Tea House Theatre: Magic Tea House

A magical new production about the history and heritage of Cantonese opera – blending live performance, robotics and state-of-the-art technology

From August 2022, as part of Creative Tomorrow, the Tea House Theatre Troupe presents a new original production. Devised and performed by an expert team, the 90-minute drama blends live performance, robotics and state-of-the-art audio and visual technology – immersing the audience in a magical tale about the history and heritage of Cantonese opera.

When a young musician returns to his family’s Qing-era ancestral home, he discovers a lost trove of Cantonese opera treasures that once belonged to his great-grandfather. A dream-like encounter with the spirit of his ancestor opens his eyes to the significance of the traditional art. Through highlight excerpts of familiar productions and musical styles – presented with live performance, recordings, three-dimensional soundscapes, and state of the art robotics and digital technology – the tale showcases the diversity of the Cantonese opera experience.

Perfect for the whole family, The Magic Tea House is Hong Kong’s first ever Cantonese opera production featuring robotics and AI technology. Join us for a fun and engaging new perspective on an age-old heritage art.

Site Singing: A New AR App Experience

Our new app Site Singing offers a site-specific AR experience that lets you become your own guide on an interactive multi-sensory tour of Freespace and the Art Park! Bringing music to life around you in exciting new ways, it opens your eyes and ears to a colourful world of augmented reality performance.

Phygital D: MMM – Installations by Hiroaki Umeda

Trace the decade-long creative journey of a seminal contemporary multidisciplinary artist through three installations representing different phases of his career

Haptic Installation (2010)
The dance version of Haptic was created back in 2008 based on Umeda’s exploration into the premise that "colours are a form of haptic stimulus". By filling the stage to the brim with vibrant shades, the artist seeks to push the audience’s senses to the limit.

kinesis #3 – dissolving field (2019)
An interactive installation that radically reconfigures and reconstructs body movement into abstract imagery.

indivisible substance VR (2022)
A VR installation of the final iteration of indivisible substance, a dance production that took the artist three years to complete.

Phygital D: Hiroaki Umeda - invisible substance

The complete version of the long-awaited new production, presented in an exciting format that combines live performance and a virtual stage

Japanese avant-garde artist Hiroaki Umeda presents the full-length production of indivisible substance. Following two online showings as a work-in-progress, the final iteration of the performance – three years in the making – is finally coming to Freespace as a live in-person experience.

Phygital D: Lu Yang – DOKU, The Binary World

A high-energy audiovisual experience with real-time motion capture, live performance and virtual avatars in Hong Kong and Sydney

This October, Shanghai-based new media artist Lu Yang premieres the live motion capture performance DOKU, The Binary World as a real-time collaboration between dancers in Hong Kong and Sydney. Interacting in a shared virtual environment, the dancers and avatars at Freespace and the Sydney Opera House shuttle simultaneously through multiple binary realms.

Freespace Jazz Fest 2022

A family-friendly music festival for a long weekend of great sounds and fun events indoors and outdoors. Freespace Jazz Fest returns this October - with five days of non-stop great sounds on five stages around Freespace the Art Park and Hong Kong's new venue Wonderland. The festival also includes free film screenings and an arts and crafts market on the Great Lawn, plus a variety of fun activities for parents and kids.

This year, you can come and engage in a series of curated digital activities at the Club’s “With You. Then. Now. Always.” exhibition booth on the Great Lawn. Click here for more details about the exhibition.

Wayson Poon: PHONATE

A thought-provoking piece reflecting the shared poetry and consciousness of human beings and human bodies.

Wayson Poon’s latest work PHONATE explores the dynamics of power, control and communal strength that occur between choreographer, dancers and audience. Pushing the limitations of their bodies, the dancers transform the air of a minimalist performance space into audible energy. As the rhythms of their breath compete and synchronise, a state of involuntary connection develops and the audience become one with the dancers, inhaling and exhaling in time.

Future of Performance: Presence

Explore the potential of telepresence techniques in a real-time live performance. An original interactive online experinece, Presence explores the performance potential of telepresence techniques through live performance, installation, game control programming and first-person game play.

Participating remotely through a specially developed online platfiorm, the audience are "telepresent" in the performance through camera-equipped robotic cars - self-operated physical avatars - that enable them to see, hear and interact in real time with real performers in real space.