About Resolution: Ophey Chan, Test Kitchen Collective, and Dayeon Oh and Youjin Kim

HOME EARTH by Ophey Chan

HOME EARTH is a dance piece inspired by bamboo, its ecology and its place in Hong Kong’s everyday life and culture.

From scaffolding that supports the city to the structures that hold a home together, bamboo becomes a starting point to explore strength, vulnerability and belonging. Through grounded movement, collective rhythms and physical relationships, dancers investigate how bodies support, challenge and adapt to one another.

As structures shift and relationships change, HOME EARTH asks what it means to build, protect and sustain a sense of home, and what we carry forward when the world around us changes.

About OPhey Chan

Ophey Chan is a Hong Kong-born, London-based choreographer and interdisciplinary dance artist working across contemporary dance, screendance and somatic practice. Her work explores the body as a site of memory, lived experience and cultural connection, bringing together movement research, embodied inquiry and collective experience. Drawing on diverse movement practices, including contemporary dance, West African dance and somatic approaches, she investigates how bodies relate to one another and the environments they inhabit. Alongside her artistic practice, Ophey works as a dance educator and community artist, with an interest in inclusive practice and the role of movement in fostering connection and belonging.
https://opheysankofachan.com

Cast and Creatives

Choreographer: Ophey Chan

Composer: Max Jacques Conway Goutines

Dancers: Julianna Ruiz Torres, Anneli Tan, Tiffany Yeung, Anna Placentino, Giulia Càrastro

Duet for 1 by Test Kitchen Collective

Duet for 1 asks what it means to truly be present with another person.

Through everyday rituals of being together, two bodies navigate closeness and distance, harmony and disruption. The work transforms the familiar into something strange, playful and surreal.

As connection gives way to friction, intimacy and vulnerability, the performers continually negotiate how to be with – and remain themselves – beside one another.

In a world of constant digital connection, Duet for 1 invites us to slow down, look closely, and encounter one another in real time.

Cast and Creatives

Choreographers and performers: Anne Wang and Adriana Perejiles

Set and costume design: Zoé Jacole

Photography: Shuyan Zang

Ganggangsullae: Traces of a Circle by Dayeon Oh and Youjin Kim

Ganggangsullae is a traditional Korean communal dance where people join hands in a circle, singing and moving together. Ganggangsullae: Traces of a Circle reimagines this tradition through six performers from different cultural backgrounds.

Though time changes, people still wish for one another’s wellbeing, dream of a better tomorrow and support one another. Drawing on memories and experiences carried within their bodies, the performers create gestures that meet and intertwine, forming a shared language of movement.

As in Ganggangsullae, individual movements become one dance and the circle becomes a space where different bodies and stories connect across cultures, memories and generations.

About Dayeon Oh and Youjin Kim

Dayeon Oh is a London-based Korean contemporary dancer and choreographer and a K-Arts graduate about to complete her MA in Dance Performance at Trinity Laban. Her work explores the relationship between memory and body.

Through improvisation and physical research, she translates images, texts and memories into a physical, rhythmic movement language.

Youjin Kim is a Performance Maker and Creative Director based in London and Seoul, studying Performance Design at Central Saint Martins. Her practice explores human connection, memory and culture through performance, space and visual language. Working across projection, lighting and sound, she creates atmospheric environments connecting bodies, spaces and audiences.

Cast and Creatives

Choreography: Dayeon Oh

Movement Researcher: Dayeon Oh, Gabriella Gleichenia Gautama, Valeria Millan Barreiro, Izzy Mitchell, Laura Cecilia Castiblanco Moreno, Leok Mang Lei

Art and Creative Direction: Youjin Kim

Music Composition: Chaeeun Lee, Chaeeun Lee(和雲)

Lighting Design: Youjin Kim, Dayeon Oh