ABSTRACT
Dance occupies a fabled continent, to enter which you need no visas or passports. This is its true subversive potential in an era of flattening sameness. Dance still possesses the power to make new forms and new audiences. Kai Tai Chan's hybrid choreographic style drew on image and situation-based improvisations together with phrases and sensibilities derived from his Chinese heritage and movement approach. In the first mode of interchange, intercultural possibilities are realised as individual artists immerse themselves in another culture, drawing on its influences either as a solo practitioner or in collaboration with artists from that country. The term 'diaspora' often contains a sense of the loss of homeland, whether in one's own lifetime or that of previous generations, linked to notions of displaced identity. An example of intercultural performance model is Accented Body, an interactive, international, multi-site performance installation which took place across six live sites in Brisbane, Australia, with distributed presences in Seoul and London.
