Cirque du Soleil’s theatrical, character and story-driven approach, involving no animals and relying solely on the skills of human performers, makes the Canadian company’s circus shows unique. In 2005, The Works went to in Cyberport to film, under the big top, “Quidam”, a story about a bored girl named Zoe. In 2012, characters from “Saltimbanco”, a show in celebration of life, came to our studio. This month, the troupe is returning to Hong Kong after seven years, with “Kooza”. We were at the final full rehearsal before the opening.

On show at Tang Contemporary Art, “Montage” is an exhibition of 15 of Yoon Hyup's recent works. Yoon adopts a pointillist technique: simple lines and dots suggest lives and scenes in bustling cities and in modern society. Yoon’s highly coloured points and lines are fluid, abstract and move in all directions to evoke the order and chaos of the cities and the movements of the people who live in them.

Tijn Trommelen is a jazz singer and guitarist from the Netherlands. He says music runs in his family and that he knew early on that music was to be part of his life journey.
Now in his twenties, Trommelen performs regularly in Europe and has also played in the United States and South Africa. He and his band recently completed a tour of Asia. At the end of April, while they were touring, Trommelen and pianist Robert Koemans made a quick stop in our studio.