Commissioned by the Arts Development Council and supported by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, it is a production of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance; with major partners including HKAPA, CCDC, CCDC Dance Centre, Emergency Lab, the Hong Kong Dance Federation, and the Association of Hong Kong Dance Organizations, our goals is to reach every sector of dance community, build arts and cultural awareness, and position Hong Kong as Asia's dance hub. After the acclaimed Dance On '97, the Hong Kong Dance Festival 2006, (June 8-18, 2006) is the most diverse and high profile celebration of dance in Hong Kong.
The Festival features the best of Hong Kong's burgeoning dance culture together with internationally renowned artists from Australia, China, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Africa, UK, USA and many other parts of the world, in the following events:
- Academies Dance (IFDA, 3 performances of 9 Dance Academies in Lyric Theatre),
- Independent Dance (3 performances in Drama Theatre of independent artists),
- Specific Dance (6 different informal performances of site specific dance in HKAPA),
- Jumping Frames@HKDF2006 (film dance competition and screening),
- Everybody Dance - ONE (outdoor mass dance rally),
- Everybody Dance - TWO (community dance performance),
- Everybody Dance - THREE (dance workshops, and classes), and
- Talking Dance - ONE & TWO (dance meetings and conferences).
- Everybody Dance - ONE (outdoor mass dance rally),
- Everybody Dance - ONE (outdoor mass dance rally),
Major events of Hong Kong Dance Festival 2006 include:
Essential Dance (production of Hong Kong professional flagship companies)
Academies Dance IFDA (productions of the International Festival of Dance Academies)
Independent Dance, Specific Dance (environmental and site specific dance performance at festival environs)
Jumping Frames @ HKDF2006 (co-presented with CCDC and Emergencylab)
Everybody Dance - ONE (in association with the Association of HongKong Dance Organizations)
Everybody Dance - TWO (in association with the Hong Kong Dance Federation)
Everybody Dance - THREE
Talking Dance - One (World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific Annual General Assembly)
Talking Dance - TWO (conference under the theme "Imagining the Future: Dance Education in the 21C")