Of Stone and Flower (working title) - Screening & Performance《石与花》*暂名 - 放映及演出

Batu Pahat, in Malay, means “stone” and is the birthplace of Ong Yong Lock. Flowers symbolize the connection between Ong and his mother in Malaysia. Ong, an established dancer-choreographer now based in Hong Kong, uses “stone” and “flower” as metaphors to explore the intersections between objects and lives, the eternal and the transient, the solid and the delicate, the enduring and the ever-changing. He will collaborate with filmmaker Shing Lee to document his return journey to Batu Pahat and create a dance video titled “Of Stone and Flower,” unraveling embodied history amidst fleeting memories and vanishing landscapes.

峇株巴辖在马来语中意为「石头」，是王荣禄的出生地。花朵象征着王荣禄与他在马来西亚的母亲之间的联系。现居香港的舞者兼编舞王荣禄，以「石头」和「花朵」为隐喻，探索物与生命、永恒与短暂、坚硬与柔美、持久与变化之间的交汇。他将与影像创作者李伟盛合作，记录他回到峇株巴轄的旅程，并创作舞蹈影像《石与花》，在流逝的记忆和消逝的风景中揭示身体化的历史。

Performer 表演者:  Ong Yong Lock 王荣禄
Filmmaker 导演:  Shing Lee 李伟盛


Date 日期: 20 June (Fri) 

Time 时间: 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM 

Venue 地点: Five Arts Centre, 9th floor, GMBB KL

Admission 入场: Free 

Organised by 主办单位：Unlock Dancing Plaza 不加锁舞踊馆

Venue Partner 场地合作: Five Arts Centre 

Supported by 支持单位： Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Jakarta 

*This film screening includes English and Chinese subtitles. 
*本次放映提供英文和中文字幕。

About the artists

Ong Yong Lock   
Born in Malaysia, Ong Yong Lock is now a choreographer, a performer, and an educator. Ong is a founder member of the South 'ASLI' Dance Workshop (SADW) and served as the Artistic Director between 1997 and 2001. In 2002, Ong founded the Unlock Dancing Plaza with Elsie Chau. He has been the Artistic Director for almost two decades since its establishment in 2002 and has been dedicated to promoting and popularizing modern dance. In 2022, he has taken on the role of Creative Director (Public Engagement), focusing on outreach and community projects.  

王榮祿
出生于马来西亚，为编舞家、表演者及教育工作者。 王氏为南群舞子创办团员，1997至2001年间出任南群舞子艺术总监一职。 2002年，王荣禄与周金毅成立不加锁舞踊馆，致力推广和普及现代舞。 王氏自创团起至2021年间出任不加锁舞踊馆艺术总监并由2022年起以创意总监（公众参与）一职继续参与舞团事务，专注外展及社区计划。

Shing Lee
Shing Lee studied Visual Communication and started his career as an independent filmmaker after graduation. In 2019, he won the Gold Award at the ifva Festival with “Family Family Day”. Lee is well known for his diversified improvisation and experimental video-editing style. In recent years, he started to create dance videos. His work “A Rock” won the Jury Prize at the 5th Dance On Screen Film Festival. Lee was the Production Assistant of Chinese Independent Documentary Lab. He is one of the founding members of an independent film ensemble 1930 collective.His recent film Room 404, co-directed with Elysa Wendi has been selected to the 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded.

李伟盛
李伟盛，独立电影人，大专修读平面设计，其后学习纪录片，至今一直从事影像创作。 个人作品《团团圆》曾获得2019年ifva公开组金奖。 阿盛擅长剪接，风格即兴多变。 近年更涉足舞蹈影像的创作，《A Rock》获得奥地利第5届Dance On Screen Film Festival的评审奖。 他曾任中国独立纪录片研究会的制作助理，现为1930 collective的创团成员之一。 他与叶奕蕾合导的《房间404》，入围2024柏林影展Forum Expanded单元。

About Unlock Dancing Plaza 关于不加锁舞蛹馆

Unlock Dancing Plaza is one of the most forward-thinking and adventurous contemporary dance companies in Hong Kong. Founded in 2002 by Ong Yong Lock and Elsie Chau, the company is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2009. In 2022, Joseph Lee succeeded Ong as the Artistic Director and Ong became Creative Director (Public Engagement), focusing on outreach and community programmes. Determined to extend possibilities of dance making, Unlock aspires to develop a diverse performing arts ecology. Emancipate from institutionalized dance aesthetic, the company proposes to redefine dance as a natural form of self-expression, honouring individuality, and breaking from the production-focused par for the course. In recent years, Unlock makes new attempt to conduct various experimental projects to re-imagine dance.

Unlock embodies individuality in dance and promote the concept of “Danceless”, a new aesthetic notion to forsake dance techniques and empower everyone’s ability to dance. Unlock engages the community through workshops and showcases, effectively promotes mutual exchange between artists and the public by shared dance experiences.

Elaborating on the idea of Danceless, first #DANCELESS complex was launched in 2021.  It became a platform for choreographers from different cultural background to share ideas, to perform, and to experiment. 

Unlock makes new attempt to initiate “Unlock Body Lab” - a series of research on dance and performances. Its “dance-to-be” cross-media, cross-culture residency project encourages experimentation and emphasises the work-in-progress creative process, focusing on every stages of creation before the performance, whereas the format of concluding presentation is open to numerous possibilities.

Unlock is a three-time Hong Kong Dance Awards recipient and highly recognised by the dance industry. Its representative works include Jump to Mars, Dance with me, Boy Story. Reborn, Wanderer, serial dance-theatre Walls 44, Chopin VS Ca, and etc. Touring to dance festivals around the world for years, Unlock closely connects with people and place, making dialogues in dance.

不加锁舞踊馆为香港其中一个最具前瞻性及实验精神的当代舞团，由王荣禄及周金毅成立于2002年，自2009年起成为香港艺术发展局资助团体，首任艺术总监为王荣禄。2022年，李伟能接任艺术总监，王荣禄担任创意总监，主理外展及社区计划。舞团积极扩阔舞蹈表演的可能性，并尝试体现和实践于制作中，锐意发展多元的表演艺术生态。解放体制化的舞蹈美学，以个人为本，根据身体的独特性重新为舞蹈定义，走出制作主导的运作模式。近年来，舞团作多方面尝试，开拓舞蹈的多元想象。

舞团提出「#非关舞蹈」的概念，主张从身体独特性出发，摒除体制化的舞蹈技巧，相信每个人都可以跳舞。借一系列社区参与的创作、演出及工作坊，发展、推广及深化；促成艺术家与公众双向交流，共同体验舞蹈艺术。

从「#非关舞蹈」的概念延伸，于2021年策划首届的「#非关舞蹈祭」，集合来自不同文化语境中的编舞者对于舞蹈表演的思考与突破，让舞蹈节成为一个展演平台以外，知识及经验流动的交流空间以及编舞实验场。

舞团亦尝试扩展制作以外的项目，聚焦于过程的价值及潜能，发展出 Unlock Body Lab：策划跨媒介、跨交化的驻场项目，鼓励具开放性及实验性的探索，并鼓励创作者以各种形式作总结，以呈现作品的阶段成果。

舞团曾三度获香港舞蹈年奖，深得业界认可。代表剧场作品包括《跳着舞去火星》、《男生·男再生》、《游弋苍穹》、连续舞蹈剧场《墙四十四》、《肖邦 vs CA帮》等。多年来巡演于世界各地的舞蹈节，以舞蹈去打开对话，连结不同地区和社群。