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The 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award is presented to Chu Kit. An acclaimed soloist and choreographer of the Tien Ma Dance Troupe and protégé of Wu Xiaobang, Chu Kit has, for the past 55 years, played a significant role in the development of both traditional and modern Chinese dance on the Mainland and in Hong Kong. With her founding of The Harmonious Dance Troupe in Hong Kong nearly 30 years ago, she established a base to present her wide-ranging dance works. Always an astute witness of the often precarious journey that dancers and dance makers travel, she has generously given her time and expertise to help ease the way. Calm and knowledgeable, Chu Kit has been a constant that the Hong Kong dance community has come to rely on and a model dance professional.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Hong Kong Dance Company artists Chen Lei and Xie Yin for their choreography of Feng Shui Xing, a joint production of the Company with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Dance. Steeped in the vigor and lyricism of Chinese classical dance, Chen Lei and Xin Yin bring fresh meaning to tradition with their compelling choreography of Feng Shui Xing.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to the City Contemporary Dance Company for its eloquent production of Helen Lai's, No End. Through the consummate artistry of its choreographer and dancers, this flawless production embodies a profoundly moving reflection on loss. No End is a signal achievement, underscoring City Contemporary Dance Company's place as Hong Kong's wellspring of genius and birthplace of masterpieces.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Daniel Yeung for his creation and performance of the dance theatre work, Medi-C. In Medi-C, Yeung subverts physical space, setting it on end and thrusting it beyond the proscenium. He also transfigures dance performance, moving effortlessly between mainstream and radical in this incisive examination of Chinese medicine and the human body.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Extension and Continuing Education for Life Programmes (EXCEL). EXCEL offers high quality life-long learning, performing arts education opportunities for people of varied interests, abilities, backgrounds, and age groups. It provides diverse communities with the potential for enhancing quality of life and a means for self-discovery.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Luo Fan for his outstanding performances in City Contemporary Dance Company productions of Out of the Box and No End. Luo Fan renders deeply felt, highly polished dance meditations - from Out of the Box's abstract imaginings to No End's elegiac musings - exposing audiences to body, soul, and mind of dance.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Mui Cheuk-yin for her choreography for the Hong Kong Dance Company production of Desperately Seeking Miss Blossom. Mui adroitly refashions classical Chinese aesthetics, movement ideas, and narratives in Desperately Seeking Miss Blossom, reinventing them into a thoroughly modernist work that addresses contemporary concerns and transforms serenity into disquiet, restraint into abandon.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Su Shu for her faultlessly wrought and finely nuanced performances in the Hong Kong Dance Company productions of Mulan, Snow Fox, and Qingming Riverside. Her portrayals in leading roles in these diverse works thrill audiences with their dance mastery and reveal the depth and breadth of Su Shu's formidable artistry.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to the Hong Kong Ballet for its magnificent production of Tricolour. Buoyed by sweeping music superbly played by Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the dancers' masterful performance of Balanchine's Rubies, Lifar's Suite en Blanc, and Tudor's Lilac Garden, brought to life these 20th century Ballet masterpieces enabling audiences to savor anew ballet's rich and varied palette.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to The Hong Kong Ballet for its production of The Evolution of Ballet. Through this highly engaging, well-researched, beautifully produced, and dynamically performed review of ballet through the ages, the Hong Kong Ballet affords young audiences with an insider's view of this enduring art form, giving them a head start on becoming tomorrow's informed audiences.

The Hong Kong Dance Award 2009 is presented to Unlock Dancing Plaza for its uplifting production of Phoenix II - Read the World with your Heart performed at public housing estate malls and other public spaces. Through imaginative and affecting juxtaposition of dance and interviews with chronically ill patients, the work spoke directly to the heart with a message of spirituality and life.