Identity
Dancers and actors continually construct, split and reassemble the personas they show the world.
AI CO-PLAY THEATRE · MACAO
Selfish Selfie我非我非我
Who are we when every profile becomes a performance?
Dancers, actors and generative AI move through shifting identities. Audiences join the game through choices, movement, selfies and live interaction, asking what remains of the self when it is made for other people’s gaze.
PREMIEREMacao Cultural Centre · 14–16 November 2025
COMMISSIONCommissioned by the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau
FORMAI Co-play Theatre · dance theatre
01 / THE WORK
A stage built from selves and screens.
Created by director and choreographer Alexis Kam, Selfish Selfie brings contemporary dance and theatre into conversation with AI-generated text, images and sound, projections and the logic of social media.
Performers build and shed virtual personas under the gaze of others. The audience moves from spectator to player: likes, choices, movement, selfies and other live responses become part of the changing relationships on stage.
AI as material
Generative images, text and sound belong to the dramatic language, rather than appearing as a separate effect.
Co-play
The audience is invited into the live encounter and can affect the characters’ relationships.
02 / WATCH
Meet the work in 41 seconds.
Watch the YouTube trailer here. For another performance clip, use the button below to open WeChat Channels.
Selfish Selfie · YouTube trailer
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Open the second performance clip directly in WeChat Channels.
Watch the WeChat clip03 / PREMIERE & REVIEWS
Premiere at Macao Cultural Centre.
Commissioned by the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau and produced by Lam Dance Theatre, the work premiered at Macao Cultural Centre’s Black Box II on 14–16 November 2025.
Source: Macao Cultural Bureau announcementAfter the premiere
Two critics reflected on the work following its Macao premiere.
The work in which AI elements blend most naturally and harmoniously
Original Chinese excerpt：AI 元素融合得最為自然協調的一部
Its most radical formal breakthrough lies in the way it reshapes the relationship between performance and audience
Original Chinese excerpt：最激進的形式突破，在於它對觀演關係的重構
Quoted from the original reviews on 評地; follow the links to read them in full. Non-Chinese versions are translations.
04 / PERFORMANCE PHOTOS
Scenes from the Macao premiere.
Photography: Lei Pui Cheng
05 / CREATIVE TEAM
Performance, image and AI in one room.
- Alexis Kam 金曉霖Director & choreographer
- Dynamic Wang 汪圓清AIGC & video creation
- Tang Fu Kuen 鄧富權Dramaturgy
- Erik Kuong 鄺華歡Producer & video technical coordination
- Anna Ieong 楊螢映 · Endy Leong 梁展鴻 · Lao Pui Lon 劉沛麟 · Leong Pou Seng 梁保昇Devising performers
- Lam Dance Theatre 霖舞劇場Original production
06 / PERFORMANCE COLLABORATION
Build a shared performance arena across cities.
Selfish Selfie is not a touring production. We are seeking creative and producing partners in different cities to build a shared performance arena together.
Performers from different cities can bring their own languages, lived experience and digital identities into the work, then perform together across locations in a hybrid form. Casting, rehearsal, audience participation and the technical approach will be co-designed with each partner and the original creative team.
A locally grounded Malaysian version is currently in development. We are seeking collaborators in further regions to shape how their cities can join this shared stage. Future versions and cross-regional performance arrangements remain to be worked out together.
Tell us your city, organisation or venue, and the creative or production resources you could bring to a shared project.
erik@creativelinks.asiaThe collaboration format, cross-regional performance setup, timeline and terms will be developed with partners and the creative team.