Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
“Tan Dun WE-Festival” returns to promote innovation and exchanges of Chinese culture with ancient tea-inspired music
Brief introductions of the programmes in June are as follows:
“Xiangxi Tujia Women’s Daliuzi & Hong Kong Women’s Percussion Ensemble” (“TEA-liuzi” World Premiere)
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Date and time: June 4 and 5 (Wednesday and Thursday), 8pm
Venue: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Ticket prices: $380 and $480
Enlightened by an impressionable field trip in Xiangxi (western Hunan), Tan explores the possibility of merging the “daliuzi” (percussion of Tujia) with tea culture. Drawing from tea-making techniques of leaf-whistling, tea-picking and grinding, he creates a world premiere performance of the composition “TEA-liuzi”. The Hong Kong Women’s Percussion Ensemble, comprising local young percussionists, will make its debut with Xiangxi Tujia Women’s Daliuzi to engage in an East-West percussion dialogue that bridges the past and the future.
Lost Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Manuscripts: “The Vanishing Mogao Caves”
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Date and time: June 7 (Saturday), 8.45pm
Venue: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Ticket prices: $380 and $480
Tan has been immersed for years in the ancient music manuscripts of Dunhuang scores located overseas, and has recreated and produced a number of ancient musical instruments of the Tang dynasty from the murals of Dunhuang. In this programme, Tan, together with his self-founded Dunhuang Ancient Music Consort, will present an immersive and time-transcending production that revives last year’s Paris premiere of “The Vanishing Mogao Caves” through ancient music and dance, vocal performances and mini operas. This edition will also feature ancient Tang music pieces.
Tickets for the above programmes will be available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk
Another Festival programme, Tan Dun | “Tea: A Mirror of Soul” by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, will be held at 8pm on May 30 and 31 at the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. This opera is inspired by “The Classic of Tea” by tea master Lu Yu. Tan himself will conduct the production, imbued with the essence of Zen. Please visit the programme website www.hkphil.org/concert/tan-dun-tea-a-mirror-of-soul
The CCF, presented by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau and organised by the Chinese Culture Promotion Office under the LCSD, aims to promote Chinese culture and enhance the public’s national identity and cultural confidence. It also aims to attract top-notch artists and arts groups from the Mainland and other parts of the world for exchanges in Chinese arts and culture. For more information about programmes and activities of the CCF 2025, please visit www.ccf.gov.hkIssued at HKT 11:15
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