25th Hong Kong Dance Awards

Call for Nominations

DEADLINE: 3 January 2024 (Wednesday)

The Hong Kong Dance Awards pay tribute to outstanding work of individual artists and dance organizations in productions throughout the years, as well as acknowledging distinction in other activities related to dance and the dance community.

Nominations are now open for submission by anyone – from dance practitioners to audience members. Self-nomination is also welcomed. Following the close of nominations, a shortlist, determined by a secret ballot of distinguished experts from a wide range of disciplines in the dance field, will be announced in early 2024.

There are two ways to submit your nomination:

(1) by filling in the Online Nomination Form

or

2) by filling in the nomination form and email to danceawards@hkdanceall.org

Download Nomination Form (PDF) | (Word)

For more details, please refer to the Rules & Regulations

FAQ for Hong Kong Dance Awards

Reference of Seating Capacity of Hong Kong Performance Venues

Award Recipents

Ticket purchase link: https://www.urbtix.hk/event-detail/10667/

Three unique creations intertwined with rhythm and movement

Creating an enthralling heartstrings of dance

Eclipse：

Choreographer: Ryan Lee (Appears by courtesy of the Hong Kong Dance Company)

Dancers: Chelsea Lau, Jasmine Lung, Connie Wong, Rachel Yuen

Do you hear the Tengu barking from afar?

“Woof, woof, woof”

“Coo~”

“Cluck, cluck”

Out of a thousand ways of explaining the occurrence of the solar eclipse, what's your version?

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Into the Void

Choreographer: Kingsan Lo

Composer: Dennis Wong

Dancers: Priscilla Lo, Herman Lui, Wayson Poon, Tsang Wing Fai

Wandering amid subtleties and mysteries,

Passing through the nuances of shadows;

Embarking on a journey beyond time and space,

Where tranquil beauty within gracefully unfolds.

Witnessing the dance of inner turbulence,

May this nostalgic moment inspire new light.

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In the moment, in the flow

Choreographer: Suen Nam

Set Designer: Tracy GIU

Dancers: Nora Cheung, Lauren Ho, Wesley Wong, Sam Yuen

Attempting to infuse a continuous flow

Into one's body, thoughts, and every action.

Detaching from the physical, purifying impurities,

Entering a state of selfless concentration,

Experiencing the flow like water, natural, smooth, harmonious.

Feeling a moment as eternity,

In this moment, serene and fearless,

Like water cleansing the heart, perceiving clarity amidst turbidity.

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Artistic Advisor: Lai Tak-wai

Music Advisor and Sound Designer: Anthony Yeung

Lighting Designer: Bert Wong

Costume Designer: Tracy Giu

‘New Force in Motion’ Series aims to provide a professional platform for young choreographers to showcase new dance works, stimulate creativity through artistic mentoring, and foster the development of the local arts scene.

27-28*.10.2023 (Fri-Sat) 8PM

28*-29*.10.2023 (Sat-Sun) 3PM

*With Meet-the-Artist session after the performance

◆Discount Schemes◆

Hong Kong Dance Alliance Members are entitled to 20% off for all purchases of standard tickets.

Half-price tickets available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities and their carers, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients. (Available on a first-come-first-served basis).

Group Booking Discount: 10% off for each purchase of 4-9 standard tickets; 15% off for 10-19 standard tickets; 20% off for 20 or more standard tickets.

Patrons can apply only one of the above discount offers for each purchase.

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Recommended for ages 6 or above

The duration of the whole performance is approximately 1 hour 30 minutes including a 15-minute intermission

Late-comers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the programme

The presenter reserves the right to change programme details and substitute artists

Once again, the Dance Alliance is grateful to be the presenter of New Force in Motion 2023. We've received a lot of submissions from talented local choreographers for this year's entry. The judges are truly captivated by the variety of genres and the uniqueness of each choreographer.

The Dance Alliance is excited to announce the three up-and-coming local choreographers chosen after rounds of assessments and auditions by a team of professional judges. Congratulations to Ryan Lee, Kingsan Lo and Suen Nam!

//About Ryan Lee, Kingsan Lo and Suen Nam//

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ryan graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in Dance with first-class honor, majoring in Chinese dance. Currently he is a dancer of the Hong Kong Dance Company. During his studies, he received numerous scholarships and awards in recognition of his academic merits and contributions to the school, such as the Director’s Award and HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Scholarships for Outstanding Performance. Ryan has been actively engaging in the art field, covering the area of performing, creating, art administration, music and education.

Ryan believes in the healing power of performing arts, and he is interested in exploring and expanding the creative boundaries of the art of Chinese dance.

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King is a professionally trained versatile artist specialised in body movement and energy harmonisation. Graduated in Contemporary dance from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and later received his Master degree from the London Contemporary Dance School, equipped him with a thorough and profound understanding in movements and expressions. His passion and interest in Eastern philosophies and spiritualities has attracts great teachers and masters to share the Ancient wisdoms and techniques with him. The opportunity of understanding Qi Gong and Wing Chun provides inspiration for King’s artistic development and one-of-his-kind self exploration and discovery techniques. He wishes to create an immersive theatre space for the audience to experience a transcendent journey. King believes that through his tailor-made move sets and mindfulness techniques, we would discover key of being grounded, centered and balanced that will lead to huge benefit to our mental and physical health, thus he had devoted his practice in personal discovery of one’s own body through movement and mindfulness.

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SuenNam is a member of the Hip Hop dance crews FlowRulerz & Pentaverse, and also a DJ. In recent years, he has been active in the field of theater dance creation, participating in various projects such as West Kowloon CClab, dance theater The Box 2.0, and Unlock Dance to be 2022. SuenNam hopes to use his years of training in street dance, as well as his creative ability in dance and movement, and his sense of music, to create more outstanding works.

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The dancer audition was held on 2/7/2023 (Sunday), thank you for joining us!

The workshops from the DanceHub 2023 - Mind Masseur series have successfully ended. We appreciate your active participation and interactions, it was a very significant time involving everyone! Dr. Fung Hiu Ying Melody, our gracious host, has gently guided the participants from imagination to immersion and from focus to relaxation. Participants learnt to feel their bodies, feel others, listen to their inner voices, let go of fears, and release tension through improvisations. Thank you again for your time and we wish everyone to experience themselves through all forms of art and to maintain their physical and mental well-being. For more details.

【Event Details】
Date: 27/5, 10/6, 17/6 (Sat)
Host: Dr Melody Fung
Language: Cantonese

【Fee】
Non-member

1 workshop：$100

2 workshops：$200

3 workshops：$270

HKDA members

1 workshop：$90

2 workshops：$180

3 workshops：$250

Interactive lecture: How can I help...?

Interactive workshop: Pacing in S P A C E

Interactive workshop: Soul Free

2023 'New Force in Motion' New Series - Call for Choreography Proposal

Presented by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, and sponsored by Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the 'New Force in Motion' Series in 2023 will continue to showcase the artistic ideas of emerging choreographers in Hong Kong in a practical format. Besides providing a professional platform and sponsorship to the new generation of choreographers, the Series also encourages the development of various dances genres in the local scene with an aim to spark creativity in choreography.

Throughout the years, the Series presented numerous talented choreographers including Joseph Lee, Terry Tsang and Tsang Wing Fai (2019) ; Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao and Alice Ma (2020); Vivian Luk, Natalie Mak and Poon Chun Ho (2021)); Pang Chun, Kammy Lau, Duncan Tang (2022). Many of them have won awards at the annual Hong Kong Dance Awards, as well as being invited to conduct dance exchange and sharing in different countries.

Subsidized Items

• Performance venue and production cost;
• Production team, administrative and marketing support;
• Rehearsal studio will be provided for each choreographer;
• Recommendation and audition of dancers;
• Artistic advisor(s)

Performance Information

Date:                           27-29 October 2023, 4 performances (tentative)

Venue:                         Kwai Tsing Theatre, Black Box Theatre

Stage type:                  End-stage

Audience Capacity:     120 / performance

Length:                        20-25 minutes for each work

Number of dancers:    Maximum of 4 for each work

Eligibility

1. Applicant must be a Hong Kong resident;
2. Priority will be given to emerging choreographers;
3. All dance genres are invited to apply;
4. Applicant must have presented choreography publicly;
5. The proposed choreography must not be presented in the public before;
6. If the proposed choreography is a solo work, the choreographers would not be able to take part as the dancer

Interview

Applicant maybe required to attend an interview in early May 2023.

Application Deadline

11 April 2023 5:00pm

Proposal & How to apply

Please complete the Choreography Proposal and send it to newforceinmotion@hkdanceall.org Please state “ 2023 'New Force in Motion' Series - Call For Choreography Project application” in the email subject.

Choreography Proposal: Word format

                                        PDF format

Enquiries

Vanessa Chan

Arts Administration Trainee

2267 6631 /  newforceinmotion@hkdanceall.org

Press Release

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Hong Kong Dance Awards 2023

- Shortlisted Nominations Announced

- Distinguished Achievement Award to be presented to Lindsey McAlister, OBE JP

20 February 2023 – Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominations for the 24th Hong Kong Dance Awards and the presentation of the Distinguished Achievement Award to Lindsey McAlister, OBE JP.

Since 1999, the Hong Kong Dance Awards have celebrated outstanding achievements in the local dance field and recognized artists and organizations for their contribution to the development of dance in Hong Kong. Those honoured in the past include companies such as City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, Unlock Dancing Plaza and Passoverdance and choreographers such as Helen Lai, Mui Cheuk-yin and Yuri Ng. Previous recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award include Daniel Yeung and Anna Cheng .

Shortlisted Nominations

The 24^th Dance Awards celebrate a welcome return to the stage by local productions in 2022 (despite some theatre closures early in the year) after the Covid 19 pandemic. The exceptional standard of work in 2022 reflects how inspired our dance artists have been by being able to get back to performing live and connecting with the audience directly again after such a long hiatus.

A total of over 49 outstanding nominations have been shortlisted under 16 award categories and showcase not only the talent but also the range of the local dance sector, encompassing a variety of genres and recognizing work from small groups and newly emergent artists alongside more established ones.

The shortlists attached were determined by a secret ballot of expert panelists held after reviewing all the nominations received. A final ballot will be conducted in the coming weeks to decide the Awards with an expanded jury including all members of the HKDA Executive Committee.  Award recipients will be announced during the 24th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance. (For the list of expert panelists together with all rules and procedures of the shortlisting and final ballot process, please visit http://www.hkdanceall.org/?a=group&id=award_about)

Shortlisted Nominations

Distinguished Achievement Award

The Distinguished Achievement Award is presented to Lindsey McAlister, OBE JP, Founder of the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, for her dedication and passion in inspiring young people in Hong Kong to participate in the arts.

Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala

The 24th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance is scheduled to take place at 7:30pm on Saturday 22 April 2023 at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium. Tickets will be on sale via Urbtix from 20 March. Artistic director for the Gala is Ricky Hu Song-wei, one of Hong Kong’s leading choreographers, whose work The Last Song for Hong Kong Ballet has been shortlisted in several categories, including Choreography.

Other productions shortlisted in multiple categories include City Contemporary Dance Company’s Brown and Meeting in Between Time, Hong Kong Dance Company’s Nezha: Untold Solitude and West Kowloon Cultural District’s Phygital D season.

Enquiries:

Ms. Vanessa Chan

E-mail:  vanessa@hkdanceall.org / danceawards@hkdanceall.org

Tel：2267 6631

About Hong Kong Dance Alliance

With the mission of serving as a primary voice and support group for dance in Hong Kong and for Hong Kong dance worldwide, HKDA is devoted to promoting recognition, development, and mutual understanding of all forms of dance. The Hong Kong Dance Alliance is the official Hong Kong member organization of the World Dance Alliance and is a recipient of Hong Kong Arts Development Council Three Year Grant.

24th Hong Kong Dance Awards

Call for Nominations

DEADLINE: Sunday, 15 January 2023

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is calling for nominations for the 24th Hong Kong Dance Awards. The deadline for the submission of nomination is 15 January 2023. Nominations in fourteen award categories are open for submission by anyone - from dance practitioners to audience members. 

Nominations are welcome for the following Awards Categories: 

• Outstanding Choreography
• Outstanding Large Venue Production (with more than 750 seats)
• Outstanding Medium Venue Production (with 250 to 750 seats)
• Outstanding Small Venue Production (with less than 250 seats)
• Outstanding Performance by Male Dancer
• Outstanding Performance by Female Dancer
• Outstanding Ensemble Performance
• Outstanding Lighting and/or Visual Design
• Outstanding Set and/or Costume Design
• Outstanding Music Composition and/or Sound Design
• Outstanding Alternative Space Production
• Outstanding Dance Education or Community Dance
• Outstanding Services to Dance
• Outstanding Online Production

Interested parties can complete the Nomination Form and submit via 1) email to danceawards@hkdanceall.org, or 2)  submit  Online Nomination Form.

Online Nomination Form

Download Nomination Form (PDF) | (Word)

Rules & Regulations

Reference of Seating Capacity of Hong Kong Performance Venues

FAQ for Hong Kong Dance Awards

Award Recipents

Press Release

For immediate release

 'New Force in Motion' Series 2022: Pang Chun, Kammy Lau, Duncan Tung –Box Office Opens

11 November 2022 – Tickets for the 'New Force in Motion' Series 2022 : Pang Chun, Kammy Lau, Duncan Tung are now available at URBTIX.

This year's 'New Force in Motion' Series features premiere by three emerging choreographers – Pang Chun, Kammy Lau, Duncan Tung. The enchanting triple-bill performance will run from 9-11 December 2022 at Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre for four performances. Tickets are priced at $200, available at URBTIX now.

'New Force in Motion' Series 2022: None of your business by Pang Chun, Observing incorrect correctness by Kammy Lau, 01 Waiting by Duncan Tung

Date:  9 – 10*.12.2022 (8pm); 10 – 11.12.2022 (3pm)
      *With Meet-the-artist Session

Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Price: $200 (Free Seating)

None of my business by Pang Chun

Did you know!? Those two K-Pop stars broke up!

Did you know!? That singer is suffering from a serious illness!

Did you know!? I moved home just last month! The new place is enormous!

Did you know!? How surprised I was when I received the award!

Did you know!? I almost forgot my moves in a performance!

Did you know!? A member of my family passed away last month!

Did you know!? I came down with sickness recently!

Did you know!? My mental state has been unstable!

You know…… I am exhausted…

Dancers: Chun Wui Chun, He Yunchi, Ho Hiu Mei Lauren, Ngan Ching Cheong, Wong Nok Ching

Observing incorrect correctness by Kammy Lau

Do you agree that the human body is a work of art?

VLADIMIR: I'd like well to hear him think.

ESTRAGON: Perhaps he could dance first and think afterwards.

-- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Does thinking after dancing make your mind clearer or more blurred?

Press Release - For immediate release

23rd Hong Kong Dance Awards 2022

- 20 awards presented in live streamed ceremony

- Exceptional work produced despite the pandemic

16 April 2022 – Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) is delighted to announce the recipients of the 23rd Hong Kong Dance Awards, which were presented in an online ceremony streamed live on the Alliance YouTube channel and Facebook page at 8.00pm local time on Saturday 16 April. A total of 20 awards including two Lifetime Achievement Awards and 18 awards decided by a jury of expert panelists were presented by emcees Irene Lo and Shirley Loong and accepted remotely by the awardees. The physical trophies will be passed to the recipients later, along with certificates for the shortlisted nominees.

More than 50 nominations were shortlisted in 15 categories, covering work created between January 2020 and December 2021.  Alliance Chair Allen Lam noted that, while it was sad that the traditional Awards Ceremony and Gala Performance could not be held due to the current pandemic restrictions, ‘The quality of the shortlisted nominations shows the strength and resilience of the Hong Kong dance community, which has overcome the obstacles of the pandemic over the past two years to create so much truly exceptional work.  They can be proud of their achievements and we look forward to a bright future for dance in Hong Kong.’

Co-Chair of the Awards Jury, Natasha Rogai, added ‘In 15 years of working on the Awards, I have never seen stronger shortlists – there were several categories where two awards were presented and all the shortlisted nominations were worthy of an award.’

Five Awards for Hong Kong Dance Company

Hong Kong Dance Company received no fewer than five awards.  Its co-production with Freespace of Helen Lai’s classic Nine Songs was honoured as Outstanding Large Venue Production and for Outstanding Ensemble Performance, with Huang Lei receiving his third Outstanding Male Performance Award and his wife, Hua Chi-yu, receiving the Award for Outstanding Female Performance for a record-breaking fourth time.  The company also became the first recipient of the new Online Production Award for Convergence. 

The company’s artistic director, Yang Yuntao said: “We will never give up. Every day, even if it’s within the one or two square meters of our own space, we will always strive to keep our bodies fit and ready to dance – that is all that we can do; no matter the changes in the outside environment, our passion for dance, the standard we aim for, will never falter. Let’s stand strong and work together!” 

Choreography

Two awards were presented for Outstanding Choreography: to Hong Kong Ballet’s artistic director, Septime Webre, for his spectacular new The Nutcracker and to Hong Kong icon Mui Cheuk-yin for Diary VII ◦ The Story of…… which also received Outstanding Small Venue production.

The prestigious Tom Brown Emerging Choreographer Award went to Kelvin Mak, artistic director of Beyond Dance Theater, whose powerful Remnants was named Outstanding Medium Venue Production sharing that award with City Contemporary Dance Company’s Days Are Numbered, which featured choreography by Justyne Li, Bruce Wong and Jennifer Mok.  

Kelvin Mak said “I would like to thank the late Mr. Tom Brown for his support to the local dance scene, and to us emerging artists. I hope that this goodwill, passion, and spirit can be inherited and passed on.” 

Lifetime Achievement Award

At the opposite end of the experience spectrum from rising star Mak, the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to two remarkable women who have made an immeasurable contribution to the development of dance in Hong Kong over many decades: Tania Tang and Professor Shen Shir Ming.  Accepting the awards, Professor Shen commented:

“I can see that the Hong Kong Dance Alliance set their sights beyond traditional definitions of dance; rather than simply focusing on choreography and performance, they aim to establish exchange and collaboration on all levels of the creative process between the dance sector and other industries, so that talents in dance may develop in a cross-disciplinary manner.” 

And from Ms Tang:

“Looking back, there were only a few foreign ballet teachers in Hong Kong. Nowadays, we are all witnessing a diverse ecology of dance arts in Hong Kong taking root and thriving. To the many generations of dancers to come, we must remain steadfast in our beliefs and work ethic; to all workers related to dance, we need to face all challenges head on, and pass on the torch.” 

Other Awards

Among the other awards Male Performance went to Shen Jie as Romeo in Hong Kong Ballet’s Romeo + Juliet. Like Huang Lei, with whom he shares the award, Shen is a third time recipient and one of Hong Kong’s most respected dancers. Hong Kong Ballet also received the award for Alternative Space Production for Five Tiny Dances at M+, while Gabriela Tylesova and Albert Au received the Set and Costume Design Award for the company’s The Nutcracker.

City Contemporary Dance Company Dance Centre, which has continued to provide invaluable support to the dance community despite going through some major recent upheavals, received the Award for Services to Dance for its Partnership Programme Venue Sponsor, while Passoverdance received the Dance Education Award for Jockey Club In Search of Voice in a Cramped City.

Please see attached for complete list of awardees and award citations. 

complete list of awardees

award citations

Enquiries:

Ms Amy Lee

E-mail:  amy.hkda@gmail.com  / HKDanceAwards.hkda@gmail.com

Tel: 2267 6733

The Hong Kong Dance Alliance is delighted to announce that Shirley Loong has accepted our invitation to join the administrative team in the newly-created post of Executive Director, with effect from 10 March 2022. She will therefore step down from her current role as Chairperson and will be succeeded by Allen Lam, whose current role as Vice-Chairperson will be taken by Angela Hang.

The creation of the Executive Director position is the result of careful deliberation by the entire Executive Committee, aimed at responding to the Alliance’s need for a capable, senior level executive and decision-maker with a thorough understanding of the dance industry to head the administrative team. The worldwide pandemic has also prompted the Alliance to expedite this organizational restructuring in order to adapt swiftly to the fast-changing situation of the dance sectors both at home and abroad.

Ms Loong has been active in the local dance scene for many years, with a successful career spanning multiple roles from dancer, ballet teacher, dance educator, arts administrator and producer to her newly acquired qualification as an international accredited professional mediator, which led her to head the Performing Arts Profession International Mediation Committee. During her tenure as Chairperson, Ms Loong set a clear direction for the development of the Alliance, which is approaching its 30th anniversary in 2025. Allen Lam says, ‘We are delighted that Shirley has agreed to take on this new role. Her vast experience in the Hong Kong dance sector and in particular within the Alliance will help to make sure that expert advice can be turned into action effectively.’

‘I very much look forward to working closely with our new Chairperson, Allen Lam and Vice Chairperson, Angela Hang,’ says Ms Loong. ‘While working to accomplish the Alliance’s mission and vision, together we'll strive to broaden and strengthen our connection with stakeholders, funders and members of the Alliance, as well as the local and global dance communities.’ 

Dance New Motion : Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao, Alice Ma

Online Programme

Following the direction of ‘New Force in Motion’ Series, 'Dance New Motion' presents new dance video works of emerging choreographers. It aims to provide a professional platform for them to showcase their choreography, encourage local arts development and stimulate creativity under the new normal for the arts amid the pandemic.

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25.6.2021

Online Premiere

hkdancealliance - YouTube

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POV --- Chan Wai Lok

Let’s have a duo, shall we?

Choreographer: Chan Wai Lok

Performers: Chan Wai Lok 、Lee Ka Hei

Video & Art Director, Editor: Wong Hei Wa

Assistant Director & Gaffer: Yuen Hon Hin

Cinematographer & Gaffer: Dino Rib

Assistant Art Director: Boski Chan

Sound Designers: Karen Yu 、Amy Chan

Costume Designer: Cheng Nga Yan

Make-up & Hair Stylist: Suen Wing Chi

Artistic Adviser: Joanna Lee

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Interconnectivity --- Sudhee Liao

A multi-layered performance that explores the state of the connection. By weaving physicality and movement, we play with the idea of equilibrium between body and space.

Choreographer: Sudhee Liao

Artistic Adviser: Tsang Man Tung

Devising Dancers: Chan Lok Hin、Jonathan Hung Chun Lok

Video Director, Dop  & Editor:  Vincent Ip

Sound Composer: Shane Aspegren

Costume, Props & Set Designer: Audrey Ng

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I don’t mean it --- Alice Ma

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.” - Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Choreographer & Dancer: Alice Ma

Video Director& Dop: Vincent Ip

Composer & Sound Designer:  Leung Po Wing

Costume & Props Designer: Luise Yau^

Make-up & Hair Stylist: Jadeson Fu

Rehearsal Assistant & Editor: Christy Poinsettia Ma

Artistic Adviser: Ata Wong Chun Tat

^By kind permission of the Hong Kong Dance Company

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Producer

Jamie Wu

Presenter

Hong Kong Dance Alliance

DanceHub Lecture Series: Practical Handbook for Dance Practitioners

DanceHub Lecture Series makes a glory return! Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) has invited three experts to share their professional knowledge and experience in mediation, insurance and legal issues. Participants would be able to learn more about practical information other than artistic creation. Friends from different performing disciplines are also welcome.

To register for any of the sessions, please complete the application form below. We shall send you an email with registration confirmation and payment details.
Don't miss the chance, reserve your seats in advance!

►Online Registration Form

https://forms.gle/crszNSmwmsGs5K6DA

►Event Details
Session 1: Win-win resolution for disputes
Date & Time: 18 May 2021 (Tue) 7:00pm
Venue: Hong Kong Mediation Centre (Room 504, 5/F, West Wing, Justice Place, 11 Ice House Street, Central)
Speaker: Dr. Law Wai Hung Francis (President of Hong Kong Mediation Centre)
- Introducing the aim and function of mediation
- Explaining the process of mediation
- Illustrating the significance of mediation in performing arts

Session 2: Comprehensive protection & planning for your future
Date & Time: 25 May 2021 (Wed) 7:00pm
Venue: Garage Wanchai Lockhart (Beverly House, 1/F & 2/F, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai)
Speaker: Mr. Si Chor Kit Freddie (Professional Insurance Agent)
- Explaining the function and importance of insurance for rehearsals and performances
- Displaying how insurance can protect arts practitioners and how to establish long-term plans
- Introducing different types of insurance for activities and their corresponding content

Session 3: Legal issues for online performances
Date & Time: 2 June 2021 (Tue) 7:00pm
Venue: Art and Culture Outreach (ACO) (14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai)
Speaker: Mr. Fan Hoi Kit Alex (HK Dance Alliance Honorary Legal Advisor)
- Identifying copyright and its related regulations
- Introducing copyright issues related to arts
- Revealing legal issues for online performances
 

►Registration deadline
Session 1: 12/5/2021 (Wed) 5pm
Session 2: 19/5/2021 (Wed) 5pm
Session 3: 26/5/2021 (Wed) 5pm

►Language
Cantonese

►Fee
HKDA Members: Free Admission
Non-members: $90/talk; 10% off for any two talks (Total $162); 20% off for all the three talks (Total $216)
*Join the HKDA 2021-22 membership now with an annual fee of HKD$200 to enjoy extra TWO months' complimentary membership starting from May 2021, as well as FREE admission offer to all three sessions of this Lecture Series.
Application and member benefits:

http://www.hkdanceall.org/?a=group&id=be_a_member
*No refund will be accepted once the registration has been confirmed

Enquiries

hkdancealliance@gmail.com

2267 6631

Dance Sector Gathering

Since our gathering in April last year, the dance sector has continued to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those working in dance education.

Daniel Yeung（楊春江）, the Chairman of the Dance Art Form Group of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, would like to meet with all members of the dance sector again to discuss long-term support plans and development. He would also like to introduce the new grant category “Research / Archiving / Critique / Publication in Dance” of HKADC – which targets dance teachers and also dance artists who had to cancel their productions last year.

Details

Date: 7 May 2021 (Friday)

Time: 16:00 - 18:00

Venue: CCDC Dance Centre

In response to the development of the pandemic and relevant disease prevention measures, there will be a quota on the number of attendees. Interested parties please send your name, contact number and affiliated organisation (if any) to admin@hkdanceall.org so the Alliance can arrange accordingly. Seats will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. A registration confirmation will be sent to you via email.

*Special thanks to CCDC Dance Centre for sponsoring the venue

Enquiries

admin@hkdanceall.org

2267 6631

Natalie Mak & Poon Chun Ho: Dancers Audition

Choreographers Natalie Mak and Poon Chun Ho are now looking for dancers to perform in their new works in September 2021.

Audition Details

Date: 10/04/2021 (Saturday)

Time: 14:30 - 18:30

Venue: City Contemporary Dance Company CCDC Dance Centre

Requirements

- Performing experience is necessary

- Performers of any dance, theatre and/or movement genre background are welcome

Audition Format

- Audition will be held in the form of a workshop

- Participants will need to prepare a solo of approximately 1-2 minutes

* Dress code: Any clothing that is comfortable or convenient for body movement / exercise

Performance Details

Rehearsal Period: 04/2021-09/2021

Move-in and Performance Period: 06-12/09/2021

Performance Venue:  Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Application

Interested parties will need to fill in and submit Application Form. Selected participants will be contacted via email.

Application Form: https://forms.gle/XwjtHsz7UXYcG66b9

Application Deadline: 02/04/2021 (Friday) 18:00

//About Natalie Mak//

Natalie Mak graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree, majoring in Chinese Dance. During her studies, she was awarded The Spring Time Stage Production Scholarship and twice awarded the Disney Scholarship. She was the representative of HKAPA to perform in Italy and Taiwan. Natalie has been a full-time dancer with the City Contemporary Dance Company since 2014 to 2020. She has worked with a number of emerging choreographers and arts organisations, and has performed in a wide range of dance performances in Hong Kong. Natalie is now actively involved in dance teaching and related work. She is also a Yoga Teacher (RYT®) with Yoga Alliance and a Certified Flyoga® Teacher.

//About Poon Chun Ho//

Poon Chun Ho is the core member of Beyond Dance Theater, freelance performer and theatre educator. He won the Distinct Actor Award at the 11th Hong Kong Theatre Libre with “Castle of Glass” produced by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. Poon graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree, majoring in Acting. After graduation, he joined Theatre du Pif with the support of Hong Kong Arts Development Council and became a full-time intern actor. In 2015, he cooperated with a contemporary dance company from Singapore, The ARTS FISSION, and he was the Assistant Choreographer in the piece “Anonymous”. In 2018, Poon was invited to join the Professional Intensive Training Workshop by Gecko Theatre in UK. From 2015 – 2018, Poon was a part-time instructor at the School of Drama and School of Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing arts.

Enquiries: 2267 6631 / hkdancealliance@gmail.com

*Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

‘New Force in Motion’ Series: Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao, Alice Ma

**In view of the latest situation of COVID-19, all LCSD venues are temporarily closed for live performances until further notice. 'New Force in Motion' Series: Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao, Alice Ma scheduled on 31 Dec 2020 – 2 Jan 2021 at Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre has been cancelled.

Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department(LCSD), the Hong Kong Dance Alliance(HKDA) will produce the upcoming 'New Force in Motion' Series, and stage 4 public performances on 31 December 2020 to 2 January 2021 at Kwai Tsing Theatre Black Box Theatre. The Series will showcase 3 new works by three local emerging choreographers: Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao and Alice Ma.

'New Force in Motion' Series aims to offer a professional platform for emerging choreographers to showcase choreography, encourage development, and stimulate creativity. This year, HKDA produced the Series for the fourth consecutive year, to continue the shared vision for dance development, and to facilitate the professional production process. 

Performance details:

Date: 2020.12.31 - 2021.1.1* 8pm; 2021.1.1 - 2021.1.2 3pm

Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Tickets: $180 Free Seating

*with meet-the-artist session

Chan Wai Lok《Click》

Delete, copy, return...Click to open a space, or close.

Choreographer & Dancer: Chan Wai Lok

Artistic Adviser: Joanna Lee

Video Designer: Cheng Nga Yan 

Sudhee Liao《Interconnectivity》 

By weaving physicality and movement, we play with the idea of equilibrium between body and space. 

Choreographer: Sudhee Liao

Artistic Adviser: Kelvin Tsang Man Tung

Devising Dancers: Chan Lok Hin, Jonathan Hung Chun Lok

Sound Composer: Shane Aspegren 

Costume, Props & Set Designer: Audrey Ng (Malaysia) 

Alice Ma《I don't mean it》  

We don’t even know whether the words from us are as intended, or simply lies.  

Choreographer & Dancer: Alice Ma

Artistic Adviser: Ata Wong Chun Tat

Composer & Sound Designer: ^Leung Po Wing

Rehearsal Assistant: Luk Wai Shan Vivian

^By kind permission of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Production & Stage Manager: Meilin Ho 

Deputy Stage Manager: Ho Tak Ching

Lighting Designer: Lai Tze Yu

Audio Coordinator: Jeffery Fung

Presented by: Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Produced by: Hong Kong Dance Alliance

(Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.)

The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and substitute artists.

The programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

'New Force in Motion' Series return in 2021 with a Fresh Look - Call for Choreography Proposals

Presented by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance for the first time and sponsored by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the 'New Force in Motion' Series 2021 will showcase the artistic ideas of emerging choreographers in Hong Kong in an enhanced format. Besides providing a professional platform and sponsorship to the new generation of choreographers, the series also encourages the development of various dance genres within the local dance scene with the aim of sparking creativity and diversity in choreography. The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended to 6:00pm, 23 December 2020.

Throughout the years, the Series presented numerous talented choreographers including Rex Cheng and KT Yau (2017); Gabbie Chan and Jennifer Mok (2018); Joseph Lee, Terry Tsang and Tsang Wing Fai (2019); Chan Wai Lok, Sudhee Liao and Alice Ma (2020). Many of them went on to win awards at the annual Hong Kong Dance Awards, as well as being invited to conduct dance exchange and sharing in different countries.

Subsidized Items

-Performance venue and production cost;

-Administration, marketing and production team;

-Venue rental for 120 hours of rehearsal for each choreographer;

-Recommendation and audition of dancers;

-Artistic advisor(s)

Performance Information

Date: 10-12 September 2021, 4 performances (tentative)

Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre, Black Box Theatre

Stage type: End-stage

Audience Capacity: 120 / performance

Length: 20-30 minutes for each work

Number of dancers: Maximum of 6 for each work

Eligibility

1. Applicant must be a Hong Kong resident;
2. Priority will be given to emerging choreographers;
3. Choreography of any dance genre is welcome;
4. Applicant must have presented choreography publicly;
5. The proposed choreography must not be presented in the public before;
6. If the proposed choreography is a solo work, the choreographers would not be able to take part as the dancer

Interview

Applicant may be required to attend an interview during 7-13 January 2021.

Submission Deadline Extended to

23 December 2020 6:00pm

How to apply

Please complete the Choreography Proposal Form and send it to san@hkdanceall.org . Please state “ 2021'New Force in Motion' Series - Call For Choreography Proposals” in the email subject.

Download Choreography Proposal Form: Word format

                                                                   PDF format

Enquiries

San Ho

Assistant Project Manager

2267 6733 / san@hkdanceall.org

22^nd Hong Kong Dance Awards

The 22nd Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance was originally scheduled to take place on 17 April 2020 at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium, but in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong, it was re-scheduled to be held on 18 July 2020 as a closed-door presentation ceremony.  However, the spike in COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong and re-tightening of social distancing measures meant the presentation ceremony had to be cancelled. Instead, the Awards were announced online, live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube, embracing the ‘new normal’ on 18 July 2020.

This year 16 awards in 14 categories, voted by a selection jury composed of the HKDA Executive Committee members and expert panelists from a range of dance-related disciplines, were announced.

In addition, the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award, decided by the HKDA Executive Committee members, was presented to Daniel Yeung for his immense contribution to dance in Hong Kong as dancer, choreographer, curator, mentor and critic. 

Video of the livestreamed Awards announcement is available on HKDA’s YouTube channel and Facebook Page.

The Awards recipients are listed in full here and the Awards booklet along with citations and bios. 

Enquiry: Ms Yvonne Yau (at yvonne@hkdanceall.org / +852 2267 6733)

22^nd Hong Kong Dance Awards – Shortlisted Nominations Announced

Daniel Yeung to receive Distinguished Achievement Award

Video Director: lowing@OHLO.hk

8 May 2020 – Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) is pleased to announce the shortlisted nominations for the 22^nd Hong Kong Dance Awards and the presentation of the Distinguished Achievement Award to Daniel Yeung.

Since 1999, the Hong Kong Dance Awards have celebrated outstanding achievements in the local dance field and recognized artists and organizations for their contribution to the development of dance in Hong Kong. Those honoured in the past include companies such as City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, Unlock Dancing Plaza and Passoverdance; choreographers such as Helen Lai, Mui Cheuk-yin and Yuri Ng and recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award such as Lau Siu-ming, Jean M. Wong, Anna CY Chan and Dr Tom Brown.

Shortlisted Nominations

This year, 44 outstanding nominees have been shortlisted under 14 award categories (click here for the shortlisted nominations). The shortlists were determined by a ballot of expert panelists held after reviewing all the nominations received this year. A final ballot will be conducted in March to decide the Awards with an expanded jury including all members of the HKDA Executive Committee. Award recipients will be announced during the 22^nd Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance. (For the list of expert panelists together with all rules and procedures of the shortlisting and final ballot process, please visit this website.)

Distinguished Achievement Award – Daniel Yeung

Photo: Cheung Chi Wai @ Moon 9 Image

The Distinguished Achievement Award will be presented to Daniel Yeung Chun-kong for his immense contribution to the development of dance in Hong Kong as performer, choreographer, dance critic, mentor and curator. In addition to his own outstanding career as an artist, Yeung has played a major role in advancing and enriching Hong Kong dance by nurturing local emerging dance artists and fostering interaction between the Hong Kong dance community and its international counterparts.

Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance

Considering the uncertainty of the infection risk of COVID-19 and in response to the current social situation, there are changes applied to the 22^nd Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance which has been postponed taking place on 18 July 2020 at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium. Results will be presented in a different way and details will be announced soon.

Press here for the full press release.

Enquiries:

Ms Yvonne Yau

E-mail: yvonne@hkdanceall.org

Tel: 2267 6733

Deadline postponed

"Dance Tutorial Video Testing Ground"

Call for submission

"Dance Tutorial Video Testing Ground" is a project presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance in response to the dance community situation under the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Alliance is showing support to the dance community with this project, hope to encourage dance tutors to research on how dance tutorials could be adapted to video/digital format in a creative way and provide free tutorials for general public to dance/exercise at home.

This project would not be only beneficial to dance tutors and dance students, general public who are interested in dance and workout whom could not attend physical dance lessons due to COVID-19 would also be benefited.

A research fee of HKD 2,000 will be offered to the applicant who submitted the dance video which is later be selected to share on the Alliance Facebook Page. A total of 15 quotas are available.

Details of important dates [Last updated on 7 May 2020]

• Application: 21 Apr – 17 May 2020
• Notify Results: 18 May 2020
• Video Launching: 18 May – 15 Jun 2020
• Payment to Tutors: 18 May – 15 Jun 2020

Video requirements

• Teaching Language: Cantonese or English
• Dance genres including but not limited to: Ballet, Chinese dance, Street dance, Jazz, Contemporary, Yoga etc.
• The submitted dance tutorial video(s) shall remain unlisted on any media platforms or for private use only before the notification of selection result and before the publication by the Alliance.

If you are interested, please submit your dance tutorial videos on or before 17 May 2020 (Sun)! A a single or series of tutorial videos are welcomed!

Application and video submission form:

https://forms.gle/w9gNrDdfdYz9EiUV8

Enquiries: Ms Yvonne Yau

(+852 2267 6733 / yvonne@hkdanceall.org)

"Dance Tutorial Video Testing Ground"

Call for submission

"Dance Tutorial Video Testing Ground" is a project presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance in response to the dance community situation under the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Alliance is showing support to the dance community with this project, hope to encourage dance tutors to research on how dance tutorials could be adapted to video/digital format in a creative way and provide free tutorials for general public to dance/exercise at home.

This project would not be only beneficial to dance tutors and dance students, general public who are interested in dance and workout whom could not attend physical dance lessons due to COVID-19 would also be benefited.

A research fee of HKD 2,000 will be offered to the applicant who submitted the dance video which is later be selected to share on the Alliance Facebook Page. A total of 15 quotas are available.

Details of important dates

• Application: 21 Apr – 10 May 2020
• Notify Results: 11 May 2020
• Video Launching: 11 May – 8 Jun 2020
• Payment to Tutors: 11 May – 8 Jun 2020

Video requirements

• Teaching Language: Cantonese or English
• Dance genres including but not limited to: Ballet, Chinese dance, Street dance, Jazz, Contemporary, Yoga etc.
• The submitted dance tutorial video(s) shall remain unlisted on any media platforms or for private use only before the notification of selection result and before the publication by the Alliance.

If you are interested, please submit your dance tutorial videos on or before 10 May 2020 (Sun)! A a single or series of tutorial videos are welcomed!

Enquiries: Ms Yvonne Yau (+852 2267 6733 / yvonne@hkdanceall.org)

Sudhee Liao: Dancers Audition

Choreographer Sudhee Liao is looking for 2-3 dancers to join her coming up New Force in Motion performance in September 2020.

If you are interested in improvisation and expanding the possibilities between the body and objects, please come and join us!

► Audition Details

Date: 16/1/2020 (Thu)

Time: 10:00-12:30

Venue: Studiodanz (Kowloon)

Address: Workshop B, 5/F, Tontex Industrial Building, 2-4 Sheung Hei Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon

► Requirements

- Performing experience is necessary

- Contemporary dance, theater or movement background is preferred

► Audition Format

- Movement improvisation, working with an object (to be given)

- Interview

**Dress code: sportswear or anything that is comfortable

►Performance Details

Rehearsal Period: 2/2020-9/2020

Performance Period: 9/2020

Performance Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

►Application Method

Application Form: Click Here

Deadline: 13/1/2020 (Mon)

Enquiries:

Atti Au

atti@hkdanceall.org/ 2267 6631

Photo: Jesse Clockwork

A Dance Journey - Hong Kong Dance Alliance Fellowship

Most local choreographers work as freelance artists without any regular support from art managers, administrators, or agents. The increasing overseas exchange opportunities for local dance talents have also intensified the need for agency support and professional guidance. The Alliance is very keen on supporting artists by providing holistic administrative assistance and management that takes into account artistic goals for potential candidates in need. It is also eager to instigate open dialogue with dance artists on innovative projects and ways and means to develop sustainable support for projects and artists.

The fellowship aims to:

• Match new choreographic talents with senior dance practitioners as their mentors to provide guidance and artistic development advice.
• Provide in-kind publicity, brand building and administration support for projects artists are planning to engage in, to help them advance their careers.
• Offer assistance to selected choreographic artists in broadening their artistic development, clarifying their aims and vision, and identifying and gaining the skills and knowledge needed to nurture their careers.

Eligibility

All local choreographers who are willing to commit to consistent engagement with dance are eligible to apply. Graduates from local institutes of performing arts who are eager to start developing their career in choreography are also eligible to apply.

Period

Early February 2020: Announcement of successful applicants and first review meeting ( to discuss planning and direction for projects) 

February – June 2020: Mentoring sessions, representation and networking, publicity and administrative support

How to apply

Call for applications is open until 7 February 2020.

Interested applicants please send a brief introduction of the proposed project for which you are applying for the fellowship (in a Word document / PDF file), attaching your English resume and 3 video excerpts from your latest production (if any) to: admin@hkdanceall.org

You can also apply by filling in the online application here.

The introduction of the project could be but not limit to: Reasons of applying/Concept and framework of proposal/Expected outcome. All applications will be reviewed by the Selection panelists from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance.

Enquiries:

2267 6631 / admin@hkdanceall.org

Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) announces the Call for Nominations for the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2020. The Hong Kong Dance Awards were established in 1999 to pay tribute to outstanding work by individual artists and dance organizations in new productions throughout the year, as well as acknowledge distinction in other activities related to dance and the Hong Kong dance community.

Call for Nominations

Nominations in thirteen award categories are open for submission by anyone – from dance practitioners to audience members. For the upcoming Hong Kong Dance Awards, an additional award, Outstanding Alternative Space Production will be established. The original award Outstanding Dance Education, Youth Dance, Community Dance, or Environmental Dance will be revised as Outstanding Dance Education or Community Dance. All Hong Kong dance artists and practitioners, and any persons contributing to Hong Kong dance productions are eligible as nominees. Following the close of nominations, a shortlist, determined by a secret ballot of distinguished experts from a wide range of disciplines in the dance field, will be announced in early 2020.

Establishment of Cash Prize for Tom Brown Emerging Choreographer Award

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is pleased to announce the establishment of a cash prize for the Tom Brown Emerging Choreographer Award. Donated by the Tom Brown Memorial Fund, the HKD$20,000 cash prize is a token to encourage awarded choreographers to continue their work. It will be presented starting from the upcoming Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation, while the former two Emerging Choreographer awardees have received the prize retrospectively. Many thanks to the Tom Brown Memorial Fund for the continued support to the dance industry.

Hong Kong Dance Awards 2020 Presentation & Gala Performance

The Awards will be announced and presented at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2020 Presentation & Gala Performance, which will be held at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium on 17 April 2020 (Friday). Artists honoured in the past include companies such as City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, and Unlock Dancing Plaza; choreographers such as Helen Lai, Mui Cheuk-yin, Yuri Ng, Yang Yuntao, and emerging choreographers such as K.T. Yau and Hugh Cho.

The nomination period closes on 3 January 2020 (Friday). Interested parties can complete the nomination form and submit through email to admin@hkdanceall.org, by post or submit in-person to Hong Kong Dance Alliance Office (7/F, 26-28 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon), or submit online nomination form.

For more information, please click here.

‘New Force in Motion’ Series: Joseph Lee, Terry Tsang, Tsang Wing Fai

‘New Force in Motion’ Series:

‘New Force in Motion’ presents new dance works of emerging choreographers. This year, it aims to offer a professional platform for young choreographers to showcase choreography, encourage development, and stimulate creativity through artistic mentoring and collaborative research. It is presented by LCSD and produced by Hong Kong Dance Alliance.

*****

Drifting

Drifting of mind in the midst of virtual reality

Choreographer/ Dancer: Joseph Lee

*****

Mo Ngaan Tai

With the eyes shut, we trace the contour of power and desire
 

Choreographer: Terry Tsang

*****

Infiltrated

Devoutly I pray, a rift is found between my palms

Choreographer: Tsang Wing Fai

*****
13* – 14.9.2019 8pm
14 – 15*.9.2019 3pm
Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre
*with post-performance talk
$180 Free Seating

The programme contains nudity scenes.
Recommended for ages 12 or above.


Presented by
Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Produced by
Hong Kong Dance Alliance
Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the HKADC

Artistic Personnel Introduction

To capture the ephemeral in words -- for the dance writer, this has always been a difficult and exciting challenge. How can a dance review not only offer an opinion, or a visual and dramatic description, but also take the reader into the sense of movement in the performance? This workshop explores ways into looking at and writing about movement from both analytical and imaginative perspectives. The workshop comprises of explanation of concepts, reading examples of dance writing, viewing of videos and practical writing exercises.

【Event Details】

Date: 6/ 11, 18 (Tue) (The course includes 2 sessions)
Time: 8 – 10 pm
Venue: IATC (HK) Multi-functional Space
(Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre L3-06C, 30 Pak Tin St, Shek Kip Mei)

Quota: 20
Hosts: Gary Gordon and Acty Tang (Editors of dance journal/hk)
Target group: Writers who are interested in writing dance
Language: Cantonese and English

【Fee】
Non-member -- $ 300
Hong Kong Dance Alliance Member 及and
IATC (HK) Member -- $ 200

【Application Method】
Online registration: https://forms.gle/2Z1vwtpmFErwjuYFA
Deadline: 2019.6.8 (Sat)

Organizer: Hong Kong Dance Alliance
In collaboration with: IATC (HK)

Hong Kong Dance Alliance and IATC(HK) are financially supported by the HKADC

21st Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance

The Gala Performance includes outstanding excerpts from:

Excerpt from ALICE (in wonderland) by the Hong Kong Ballet,

Dazzling Desert (Uyghur Folk Dance) by Hong Kong Dance Company,

Excerpt from Winterreise by City Contemporary Dance Company, and

Students from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Dance.

21st Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance

Date: 18 April 2019 (Thursday)

Time: 8pm

Venue: Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Tickets: $170, $120

Photos

Credit: Worldwide Dancer Project

Local choreographer Terry Tsang and Fai Tsang are looking for 3-4 dancers to join each of their upcoming performance!(total 6-8 dancers needed) The audition will be held on 30 January 2019 (Wed).

If you... are looking for breakthroughs, willing to think outside the box and have stage performance experience, please come and dance with us!

► Audition Details
Date: 30/1/2019 (Wed)
Time: 09:30-13:00
Venue: Studiodanz (Kowloon)
Address: Workshop B, 5/F, Tontex Industrial Building, 2-4 Sheung Hei Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon

***Dress code***
First Part: Causal sports wear
Second Part: Costumes of Terry’s piece will expose excessive skin, interested dancers please bring a set of tights for the audition. (e.g. Topless and tight shorts for male, bra-top and tight shorts for female)

► Performance Details
Rehearsal Period: 3/2019–9/2019
Performance Period: 9/2019
Performance Venue: Kwai Tsing Theatre Blackbox Theatre

► Application Method
Application Form: Click Here
Deadline: 27/1/2019 (Sun)
Selected candidates will be contacted through email.

Enquiries:
Thalia Wong
thalia@hkdanceall.org/ 2267 6631

Photo: Worldwide Dancer Project, Mak Cheong Wai @Moon 9 Image

11-12/1/2019 (Fri – Sat) 8pm

Ko Shan Theatre New Wing Auditorium
$200 
Ticket Sales Start: 3/12/2018


Linear

A brand new choreography of ’Classifiable Movement’

In my body, substance is transformed
In my mind, space is set

Choreographer/ Dancer: Chen Kai
Installation Designer: Joe Chan Kiu Hong
Composer: Charlotte Chiu
Lighting Designer: Billy Wong
Acknowledgement: Lee Siu Ching Arts Donation


《I.I.I》 In Ideal Illusion

Absent in reality,

Present with imagination

Choreographer: KT Yau Ka Hei
Devising Dancers: Chan Lok Hin, Kingsan Lo, Tsang Wing Fai
Lighting Designer: Billy Wong
Sound Designer: Sham Chung Tat
 

◆ Springboard Showcase ◆ 

Presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance, 'Springboard Showcase' is a residency program and creative platform targeting mid-career local choreographers.

◆ Discount Schemes ◆ 
Half-price tickets available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.

30% off for members of Hong Kong Dance Alliance; 20% off for Prestige members of Hong Kong Dance Company, 10% off for Friends of Hong Kong Ballet, CCDC ‘Dance Inspirations’ members and ‘Student Dance Inspirations’ members and HKAPA Alumni Association members.

10% off for each 5-10 standard tickets; 20% off for 11-19 standard tickets; 30% off for 20 or more standard tickets.

Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers. Please inform the box office staff at the time of purchase.


◆ Important Information ◆ 
This program contains nudity scenes.
Recommended for aged 12 or above.
The performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission. Latecomers will only be admitted until a suitable break or the intermission.

The presenter reserves the right to change the program and substitute artists.

Program Enquiries: 2267 6631 / www.hkdanceall.org 
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk


Presented and Produced by: Hong Kong Dance Alliance
This production is financially supported by the HKADC
Acknowledgement: Leisure and Cultural Services Department

【DanceHub Talk Series - How to Write Dance? by Arnd Wesemann】

Co-organizers: Hong Kong Dance Alliance, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority

Date : 2019. 01. 3 (Thur) 
Time : 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Venue : Library, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong  (14/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai)

Speaker : Arnd Wesemann (Dance Critic, Chief Editor of Tanz magazine)
* Conducted English 

► Lecture Highlights
- Ways to understand, write and review dance
- Dual role of dance critics in dance work and review writing 
- Purposes and methods of writing dance review 
- Establishment and formation of dance review from historical context 

► About Arnd Wesemann
Journalist and editor of Europe’s leading dance magazine tanz, Arnd Wesemann is an expert in dance and dance criticism. He is going to share this views and to create conversations with local theatre critics on performing arts criticism in a contemporary context. Arnd Wesemann has published a number of books on politics and aesthetics, including Immer Feste Tanzen (The Dancing Feast 2006), a German-language collection of essays on the history of dance and dance as antidote to work, and Made in Bangladesh, an essay on how the lives of cultural workers and workers in the garment industry are impacted by society’s expectation that everything should be available at a bargain price.

► Application Method 
Free of charge, reservation in advance is required. Confirmation letter will be emailed to the selected participants. 

Online registration : https://goo.gl/4LnDCh
Deadline : 2018.12.27 (Thur)

► Enquiries
Chloe Wong (chloe@hkdanceall.org; 2267 6733/ 2267 6631)

Supported by : Goethe-Institut Hong Kong 
Promotion Partner : International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong)

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Concurrent Event

【New Strategies for New Times - (Re)defining Contemporary Performing Arts Criticism: Workshop on Performing Arts Criticism by Arnd Wesemann 】

This workshop will be conducted in English, and it is suitable for theatre critics with practical experiences.

Co-organiser: West Kowloon Cultural District, International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong)

Supported by: Goethe-Institut Hong Kong
Promotion Partner：Hong Kong Dance Alliance

Date：04.01.2019（Fri）
Time：7:30-9:30pm
Venue：Library, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong（Goethe Gallery or Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong (14/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong)
Speaker：Arnd Wesemann
Number of participants:：15
Fee：Free
Details and Application：http://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/105744

Local choreographer Joseph Lee is holding a two-day contemporary dance workshop on 22-23 December, to share his thoughts gained from the exchange experiences in Europe, his current research and the artistic direction. Meanwhile, Joseph also wishes to meet and connect with local performers, seeking partners for his new creation premiered in September 2019 and upcoming production(s) in 2020. 

The workshop will utilize improvisation as devices, in search for the possibilities of bodies in motion, to connect the mind and the body, forming a dialogue. Research on creation topics in future production(s) will be conducted, discussing the topics and implementing trails in an open environment, to gain mutual understanding and explore the space for exchange in creation. 

► Details of Workshop and Audition
Date: 2018.12.22-23 (Sat – Sun)

Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Venue: Wanchai

► Application Method: 
Applicants with professional dance and physical training backgrounds are welcome to apply. Applicants must attend both two-days of the workshop.

Online Application Form︰https://goo.gl/forms/H2Wlveid1wJGYSru2
Application Deadline: 2018.12.18 (Tue)

Suitable candidates will be invited, all applicants will receive an email notification before December 21 for the result. Invited pariticants will recevie the details of the event. 

//About Joseph Lee//

Joseph Lee was a local choreographer, and began his dance training at the age of seventeen. He further his dance training at The Place, London Contemporary Dance School in UK, where he obtained his Master of Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2015. Lee tried to expand the imaginations in dance with his choreography and dance by extensive collaboration with different art forms. Lee joined Unlock Dancing Plaza as an apprentice upon his return at the beginning of 2015 and became their resident artist afterwards. 

Recent Choreography includes It tastes like you (2016), Folding Echoes (2016), The World Was Once Flat (2018).

Lee was awarded Arts Development Award for Young Artist; the Chin Lin Foundation of Emerging Choreographer. 

More info: https://www.josephwnlee.com/

Enquiries: Chloe Wong (chloe@hkdanceall.org/ 2267 6733)

Photo: The Light Particles

To enhance the legal knowledge of artists and art administrators, the Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) has invited Mr. Albert So, Chairman of the Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Center, to conduct two seminars:

► Company Law and Audit Regulations

Date & Time： 17/11 （六 Sat） 2-5pm

Venue：Hong Kong Management Association

Deadline of registration：12/11 （Mon）

► Fundraising Liabilities and Personal Data Collection

Date & Time：24/11 （Sat） 2-5pm

Venue：HKFYG Continuous Learning Centre

Deadline of registration：19/11 （Mon）

Apply Now!

Speaker：

Mr. Albert So (Chairman, Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre)

Language：

Cantonese

Targets：

Independent artists, producers, arts administrators, presenters *Priority for dance practitioners

Fee：

HKDA Members：$100/seminar; 10% off for both seminars (Total $180)

Non-members：$150/seminar; 10% off for both seminars (Total $270)

No refund

Enquiries： Ms Wong (2267 6733)

Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) announces the Call for Nominations for the 21st Hong Kong Dance Awards. The Hong Kong Dance Awards were established in 1999 to pay tribute to outstanding work by individual artists and dance organizations in new productions throughout the year, as well as acknowledge distinction in other activities related to dance and the Hong Kong dance community.

Call for Nominations

Nominations in twelve award categories are open for submission by anyone – from dance practitioners to audience members. All Hong Kong dance artists and practitioners, and any persons contributing to Hong Kong dance productions are eligible as nominees. Following the close of nominations, a shortlist, determined by balloting distinguished experts in the dance field, will be announced in early 2019.  To further enhance the representativeness and diversity of the Awards, this year’s Expert Panels have been expanded as in previous years. The candidates of the “Emerging Choreographer Award” established last year will be nominated by the Expect Panel and Executive Committee members of the HKDA.

21^st Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance

The Awards will be announced and presented at The 21^st Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance, which will be held at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium on 18 April 2019 (Thursday). Artists honoured in the past include companies such as City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, and Unlock Dancing Plaza; choreographers such as Helen Lai, Mui Cheuk-yin, Yang Yuntao and last year’s Emerging Choreographer, K.T. Yau.

The nomination period closes on 3 January 2019 (Thursday). Interested parties can complete the Nomination form and submit via 1) email, 2) google form, or 3) by post to 7/F, 26-28 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon by 6pm on or before that day.

For more information, please click here.

Date: 28 – 30 September 2018

Venue: Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Tickets: URBTIX

Lördagsgodis 

Choreographer: Gabbie Chan Hiu Ling

Dancers: Chan Lok Hin, Cyrus Hui

Lördagsgodis, the Swedish Saturday Candy. Bites of irresistible sweetness conceal the bewildering deception, sugarcoat fragmented memories.

Gabbie Chan

Chan graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Chinese Dance. From 2012 to 2014, Chan joined the DanceArt Hong Kong and performed in productions including In Search of Hui Sin, M-cident, and Lament of the Exile. In 2015, she joined Passoverdance and started creating choreography. Chan’s recent choreographies include the environmental dance Recycle Green presented in iDance Festival Hong Kong in 2015, and The 16th Day presented in The 44th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2016. Other works include Whisper of Bubble, Fabric, He,She,It,Past,Chase and more. Chan is currently the Artist in Residence of Passoverdance.

Moha 

Choreographer: Jennifer Mok

Devising Dancers: Pansy Lo, Kaspy Ma, KT Yau Ka Hei

Moha, ‘delusion’ in Sanskrit, the agony of ignorance to the entire reality. The fog of fear, obligation, and guilt, a cage of blinded extortion.

Jennifer Mok

Mok graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Ballet and later in Modern dancer. Mok joined the City Contemporary Dance Company as dancer from 2007 to 2014. In 2015, Mok performed in her first choreography, A Major Clown in G Flat, in Femininity of E-sides Dance Company, and was nominated for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer in the 18th Hong Kong Dance Awards. In 2018, Mok was invited to the Hong Kong Dance Exchange Festival and 2018 Dance Round Table in Taiwan. In 2017, she presented her work You are Beautiful in The 45th Hong Kong Arts Festival. Currently, Mok works as an independent artist in different fields of performing arts. 

‘New Force in Motion’ presents new dance works of emerging choreographers. It aims to offer a professional platform for young choreographers to showcase choreography, encourage development, and stimulate creativity through artistic mentoring and collaborative research. To continue the shared vision for dance development, and to facilitate the professional production process, the HKDA serve as the producer of the program again in 2018-19. Two young local choreographers, Gabbie Chan and Jennifer Mok, were selected by the LCSD Art Form Panel (Dance and Multi-Arts) from the proposals it received.

Presented by: Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Produced by: Hong Kong Dance Alliance

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the HKADC

In order to enhance the legal knowledge of artists, designers and art administrators, the Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) has invited Mr. Albert So, Chairman of the Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Center, to conduct two seminars:

►Internet and Copyright Law
Date & Time： 26/7 (Thur) 2-5pm
Deadline of registration：18/7 (Wed)

►Contract and Labour Law
Date & Time：18/8 (Sat) 2-5pm

Deadline of registration：8/8 (Wed)

Click here for Online Registration

Speaker：
Mr. Albert So (Chairman, Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre)

Venue：
Hong Kong Management Association 

Room 202, 2/F, First Commercial Building, 33-35 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay

Language：
Cantonese

Targets： 
Independent artists, producers, arts administrators, presenters, designers (sound, set, light, props, costumes, multimedia, etc) 

Fee：
HKDA Members：$100/seminar; 10% off for both seminars (Total $180)
Non-members：$150/seminar; 10% off for both seminars (Total $270)

Limited quota; register now!
*(Priority for dance practitioners)
 

Enquiries：
Thalia Wong
Tel.: 2267 6631
Email: admin@hkdanceall.org

Presented by Dance Alliance, 'Creative Space 2018' is a residency programme targeting local mid-career choreographers. Participating artists will join regular workshops, technique classes and rehearse for the new work. The new work will be premiered in January 2019 at Ko Shan Theatre New Wing Auditorium.

One of the choreographers – Chen Kai is now looking for a Male Dancer! If you are a professionally trained ballet and contemporary dancer, and are interested in the production, please apply on or before 1 July!

'Creative Space 2018'
Rehearsal Period: 8/2018 – 1/2019
Performance Period: 11-12/1/2019
Performance Venue: Ko Shan Theatre New Wing Auditorium

About the Choreography
Choreographer: Chen Kai
Work length: Around 30 mins 

-- An adventurous attempt to be an equilibrium in a suspended position
It will be a solo contemporary dance work. Restricting within a suspended-position on the footprint, Chen Kai tries to apply linear movement to visualize the bodily limitation of trace-points in Kinesphere, and to free the imagination of extension-points in sphere, which symbolically comes along with a metal round object, to shape a space.


About Classifiable Movement 
Chen Kai has founded the Classifiable Movement to put his ‘Classifiable Movement’ theory into practice and visualize the concept of ‘let the movement speak for itself’. His logic thinking pattern cultivates the rational side of the dance and shapes multi-layers of movement analysis. 
He created his choreographic method of ‘Classifiable Movement’, which has been categorizing movements according to their features, namely linear, turning, twist, flex and rolling, etc. Focusing on merely one feature each time, a series of pieces has been developed - Line, Circle, Line and Aureola, Sweep (overture), Twist, Flex, Circle II, Line II, Sweep, Movement with Fan and so on. 


Audition Details
Time and Date: 8/7 (Sun) 10-1pm
Venue: HKAPA Studio 3
*Invited applicants will have to prepare a Solo of no shorter than 2 mins, based on his interpretation about Linear Movement during the audition.

Application Form: https://goo.gl/mEMKg6 
Deadline: 1/7 (日Sun)
Interested parties please submit the Online Application Form with the following details: 
1) Personal Contact, 2) CV, 3) Full body shot, 4) Solo dance video.

Dancer Requirements:
1. Applicants must be 18 years old or above by the start of the programme.
2. To fit the theme of the work, applicants must have strong professional background of contemporary dance and ballet.
3. Male dancer who has possessed professional contemporary or ballet training.
4. Applicants must be able to work according to the rehearsal and performance schedule.

Enquiries: 
Thalia Wong
2267 6631 / thalia@hkdanceall.org

Photo: Zoe Ho. Henry Sum at Line II by Classifiable Movement.

如何將藝術理念寫成計劃書獲取資助? 計劃書和財政預算究竟要甚麼內容? 藝發局一年兩度接受申請的「計劃資助」亦將於6月30日截止，針對獨立舞者/舞團的需求，舞盟邀請到獨立製作人李海燕 (Joanna Lee)與我們分享實戰經驗。詳情如下：

講者： 李海燕 (Joanna Lee)
日期及時間: 6月21日 (四) 7 – 9 pm
地點 : CCDC舞蹈中心 1號室# (不設坐椅)

內容：
- 簡介本地資助體系、配套、程序和規則
- 教授計劃書的撰寫方法，個案分析：藝發局「計劃資助」
（例如藝術方向、計劃內容、財政預算表之組織和表述） 
語言: 廣東話
對象: 有興趣遞交計劃書之藝術家/藝術行政人員 (舞蹈界別優先)

要求: 參加者需
(1) 略讀 藝發局計劃資助申請準則

(2) 試填 計劃資助申請表格

***費用全免。名額有限，請現即報名。***
網上登記

截止日期： 6/18 (一) 
(確定函將於截止日期後一天後發出。)

場地贊助: CCDC 舞蹈中心
註: 講者分享純為個人對proposal的書寫方法，不代表任何藝發局審批準則或其他審批員意見。

20th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance

20th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance

Date: 20 April 2018 (Friday)

Time: 8pm

Venue: Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre

Tickets: $170, $120

Program Enquiries: www.hkdanceall.org | 2267 6631

Creative Space 2018: Residency for Mid-Career Choreographers
Call for Application

Residency Period: Aug-Dec 2018

Premiere: 11-12 Jan 2019 (Ko Shan Theatre NW)

Looking for…
A Breakthrough in your choreographing career?
A Platform to enrich your creative process?
An opportunity to join regular technique workshops?

Check out the Creative Space 2018: Residency for Mid-Career Choreographers program!

Presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance, the 5-month Residency targets local mid-career choreographers. The Residency will take place from August to December 2018 at CCDC Dance Centre. 
The artists-in-residence will join regular workshops to strengthen their techniques, research and consolidate their artistic concepts for the new dance piece. The Alliance will provide administration, production and artistic support. The double bill will be premiered at Ko Shan Theatre New Wing Auditorium on 11-12 January 2019.

To apply, simply submit your 1) Online application form, 2) CV and 3) Past productions’ video links on or before 10 April. The results will be announced in May 2018.

Details of the Residency:
Target: Local mid-career choreographers
Quota: 2 choreographers
Period: 
Early May 2018: Application results announcement
Early June 2018: Dancers audition
Aug – Dec 2018: Residency (3 days a week; 4 hours a day)
Venue: CCDC Dance Centre

How to apply: Submit 1) Application Form, 2) CV, 3) Video links of previous works to the Alliance
Online application form: Click Here

Application deadline: 10 April 2018
Panel committee: Angela Hang, Founder of Studiodanz, Yang Yuntao, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dance Company, Veteran Arts Practitioners Daniel Yeung and Joanna Lee.

Presented by:
Hong Kong Dance Alliance
Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the HKADC

Venue Partner:

CCDC Dance Centre

Enquiries:

2267 6631 / admin@hkdanceall.org

2nd Collaborative Creative Lab

2017.12.4 – 12.22

Co-facilitated and curated by veteran artist Dick Wong, and veteran art critic and independent producer Joanna Lee

Hong Kong Dance Alliance announces the 2nd Collaborative Creative Lab from 4 to 22 December. Aimed at fostering research and development capabilities for dance and performing artists, through three weeks of intensive collaborative research workshops, the Lab seeks to encourage interdependent and multi-lateral learning strategies in the creative process. The sharing and presentation session will be held in the last session of the project. 

Workshop Details
Workshop: 4-22.12 (Mon-Fri) 10:00 - 14:00
Sharing/Presentation: 22.12 (Fri) 16:00 - 18:00
Venue: Studiodanz

Address: Workshop B, 5/F, Tontex Industrial Building, 2-4 Sheung Hei Street, San Po Kong

Presenter

Hong Kong Dance Alliance

Venue Sponsor

Studiodanz

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Enquiry
Phone: 2267 6631
Email: admin@hkdanceall.org

NDT WORKSHOP FOR PROFESSIONAL DANCE ARTISTS

(NDT x LCSD x HKDA)

Led by NDT1 dancer Lydia Bustindy, a workshop for professional dance artists, which based on In the Event choreographed by Crystal Pite, will be held on 8 Nov.

Nederlands Dans Theatre (NDT)

Found in 1959 by Benjamin Harkarvy, Aart Verstegen and Carel Birnie in cooperation with eighteen dancers from Het Nationale Ballet, NDT was renowned in the modern dance field for its nonconformist, avant-garde productions. The company has built a rich repertoire of 600 works by renowned choreographers such as Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen and Sol León. NDT now under the artistic guidance of Paul Lightfoot, consists of 28 dancers between 24 and 41 years old of different countries, acknowledged for their astonishing technique and expression.

【Workshop Details】

Date: 2017. 11. 08 (Wed)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: Studio Theatre, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
Instructor: Lydia Bustinbuy
Language: English

Target: Professional dance artist
No. of Participants: 30
Fee: $ 100

Co-organisers： Nederlands Dans Theatre, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Dance Alliance 

Venue Sponsor： HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

Enquiries: 
Hong Kong Dance Alliance
Email : admin@hkdanceall.org

*Organizer(s) reserves all right to select participants, to change venue, instructor and other arrangements.

20^th Hong Kong Dance Awards – Call for Nominations and New Award

1 November 2017, Hong Kong – Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA) announces the Call for Nominations for the 20^th Hong Kong Dance Awards. Marking 20 years of excellence, Hong Kong Dance Awards pay tribute to outstanding work of individual artists and dance organizations in productions throughout the year, as well as acknowledge distinction in other activities related to dance and the Hong Kong dance community. Artists honored in the past include Lau Siu Ming, Willy Tsao, Helen Lai, Yuri Ng, Mui Cheuk Yin, Jean Wong, Aaron Kwok, and Jackie Chan. The 20^th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation & Gala Performance will be held at Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium on 20 April 2018 (Friday).

Call for Nomination

Nominations in twelve award categories are open for submission by anyone – from dance practitioners to audience members. Following the close of nominations, a shortlist, determined by balloting distinguished experts in the dance field, will be announced in early 2018.  As in previous years, this year’s Expert Panels have been expanded to further enhance the representativeness and diversity of the Awards.

New Choreographer Award

To celebrate this special anniversary, the Hong Kong Dance Alliance Executive Committee are pleased to announce the establishment of an additional award intended to draw attention to the work of new choreographers. The candidates of “New Choreographer Award” will be nominated by the Expect Panel and Executive Committee members of the HKDA, the recipient will be announced at the Presentation.

Nominations close on 3 January 2018 (Wed). Interested parties can complete the Nomination Form and submit via 1) email, 2)  Google Form, or 3) by post to 7/F, 26-28 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon by 6pm on or before that day.

For Hong Kong Dance Awards 2018 Procedures and Rules guidelines, please click here.

For complete Press Release, please click here.

Any enquiries can be directed to admin@hkdanceall.org.

‘New Force in Motion’ Series: Solitary by Rex Cheng and Unmixed by KT Yau

Dances in the labyrinth of humanity

‘New Force in Motion’ Series:

‘New Force in Motion’ presents new dance works of emerging choreographers. This year, it aims to offer a professional platform for young choreographers to showcase choreography, encourage development, and stimulate creativity through artistic mentoring and collaborative research. It is presented by LCSD and produced by Hong Kong Dance Alliance for the first time.

Performance details:

'Solitary' by Rex Cheng

Choreographer: Rex Cheng

Dancers: Chan Wing-yip, Odette Leung, Andy Lee, Soames Lee

'Unmixed' by KT Yau

Choreographer: KT Yau

Devising Dancers: Kerry Cheung, Carman Li, Kingsan Lo

Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre

8 - 9*.9.2017 (Fri - Sat) 8pm

9 - 10.9.2017 (Sat - Sun) 3pm

*With Meet-the-artist Session

Programme duration is approximately 1 hour with an intermission of 20 minutes.

Tickets available at URBTIX from 28/7 onwards.

Presented by:

Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Produced by:

Hong Kong Dance Alliance

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the HKADC

Dance Enhance - Dance Appreciation & Criticism Writing Project 2017

(Advanced Edition)

Mentored and led by professional critics and dance artists - performance appreciation, lectures, workshops, post-performance discussions, review writing and publication opportunities.

Program Detail: 
https://goo.gl/vA8pZV

Program Fee:

HKD 1300 / 1000*

Inclusive of all lectures, workshops, and 1 ticket per participant for 4 dance performances

Contact and Enquiry: 2267 6728 / admin@hkdanceall.org

Hong Kong Dance Alliance Leads Delegation to World Dance Alliance Global Summit in Canada

The Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA), the official Hong Kong organization of the World Dance Alliance (WDA), will lead a delegation to attend the triennial WDA Global Summit held at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada from 23 to 28 July 2017.

This year’s Summit gathers WDA regional organizations from the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe to explore resistance and support of formations of power through dance under the theme of Dancing from the Grassroots. The summit includes roundtable discussions, parallel international conferences, masterclasses, performances, a choreographic lab, and digital dance concerts, that will provide delegates from Hong Kong and elsewhere rich creative experiences.

The Hong Kong delegation will present two productions during the Summit – Babel 3.5 choreographed by Iris Lau and Never Stop Blooming by Judy Yiu. In addition, Hong Kong delegates Rex Cheng and Judy Yiu will conduct masterclasses in Tai Chi Movement and Contemporary Dance with Gymnastics. While attending the Summit, HKDA representatives will make use of the wide-range of networking opportunities to explore opportunities for collaborations and to promote dance in Hong Kong to international participants.

The delegation is financially supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Post-Summit sharing sessions and masterclasses will be conducted by the HKDA in Hong Kong during August and September.  

For the complete press release, please click here.

Enquiries:

Ms Cathy Lau (Administration and Project Manager, Hong Kong Dance Alliance)

E-mail: cathy@hkdanceall.org

Tel: 2267 6663 

19th Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation and Gala Performance

Presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance (HKDA), the 19th Hong Kong Dance Awards acknowledge outstanding achievements in Hong Kong Dance industry and raise public awareness of the diversity and excellence of local dance scene. The HKDA invited Ms Elaine Yeung Chi-lan, Assistant Director (Performing Arts) of Leisure and Cultural Services Department as the Guest of Honor, accompanied by HKDA Executive Committee Chairperson Ms Stella Lau. 

Awards Presentation

This year, fourteen awards were presented to recipients, in which twelve awards were announced on stage, with outstanding work in choreography, production, performance, design for dance, dance education, and services to dance. Awardees were voted by the Selection Jury composed by HKDA Executive Committee and external members of two Expert Panels. 

Among the recipients were: Helen Lai for her Outstanding Choreography in While the Dream Unfolds (Hong Kong Dance Company) and Hong Kong Ballet for Lady of the Camellias, the Outstanding Large Venue Production. Awards for Outstanding Performance went to Kelvin Mak in Mother, I am Sorry (City Contemporary Dance Company), Chen Zhi-yao as Odette in Swan Lake (Hong Kong Ballet), and Pan Ling-juan as Wah Man-ying/ King-tin in Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile (Hong Kong Dance Company).

In addition, the Distinguished Achievement Award was presented to Lau Siu-ming and a Lifetime Achievement Award was posthumously awarded to Ringo Chan. The awards recognize continuous contributions to Hong Kong Dance development over the past decades.

Gala Perforamance

Under the artistic direction of Allen Lam, the audience enjoyed an array of dazzling performances. Performing companies included City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, two world premières by Hong Kong Dance Award Fellowship recipients - Pak Wei-ming and Wayson Poon, the School of Dance of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and piano performance by Colleen Lee. 

The Dance Awards do not only recognize outstanding accomplishments, but are also testament to the importance of dance to Hong Kong culture. 

The Awards recipients are listed below. 

For the Awards complete press release, please click here.

Insurance Talk for Performing Artist

As a performing arts artists, do you know about labour insurance, or personal finance investment strategy? As a producer/performing unit, do you understand the related law and responsibility well? In order to equip the artists for future development, the Alliance will hold an insurance talk targeting freelance performing artists, details as follow:

Speakers: Insurance Practitioners from Zurich Insurance (HK), Bank Consortium Trust Co., and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Of HK Ltd
Date: 23 January (Monday)
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Venue: Joinsmart International Enterprise Ltd., 9/F, Wgrlex Building 61-63, Portland Street, Yau Ma Tei, Kln.
Content: 
- Third Party Legal Liabilities/Personal Accident/Labour Insurance during rehearsals and performances
- MPF terms/Investment strategy
- Financial planning for freelance performing artists
Target Audience: Freelance artists/dance industry players
Enquiry: 2267 6663/ 2267 6631

The talk will be conducted in Cantonese. 

Online registration: https://goo.gl/forms/69gwkAImuicgD4n73
***Deadline: 20 January (Friday)***

Free of charge with first-come-first serve basis. 
Confirmation email will be sent the day after the deadline.

*Organizer reserves the right to amend or cancel the event.

Collaborative Creative Lab

Facilitator & Curator: Dick Wong

Hong Kong Dance Alliance strives to foster dance and performing artists’ research and development capabilities by providing a platform to encourage inter-dependent and interactive learning strategies in the creative process and research; to enhance artistic standards; and, to support artistic development. Cross-media artist, Dick Wong, has been invited to be the Facilitator and Curator of a three-week Collaborative Creative Lab. A Work-in-progress Showing will be held in the last session for participants to share their research outcomes.

Collaborative

>>To inspire and be inspired during the inter-dependent and interactive creative process, open your mind to different ideas

Creative

>>Remove limits to creation, abandon mechanical patterns of producing arts

Lab

>>Encourage adventurous creative processes, sharpen your focus on developing research ideas

[Workshop Details]

1st & 2nd Week: 1.9-13; 16-20 (Mon - Fri) 10am-2pm

Research & Exploration – Thematic sharing sessions to explore research directions in groups

3rd Week: 2.6-10 (Mon - Fri) 10am-6pm, any 4 hours a day

Group Research – Smaller group collaborative discussion and development to further work on the research targets and prepare for the last showing

Work-in-progress Showing: 2.10 (Fri) 3-5pm

Present outcomes from the research weeks (open to all formats)

* Guests from various creative/arts fields will be invited

* Principal language of workshop delivery is Cantonese

*19th Hong Kong Dance Awards Fellowship

Three participants will be selected for a Hong Kong Dance Awards Fellowship to further develop their works and perform on stage at the Hong Kong Dance Awards Presentation.

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*Hong Kong Dance Alliance reserves all right to change the recruitment requirement and project arrangement items.

Presenter

Hong Kong Dance Alliance

Venue Sponsorship

CCDC Dance Centre

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financally supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Morning Class Series: Paul Lee - Feldenkrais Lessons (Nov-Dec)

The Feldenkrais Method® helps us develop a deeper self-image through gentle movement explorations where we find freedom within certain constraints. We learn to give up patterns of tension that restrict us. As a scientific method to heal and refine the human body, it already attracted great number of followers and researchers from America, Europe and Australasia since 1950s, yet still new to HK citizens. This course is open to dancers, actors, and ALL people!

【Who's Paul Lee?】
Paul Lee (Lee Pui Wo) - A certified Feldenkrais® practitioner/freelance contemporary dancer/dance coach based in Malmö, Sweden. Paul started to learn Ballet when 4 years old, and after graduated from Canada's National Ballet School, he has based his dance career in Europe. He has collaborated with the following dance companies: IT Dansa (Barcelona), GöteborgsOperans Balett (Göteborg, Sweden), freelance choreographers in Germany and Italy. He is currently the resident artist of Andersson Dance and K. Kvarnström & Co.

【Lessons Info】
Time: 10:30-12:00 (1.5 hours)
Dates: Nov 24; Dec 1, 7, 8, 14, 20, 21 (It is not compulsory to take all lessons)
Fee: $100/class * (Discounted price for all lessons: $600)
Walk-in: $150/class (Applications submitted after 23 Nov 12nn will treat as walk-in!)
Venue: CCDC DC (Wong Tai Sin)


Venue is sponsored by CCDC Dance Centre

Dance Appreciation & Criticism Writing Project 2016

Dance Enhance

Learn to appreciate and analyze dance!

Watch performances and interact with dancers and choreographers. Write reviews, get feedback from professional critics and have the chance to see your work published.

Appreciating Dance

l   Participants will attend 4 interactive lectures, including live demonstrations by dancers; 4 productions in those genres by local dance companies; a rehearsal of a new production, including Q&A with the choreographer, to help understand the process of creating dance.

Analyzing Dance

l   Participants will take part in discussion sessions led by professional dance critics after each performance; a workshop to review how “we see what we want to see” and a dance workshop conducted by a leading local choreographer to learn about dance as a language and experience movement and the process of creating movement.

Writing About Dance

l   Participants will write reviews of the productions they attend and will receive written feedback on their work from mentors who are professional dance critics; selected work will be published in dance journal/hk.

Mentors

William Chan - Performing Arts Critic

Kuh Fei - Arts Advisor - Arts Criticism, Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Kevin Kwong - Editor - Culture, South China Morning Post

Natasha Rogai - Dance Critic, South China Morning Post

Catherine Yau - Arts Practitioner in Dance

Fee

Inclusive of all lectures, workshops, and 1 ticket per participant for 4 dance performances

HKD 800 / 600*

*Early bird offer (Apply on or before 31 Aug 2016) / Full-time student / Members of HK Dance Alliance

Event Notes:

Applicants should be aged 18 or above.

Activities will be conducted in Putonghua, Cantonese and/or English.

Confirmed details of the programme will be provided with notification of acceptance.

Participants’ reviews may be selected for publication in dance journal/hk or on the Hong Kong Dance Alliance website

Programme events/activities/speakers subject to change (participants will be notified).

All rights reserved by project organizer.

Fees are non-refundable once the course has begun. 

Hong Kong Dance Alliance is financially supported by the ADC

Media Partner

dance journal

Enquiry:

Tel：2267 6631

Email：admin@hkdanceall.org

Springboard Showcase 2016

17-18.6 (Fri-Sat) 8pm 

Creative Space Residency: Dancer Audition

Choreographers will conduct an Audition for prospective performers on 10 December (Thursday) from 10am to 1pm at CCDC Dance Centre. Dancers will get chance to learn and practice various kind of dance style; participate in master-classes, workshops, rehearsals and production-related activities; Work with choreographer-in-resident for a 30 – 40 mins work, and the work culminates in Springboard Showcase in June at Black Box Theatre, Kwai Tsing Theatre. 

When you watch a dance performance, do you want to have more to say than “nice” or “beautiful”?

Aspiring dance writers and those who want more out of watching dance, do you want to share ideas about performances with others confidently, please join Dance Enhance today!

From September 2015 to January 2016, participants will attend a series of lectures and workshops to learn from experts, artists and writers. In addition, they will attend 4 dance performances presented by professional companies and write reviews on each of the performances. Outstanding works may even have a chance to get published in dance journal/hk or Hong Kong Dance Alliance website!

Target: Aspiring dance writers and those who want more out of watching dance
Age: 18 or above
Language: Cantonese and/or English
Program: 3 lectures, 1 rehearsal, 1 workshop, 4 live performances presented by professional companies
Program period: September 2015 - January 2016 (more details in brochure)
Project fees (Inclusive of all lectures, workshops,and 4 dance performance tickets):
- $500 [Full time students, Early bird offer*, Members of Hong Kong Dance Alliance]
- $700 [Regular price]
*Early bird offer: Apply on or before 11th September

Application Deadline: 21st September, 2015
Limited places. Don’t miss the chance to learn to write like a professional!

Program Details & Application Form

*Funded by Arts Development Council Multi Project Grant

Creative Space 2016: Residency for Mid-Career Choreographers

Open Call for Proposals

To help mid-career choreographers of any dance style take a leap forward in creation and presentation, Hong Kong Dance Alliance will present Creative Space 2016, a residency project to sharpen body and mind and to create new works.

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Schedule

1 Feb 2016 to 31 May 2016

Mon to Wed & Fri, 9:30am to 1:30pm

Content

Warm-up, workshops, and rehearsals

Venue

CCDC Dance Centre (G/F, 110 Shatin Pass Road, Wong Tai Sin, KLN, Hong Kong)

Performances

Springboard Showcase, Kwai Tsing Theatre Black Box, June 2016

Support

- Residency Stipend: HK$800 per week

- Springboard Showcase: fee, dancers, production 

Selection Criteria

- HK Resident

- 5+ years of professional choreography

- Prior funding / support from:

-       LCSD, HKADC, Hong Kong Arts Festival

-       Hong Kong flagship dance companies

-       International Festivals, competitions, organizations, or

-       Equivalent local & non-local sponsorship

- Originality and feasibility of proposal

Selection Panel

Tom Brown, Stella Lau, Jaime Redfern, Jacky Yu

Application Deadline

30 Sep 2015

Result Notification

15 Oct 2015

Enquiries: 2267 6663 / admin@hkdanceall.org

Hong Kong Dance Alliance reserves all right to make changes to the program

Creative Space is also supported by CCDC Dance Centre

Now Opens for Application!

Do you want to share ideas about performances with others confidently?

Aspiring dance writers and those who want more out of watching dance, join Dance Enhance: Dance Appreciation & Criticism Writing Project 2014 today!

From September 2014 to January 2015, participants will attend a series of lectures and workshops to learn from experts, artists and writers. In addition, they will attend 4 dance performances presented by professional companies and write reviews on each of the performances. Outstanding works may even have a chance to get published in dance journal/hk or Hong Kong Dance Alliance website!

Application Deadline: 12 September, 2014

Limited places. Don’t miss the chance to learn to write like a professional! 

Program Details & Application Form

Taking a big leap forward!

16 - 18 May 2014 | Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre Theatre

2014 American Dance Festival - Henan Summit: Scholarship now opens for application!

The 3rd ADF Henan will take place at the Henan Normal University between 9 to 23 August, 2014. Co-organized by the Association of Dance Experts of Henan, Henan Normal University and American Dance Festival (ADF), the

This practical workshop series offers an opportunity for dancers to hone their technical skills and expand their knowledge and abilities using different kinds of dance and movement vocabularies.

A. Schedule

Master:

1. Delina Law | Ballet (BIO)

2. Rock Fang | Hip-Hop (BIO)

3. Geng Tianyuan | Chinese Opera Weapon (BIO)

*Chinese Opera Weapon class will be taught in Mandarin

Project DARE falls under the umbrella dancers' transition initiative of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, with the aim of providing induction to dance professionals interested in finding more about career possibilities beyond stage performance.

Talk 1: Dance Education -- "From dance 'teacher' to dance 'educator' - basic concepts of Dance Pedagogy/ Motif Teaching/ Creative Movements"

Being the first talk of the series, it was held on 16 Jan 2012. It was our pleasure to have Miss Yunyu Wang as our speaker. Miss Wang is a certified Labanotation teacher, reconstructor and Laban Movement Analyst. She has a MFA from the University of Illinois and is a founding dancer of Cloud Gate Theatre, Taiwan. Miss Wang is now the President of World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific.

About 50 participants joined the 2-hour talk, during which Miss Wang gave a high level introduction to Laban Movement Analysis. She then placed the concept of "dance education" in front of this theoretical backdrop to explain the difference between teaching "movement" and teaching "dance." Dance students should be encouraged to participate in creating movement and to understand their bodies, the knowledge in Dance Science and the different techniques in Somatics could help dance tutors in planning lesson plans more systematically.

Talk 2: Marketing -Basic concepts of Marketing and Dance Programme Publicity

The discipline of marketing applies not only to commercial sector, but also to dance, especially when artists have to deal with the reality of ticket sales. If the number of tickets sold is a reflection of the marketing effort devoted to the programme, what skills are required to take artists to their goals?

Katy Cheng, Marketing Director of Hong Kong Arts Festival Ltd., spent two hours in the evening of 12 March 2012 with over 20 practicing artists and arts administrators to reveal her experience and "tips" in dance marketing. While touching on basic marketing principles of the 4Ps, positioning, and advertising skills, Katy focused her sharing on case studies that provide real-life examples to close the perception gap of the relationship between "arts" and "sales." She also advised participants that as artists, while they should be dedicated to creating works, they should also be alert to what's happening around them so that their works can more readily relate to audiences, and hence a larger ticker sales potential.

Talk 3: Touring - how to create opportunity and how to nurture future potential

The 3rd talk of Conversation Series explores how emerging artists could get the attention from overseas program buyers and nurture for themselves overseas performance experience. The area of touring is getting more attention partly because of the stagnant audience growth in Hong Kong, and because of globalization trend making the exchange of cultural activities more and more popular.

Our speaker was Elaine Yeung, Chief Manager (Audience Building, Festivals & Entertainment), Leisure and Cultural Services Department, who previously spent a long period of time overseeing cultural exchange events of the LCSD. The talk was intended to be a small-group, cosy discussion on 1st June 2012. Elaine kindly shared her experience with the participants and welcoming took their questions and comments. One important piece of advice by Elaine to young artists was that they should strive for any kind of performing opportunities, regardless of scale, venue or target audiences, because this is the most direct way of creating exposure and remembrance. Also artists should aggressively reach out to producers to introduce themselves, and must maintain a positive attitude when failure calls as reality is harsh and competition keen. An artist's road to success is long and winding, but persistence wins.

Co-presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance and Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, "Close the Loop" arts administration mentorship program aims to provide practicing artists in Hong Kong the opportunity to learn from a well-established arts administration mentor on one-on-one basis. Open for application at the beginning of 2012, seasoned arts administrators provided successful applicants guidance and problem solving techniques on the following areas:

• budget management
• legal and contractual requirements
• team set up
• timeline management
• program positioning, marketing and publicity
• ticketing
• sponsorship and collaboration
• communication skills
• report writing

The mentor shared perspectives to broaden the artist's vision, enhancing his/her decision-making ability and problem-solving skills.

The successful applicants in 2012 are Mayson Tong Wai Chun and Rita Kwong Lai Yin. Their mentors are respectively Anthea Chan and Fong King Sang. Maysons production is scheduled for Aug 2012 and Rita's Oct 2012.
 

Presented by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Festival International de Video Danse de Bourgogne, and sponsored by the Regional Government of Burgundy, Marisa C. Hayes & Franck Boulegue, Co-directeurs, Festival International de Video Danse de Bourgogne, gave two public lectures at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Oct 2011. The public lectures were activities under the umbrella event of "Week of Burgundy", a collaborative partnership between the region of Burgundy and Hong Kong.

The lecture subjects were "Screendance" and "100 years of Le Sacre du Printemps". The former focused on the latest development of dance videos around the globe, while the latter examined the timeless themes and motifs of Le Sacre du Printemps, from its earliest history to present-day productions, in styles of dance as varied as ballet, hip-hop or butoh.
 

A high-quality dance production is the combined effort of artistry and execution excellence. In a modern society where the ability to effectively multi-task is emphasized, it is important for dancers to also learn about arts management and administration. In view of this trend, Hong Kong Dance Alliance and Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association co-presented an art administration talk on 13 Oct 2011 and invited two veteran dance administrators, Ms Helen Ng and Ms Clementine Chan, Managing Director of City Contemporary Dance Company, to introduce to the participants the various aspects of dance / arts administration. Talk contents included:

• Arts Administrators: who they are, and the skills required
• Administrators as curators: how to bring out the best from the artists and from the programme
• Be Organized: Project management
• About $ : Budgeting and Financial Management
• About People: Managing the team and other HR/ contractual issue
• Post-performance issues - looking for further opportunities to perform re-run programme locally or abroad

Dance Enhance 2011 ran between October to December 2011. In its 3rd season, this round was an intermediary level course specially designed for emerging dance critics who have previous experience in dance criticism writing. On enrollment, each should submit an article to demonstrate their skill level and writing style. Lecture and mentorship were given by established critics and artists including Dr. LO Wai Luk, Natalia CHAN, Stella LAU, Dick WONG, CHOW Fan Fu, Kuh Fei, Daniel YEUNG.

Two new fringe activities were added in 2011 to introduce to the participants a more holistic approach to dance appreciation: In "Conversation with Choreographer," Jacky YU gave participants insights of how a creation was perceived and planned. In "Set as a Symbol," stage set designer YUEN Hon Wai explained the functional and aesthetic values of stage set in dance productions.

Participants should prepare an article (not less than 1,000 words in Chinese or English) after viewing each performance. Articles were sent to senior dance critics or mentors for further reference and comments. Outstanding articles were published in dance journal/hk and the Hong Kong Dance Alliance website.

LCSD commissioned Hong Kong Dance Alliance to produce the school and outreach tour for International Arts Carnival 2011. Hong Kong Dance Alliance saw this as an appropriate opportunity to conduct audience development at a deeper level, to the audiences at an age when they begin to see the possibility of differentiating art from entertainment.

The Project required us to produce 30 performances at schools and 20 at outreach venues. The theme of the performance is to challenge how our increasingly passivity when perceiving images and videos broadcasted on the Internet. Titled "Seeing" is Believing, the performance is designed for students between the age of 10-14. During school touring, there is also a 20-minute interaction with the audiences, with the purpose of inspiring them to view dance beyond movements and try to see understand the meaning that is being communicated. The theme is deliberately designed to be more serious and provoke doubts as we are against the assumption that teenagers will not be able to understand serious subject matters. It is the role of adults to find ways to make these subjects comprehensible to the teenagers instead of simply avoiding the discussion.

The tour ran from 20 May 2011 through to 14 August 2011.

The Creative Team:

Producer : Anna C Y CHAN
Choreographers : Justyne LI and Tan Ki WONG@ Neo Dance
Concept/ Text : Joanna LEE
Education Collaborator : Cindy CHAN
Audio Designer : Tan Ki WONG 

T&C Dance Festival is organized by World Dance Alliance-Korea (WDA Korea) in affiliation with Pusan National University and supported by Arts Council Korea. This event took place from April 26 to 29, 2011 in Seoul and Pusan. WDA Korea reached out to Hong Kong Dance Alliance to make recommendation for 2 artists to represent HK during the Festival. After careful selection, LI Yongjing and CAI Ying were selected as HK-representing artists. Together they created a new, 12-min piece of modern dance work incorporating traditional Chinese dance elements. They gave 1 evening performance each at Pusan and Seoul. At Pusan, they gave 1 workshop to the dance students of Pusan National University.

Hong Kong Dance Alliance presented Perfect Pairs and Odd Couples with the aim of promoting artistic exchange between Hong Kong and Australian artists. Three performances ran at the Fringe Theatre, Hong Kong, between 7-9 January 2011.

The program opened with Sprung created by two of Australia's most recognized dance artists, Sue PEACOCK and Stefan KARLSSON. Combining theatre elements including music, visuals, text, and movement, the duet invited audiences to share the dancers' reminiscences of the highlights and low spots of their artistic life journeys. Melbourne-based artists Jo LLOYD and Deanne BUTTERWORTH's work Project Blah Blah gave an improvisational impression full of rapid and frequent changes of level and tempo that created a sense of unexpectedness and belied its careful construction. Hong Kong artists LI Yongjing and LAM Po closed the program with a new work, The Moment I Saw It. The work used large sheets of tracing paper to create crisp sound effects when crushed and to change the space into a nicely contrasting combination of black and white - the colors of Asian eyes.

Perfect Pairs and Odd Couples recorded a successful box office of two full houses out of three showings. Participating artists also gave workshops to professional dance practitioners and amateurs to strengthen the community engagement of the project.

Co-presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) and the support of World Dance Alliance, the International Dance Symposium will be held at HKAPA from 25 to 28 November, 2010.

This year's theme is Connecting Conversations: Choreography Now! in Chinese Communities, which aims to draw the world focus on Chinese artists working in the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and in other Asian countries as well as artists of the Chinese diasporas working around the world.

Theme-based activities throughout the 4-day Symposium will include:

1. Keynote Sessions: Offered by international maestro SHEN Wei of Shen Wei Dance Arts, WANG Mei of Beijing Dance Academy, Professor CHEN Ya Ping of TNUA, Taiwan, and Miss MUI Cheuk-yin
2. Panel discussion: Attendees include renowned dance artists and academics, facilitated by Dr LO Wailuk, Prof Eva MAN, and YU Ping, the Minister of Arts Department of Ministry of Culture of PRC
3. Premium performance from 6 local and oversea dance professionals with new work specially produced for the Symposium; and
4. 21 Symposium presentation
5. 35 Master classes/ workshops

Into its 2nd year, Dance Enhance 2010 spanned a longer timeframe of 6 months from Nov 2010 to Apr 2011. The second dance criticism workshop continued to be a co-presentation with International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).

The class size for 2010 was the same as 2009: 30 participants. Compared to 2009, 2010 attracted a larger share of full-payment enrollment. It was encouraging to see more working people willing to devote their free time to writing dance critique articles and this exactly matched the objective of running Dance Enhance.

Dance Enhance 2010 consisted of 3 sessions for altogether 9 classes, including lectures, discussions and performances. Speakers included Dr. PK CHEUNG, Dr. LO Wai Luk, Yuri NG, Stella LAU, CHOW Fan Fu, Anna C Y CHAN, Kuh Fei, Dick WONG. Participants should prepare an article (not less than 1,000 words in Chinese or English) after viewing each performance. Articles were sent to senior dance critics or mentors for further reference and comments. Selected outstanding articles were published in dance journal/hk and the Hong Kong Dance Alliance website.

Presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Dance Platform is a project for entry-level choreographers to create and present their works. By providing a meeting platform, choreographers and dancers can exchange ideas and develop their works into a higher standard.

The project provided basic support for choreographers to present their new works. 4 choreographers were selected in 2010. Each of them created a 10-12 minute new work which was presented at Cultural Activities Hall, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre between 7-9 May 2010. Participating choreographers were: Hugh CHO, Connie LAU, LEONG Wan Sing, and HO Ho Fei.
 

Co-presented by CCDC Dance Center and Hong Kong Dance Alliance, new "REAL" Showcase Series aims to nurture and assist local dance groups and individuals by presenting innovative dance shows at CCDC Dance Center Jockey Club Dance Theater. There are up to 4 productions in a year and the works are selected through an open call-for-proposal process. Only Hong Kong-based choreographers who have never presented full-length works in public performances can apply. Successful applicants receive rehearsal venue sponsorship, professional production technical support, and cash allowance. The presenters will also provide rehearsal venue, publicity and administrative support. As co-presenter, Hong Kong Dance Alliance provides the choreographers with opportunities to receive artistic consultation from established local choreographers and arrange for dance critiques to be written and published in dance journal/hk.

In return, the artist should produce an original full-length dance piece of not less than 45 minutes, and be staged in the CCCD Jockey Club Dance Theater for at least two performances. Up to 2011, 6 choreographers have been presented in the Series:

1. "Behind" by Wayson POON, performed in Jan 2010
2. "Jenny" by Jody NIP, performed on 4-5Sep, 2010
3. "Path Fate" by Joseph NGAN, performed on 8-9 Jan, 2011
4. "Museum of Ladies" by Rebecca WONG, Juliana LO and Georgina LAW, performed on 2-3 Apr, 2011
5. "Patch Work" by Alan WONG, performed on 2-3 Jul, 2011
6. "Mo30" by Kaki LEE, performed on 10-11 Sep, 2011

Hong Kong Dance Alliance brought to the dance community and dance enthusiasts the Dance X Men to promote artistic exchange in dance.

Emerging Choreographers Series: Dance X Men aims to encourage collaboration between dance artists, dance groups and other art forms in pursuit of creative synergies. Proposals from dance artists and dance groups were subjected to a meticulous selection process and four collaborative combinations were eventually chosen to create and present a dance piece of less than 20 minutes each.

Daniel YEUNG, Artistic Director of the project, and mentors MUI Cheuk Yin and Yuri NG offered invaluable advice and guidance to these emerging choreographers over the course of their creative process. This project to nurture the development of a new generation of choreographers is presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance, partnered with The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Chosen for this crossover presentation of dance, scenography, music, theatre and multi-media on 25-26 September 2009 at the Theatre, Sheung Wan Civic Centre are:

1. Sarah LO X LAW Kin-pong (Sound/Live music):   Fake

2. Rebecca WONG X Albert WONG (Scenography):   Concealed Darkness
3. JIA Donglin X Koala YIP X James KONG (Digital interactive projection):   Blue Coat
4. Biuguk (Max LEE X Chris CHAN X Bruce WONG):   Venusian Oh! Venusian

Dance Enhance is a project to encourage dance appreciation and criticism. A pilot workshop co-presented with the International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) kicked off in Feb 2009.

The programme provided a platform for sharing and critical review for participants where they could exchange views, open up discussions, and publish reviews on various forms of dance. Tickets were provided for participants and in addition, well-experienced dance critics, choreographers, and dancers shared their perspectives with participants. They included Prof Anita DONALDSON OAM, Dr. CHEUNG Ping Kuen, Anna C Y CHAN, Stella LAU, Kuh Fei, CHOW Fan Fu, and more. Performance tickets and venue for the project were sponsored by Hong Kong Dance Company, The Hong Kong Ballet, City Contemporary Dance Company, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

The project lasted for 4 months. It was divided into 3 sessions for altogether 11 classes. 30 participants attended the workshops, performances, pre-talks, post-talks and criticism sharing sessions. They should prepare an article (not less than 1,000 words in Chinese or English) after viewing each performance. Articles were sent to senior dance critics or mentors for further reference and comments. Selected outstanding articles were published in dance journal/hk and the Hong Kong Dance Alliance website.

Dance Platform 2008 is a project that provides basic support for choreographers at entry level to present their new works. 6 choreographers participated while each of them created a 10-12 minute new work presented at Fringe Theatre between 27-29 November 2008. The Artistic Director for Dance Platform 2008 was Pewan Chow.

6 fresh choreographers, Iris LAU, Malvina TAM, CAI Ying, Cherry LEUNG, Victor FUNG and May May LEONG presented their 6 dance conceptions: Relativity of time and being/ A fine line between happiness and darkness/Disillusioned souls, painted/ The dissolution of colours with distance/ New millennium men, identity/ Folk: 1960s factory girls in the following works:

1. Victor Fung (Boys Don't Cry)

2. Melvina TAM (Simply muddle)

3. Cherry Leung (Witnessing Changes)

4. Iris Lau In the (River Named "TIME")

5. Cai Ying  (Control)

6. Maymay Leong (Two thumbs up to the factory girls)

Emerging Choreographers Series: Danzzzzzling aims to encourage collaboration between dance artists in pursuit of creative synergies. Proposals from dance artists and dance groups were subjected to a meticulous selection process and five collaborative combinations were eventually chosen to create and present a short dance piece.

The strong team of advisors and mentors, including Artistic Advisor Willy TSAO and Mentors Francis LEUNG, Victor MA, MUI Cheuk Yin, Yuri NG, Daniel YEUNG and YEUNG Wai-mei, offered invaluable advice and guidance to these emerging choreographers over the course of their creative process.

Five pieces of new choreography were presented on 16-17 February 2008 at the Theatre, Sheung Wan Civic Centre:

1. WU Yi-san: Fluctuation
2. Chloe WONG: Timedrifting
3. LAI Tak-wai: Substitute
4. Jo LEUNG: Bet Da Man
5. Anthony SUEN: My Tap Blog
 

March 2007, Hong Kong Dance Alliance was invited to participate in the Beijing Modern Dance Summit 2007 and to organize four Hong Kong small-scale dance companies to perform in Beijing in July. After several months of preparation, part of the event evolved into a "Hong Kong Cultural Series". The companies that visited Beijing were Unlock Dancing Plaza, why_me_dance, and Passover Dance Company. The three companies, with a total of 15 persons, including choreographers, dancers, technical coordinator, lighting designer, and stage assistant, visited Beijing from four to six days, in the period from 4 to 11 July 2007. The three companies each presented one performance, gave a dance workshop, and participated in a Meet-the-Artists session. This project is the first time that Hong Kong small-scale dance companies toured to Beijing, and it is very important for Beijing audiences to understand the modern dance development in Hong Kong, and to fully understand Hong Kong dance, arts, and culture.

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")

Dance Platform 05 is a project for new choreographers. To ensure that the project achieved a certain standard, an open call for proposals was announced in dance journal/hk. After selection by a panel composed of Pewan CHOW, Stella LAU, and YU Pik Yim, respectively Lecturers of Modern Dance, Ballet and Chinese Dance of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 7 artists/groups were invited to participate in the Project: 5 Ding, Informal Space, Kelvin LAM, Cindy LEUNG, Cyrus HUI, Pinkey TANG, Chloe WONG.

Dance Platform emphasizes the continuous process of choreography. To achieve that, two informal closed showings of works-in-progress were held in September and October 2005, before the formal public performance. Guests, such as Maggi SIETSMA, Tom BROWN, John UTAN, PEI Chang Qing were invited. After each showing, there was a discussion section, in which the guests gave their comments and the participating artists were encouraged to discuss and exchange observations among themselves. This is a meaningful part of the project that ensures the participating artists work continuously, and the feedback and discussion are valuable to new artists. This give and take of feedback from peers and experts helped the choreographers to further refine their ideas and develop their works.
 

Dance Wide HKNY was an exchange platform where full-fledged artists got together and shared their knowledge, explored new forms, exchanged and expanded their visions. Between July to December 2005, eight artist channeled their creative energies through series of workshops, forums, rehearsals, and performances in Hong Kong and New York. Gems of movement are expected from involved artists: Abby CHAN, Allen LAM, Andy WONG, YEUNG Wai Mei, Julian BARNETT, Maura DONOHUE, Rebecca JUNG, and Christopher MORGAN.

In its 4th anniversary program, Dance Wide HKNY invited U.S. choreographers who were known for their artistic perspectives and intercultural backgrounds: Julian BARNETT, a Japanese-Irish-American; Maura DONOHUE, a Vietnamese-Irish-American; Christopher MORGAN, a Chinese-Japanese-Hawaiian; and Rebecca JUNG, a Chinese-American. Theme of the 2005 forum focused on artistic development and social impacts through cross-cultural dance collaboration. The U.S. performance took place at the Mulberry St. Theatre on 27 August 2005 while the Hong Kong debut, titled "Back Home", was presented on 9 - 10 December 2005 at the Hong Kong Cultural Center.

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" is so familiar to everyone that it might easily be dismissed as simply a tale only for children, overlooking its deeper meaning and much of its fun. In the summer of 2005, commissioned by the LCSD, Hong Kong Dance Alliance "updated" the story and bring to HK audiences a surprising Dance. The Emperor's New Clothes.

Why did the Emperor want so many clothes? How did he see himself in his mirror? What were the mirror's opinions? Are the Weavers merely con men with a fantastic con? What was on the child's mind when he pointed out the truth?

Touring to 50 primary schools and 20 outdoor venues, the performances let children discover the problems and answers through appreciating and participating.

The creative team :

Producer : Anna C Y Chan
Choreographer and Artistic Director : Allen Lam
Music Coordinator : Vincent Pang
Concept/ Script/ Dramaturgy : Lynn Yau
Costume Design : Virginia Chu