About
Ergao Dance Production Group
Initiated by Ergao in 2007, Ergao Dance Production Group (EGDP) is a contemporary performance organization based in Guangzhou and Shunde, China.
EGDP have constantly seen body as the core of artistic investigation and the objects of creation, using diverse strategies - theatre, film and video, site-synthetic, community dance, etc. - to illuminate Chinese social and cultural identities, sex, gender and other topics in absurd and grave way. Meanwhile, it's also a document library of films and body, which roots and grows in self-expression and local narratives, giving artists in southern China a platform for transit and exchange.
The representative works include the Butterfly Island, Disco-Teca, Kung Hei Fat Choy series, This Is A Chicken Coop, Virtual lotus out of socail media and so on. Recent works focus on mobility of new urban migrants in Chinese society, and the issues on the public nature of dance.
2024, Southern Dance House was initiated in Zuo Tan village of Shun De, supported by HE INTERACTION.
Artistic Director | Er Gao
He Qiwo, aka Er Gao, born in 1985, comes from Yangjiang, Guangdong. He graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Ever since he founded Ergao Dance Production Group (EDPG) in 2007. And now he is living and working in Guangzhou and ZuoTan Village, Shunde.
His artistic practice navigates the intersections of identity, gender, and culture, weaving fleeting moments of togetherness in the margins, forming a "Trans-family" — a gathering in a fluid space-time (Interdisciplinary Fluid Family). Adopting "community as a working method," he rejects the outsider's gaze that objectifies his subjects from building perspective. Instead, he engages directly and actively from a "dwelling perspective," immersing himself in their world.
His works often feature an anachronistic/queer body, pop music and dance, low-tech techniques, the gaudy everyday life and replicas of iconic landmarks in Southern China, complex emotional entanglements, all intertwined within these elements. Together, they form his response to the present: "site-synthetic".
His current major artworks include:
Hide and Seek, 2025│Site-synthetic│commissioned by No Limits, The Hong Kong Arts Festival,
Back to the Future in Disco, 2024│Video│commissioned by NownessChina,
Butterfly Island, 2023│Site-synthetic│commissioned by HK Tai Kwun,
Virtual Lotus out of Social media, 2023│Theatre│commissioned by Macao Stella & Artists,
Kung Hei Fat Choy N+, 2020│Video│commissioned by The 6th Young Dancers Initiative,
Huang Bian Urban Village/EDPG Ephemeral Art, 2020 | Video / Community Art | commissioned by Guangdong Times Museum Community Art Festival,
Kung Hei Fat Choy, 2019│Theatre│funded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council,
This Is A Chicken Coop, 2016 | Video / Site-synthetic | The video version was commissioned by The Jumping Frames HK, and the Site-synthetic was commissioned by Fabbrica Europa in Italy,
Disco-Teca , 2015│Theatre |commissioned by Norway Ibsen International,
Everyday Dance Movement, 2015 | Video/ Community Art | commissioned work for Guangdong Times Museum Community Art Festival.
Ergao has attended Singapore [CP]3 to do further study in contemporary performing art criticism in 2021. ([CP]3, Certificate Programme for Critical Practice in Contemporary Performance.) And he was selected as a resident artist by the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, and jointly funded by Guangdong Times Museum, AIT Japan and Bethel House.
In 2024, he received full funding from the He Interaction for his work with EDPG •Southern Dance Hall. While engaging in community and spatial practices, he also attempted to curate some art projects.
His works have been invited for tours, screenings, and exhibitions in The Place, London, Shanghai International Dance Center, Beijing TianQiao Performing Arts Center, Fabbrica Europa in Italy, Stockholm Fringe Festival, Yokohama International Dance Festival - “Hot Pot” in Japan, Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Macau Arts Festival, POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin, Image Forum Festival in Japan, Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival in France, Guangdong Museum of Art, Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing, Tai Kwun in Hong Kong SAR, Guangdong Times Museum, and so on.
