Louiseanne Pui Chi Wong (黃珮芝)

Movement 1 - is an exploration of Hong Kong Chinese heritage through storytelling, movement, dance, fabric and sound. Digging into diaspora, memories of family lineage, self-identity, questioning where each expectation of oneself stems from. An ongoing conversation to understand what we need to move forward. 
Music by Camron Prince'.

Movement 2 - Mixing grooves in hip hop music, grooves in dance, and grooves felt in the textures of parkour walls, to illustrate the cycles in life, what makes history repeat itself, and who are the people often left out of stories. In this early stage of creation, this excerpt explores these questions using the 5 elements of hip hop - (break)dance, music (DJing), MCing (rapping), graffiti and knowledge.

“Since I started shifting towards creating my own work in the past 2 years, I’ve realised what I am seeking as an artist is my own way of telling stories, using all parts of my self, to say what I believe represents my people and my ethnic diaspora. It’s who I get to be in a creative space, and how I can understand more about the intersectionality we have in the arts. Lowry Scratch Nights x Circus was a pivoting point in my artistic journey, and I’m very excited to continue crafting this creative process together on Developed With.” – Louiseanne Pui Chi Wong

Grooves has grown from a handful of collaborators in 2025, to now a team of 13 beautiful artists led by myself at our first R&D phase from June-October 2026. It has been such a fruitful time working as a team, building a supportive atmosphere whilst learning how to facilitate generously. All possible under Developed With Lowry's commission, with public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and support from Battersea Arts Centre, Crying Out Loud and New Earth Theatre.  

We had 3 weeks of studio time, and 2 industry sharings. It allowed me to explore my creative practice and ESEA heritage fusing Chinese mythology, Parkour and Hip hop culture. As a guest in Hip hop culture, it is important for me to collaborate with artists like Kofi Mingo and Trik09 , and embed Wushu martial arts in the movement training, honouring my Chinese roots as well as art forms that contributed to Hip hop history.
 
A few fundamental questions drove my creative process - why do I dance hip hop? why Chinese mythology? who is Grooves for? I wanted to see more Chinese mythology on international stages (stories other than Journey To The West), folklore I grew up with such as The Tale of Hou Yi. There are parallels to Greek mythology and Christianity that are not talked about. So with my fusion of art forms, I want to tell my Nephew and the younger generation that you are always a multitude of things and that is okay. 
 
It has been a joy, to say the least, testing ideas together with a generous team of artists, using different mediums of Chinese culture (Wushu, shadow puppetry and water sleeves) and Hip hop culture (Graffiti, DJing, Breakin and Hip hop dance styles) to retell and reimagine The Tale of Hou Yi. On top of this, working with LALA Arts on Creative Access we started a beautiful creation of sound design with Camron Prince e.g. a whispering distorted narrative in Cantonese and sound foleys. With talks of a touch tour in the future version of the show. 
 
This R&D enabled us to find the tone of the work and we’re really excited for the next phase of development. We want to push our exploration of the graffiti art, sound scape, character, and parkour. We’re also considering where the work could exist, in theatres but also outdoors and in site-specific locations.