ARRIVAL
Created in 2025
Duration | 55 min
Premiere | 7th Nov 2025, ONE Art Centre,
Shanghai, China
by YAK Dance
What does it mean to connect in a world that is in crisis?
ARRIVAL is a powerful exploration of connection and human resilience in a fractured universe, tackling our ever polarised relationships with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
Combining live performance and film with raw visceral dance. ARRIVAL immerses the audience in an extreme world where pain and joy are deeply felt, delving into the struggles of communication, empathy, and the primal instincts that drive us.
Inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm and the Orwellian universe, it begins with the short film Pigs in Heaven, followed by the live performance of ARRIVAL. It is accompanied by cinematic, wildly pulsating, and emotionally charged original music by Alex Paton.
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Film:
Photography:
Yeji Kim & Kenny Wing Tao Ho
Alex Paton
Xie Yu
Dumpling
Yoki
Amy Ng
Yeji Kim & Kenny Wing Tao Ho
Yalin, Hai Qing, Yuki, Ma Siyuan, Lee, Jojo, Zhang Yan
Christopher Allan: Cello, Rebekah Allan: Violin
Liu Xiaorong
Daisy (XDT)
NextOwl, Marcella
Siyuan Gong (UK)
ONE ArtCentre | Xiexin Dance Theatre, XDT International Choreographic Residency Program
Battersea Arts Centre, Centre 151, The Dancers’ Development Fund, Studio Wayne McGregor through the FreeSpace programme
Xie Xin, Liu He, Annie Song
Xie Yu
YanZi & Hu Yifan