26-3-2014 The Works

The late German choreographer Pina Bausch enjoys considerable popularity in Hong Kong, mostly for the dance form she pioneered which mixes choreography, drama, and feeling. During the Hong Kong Arts Festival, her company the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch presented an earlier work that takes as its inspiration an 18th century German opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Iphigenia in Tauris".
Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973 in Munich, Germany, and raised in São Paolo, Brazil. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg before moving to New York, where she still lives and works. In her work, she likes to focus on landscapes, but she doesn't just paint them. She has previously mixed performance art, photography and video work, as well as paintings and cut outs.
In her work, strips of paper on a gallery wall represent the tendrils of plants. Drips of paint show the natural process of blossoming, bloom, and decay. Some of her landscape works also include elements of the fantastic, or even explorations of mythology. You can see her work at the Edouard Malingue Gallery until 3rd May.
On Friday night, at the Grand Hall of the University of Hong Kong, two young a cappella groups, O-Kai from Taiwan and The 24 from the University of York, will be sharing the stage at the Grand Hall. Since getting together just over a decade ago, O-Kai has presented over 500 performances around the world and won 17 awards internationally, including the 2013 CASA's Best Jazz Album award.