in community practices.
In his personal work, Lee explores popular culture, symbols, and representations, as well as the overlaps and gaps between the body, dance, and their images. Through various performative strategies, he constructs an ambiguous space that exists between familiar sensory experiences and viewing encounters, inviting the audience to reexamine the experience of the present moment from an unknown space. His artistic practices and site for performance include but are not limited to live performances, moving images, texts, theatrical space, alternative spaces, and choreographic approaches to conceptualizing various curatorial projects.
His choreographic works include Folding Echoes (2016), Two Solos, One Dance, Three Frames (2021), Slow Dance: Latin Dance (2022), and this work has three possible titles:(2023). His works have toured to Japan, Korea, Germany, Australia, UK and other places throughout the years.
Lee was awarded Arts Development Award for Young Artist (2017).
Audience: Trained dancers, preferably with choreographic interests
Duration: 3 hours
The workshop is free but subject to registration.
You can register by sendng an e-mail to the following mail address: jegypenztar@trafo.hu
