The Pipa Walkers 琵琶行者 : Ivy TSUI × Eveline WONG
The Pipa Walkers 琵琶行者 is a live collaboration between dance artist Ivy TSUI and pipa player Eveline Wong, unfolding as a poetic encounter of movement and sound within an intimate performance setting. Drawing from improvisation, cultural mythos, and the elemental rhythms of body and instrument, the work creates a space where music and movement meet in real time, inviting a shared experience of vulnerability, reflection, and transformation.
Part improvisational score, part evolving narrative inspired by Bai Juyi’s Ballad of the Chinese Lute, the work evokes echoes of ancient longing within present-moment awareness — where meaning emerges between sound and motion.
Doors 7:30 | performance 8pm | £10 / £15
Booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pipa-walkers-tickets
Eveline WONG (She/Her) General Manager of Beyond Dance Theater (BDT), Hong Kong. She is a veteran arts administrator, Pipa (Chinese lute) performer, dance researcher, and multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in Hong Kong and based in the UK. Her career reflects a deep commitment to both artistic creation and cultural leadership across Asia and beyond.
She began learning the Pipa at the age of nine, studying under Chiu-Shing Ng (吳朝勝), Po-Wing Yeung (楊寶榮) and Professor Fan-Di Wang (王范地), a famous late pipa master at China Conservatory of Music. She has won numerous awards in past Hong Kong inter-school music festivals. As a performer, she has collaborated with various Chinese orchestras and ensembles in Hong Kong and the UK, and has performed internationally in the UK, the USA, Italy, Austria, Singapore, Taiwan, Beijing, and Xiamen, etc.
She has collaborated with renowned Hong Kong dance artist Ivy Tsui on The Pipa Walkers, a Practice-as-Research (PaR) project exploring improvisation, music, Pipa fingering, dance and poetry since 2024. Starting from 2025, they held work-in-progress workshops in Edinburgh and London.
Ivy TSUI (she/her) is a Hong Kong–born, London-based dance artist. Her interdisciplinary practice integrates dance, video, and writing, focusing on the interwoven relationships between memory, language, bodily perception, and identity. She approaches choreography as a relational and reflective practice, continuously questioning and expanding the meaning of dance within contemporary contexts through collaboration, improvisation, and embodied research.
Interdisciplinary collaboration has always been central to her creative practice. She has worked across theatre, dance, visual arts, and multimedia platforms with various artists and organisations. She is deeply engaged in improvisational collaborations with musicians, emphasising the equal and dynamic relationship between sound and movement in live performance. This approach began with the solo Dehydrated Flowers (2015), developed with musician Lok-man Shum. In recent years, she has collaborated with percussionist Marika Tsuchiya and pipa player Eveline Wong on research projects including The Pipa Walkers, exploring improvisation as a dialogical space that integrates dance, music, card-reading, and Chinese character writing. These projects investigate the generative interaction between body and sound, as well as the fluidity of cultural identity in performance. At CoLab Festival 2025 and 2026, she curated and led improvisation projects using Chinese characters as creative starting point, fostering multilingual and interdisciplinary dialogue through carefully facilitated spaces for improvisation.
Facebook/Instagram: @danceivydance website: www.ivytsui.com
Rehearsal support: Harmony Maidstone
Enquiries: pipawalkers@gmail.com
