EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE:
Disruption
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Script
Programme
Date: 20 Sep 2014
Venue: Upperhouse, Hong Kong
Cast: RTHK Quartet (Beethoven's Ruzumovsky)
Cheryl Ng (contemporary dance)
Annie Liang (piano)
Karen Mok (cello)
Jon Lee (african drums)
Crew: Annie Liang (playwright, music director, artistic director) Cheryl Ng (choreographer)
Jon Lee (multimedia director)
Audience: Over 100 members of Young Presidents' Organization at Asia Chapter forum titled "Disruption"
Disruption is a four part performance combining string quartet and contemporary dance. An artistic interpretation of the notion of "disruption".
Act I: Chaos
Disruption is my friend! Disorder and chaos interest me. Especially activities that appear to have no meaning. To me, that means freedom.
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Act II: The Intangible Monster
The monster of disruption is intangible. Before you know it, the monster will consume, distort, penetrate and change everything. When that happens, we are left completely vulnerable.
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Act III: Metamorphosis
Disruptive change, does not have to be outward. I find the butterfly’s metamorphosis peculiar: An introspective re-construction, that results in a completely unrecognisable creature.
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Act IV: New Harmony
“The music of a lunatic”: this was the public’s reaction to the Razumovsky’s quartet. If ever a work expressed triumph over tragedy whilst marking a decisive advance on its own time, it is the Quartet in C major, in the manuscript of which Beethoven admitted for the first time publicly that he was deaf, he wrote, “Henceforth, make no secret of your deafness, even in your art.”
