Dance performance meets cutting edge technology in this live show combining theatre, music, gaming and VR technology created with artists in London and Hong Kong.

Mythological yet futuristic, HOME X is a visually stunning virtual world connecting performers in Hong Kong and London in real-time using depth-sensing cameras which capture 3D video.

Exploring themes of roots and belonging, destruction and renewal, this ground-breaking experimental performance features live music, dance and moving real-life testimony of home and migration. Audiences can discover a virtual land inhabited by magical creatures through a panoramic 270-degree projection.

Featuring an original live electronic music score by An-Ting 安婷 in the UK, with opera singer Colette Lam performing soprano in Hong Kong,  and live break dance by choreographers Si Rawlinson in the UK and Suen Nam in Hong Kong.

Kakilang (formerly Chinese Arts Now) are an award-winning organisation who produce work pioneering multi-disciplinary artforms from a wide spectrum of Southeast and East Asian voices. HOME X is co-produced by Kakilang and their Hong Kong partner, Don't Believe in Style.

Barbican, Pit Theatre

Tue 21 – Sat 25 Feb 2023
7.30pm GMT

2pm GMT matinee performances on Thur 23 Feb and Sat 25 Feb 2023

Credit

HOME X is co-produced by Kakilang (formerly Chinese Arts Now) and their Hong Kong partner, Don't Believe in Style and co-commissioned by Cambridge Junction, Oxford Contemporary Music and York Theatre Royal. The work is supported by StoryFutures, The Space and John Ellerman Foundation, originally commissioned by British Council Hong Kong.

Creative Team

Conceived by An-Ting Chang, Ian Gallagher and Donald Shek

Directed and Composed by An-Ting Chang

Creative Technology by Ian Gallagher

3D Design by Donald Shek

Experience Design by Henry Lam

Costume Design by Christine Ting - Huan 挺歡 Urquhart

Choreographers/Dancers: Si Rawlinson (UK), Suen Nam (HK)

Soprano: Colette Wing Wing Lam

Dramaturg: Daniel York Loh

Actor Gamer: Mia Foo

Sound Consultant: David Howard