Selected Performances
Voyage Expiré :
La Voie de la Renaissance
2024 | Hybrid Theatre Performance | France
Role：Producer, Writer, Director, Lead Performer
She died on the way to freedom.But many years later, in the afterlife, she’s caught by immigration officers. Her death certificate is expired.Her visa was denied.Now she’s trapped between two worlds — not fully dead, not fully alive.What happens when even death becomes bureaucratic?This surreal performance blending theater, puppetry, and cinema was born from a deep collision between memory, exile, and absurdity. Part of Échos D’Une Ville, the work grew from the encounter between Lok-Kan CHEUNG and L’Auditorium Seynod, developed during her residency at ESAAA (PAUSE) with the support of L’Atelier des Artistes en Exil. Written, directed, and performed by Lok Kan CHEUNG as the leading actress. Performed at L'Auditorium Seynod, in Annecy, France.Date: October 2024.
Merrich
2023 | Solo Play | Indonesia
Performed at: Kiram Art Festival 2023
Role：Director, Writer, Performer
Set in rural China in 1980, Merrich tells the story of a village girl who dreams of reaching Hong Kong to find work and build a new life. After years of quiet preparation, her hopes are crushed by an arranged marriage orchestrated by her father. On her wedding night, she escapes and boards a train bound for the border.
Lok Kan CHEUNG wrote, directed, and performed the piece based on oral histories and intergenerational memory. Using language, restrained movement, and intimate pacing, Merrich evokes a time when escape was a form of resistance. The solo performance unfolds through gesture, jokes, and suspended ritual, embodying a young woman’s determination to reclaim her future.
＜Mourir, prier, Marier>
2023 | Intercultural Comedy-Drama | Paris, France
Role：Producer, Co-director, Writer, Performer
“To marry, or to die ?”Two ghosts from Taiwan and Hong Kong meet in the afterlife, confronting the impossible dilemmas of Asian womanhood and migration. Presented as a cross-border collaboration between Theatre Ash (HK) and Untouchable Peach Theatre (TW), this trilingual performance (French, English, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Korean) brings together myth, humor, and cultural memory.
Drawing from iconic female ghost figures, the piece examines forced roles, inherited trauma, and the absurdities of life after death. In March 2023, it was performed in Paris as a work-in-progress, offering two intimate showings across radically different spaces—a civic center and a dissident bar.
A Short Trip (Solo Play)
2023 | Immersive Solo Theatre Performance | France Presented at: ESAAA – École Supérieure d’Art Annecy Alpes
Role：Writer, Co-director, Performer
A personal and spatial monologue about exile, language, and the search for continuity: a Short Trip follows an artist who boards a train, thinking it will be a short journey, only to realize there is no destination, and no way back. Performed in a minimalist setting with fragmented voice recordings and object interaction, the piece explores the tension between origin and reinvention.
Developed during her time at ESAAA, the work explores diasporic identity, broken fluency, and the desire to hold onto meaning when words no longer suffice. It blends storytelling and physical presence, moving between narration, gesture, and stillness.
Go Wild
2021 | Solo Mask Performance – Site-Specific | France
Role：Creator, Mask Maker, Performer
In a quiet vineyard, a lone masked figure emerges—tentative, searching, trembling between collapse and release.Go Wild is a site-specific solo improvisation created and performed by Lok Kan Cheung in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing upon the power of traditional Topeng (Javanese dance mask) and her own handcrafted mask design, the work explores the fragile tension between suffocation and freedom, solitude and wildness.The performer’s body becomes a vessel for grief, restlessness, and renewal, moving instinctively through the open landscape—where cultivated nature meets primal impulse.
Without words or narrative, the mask becomes a mirror: of fear, containment, and the quiet rebellion of simply being alive.Premiered in a vineyard setting during 2021, the piece was an intimate response to pandemic-era isolation, and a raw reclaiming of the right to move, breathe, and transform.
Paint the cube
2019 | Object Theatre & Puppetry | Hong Kong
Role：Co-director, Object Designer, Puppet maker, Performer
This is a poetic retelling of the rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City from the perspective of a child. Using handcrafted puppets, toy-scale sets, and object animation, Paint the Cube reconstructs an imaginary childhood inside a vanishing architectural labyrinth. Presented in a black-box setting, the performance shifts between play and historical collapse, inviting the audience to re-enter the lost city with wonder, fear, and tenderness.
Created with
李穎蕾 Santayana LI、
吳宗恩Chung Yan WU
Sound and music by Leung Lo Ka
Puppet design and making by Lok Kan
Video designed by Cheung Lok Lun
Video edited by Paper Chan
My Bloody Tail
2018 | Visual Theater, Sand Painting, 3D Projection | Taiwan
Role： Producer, Co-playwright, Performer
Theatre Ash & Jinyao Lin Co-produced (Taiwan 2023) A cross-disciplinary visual performance blending physical movement, object theatre, sand painting, and 3D projection. My Bloody Tail reimagines the posthuman mythology of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City through a speculative lens: a rat, born in the Walled City, seeks to become human by abducting a broken doll and imitating her, in a desperate bid for survival. Co-created by Lok Kan CHEUNG in collaboration with Taiwanese media artist Jinyao Li and Hong Kong-based sand artist and director Choi Kam Chiu (海潮), the piece integrates layered media, projected imagery, and live sand drawing. It was performed in Taiwan. Creative Team: Lok Kan CHEUNG – Producer, Co-creator, Co-playwright, Performer Jinyao Li (Taiwan) – Co-director, digital creator, composer; known for his work in interactive sound, 3D projection, and stage design; winner of the Hong Kong Dance Awards; founder of Taiwan Sound Lab Choi Kam Chiu (Hong Kong) – Director, Co-playwright, Sand Painter; founder of All Theatre; internationally known for pioneering sand performance art and for his collaborations across Asia, Europe, and Canada. His sand animations have received multiple international awards and featured in films, TV, and educational programs. Yuko Kawamoto (Japan) – Performer; Butoh dancer and founder of Shinonome Butoh; trained under Yukio Waguri and recognized for developing pedagogical methods to adapt Hijikata-style Butoh for intercultural and multilingual contexts. My Bloody Tail stands as a powerful metaphor of transformation and adaptation under displacement. The work combines analog and digital languages to question systems of humanization, spectacle, and historical violence.
The Hysterics
2018 | Immersive Site-Specific Theatre / Feminist Ritual | Italy
What if madness was the only way to survive?
In this immersive performance inside Siena’s former psychiatric hospital, the audience dons white masks and enters as ghosts—silent witnesses to a group of women trapped between repression and rebellion.
Created as a site-specific work at Santa Maria della Scala, The Hysterics invites the audience to drift among the memories of institutionalized women. Through fractured choreography, whispering voices, and charged visual metaphors, it reveals how “being crazy” becomes a form of resistance, a scream no longer ignored.
Co-presented by:
Topi Dalmata (Italy) × David Glass Ensemble (UK)
Location:
Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
City Of Darkness
2018 | International Ensemble / Physical Theatre | Indonesia
Role：Lead Performer, Producer, Co-creator
Produced by Theatre Ash
Directed By David Glass
Artists from 7 countries, across Europe and Asia, celebrating a legendary area in Hong Kong.
Theatre Ash (Indonesia 2018)
Directed by David Glass, internationally renowned physical theatre director and founder of the David Glass Ensemble. This international ensemble physical theatre work was based on the demolition of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City, seen through the eyes of a displaced nine-year-old girl named Alice.
The piece combined grotesque movement, ensemble choreography, and documentary memory, exploring displacement, community collapse, and urban erasure.
Cast and Collaborators included:
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Martinus Miroto (Indonesia) – Javanese dance master and professor at ISI Yogyakarta; performer in City of Darkness and workshop collaborator.
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Yuko Kawamoto (Japan) – Butoh dancer and founder of Shinonome Butoh; trained under Yukio Waguri and the Hijikata method; also performer in My Bloody Tail.
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Ling Tang (Malaysia) – Actress, curator, and artistic director of George Town Festival; trained at École Philippe Gaulier and École Jacques Lecoq; also performer in My Bloody Tail.
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Max Lee (Hong Kong) – Choreographer, physical theatre artist, and video designer with international credits in contemporary dance, drama, and digital stage design.
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Jinyao Li (Taiwan) – Composer and digital media artist; co-creator of My Bloody Tail, winner of Best Stage Design at the Hong Kong Dance Awards; founder of Taiwan Sound Lab and lecturer at Tainan National University of the Arts.
The production brought together artists from seven countries, blending physical theatre, Butoh, traditional dance, and multimedia composition to embody the historical and emotional landscape of the now-vanished Kowloon Walled City.
The show is premiered in Indonesia and had a tour in September 2018, as the opening program of the relaunch of Teater Bijimili's and D-Jakarta Teater Platform (International art festival in Indonesia.
The Brides Reloaded
2018| Visual Physical Theatre / Ensemble Devised | Siena,Italy
Role：Performer, Deviser
12 Brides. 1 Room. 0 Grooms. 4 Seasons.
Co-produced by Collettivo Teatro Siena and David Glass Ensemble
Devised by the company and directed by David Glass.
The Brides is a visually ravishing, provocative, and hilarious evocation of ‘the female principle’. Twelve Brides awaken in ‘The Palace of Survival’- they dance, fight, love, and hope through the four seasons watched over by The Bride of Death. The expressive approach, rooted in the visceral exploration of emotion and imagination, unveils the intense research carried out during the creative process and communicates the strength, desperation and beauty of ‘femininity’.
Brides Reloaded performed on the 23rd of January 2018 at Teatro dei Rozzi.
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