Virtual meeting with David Leung at TOWARDS CI50 Thailand Contact Improvisation Conference 2022

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LEUNG KA NANG, DAVID (Hong Kong)

Born and raised in Hong Kong. I began practicing dance by serendipity at the age of 19; for the past twenty-odd years my passion is contact improvisation. I came into contact with the study of butoh and osteopathy in recent years, and use somatic movement practices as the backbone for my research and teaching.

Having received academic professional training in dance in the USA and Hong Kong, and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), I teach for the School of Dance and previously also for the School of Drama of the HKAPA, as well as for the medical humanities program co-organized by the Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection and the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. From time to time, I travel to different countries and regions to create, teach, perform and translate. I have been teaching and practicing the art and craft pilates and Gyrotonic (R) for over twenty years, and have been practicing qigong since 2022. In my dance career, I continuously encounter the dichotomies in life: happiness/sadness, goodness/badness, beauty/ugliness, authenticity/hypocrisy. The most important thing is that I still choose to love life, dance, art, creativity and teaching. Creativity from the heart will attract the best audience, just as a flower in full bloom will rejoice in the breeze. Gladly I share with you all.

TOWARDS CONFERENCE 18 JUNE – 10 JULY, 2022

Gathering to celebrate the 50 year anniversary
of Contact Improvisation in the heart of South East Asia.

The conference is a meeting point for practitioners from
East Asian communities and beyond, a space for inquiry,
artistic exchange, intense practice and collaboration.

The 3 week program take place in
Mae Rim and Chiang Dao.
Formats include workshops, intensives, master classes,
laboratories, lectures and performances.

The conference program is moving towards different communities in Chiang Mai, including art university students, bodyworkers, somatic practitioners, dancers and performers.