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A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME ENCOUNTER OF THE 2 SUPER STARS: JOEY YUNG (HONG KONG) & ES DEVLIN (LONDON)
22-08-19 What is an encounter? ‘In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit’. Es Devlin is a world renowned stage designer, well-known for creating large-scale performance…
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THE REMARKABLE ROLE OF GALLERY IN THE HONG KONG ART WORLD ―VISION OF FABIO ROSSI
16-08-19 Art galleries and auction houses are the 2 dominant players in the art world apart from art fairs. People look at them positively and negatively. Artist Robert Smithson said, “A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.” In…
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「香港甚麼都有，就是缺乏對藝術的尊重」―本地畫廊老闆Fabio Rossi談香港人買畫「投資」的迷思
Fabio是意大利人，1963年出生，家裏從事藝術生意，由七歲起，他便常常陪家人來亞洲各國，如印度、中國、日本等，只要有藝術的地方，他都留下腳印。Fabio說：「噢，有時候一年要來香港幾次！」…. 他說：「香港是發展成為藝術之都的好地方，可惜，香港人甚麼都有了，就是不懂尊重藝術！」我想了一會：「中文『尊重』這兩個字，意義比英文『respect』來得更深。在藝術方面，『尊』代表大家應該崇尚；『重』代表大家重視。可惜在香港，藝術只對有文化的人才有說服力，因為藝術並不是如吃和喝或衣服般，是必需品。有些香港人對藝術不聞不問，就算沒有靈魂，也可以活下去…..
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SENSE & SENSIBILITY: THE 2 NEW THEATRE BOXES OF ‘FREESPACE’ & ‘MGM THEATER’
05-08-19 Actress Stella Adler said once upon a time, “The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place where people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. The theatre was created to tell…
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新的西九「神秘空間」和澳門「魔幻空間」―《如夢之夢》還是《Fuerza Bruta》出色？
我每星期跑兩、三晚劇場，好的要看，不好的也要看。但是，思想有一得著：坐在黑暗的劇場內，非常珍惜，因為腦袋完全自由，台上的人也可以自由表達，粗話和裸體倒也無傷大雅，台下的人可以用笑聲、掌聲，甚至搖頭來回應；只要遵守劇場的規矩，那一刻，人和人思想的互動、表達的自由，是沒有絲毫障礙，台上、台下都是完全奔放。香港的劇場，正代表文明社會的真諦。文明，是金錢買不到的幸福…..
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FOREVER SAMMI, FOREVER VENUS
01-08-19 Sammi Cheng is a top pop singer in Hong Kong. In her forties and after 30 years in her singing career since the age of 16, she still retains the peak position as an idol and impacts millions of people in Hong Kong. She sings, leads the fashion trends, donates money, helps the young…
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香港樂壇「時尚女皇」鄭秀文的紅館作品：九十年代的燦爛星輝不滅
我對紅磡體育館的感情矛盾，「又愛又恨」。小時候，紅磡灣是釣泥鯭魚的好地方，看著它填海，蓋了八十年代偉大的「紅館」，可以坐一萬多人，更成為本地和亞洲巨星趨之若鶩的殿堂，二十多歲的我們當然一天到晚去「朝聖」，「見證」過張國榮、陳百強、梅艷芳……的演唱會。由火車站過馬路到紅館，至今，恐怕數百次，看的時候，還要穿上Helmut Lang 吧…..
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HONG KONG LIFE AND ART CAN HAVE A ‘3RD DIMENSION’―YANG YUNTAO, OUR INFLUENTIAL DANCE DIRECTOR
28-07-19 Isaac Newton defined, “When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.” Can the 2 forces co-exist and form a new force which is more powerful and good? In life? In art? The Artistic Director…
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「新香港人」楊雲濤，香港舞蹈團藝術總監：香港社會和藝術的「第三度空間」
跑了上海一趟，在虹橋和內地的朋友吃飯，他們的理想是如何在不改變現有環境下，創造未來。回到香港，是另外一群文化人的聚會，他們認為社會要有移山劈石的大改革，明天才有希望…..
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THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT OF ‘KONGALS’―JOSIE HO’S 6 HARD TIMES IN HER LIFE
17-07-19 ‘Kongals’ (or Kong gals) refer to the modern Hong Kong women who are no longer men’s ‘half-time, downtime, spare time or sometimes’. Nowadays, women in Hong Kong are educated, independent, confident and free-spirited. Some ‘Kongals’ may turn annoying by acting like a queen or princess. They make life difficult for others by being demanding,…
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