- Unexpected Opening (dance with Bruna and self introduction + check in for everyone), demonstrated his consideration for the audience for the whole time, “access needs”
- Choreography is organizing bodies in time and space
- Dance, or art in general, are not only about the technical adeptness of the artist but more about the impact and meaning in its background. I personally found this to be connected to my understanding of the philosophy in our East Asian culture – the general notion of “purpose” and “usefulness”.
- Decolonization – Avoid Western-centric ways of narration. Deconstructing stereotypes and imbalance between different cultures.
- Solidarity, Togetherness, “We are all in this together”. We should try to know and understand everyone, recognize one’s privileges and biases, and work out our best. I find this also somehow tied to the Collectivism behind the East Asian / Taoist philosophy “Great Unity”. However, his creativity opened up new ways to interpret this I never thought about before. His art usually includes the audiences as the main characters. I got goosebumps when I see the audiences actually succeeded in producing a collective dance performance.
- Psychology major, artworks are researched and carefully designed to make everyone feel safe while attaining their purpose. They are like social experiments. E.g. the undressing room, audiences actually turned out to be more accepting to their and each other’s bodies. In fact, as somebody from that part of the world, I personally consider this artwork to be extremely meaningful especially in East Asian societies where people tends to discuss body / sex in a very implicit or even avoiding way.
- Political Activism, June 4th Protest. Continuation of effort of the annual commemoration in Victoria Park, HK after it was banned in 2021.
- Weed Principle, survive under the worst conditions. Changing the system is hard, but we should demonstrate to those in power that we are here
- Show them, not explain to them
- Artists should know if they are the right people to do art on some topic.
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