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「明珠脉动：前卫．传薪」香港招待会

2025年7月31日

邵志飞教授开发的沉浸式nVis装置获香港特别行政区政府创新科技署拨款港币3,540万元资助，属于「未来影院系统：下一代艺术科技」研发项目之一。

浸大校长衞炳江教授表示：「我们能够在国际舞台上展示香港的创意实力，感到非常自豪。浸大一直是创新与创意的摇篮，这项突破性的表演正体现了我们锐意拓展艺术与科技前沿的承诺。将香港本土原创表演艺术带到世界舞台，不仅突显我们独特的创意视野，更展示了我们为全球艺术发展注入的新观点。」 

浸大暂任首席创新总监刘乐庭教授指出：「『未来影院系统』项目早前在香港国际机场的『瞬间展航』展览亮相。今次浸大与国际顶尖合作伙伴携手，藉着《异．地》装置项目重新定义艺术科技的未来——将创意与专业知识转化为世界级表演。随着《异．地》开展全球巡演，这将充分展现跨学科创新和知识转移的力量，跨越地域与文化的界限。」

驻布鲁塞尔经贸办副代表李咏璇女士在酒会致辞时表示：「香港特别行政区政府明确定位香港为东西方国际文化交流中心，并致力培育多元人才、丰富文艺创意内容 ，同时建造一个活力充沛、兼容并蓄的文化生态圈。是次作品《异．地》有力地证明了香港在推动艺术卓越、技术创新及全球合作融合上的创造精神与不懈努力。」

香港芭蕾舞团行政总监李易璇女士表示：「是次合作拓展了国际文化艺术交流的可能性，让我们探索新的艺术语言，突破以往对芭蕾的传统想像。衷心感谢香港驻布鲁塞尔经济贸易办事处鼎力支持我们参与这段非凡的旅程。作为香港的文化大使，港芭将继续传扬香港的艺术魅力和活力，于今年内把多个卓越製作带到纽约、首尔及上海等国际舞台。」

香港芭蕾舞团艺术总监卫承天先生补充：「这项开创性的项目汇聚国际顶尖的创新科技与艺术成就，彰显港芭致力于突破创意界限和促进文化交流的承诺。我们很荣幸能与享誉国际的艺术家Wayne McGregor及邵志飞合作，在《异．地》中，港芭及Company Wayne McGregor的舞者以非凡的艺术造诣与灵活多变的表现力，完美演绎芭蕾舞、当代舞，投入尖端科技所带来的完美融合。」

意大利驻港澳总领事费文浩先生（Carmelo Ficarra）表示：「香港浸会大学与香港芭蕾舞团对今年的威尼斯舞蹈双年展作出了卓越贡献。这次与Studio Wayne McGregor的跨文化合作突显了香港的非凡创意，并展示了多方不同形式的合作如何推动创新，共创互利的发展机遇。」

浸大凭藉在艺术和科学方面的独有坚实基础，以跨学科理念重塑艺术与文化，同时推动技术应用、促进交流和合作，透过知识转移再创高峰，进一步巩固香港作为国际艺术文化中心的领导地位。 

WAYNE MCGREGOR: ON THE OTHER EARTH 
Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet and Studio Wayne McGregor, London

On The Other Earth, the world's first post-cinematic choreographic installation, refracts, evolves and reimagines dance performance in a startlingly original new form of experience.

Set within Professor Jeffrey Shaw and Professor Sarah Kenderdine’s radically immersive, panoramic, 360-degree stereoscopic, 12k LED, 26-million-pixel nVis screen, where 3D imagery is experienced within an enveloping, large-scale cylindrical architecture of eight metres wide and four metres tall. Created in collaboration with artists Ravi Deepres and Theresa Baumgartner, and combining dance, choreography, digital imaging, spatialised sound, and AI, McGregor once again redefines how we think about movement, the body, and performance.   

On The Other Earth breaks the fourth wall as visitors are invited into the heart of the dance, connecting in close contact with the hyperreal dancers of Company Wayne McGregor and the Hong Kong Ballet in a physicalised sound environment designed by Invisible Mountain. Never encountered in the same way twice, groups of up to 20 people will experience On The Other Earth’s visual and sonic landscapes unfolding before them in a series of thought-provoking otherworldly encounters and intimate interplay, upending our perceptions of performance and the future of entertainment.   

The installation will be open from 25 July to 2 August 2025 during Biennale Danza and will also be presented at Venice Immersive (“The Best of”), the XR Extended Reality section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival from 27 August to 6 September 2025. The presentations in Venice will be followed by the UK premiere from October 2025 and at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong in 2026.

鳴謝

Wayne McGregor: ON THE OTHER EARTH 

DIRECTION and CHOREOGRAPHY  
Wayne McGregor 

nVis 360 3D EMBODIED VISUALIZATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES 
Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine 

CINEMATIC DESIGN 3D 360 ANIMATION and EDITING 
Ravi Deepres, Theresa Baumgartner, Jeffrey Shaw 
with Luke Unsworth, Paul Bourke, J.Him, Paul Nichola, Chris Parks, Carlos Serrano, Chris Stephens, and Nice Monster.tv 

SOUND COMPOSITION  
by INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN (Powered by Bronze)  

Foley artist
Grégory Vincent 

nVis 3D 360 TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine 
Vack Cheung, Davor Vincze, Ching Lee, Charisse So, Sum Wong, Alejandro Rodriguez, Paul Bethge, Leoson Cheong, Marlen Runz, Joseph Chan, Jeff Zhang, Victor Wong, Eman Tse 

PRODUCTION 
Rebecca Marshall, Svet Lapcheva, Tobias Tang 

PERFORMED BY COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR AND HONG KONG BALLET 

COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR  
Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Naia Bautista, Kevin Beyer, Julia Costa, Salvatore De Simone, Chia-Yu Hsu, Jayla Jacobs, Hannah Joseph, Jasiah Marshall, Salomé Pressac and Mariano Zamora Gonzalez   

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR  
Odette Hughes 

HONG KONG BALLET 
Luis Cabrera, Jeremy Chan, Albert Gordon, Vanessa Lai Nok Sze, Nana Sakai, Gouta Seki, Sun Jia, Wang Qingxin 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, HONG KONG BALLET 
Septime Webre 

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, HONG KONG BALLET  
Yuh Egami 

COSTUME DESIGN  
Ilaria Martello  

JEWELLERY DESIGN 
Hannah Martin  

Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University; Hong Kong Ballet; Studio Wayne McGregor, London 

Co-commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Danza; Somerset House, London; Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong 

Supported by: Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; EPFL, Switzerland; Hong Kong Baptist University Visualization Research Centre; Arts Council England; Bloomberg; Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement (UK); The Space (UK) 

With additional support from: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels 

Thank you to Marian Gaultney; Birmingham City University; Hong Kong Baptist University Motion Capture and Visualization Laboratory; The Peninsula Hotels – The Peninsula Hong Kong; Hong Kong Design Institute; The Roundhouse, London 

PREMIERE DATE AND VENUE 
24th July 2025, La Biennale di Venezia, Danza 2025, Venice, Italy 

Image: Wayne McGregor On The Other Earth, Company Wayne McGregor 2025, Photo credit Ravi Deere's and Luke Unsworth