I Am. Am I is a human story told through dance, circus and bilingual voice.

I AM. AM by Louiseanne Wong Pui Chi

Who am I? Who calls the shots?

Dance, circus, parkour and theatre rolled into one, Louiseanne Wong’s latest work peels away the layers of value in our identities in a performance balanced between explosion and intimacy. Lu’s experience as a Hong Konger widely exposed to foreign cultures eventually leads to I AM. AM, a discourse on social conditioning, displacement, and counter-stereotypes.

At the centre of the stage is a refrigerator, which is both a playground and a battlefield. The artist jumps onto it, goes inside and breaks it apart. The household appliance is a symbol of survival, memory and time freeze, alongside an analogy to existence and entrapment.

Powered by exuberance in dance, preciseness in parkour, and spectacles in circus, I AM. AM boasts a raw energy as it questions pressing issues such as the dispersion of East Asians, entrenched racial inequality, and the fight for one’s lost identity.

As one of Hong Kong’s first contemporary circus festivals, ​​Tai Kwun Circus Plays introduced for the first time (in 2024) the Asian Circus Focus, where circus artists and enthusiasts from across Asia came together to build a performance platform.

我是誰？誰主宰一切？黃珮芝劇場新作，結合舞蹈、馬戲、跑酷，在爆發性和親密感之間取得平衡，揭示身份價值的各個層次。表演者以自身在香港出生，成長於不同文化之間的經驗，創作出這個探討社會制約、流離失所、反抗標籤定義的作品。

舞台中央矗立著一台雪櫃，既是遊樂場也是戰場，表演者在上面跳躍、鑽進內裡探究、再把它構解。雪櫃象徵著生存、記憶與時間的凝固，同時亦暗喻存在與困囿。

《我？》以舞蹈的奔放，跑酷的精準，以及馬戲的視覺震撼為動力，釋放出原始的能量，質疑多項迫切的議題 —   包括人的離散、根深蒂固的種族不平等，以及對尋回失落身份的掙扎。

*此作品由Crying Out Loud 委約創作。