Wedding as Funeral: Mui Cheuk-yin’s Double Happiness
People say that there are two colours in life: red before mid-life, when one frequently receives wedding invitations from old classmates and good friends; and white after mid-life, as one begins to farewell peers or the older generation at funerals
The Reversal of Wedding Celebrations, the Autonomy of Those Who Sorrow: Mui Cheuk-yin – Double Happiness: The Promise of Red
I went great lengths to see Mui Cheuk-yin’s work, Double Happiness: The Promise of Red (“Double Happiness” as follows) as part of the “Freespace Dance 2023" programme, because I think every chance to see Mui’s performance nowadays is a rare one, especially it is the kind of solo dance that integrates with life experience