No Limits Community Showcases
Programme Introduction
Between October 2024 and March 2025, No Limits 2025 presents a series of performance-based community showcases created collaboratively with differently abled participants of No Limits programmes and local organisations working with disabled communities in Hong Kong. These showcases cultivate a deeper understanding and appreciation of the richness that inclusivity brings to our communities.
In October 2024, the showcase presented performances created as part of The Story of Motion 2.0 – an inclusive dance project for people with visual impairments. In 2025 the performances are created as part of the No Limits Creative Pilot Programme with practice-based teacher training offered in collaboration with world-leading inclusive dance organisation Candoco Dance Company from the UK. The course offered local teachers of dance, drama or performance hands-on experience of working with disabled and nondisabled students and incorporating inclusive practices into their classes. The showcase performances were created collaboratively by the teachers and their students.
No Limits Community Showcases #3
8 March 2025 (Sat), 2pm - 6:15pm
9 March 2025 (Sun), 1:30pm - 5:45pm
8 March 2025 (Sat)
| 2pm - 3pm | Community Showcases & Post Performance Sharing of No Limits 2025 Pilot Creative Programme |
| 3pm - 3:30pm | Dance Performance by BiG-i International Communication Centre for Persons with Disabilities |
| 3:30pm - 4:05pm | Documentary of Hide-and-Seek by ErGao Dance Production Group |
| 4:05pm - 4:30pm | Film Screening: An Irish Goodbye by Ross White & Tom Berkeley |
| 4:30pm - 6:15pm | Film Screening: On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert |
9 March 2025 (Sun)
| 1:30pm - 2pm | Dance Performance by BiG-i International Communication Centre for Persons with Disabilities |
| 2pm - 2:35pm | Documentary of Hide-and-Seek by ErGao Dance Production Group |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Film Screening: The Chameleons by Patrick Botticchio |
| 3:35pm - 4pm | Film Screening: An Irish Goodbye by Ross White & Tom Berkeley |
| 4pm - 5:45pm | Film Screening: On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert |
The No Limits Pilot Creative Programme offers local teachers of dance, drama or performance hands-on experience of incorporating inclusive practice into the classroom. The programme is conducted in collaboration with Candoco Dance Company, a world-leading, professional inclusive dance organisation based in the UK.
In October 2024, selected teachers joined a two-week intensive training course on methodologies for inclusive teaching and performance practices led by members of Candoco Dance Company. After the training, teachers are offered hands-on experience working with people with disabilities at a local community centre. This March at Tai Kwun, they will bring us three pieces of performances. Details as follow:
- 《Our Fantasy World!》
Participating Unit: Lok Chi Association - 《Our Youthful Era》
Participating Unit: Hong Kong Blind Union
Date & Time: 8 March 2025 (Sat) 2pm - 2:30pm
* Audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome
After the two weeks of intensive training and a 3 weeks practicum at various local community centres, teachers and representatives of the community centres will share with us their journey in the No Limits 2025 Pilot Creative Programme, as well as their insights on inclusive teaching practices.
Date & Time: 8 March 2025 (Sat) 2:30pm - 3pm
* Conducted in Cantonese, and interpretation in Hong Kong Sign Language available; guide dogs welcome
Special Performance: “The Falling” by BiG-i International Communication Centre for Persons with Disabilities
During an “amagoi” rain-making ritual, a fox appears before a group of ritual participants. As a messenger of a deity, it chooses a woman in the group as his bride “in return for making it rain”. As the woman laments her fate, a man takes pity on her and tries to elope with her to help her escape. But when the fox and his group come to collect the woman, the pair is foiled and torn apart. In despair, the man obtains a magical fox mask and disguises himself as the fox to save the woman, but how will it end?
“The Falling” is a captivating performance that blends modern dance with traditional cultural elements from ancient Japanese folklore, including the “bangasa” (traditional paper umbrellas), fox masks and costumes.
This collaboration between the professional dancing company DAZZLE and the disability inclusive dance unit BOTAN will unveil new potential for diversity in art. They presented their first collaboration in 2018, at the True Colors Festival.
Date & Time：
8 March 2025 (Sat) 3pm - 3:30pm
9 March 2025 (Sun) 1:30pm - 2pm
*Audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome.
From blind massage to dance – a new look at the creative potential of those who are visually impaired
Hide-and-Seek is an original dance performance exploring new perspectives on the creative potential of visually impaired individuals, presented by Wang Zeyu and ErGao Dance Production Group.
Like many visually impaired people in mainland China, Wang left his hometown to work at a blind massage parlour in the big city. Seeking a more creative outlet for his skills, he joined an art group promoting inclusive arts and began experimenting with tactile and bodycentred creations. An encounter with choreographer ErGao saw the birth of Hide-and-Seek. Inspired by real-life and fictional stories of the employment and migration experiences of individuals with visual impairments, the work blends the playfulness of a childhood game, the fluid gestures of massage and contemporary choreography, images, sound and texts, to create a unique, immersive dance experience.
Specially commissioned for No Limits 2025, Hide-and-Seek is an interactive, cross-disciplinary performance developed by Guangzhou-based visually impaired performer Wang Zeyu and choreographer ErGao. The work was created in collaboration with blind massage parlours and organisations for people with visual impairments in China. A video film documenting the creation process, will be screened for free on the Tai Kwun Laundry Steps at Tai Kwun in March, and available online.
Date & Time：
8 March 2025 (Sat) 3:30pm
9 March 2025 (Sun) 2pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese, audio description in Cantonese, house programme in audio format available; guide dogs welcome.
Language: Putonghua
Duration: 35 minutes
Two brothers, two diverging dreams. Can the wishes of their mother bring them together?
A short black comedy about love, loss, family and dreams, written and directed by Tom Berkeley and Ross White, and starring Seamus O’Hara, James Martin, Paddy Jenkins and Michelle Fairley.
After the death of their mother, two estranged brothers are reunited on the family farm in rural Northern Ireland. While Lorcan, a robust and dedicated farmer with Down Syndrome, dreams of continuing to work the land he grew up on, Turlough, who lives and works in London, plans to sell the farm and send his younger brother to live with an aunt on the other side of Ireland. When the parish priest reveals that he has found their mother’s unfulfilled bucket list, Lorcansenses an opportunity: he’ll agree to leave the farm once he and Turlough have completed every one of their mother’s wishes …
The acclaimed second collaboration from UK writer-director duo Tom Berkeley and Ross White, An Irish Goodbye has played at over 60 film festivals worldwide and been recognised with a number of international awards, including the 2023 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, the BAFTA award for Best British Short Film and the IFTA Award for Best Short Film.
Date & Time：
8 March 2025 (Sat) 4:05pm - 4:30pm
9 March 2025 (Sun) 3:35pm - 4pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese, audio description in Cantonese, house programme in audio format available; guide dogs welcome.
Language: English
Duration: 24 minutes
This film contains strong language.
Beautiful and surprising – a masterful meditation on the value of creativity and the dignifying power of art
A subtle, compassionate and humorous film about the humanising power of art by veteran French documentary director Nicolas Philibert.
The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the River Seine in the heart of Paris that offers day programmes for adults with mental illnesses. Through therapy, education, and culture rooted in music and the arts, the free-spirited facility offers a hopeful vision of what a humanistic approach to mental health care could look like. On board the boat, the intentionally created community treats both the staff and the people receiving care with the same respect and dignity, and their meetings and conversations reveal the camaraderie and collective humanity of a group of people whose similarities far outweigh their differences.
On The Adamant is an understated, gently challenging observational documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) that invites viewers to witness the transformational power of art and community. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, the film has screened at major film festivals around the world.
Date & Time：
- 8 March 2025 (Sat) 4:30pm - 6:15pm
- 9 March 2025 (Sun) 4pm - 5:45pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese, audio description in Cantonese, house programme in audio format available; guide dogs welcome.
Language: French
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes
This film contains strong language.
Brought together by football, friendship and camaraderie, The Chameleons chase their dreams!
A heartwarming film about camaraderie and sportsmanship across borders and abilities from Swiss documentary director Patrick Botticchio.
An adventure awaits the young players of the inclusive football team The Chameleons, and emotions are running high as they prepare to leave their Swiss hometown Lugano for an important tournament in Germany. To defend their jersey on the field they will have to remain strong and united. But away games are nerve-racking… Will our heroes handle the pressure of a competition far from home?
Freelance documentary director and cinematographer Patrick Botticchio’s tender and uplifting documentary The Chameleons, follows a young, mixed-ability soccer team from the Italian-speaking region of south Switzerland as they head to the Special Adventure Camp in Bonn, Germany to compete in a pan-European tournament for young people with and without disabilities. Accompanying the team and their trainers through nerves, joy and tears, the film shows how differences can be bridged by football, friendship – and open hearts and minds.
Date & Time：
- 9 March 2025 (Sun) 2:35pm - 3:35pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese, audio description in Cantonese, house programme in audio format available; guide dogs welcome.
Language: Italian
Duration: 60 minutes
This film contains strong language.
No Limits Community Showcases #2
11 January 2025 (Sat), 2pm - 5pm
12 January 2025 (Sun), 2pm - 5pm
The No Limits Pilot Creative Programme offers local teachers of dance, drama or performance hands-on experience of incorporating inclusive practice into the classroom. The programme is conducted in collaboration with Candoco Dance Company, a world-leading, professional inclusive dance organisation based in the UK.
In October 2024, selected teachers joined a two-week intensive training course on methodologies for inclusive teaching and performance practices led by members of Candoco Dance Company. After the training, teachers are offered hands-on experience working with people with disabilities at a local community centre. This January at Tai Kwun, they will bring us three pieces of performances. Details as follow:
- 《Yes, But~ 》
Participating Unit: Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK) - 《Living is…》
Participating Unit: St. James' Settlement Jockey Club Artspiration Academy - 《The Take》
Participating Unit: Lok Chi Association
Time: 2pm – 2:30pm
* Audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome
Teachers and representatives of the community centres will share with us their journey in 2025 No Limits Pilot Creative Programme, as well as their insights on inclusive teaching practices.
Time: 2:30pm - 3pm
* Conducted in Cantonese, and interpretation in Hong Kong Sign Language available; guide dogs welcome
A darkly comic experimental love story about a man who goes through hell to reach his loved one
Award-winning Finnish director Teemu Nikki presents an extraordinary film about love, determination and the challenges of navigating the world as a disabled person.
Jaako and his long-distance girlfriend Sirpa share a passion for films but have never met. After one of their daily phone calls, Jaako spontaneously decides to make his way across Finland to visit her. Despite his charm and optimism, as a visually impaired wheelchair user, Jaako knows that he will be dependent on the help of strangers to navigate the urban landscapes along the way… What could possibly go wrong?
Based in part on the day-to-day experiences of actor Petri Poikolainen, who, like his character Jaako, has vision loss and partial paralysis from multiple sclerosis, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic offers an intensely immersive perspective on the challenges of navigating the world as a blind wheelchair user. The film won best feature film, best screenplay and best leading actor awards at the 2022 Beijing International Film Festival, and the Orizzonti Extra audience award at the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
Time: 3pm
*Subtitles in Chinese and English, dubbing in Cantonese and audio description in Cantonese available; guide dogs welcome
Language: Finnish
Duration: 85 minutes
This film is a Class IIA film and contains strong language.
