In addition to taking photos with Christmas decorations, going to Christmas markets, Staycation, and holiday feasts, there are more choices and great places to go for Christmas! For example, in Central, Tai Kwun not only brings a 12-meter “Love Tree” with bright colors for everyone to take photos and feel the Christmas atmosphere, but also launches the “Play Tai Kwun Circus Season” program, inviting local and international circus performers to bring a series of circus performances and workshops outdoors and indoors!
//1. Opening performance “Sound, Space, Dream, and Destiny”//
From the music and circus team David Moreno Cia. & Cristina Calleja from Spain, the opening performance of “Playful Circus Season” brings the show “Sound, Space, Dream, and Fantasy” to the Great Hall. The two performers perform on a piano suspended 8 meters above the square, combining music, dance, circus, projection, and more to stage a magnificent and dreamy love story.
Date: December 15 to 19
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Tai Kwun Parade Ground
//2. Circus performance play “Christmas Mouse · Nutcracker”//
Local creative team TS Crew extracts a scene from the classic Christmas ballet “The Nutcracker,” the “Soldier vs. Mouse,” combining theater and outdoor carnival elements to create a new circus performance “Christmas. Mouse. Nutcracker.” The performance incorporates various Hong Kong local performances such as lion dance, Chinese opera, circus, acrobatics, and Beatbox cultural elements, while also combining street performances such as unicycling, stilts, and fire breathing, creating a thrilling and exciting show!
Date and Time: December 24 to 27 (4:30 pm); December 25 to 26 (2 pm)
Location: Tai Kwun Parade Ground
//3. Circus Showdown “Nail Lonely Branches Blood Fight”//
At the 3rd landing of Tai Kwun, “Nail the Solitary Branch: Blood Fight” features local and Taiwanese circus elites battling it out, continuing the tradition of past blood fights. After showcasing their skills at the “Nail the Solitary Branch: Blood Fight Masters Competition,” various circus newcomers will compete on the spot through lucky draw at the “Nail the Solitary Branch: Blood Fight,” with the advancing participants selected by the live audience.
In addition, this year Tai Kwun has once again collaborated with Star Alliance Limited to produce a circus film, inviting Portuguese circus artist Ricardo S. Mendes to direct, and working with circus artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, and France to create a circus story that can be enjoyed online.
Date and Time:
Iron Blood Masters Tournament: December 31 to January 1, 2022 (3:00 PM)
Iron Blood Grand Melee: January 2, 2022 (3:00 PM)
Circus Movie “Isabella”: December 30 (Online Premiere)
Location: Tai Kwun Parade Ground
//4. Workshop Experience “Walnut Circus School”//
Tai Kwun will transform into a circus school, bringing 6 free parent-child workshops with the theme of “The Nutcracker”. A group of local juggling instructors will personally demonstrate and perform high-level skills, then guide participants to experience introductory juggling skills, allowing everyone to learn and experience juggling on the spot, including crystal balls, sword ball combat, puppet making, and more.
Date: December 24 to January 2, 2022
Location: Various places in Tai Kwun
//5. Discussing the performance piece “Circus Training Camp”//
This year, Tai Kwun’s “Circus Training Camp” invited the artistic director of the internationally renowned juggling group Gandini Juggling, Sean Gandini, and Kati Ylä-Hokkala to bring local artists an “Advanced Workshop.” The training camp will start from Gandini Juggling’s latest creation, the piece “LIFE,” inspired by the American contemporary dance master Merce Cunningham, to understand how contemporary circus combines dance and juggling performances through “layering.”
Date: January 1-2, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Jockey Club Atrium
Learn more: Tai Kwun
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