Concrete Rain captures the quiet force and enduring beauty of Asian cultures. Like falling rain, our stories, emotions, and aesthetics may arrive softly, but they gather, settle, and harden into concrete, shaping landscapes of presence, resonance, and strength.

This one-day festival brings together nine cutting-edge contemporary works by exceptional emerging East Asian choreographers. It is a celebration of heritage transformed where tradition meets innovation, and personal truth becomes performance.

Audiences are invited to journey through a rich tapestry of expression: from dance that reimagines architectural spaces, to movement shaped by AI-generated nature sounds, to powerful reinventions of ancestral rituals.

Concrete Rain flows with imagination, memory, and movement, layering each drop into something unforgettable.

This festival is possible thanks to the collaboration between Slash Arts and Neverland Space Theatre.

Team
Director: Simon Hodgkinson
Artistic Director and Co-producer: Jiarong Yu
Producer: Juliana Ruiz Torres
Support: Sarah La Brasca
Marketing Director: Yilun Liu
Creative Consultant: Elizabeth Tan
Social Media Design: Coco Mai

Artists & Pieces
Neverland Space Theatre, Towards a New Architecture.
Tomo Sone, Invisible Chaos.
Dove Che, The Great Void.
Ka Ki Christina Lai and Ying-Yen Yvonne Wang, DOUBLE EDGED: Laboratory of Human Friction.
Essence Theatre, Sayonara.
Jacob Zang and Bryan Wu, Abyss.
Kiwi Chan, Black Sheep Reversal.
Hahyun Kim.
Yan Yin Yung, When The Petals Fall.