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20th Hong Kong Dance Awards – Box Office Opens
20 March, Hong Kong – Tickets for the 20th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance are now available at URBTIX.
Stepping into its 20th year, the Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance continues to recognize outstanding achievements by Hong Kong artists and organizations, as well as raising public awareness of excellence in the local dance scene. The Awards will take place on 20 April 2018 (Friday), 8pm at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium, under the Artistic Direction of the renowned performer and choreographer David Liu.
The ceremony presents awards for outstanding achievements in choreography, production, performance, design in dance, and education and services to dance. This year for the first time, a new Emerging Choreographer Award will be presented to recognize an up-and-coming cutting-edge choreographer, while a Distinguished Achievement Award will be bestowed upon a recipient to be announced soon.
Together with award presentations, the evening also offers the extraordinary array of a Gala Performance that will give the audience a rare chance to see some of Hong Kong’s finest dances and its greatest dancers performing together on the same evening. The program includes outstanding excerpts from Le Corsaire by the Hong Kong Ballet, Spring, from Four Seasons, Tale of Three Cities by Hong Kong Dance Company, Requiem HK by City Contemporary Dance Company, and Three Fingers At Arm’s Length by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Dance.
The Gala is a once-a-year only opportunity to see this exciting line-up of diverse styles from Hong Kong’s leading dancers and companies and to share in the suspense as award envelops are opened and recipients announced.
20th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance
Date: 20 April 2018 (Friday)
Time: 8pm
Venue: Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre
Tickets: $170, $120
Ticketing details:
URBTIX Internet Ticketing: www.urbtix.hk
Telephone Credit Card Booking: 2111 5999
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661
Program Enquiries: www.hkdanceall.org | 2267 6631
Enquiries:
Ms Thalia Wong (Arts Administration Trainee, Hong Kong Dance Alliance)
Email: thalia@hkdanceall.org
Tel: 2267 6631