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The 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009 Commissions, Asian and World Premiere Programmes

15 October 2008

NEW WORKS / WORLD PREMIERES

1. Music: ExxonMobil Vision: Teresa Suen Harp Recital (New work: Eine kleine Suite über Engel by Chan Hing-yan)
2. Music: ExxonMobil Vision: Primary Shapes – An Eternal Golden Braid #
3. Music: Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra – Music About China 3 (New works: Suspended Ancient Coffins on the Cliffs in Sichuan (Chinese Music Arrangement) and Three Melodies of West Yunnan (the 3rd Movement by Guo Wenjing)
4. Music: Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Sergio Tiempo (New work: Electric Counterpoint by Samson Young)
5. Dance: Company Ea Sola – The White Body
6. Theatre: Murder in San José*
7. Theatre: Black Swan *
8. Theatre: Danny Yung Experimental Theatre – Book of Ghosts ∆

# Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
* Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival
∆ Co-commissioned and co-produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Zuni Icosahedron
 

ASIAN PREMIERES

1. Opera: Latvian National Opera – Alcina
2. Opera: Latvian National Opera – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
3. Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Old Vic present a Peter Hall Company Production – Pygmalion
4. Theatre: The Wooster Group – The Emperor Jones
5. Dance: English National Ballet – Alice in Wonderland
6. Dance Theatre: Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan – In-I
7. Family Choice: Circo Aereo – Un cirque plus juste
8. Family Choice: Karbido – The Table

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