Art for a new Start

After the festive excesses of December, there is no better way to get a fresh month underway than with a cultural re-boot, and Macau Cultural Centre has something for everyone.

 

Since 1999, Macau Cultural Centre (CCM) has been offering the best in performances, conferences and exhibitions to audiences in the territory, and January 2015 is no different. Dance performances, Jazz, a piano concerto and children’s theatre are just a few of the creative shows on offer in the new year. 

 

 

 

 

Dontknowhere is a dance performance conceived and presented by avant-garde performers Chan Chi Cheng, Tracy Wong and Liu Yan Cheng. After a long period away from home, they started planning how to use what they learned abroad to interact locally. Using the purest body language to create various unique spaces, and playing with time through lighting three bodies with different training backgrounds, the audience is lead on a journey, exploring the meaning of existence in this world. 

 

6,7/2 | 19:30 | Small Auditorium | MOP120

 

 

 

 

Dangerous Liaisons is a multimedia dance performance described as one of the most scandalous and controversial works in European literature. The show is based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, whose narrative flows through the letters exchanged by Merteuil and Valmont. Theatre Aether, founded in 2010, brings this daring tale to CCM. As the first Butoh theatre group in Macau, Theatre Aether, created by Thomas Tse and Yves Etienne Sonolet, creates a unique form of dance theatre, combining Butoh, Chinese folk dance and contemporary dance.

 

13,14/2 | 21:00 | .ART | MOP120

 

 

 

 

Perceptual Landscape is an unconventional experiment in light, sound and physical theatre. Inspired by a group of mentally challenged pupils, theatre director Jenny Mok realized that people with special needs have a different tactility and their perceptions are not the same as everyone else’s, which is why they react differently to diverse situations. Fuelled by these thoughts, Jenny teamed up with lighting and visual designer Gabriel Fung and musician-cum-sound designer Eric Chan, to develop an innovative concept and create an experimental theatre piece that will make us rethink the notion of “reality” and “illusion”.

 

13,14/2 | 19:30 | Small Auditorium | MOP120

 

 

 

 

In The Bad Bad Wolf, Black Sand Theatre brings us an original adaptation that reinvents the story of the villain in the classic tales “The Three Little Pigs”, “The Wolf and the Seven Kids” and “Little Red Riding Hood”. Once upon a time, there was a big bad wolf that chased and terrorized everyone around. Would you believe that one day, tired of eating people and animals, he became a friendly vegetarian?  A new puppet and multimedia adventure by Maira Belati and Antonio Martinez is sure to delight at the Children’s Theatre.

 

7/2 19:30 | 8/2 15:00 | .ART | MOP120

 

 

For more information on these shows and others on the CCM calendar, please visit