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As more and more foreigners turn their eyes toward Macau for its legendary entertainment sector, featuring tourism and gambling businesses, local people realise that the images representing Macau as the Las Vegas of the East are often just too fancy to be true. For some, who have been living here since childhood and adolescence, the new legacy of Macau as promoted by hotel and casino advertisements says nothing about how they really feel about their own city. With that in mind, local film maker Albert Chu initiated an ambitious project in an attempt to redefine the city’s identity. Macau Who am I? [...]
Clowns in the old town? That’s what probably came to the minds of most people who crossed Kami and Chad Leslie’s way recently in the Sao Lourenço area. And possibly to yours also, looking at these photos. These clowns have a peculiarity though: they are self-proclaimed idiots, with no past and no future. There’s only the present [...]
“What if a young girl could take a journey into space to visit strange but familiar surroundings?” asks Gilles Maheu as he begins to explain the storyline of his newest work and the first permanent Cirque du Soleil show in Asia, Zaia. As with all Cirque productions, fantasy and imagination run wild in Zaia to create an amazing journey through a dream world universe, seen through the eyes of a young girl. “I have a little girl of six years old, and for me the circus is about seeing [...]
