Upcoming Event

Tentative arrangements of the event are as follows: 

By Invitation only. For RSVP or any inquiry, please contact iit_event@hkbu.edu.hk. 

Check back later on our detailed programme!

Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth
The 3D 360 Post-cinematic Performance Experience
Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet and Studio Wayne McGregor, London  

Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth is a new, post-cinematic choreographic installation inspired by McGregor’s latest live stage work DEEPSTARIA that refracts, evolves and reimagines the work’s conceptual DNA into a startlingly original new form of experience.   

Leveraging the interaction paradigms of Jeffrey Shaw’s pioneering media art practice, On The Other Earth takes place within Shaw’s radically immersive nVis installation space - the world’s first 360-degree stereoscopic LED cinematic screen, its 26-million-pixel panoramic 3D imagery experienced inside an enveloping cylindrical architecture of eight metres wide and four metres tall.   

In On The Other Earth, McGregor combines dance performance (from Company Wayne McGregor and Hong Kong Ballet), choreography, digital imaging, multi-modal sensing, AI, audience interactivity and spatialised sound redefining, once again how we think about movement, the body and performance.   

Sharing about OTOE - Speaker Biographies

Professor Jeffrey Shaw  
Chair Professor, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema, and installation paradigms of the 1960s to today’s technology-informed and virtualized forms.  

In a prolific career he has pioneered the development of interactive media art in the fields of expanded cinema, virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualisation environments, navigable cinematic systems, and interactive narrative.  A hallmark of Shaw’s interactive art practice has been his interdisciplinary cooperation with artists in various fields including music, dance, poetry, literature, film and theatre. 

Shaw has co-authored numerous works with Professor Sarah Kenderdine. Their current project, under the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), is ‘Future Cinema Systems’. Its boundary-breaking research focusses on the aesthetic and operational development of embodied multi-person interaction in immersive panoramic 3D visualization environments. thereby enabling ‘co-evolutionary narrative’ where human beings and computational agents are interacting and co-creating.  

Septime Webre 
Artistic Director, Hong Kong Ballet 

Septime Webre is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. He joined Hong Kong Ballet as its Artistic Director in July 2017 after 17 years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in Washington DC, US from 1999-2016. Previously he served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet, based in Princeton, New Jersey, US from 1993-1999. In addition, Webre has served as the Artistic Director of Halcyon, a Washington DC-based foundation, launching an annual international Festival for Creativity in Washington DC in June 2018. 

During Webre’s tenure at The Washington Ballet, the institution’s budget grew by 500%, and it enjoyed unprecedented advances in the scope and quality of its work on stage, in the size and reach of its professional school, and in the development of several far-reaching community engagement programmes, which he founded. Webre launched an array of artistic initiatives including The American Experience, which developed great works of literature into full-length ballets, including The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises among others. As a choreographer, Webre’s works appear in the repertoires of ballet companies throughout North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Colorado Ballet, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, Milwaukee Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, and many others, and he has worked frequently in theatre as well as opera. His new works for HKB, Romeo+Juliet, set in 1960s Hong Kong, and The Nutcracker, set in 1920s Hong Kong, world premiered in June 2021 and December 2021 respectively. The latter work also won him Outstanding Choreography at the 2022 Hong Kong Dance Awards.

As a dancer, Webre was featured in solo and principal roles from the classical repertoire as well as in contemporary works by choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham. He has served on the juries of a number of international ballet competitions, including those in Varna, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Cape Town, New York, Seoul, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of Dance/USA and his work has received numerous honours, grants and awards. He holds a degree in History/Pre-Law from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the seventh son in a large, boisterous Cuban-American family.