Dancing star Natalia Osipova by Sun Yat-sen is a highlight of the 2023 Hong Kong Arts Festival
A Russian ballet dancer in two performances and a musical by Sun Yat-sen gets its long-delayed premiere as the live festival returns and thrives.
Other highlights include Canadian pianist Bruce Leo, the German Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and a puppet version of the Baroque opera The Return of Ulysses
What better way to celebrate the return (fingers crossed!) of Hong Kong's first Live Arts Festival in three years than with the presence of true global superstar, Natalia Osipova.
A Russian-born ballerina from London's Royal Ballet, one of the world's most celebrated dancers and star of the 2019 documentary Force of Nature, she will perform in two performances for the 2023 festival. The premiere, named after the documentary, will feature classic and contemporary dance shorts, and she will be accompanied by an international group of dancers, including two of her fellow directors. dancers. Joseph Kodra and Jason Keitelberger.
The second show, Two Feet, is about Osipova. This is a two-hour solo film about the joys and sorrows of a remarkable career as a dancer, written by Merrill Tankard in 1988 and premiered by Osipova at the Adelaide Festival in Australia. 2019. This edition will feature videos from her childhood to make things even more personal.
