Freespace Dance 2025: TS Crew (HK) x contact Gonzo (Osaka) – Bridging Bridge

EVENT DESCRIPTION

With a choreographic framework that includes improvisational movements, a high-energy football game, live beatboxing and real-time collaborative bridge building using bodies and bamboo, TS Crew from Hong Kong and contact Gonzo from Osaka explore and deconstruct facets of human nature, culture and society.

Bridging Bridge is a bold experimental fusion that embraces raw stage fighting and visceral explorations of human interaction. Merging elements of physical theatre, dance, acrobatics, improvisation and martial arts, the immersive, genre-defying performance engages the audience in a cross-border dialogue about unity, division, and bridging divides in an increasingly polarised world. Through intense, agile physical gestures and exchanges that transcend language and culture, a tacit understanding emerges that culminates with the completion of a symbolic bamboo bridge.

Bridging Bridge is the result of a two-year development project with research residencies and work-in-progress presentations at Kinosaki International Arts Center and Freespace Dance in 2024. This international co-production was commissioned by WestK Performing Arts as part of its artistic development mission to promote creative experimentation and cross-cultural dialogues.