1st Edition

Asian City Crossings Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore

Edited By Rossella Ferrari, Ashley Thorpe Copyright 2021
274 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond. The shared and yet... Read more

1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain: Hong Kong, Singapore, and the City as Method

Rossella Ferrari and Ashley Thorpe

2. Culture of Exchange and Cultural Exchange

Danny Yung

3. From 1989 to 1997 and Beyond: Zuni Icosahedron’s Transnational Explorations

Wah Guan Lim

4. Dialectics as Creative Process and Decentring China: Zuni Icosahedron and Drama Box’s One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0: Cultural Revolution

How Wee Ng

5. Thoughts on Cross-Cultural Collaboration by Mok Chiu-yu, a Hong Konger: What We Did and Why There Was Little Interaction with Singapore

Mok Chiu-yu

6. Augustine Mok Chiu-yu’s Intercultural Asian People’s Theatre: Imagining "The Third Way" for Hong Kong

Jessica Yeung

7. Solitude to Solidarity: Imagined Transnational Alliance of Humanity against Bestial Hegemony

Daphne P. Lei

8. Crossing-Over as Strategy

Liu Xiaoyi

9. The City and the Artist: Alice Theatre Laboratory’s Seven Boxes Possessed of Kafka in Shanghai

Mirjam Tröster

10. Unequal Cosmopolitanisms: Staging Singaporean Nanyin in and beyond Asia

Shzr Ee Tan

11. Minor Translocalism: Messy and Marginal Networks in and beyond Singapore. An Interview with Tan Suet Lee

Amanda Rogers

12. Facilitating Exchange

Kok Heng Leun

13. Postscript: Asian City Crossings as a Strategy for Freedom?

Rossella Ferrari and Ashley Thorpe

Biography

Rossella Ferrari is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Ashley Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Director of the Centre for Asian Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.