The annual Macau Arts Festival (FAM) opens today with a month-long programme of performances, activities and exhibitions based on the theme “heterotopia” where the audience explores the possibilities of spaces through different art forms.
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the festival kicks off with the opening show “Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music”, an reinterpretation of Schubert and Ravel’s classics through an inventive choreography presented by the globally acclaimed, New York-based Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Macau Cultural Centre.The same company will present “A Letter to My Nephew” dance production where the words of Bill T. Jones to his nephew, where a still from a news report superimposes a violent street battle in the US over one of the thousands of migrants fleeing to Europe in search of freedom over the image of a hospital bed, will come alive in the form of a letter on stage, a clear example of heterotopias through art.
This photo provided by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and taken by Paul B. Goode shows a scene in “Play and Play – An Evening of Movement and Music”.
