Presented by Dance House Vancouver with community partner Asian-Canadian Special Events Association<\/p>\n
Creatures of a feather dance together in\u00a0Birdy<\/i>, Hung Dance\u2019s call to the wild.<\/p>\n
Employing a head piece called \u201cLing Zi\u201d that incorporates pheasant tail feathers worn in traditional Chinese opera to represent warrior\u2019s power and skill,\u00a0Birdy<\/i>\u00a0offers up a magpie creation, concretizing bright bursts of freedom against the weighted cage of history.<\/p>\n
Founded in 2017 by choreographer Lai Hung-Chung, Hung Dance\u2019s choreographic vocabulary is drawn from martial arts, Peking opera, and traditional cultural symbols. Through the prism of performance, Taiwan\u2019s complex history and political status metamorphize into a thrilling new dance language.<\/p>\n
The calligraphic eloquence of four-feet long feathers moves from gentleness to violence, transforming into spears, whips, and a blade drawn sharply across the throat. Whether extending the body into space, wriggling in earnest writing, or offering a gossamer caress, the feathers function as a form of punctuation, leading and echoing movement phrases with the expressive vitality of living things.<\/p>\n
As the dancers flock together in rippling patterns of conformity and divergence, rituals of behaviour gleaned from the non-human world, find their choreographic counterparts. Group think meets the defiance of individual identity, as self-policing roots out any opposition. What emerges in the tightrope struggle is a universal cry for freedom.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"hung-dance","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-11-28 20:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"28","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-11-29 20:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"29","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-11-29 04:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"29","hour":"04","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-11-30 04:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"30","hour":"04","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"PST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Performance","slug":"performance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":350,"filter":"raw","id":7,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/7","collection":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":{"_ecp_custom_2":{"label":"Genre","value":"Chinese|Contemporary|Multiple Genres"},"_ecp_custom_3":{"label":"Region","value":"Vancouver Coast & Mountains"}},"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Hung Dance","description":"<p>Presented by Dance House Vancouver with community partner Asian-Canadian Special Events Association Creatures of a feather dance together in\u00a0Birdy, Hung Dance\u2019s call to the wild. <a href="https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/event\/hung-dance\/">Read more<\/a><\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/event\/hung-dance\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2025-11-28T20:00:00-08:00","endDate":"2025-11-29T20:00:00-08:00","performer":"Organization"},"ticketed":false,"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}