Young Boy Dancing Group Dance Together Alone Tour: Dining Performance

About Young Boy Dancing Group

Initiated in 2014, Young Boy Dancing Group began as a nameless performance collective, a versatile host embracing an ever-changing network of dancers. Young Boy Dancing Group has worked in video, photography, fashion, sculpture, and installation but the group remains best known for rawly intimate performances in which the materiality of bodies encounters the ethereality of light. YBDG performances have been held at many other venues.

About Alison Tan

Alison Tan, aka Sapphire Ketchup, is the co-founder of Savour Cinema, a food pop-up club driving emotion with our eating in Hong Kong. Growing up in Singapore, Alison‘s passion for communal dining evolved into hosting elaborate dinner parties in her teens, echoing her current pop-up projects.  Alison started hosting private dinners during COVID period. Symbolism plays a significant role in her culinary experiences, such as the Otium dinners hosted in early 2021 designed to foster connections and leave behind the past year’s burdens.

About Eaton HK

Inspired by the gritty retro nostalgia of its neighborhood, Eaton HK, located in the emerging district of Kowloon, reflects a dynamic collision between postcolonial east and global youth culture. Eaton HK soft-launched in January 2018 with a two-story food hall offers guests a variety of culinary offerings. The hotel officially opened for guests in fall 2019 and has 465 guest rooms, a coffee shop, a juice bar, retail, a signature bar with a music speakeasy venue, a radio station, two recording studio guestrooms, a rooftop pool and yoga studio, a rotating art gallery, a speakers’ auditorium, an event space that holds up to 700, and a co-working club that can accommodate up to 320 members.

About Eaton Workshop

Founded by Hong Kong native Katherine Lo, Eaton Workshop is the first global brand merging hospitality with progressive social change. Eaton Workshop opened doors to its Hong Kong hotel location in fall 2018, following a thoughtful series of arts, music, and cultural pre-opening events. Designed by internationally-renowned design and concept firm, AvroKO, Eaton HK was inspired by the gritty, retro nostalgia of its Kowloon neighborhood, Jordan. Its presence in the community brings an entirely unique concept to the Hong Kong and international market— serving as a gathering place and an incubator for those who wish to explore and express the freedom of ideas for the betterment of global social change. The property, from its distinct design to its diverse culinary offerings and cultural programming agenda, reflects a dynamic collision between postcolonial east and global youth culture.

Eaton Workshop is comprised of four parts—Hotel, House, Media, and Wellness. Collectively these pillars uphold the brand’s mission to gather an inclusive tribe of change-makers and creatives from around the world. Comprising a hybrid of a hotel, coworking space, media platform, and wellness center, Eaton HK underscores Eaton Workshop’s fundamental advocacy values through a robust offering of ongoing content and cultural programming for the community. And, in support of its commitment to sustainability, the property is LEED Gold certified with considerable additional strides to push forward an environmentally-conscious agenda, including banning the use of plastic straws throughout the hotel and offering vegetable- forward F&B offerings. The Hong Kong hotel follow the opening of the brand’s first and flagship property in Washington D.C., opened in September 2018.

With its East-meets-West philosophy for progressive social change, Eaton HK will inspire and nurture the freedom of ideas in a region where there is a strong need and desire for platforms that foster change. True to Eaton Workshop’s mission of supporting the creative arts, the hotel feature an art gallery, “Tomorrow Maybe,” that will showcase a rotating art exhibition of local and international talent and a photo studio, as well as a three-story art installation, a built- in radio station, an intimate cinematic screening room, live music venues— for dynamic performances, panels, workshops, readings, and more— and artist residency rooms outfitted as professional visual arts and recording studios. Eaton House coworking members will have access to the full suite of hotel offerings and are thoughtfully selected based on an aligned shared ethos. The hotel’s culinary offerings feature two signature restaurants, two cocktail bars, an innovative food hall with 10 cult food stalls, a cold-pressed juice bar, and third wave coffee shop. The brand’s global digital content platform, Eaton Media, provides the local community with global storytelling opportunities through digital and analog programming.