Asia+ Festival 2025: "Strangely Familiar"

"...[a] high-calibre company for technique, accuracy, expressiveness and theatrical sense." — Sipario, Italy

We are always online, connected, yet more alone than ever. In a world saturated with noise and cultural complexity, the simple act of being understood feels increasingly out of reach. Strangely Familiar invites us to slow down and reflect on what it truly means to coexist across cultures in a chaotic world.

Directed by Kuik Swee Boon, founding artistic director and main choreographer of Singapore’s acclaimed T.H.E Dance Company, Strangely Familiar unites a team from Singapore and Malaysia along with Hong Kong and Macao artists in a bold attempt to dissolve the boundaries between cultures, identities and realities. By letting go of labels and assumptions, the work opens space for a shared humanity that feels strange but familiar.

Powered by holographic projection and cutting-edge technology, this highly anticipated new creation features the virtual presence of Hong Kong dance artist Zelia ZZ Tan, challenging us to rethink connection, presence, existence across both physical and digital realms.

T.H.E Dance Company is lauded for its distinctive choreographic voice. Its 2011 production As It Fades was hailed as a landmark in Asia’s contemporary dance scene. Now, in a new commission by Asia+ Festival and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, the company unveils the world première of Strangely Familiar in Hong Kong – a timely and thought-provoking encounter. 

Strangely Familiar is co-commissioned by Asia+ Festival (Hong Kong) and Singapore International Festival of Arts

The presenter reserves the right to substitute artists and change the programmes should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary

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