Presented by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau and organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, "Asia+ Festival" will take place from September to November 2025.  Under the auspices of the National 14th Five-Year Plan, Hong Kong is taking an all-round approach to develop into an East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange.  "Asia+ Festival" celebrates the cultural diversity of Asia and the Belt and Road regions, showcasing both traditional essences and contemporary facets from the regions.  The festival offers a rich array of events appealing to all tastes, including stage performances, exhibitions and outdoor carnival.

Technologies are meant to connect people.  Why do we feel more isolated than ever?  Why do we find it so hard to relate to each another?  Strangely Familiar, a new multimedia contemporary dance work by Kuik Swee Boon, founding Artistic Director and main choreographer of Singapore's seminal T.H.E Dance Company, invites us to pause and reflect in a world clouded by uncertainty.  The work gently opens a space for us to explore the shifting boundaries of culture, identity and technology, and to embrace a state of coexistence that feels both unfamiliar and strangely familiar.

Created using Kuik's signature HollowBody™ methodology, the piece draws on the dancers' instincts and physical intuition.  In collaboration with an international team of artists from Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore, it pushes against conventional dance language and ventures boldly into fluid, liminal spaces where the borders between culture, identity and reality begin to dissolve.  Set aside labels.  Let go of assumptions.  Step into the grey area where identity has no fixed definitions.  Embrace cultural hybridity in all its strangeness, absurdity and illogic.  Perhaps, in that disarray, we might recognise an echo of something deeply human, beyond words, yet curiously familiar.

Hong Kong-based artist Zelia ZZ Tan, known for pioneering the integration of digital technology in dance, brings a distinct digital dimension to the work.  Appearing as a digital avatar, she dances alongside live performers, blurring the boundaries between human and machine, the physical and the digital.

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