Allen is an accomplished choreographer, movement director and educator. He is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and obtained his MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has performed with several major dance companies in Hong Kong and the United States including the Hong Kong Ballet and ODC San Francisco. In 2006, Allen was given the Hong Kong Dance Award for organizing and staging an influential bilateral exchange project Dance Wide HKNY. With the Hong Kong Ballet, he served as the artistic director for the educational project “Live Your Dream” received the Hong Kong Dance Award in 2014. With Chung Ying Theatre, he choreographed for the physical theatre production “Rashomon”(2018) which won Outstanding Production of the Year at the 28th Hong Kong Drama Awards. As choreographer, Allen was a co-founder of DanceArt established in 1995 and received the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship to conduct dance research programs in New York in the same year. Later in 2004, he founded Muse Motion His approach is uniquely collaborative, partnering with numerous renowned theatre directors, visual artists, designers, musicians to create works in dance, physical theatre, site specific theatre, commercial events, fashion shows and art installations. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance.

Hong Kong-based contemporary dance artist Wayson Poon has lived and worked in Europe and Asia as a creator, performer and researcher. His unique practice, known as OnthewayDance, combines eastern and western spiritual methodologies, is guided by Taoist notions of “Qi” and emphasises the connection between dancer and audience. Notable works include Vortex, Moving a memory and PHONATE. His works have toured festivals in Denmark, Finland, Japan, Italy, China and the UK. Poon was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Dance) in 2016. He received the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2019 to further develop his movement research. He received the Dr Tom Brown Memorial Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship in 2022 to complete his Master’s degree at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with distinction. In recent years, Poon has been actively contributing to the community art and professional artist development project. He has become an instructor for the Jockey Club Dance Well project. He has become a mentor to support emergent dance artists’ creative process in the “Flo-Choreographic Journey of Street Dance Theatre” project organised by the Hong Kong Street Dance Development Association.

Heidi Lee has served as a professional arts administrator for more than 20 years, working for various Hong Kong arts organisations on their management, planning, programming, marketing and branding, including PIP Cultural Industries Ltd., Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Fringe Club, among others. In 2010, the Li Ka Shing Foundation appointed her Executive Director of Cheung Kong School of Art and Design at Shantou University. She became the Associate Dean in 2014 and Director of Arts & Cultural Development of STU Arena in 2018. During her eight years at Shantou University with the support of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Lee founded the STU Art Season, which she later transformed to the New Wave Arts Festival in 2018. Lee was invited in 2017 to plan and oversee the large-scale stage production of Matteo Ricci. She became Chief Executive of Intercultural Dialogue, the organiser of Matteo Ricci, when she returned to Hong Kong in 2019. Lee is an Assessor for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council on Arts Administration, Dance, Arts Education, and also a Fixed Assessor for the Council on the Hong Kong Dance Alliance (2017-2019). Additionally, she was a core member of the Producers’ Network Meeting & Forum of West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong (2015-2018), Management Consultant of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association (July-December 2019), and has been a member of the Advisory Board of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Dance School since 2019. In 2014, Asian Cultural Council awarded Lee a scholarship to visit the United States, where she interviewed more than twenty arts leaders about their management and operation models. Organisations included Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Public Theater, B.A.M and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She also researched the content and direction of cultural management programmes at Columbia University, New York University and Yale University.

Ricky Lam graduated as an accountant and he leverages his almost 30 years' experience in the management of business, BD, sales and marketing, and financial planning and analysis in China and throughout Asia Pacific. Ricky began his career as a professional accountant with PwC before he joined the commercial world as financial analyst in DowElanco (a JV between Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly) and Nortel Networks. Later he took up various business and financial management roles in Dow and Lubrizol. Ricky also has exposure in the entertainment and professional audio industries. He has worked in The Walt Disney Company Limited and Focusrite Audio Engineering in finance and product management roles. Keen in education and professional development, since 2000, he has been lecturing with various higher institutions in Hong Kong in financial management, accounting, economics as well as taxation and business law. Ricky has a BA in Economics from the University of Sydney, and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School of the UK. He is a member of the CPA Australia and a songwriter member of CASH in Hong Kong.

Meggy Cheng received a Master of Arts in Cultural Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Dean’s List Honour), a Bachelor of Arts Degree at The University of Hong Kong and a Diploma in Drama at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In Cheng’s early career, she led the strategic planning, communications and marketing at various multinational advertising agencies for international brands including McDonald’s Hong Kong, Rejoice, Procter & Gamble (HK, Mainland, Taiwan). As an art enthusiast, she devoted herself to integrating business entrepreneurship with art management practices after joining the art sector as Head of Marketing, Communications and Development, Chung Ying Theatre Company; Director of Marketing and Communications, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; and Head of Branding and Marketing, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, specialised in branding and marketing strategies, driving profit and stimulating participation. Cheng was awarded the Scholarship for the “Clore Leadership Programme 2018/19” by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to undertake one-year training in the United Kingdom. She was named the “Marketer of the Year 2019” and awarded the “Distinguished Marketing Leadership Awards” at the HKMA/TVB Awards for Marketing Excellence 2019 by Hong Kong Management Association, the first person in the arts sector to gain such recognition. In 2023, she led the marketing team on “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” campaign and awarded the “Now TV Gold Award” at the HKMA/ViuTV & Now TV Awards for Marketing Excellence 2023.

Karen Cheung has extensive experience in dance and has held key positions in the creating and producing company, festivals, as well as performing arts venue. She was Manager and Head of China Dance Development of the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in Hong Kong (2004-2019); Director of the Guangdong Dance Festival (2011-2016); Program Director Beijing Dance Festival (2012-2019); Program Director of City Contemporary Dance Festival (2017), and Head of Dance at West Kowloon Cultural District (2019-2022). Karen has initiated different platforms to promote international exchanges and collaboration including Delta Moves, DanceX and HOTPOT – East Asia Dance Platform, and launched the first HOTPOT in Hong Kong in 2017. Currently, Karen is Acting Executive Director as well as Festival and Programme Director of CCDC.

Joycelyn Choi is currently General Manager of MOViE MOViE - an arthouse TV channel as well as three cinemas, owned by parent company Edko Films Ltd. Joycelyn launched the MOViE MOViE TV channel in 2012, a relating OTT service in 2018, and the cinemas in 2017, 2020 and 2021. In addition to overseeing the smooth running of the above, she is also chief editor of the bimonthly film and culture magazine MMM, and curator of the annual interdisciplinary film festival LIFE IS ART and animation film festival ANIFEST. Joycelyn is an active advisor for numerous local films and animation projects. She has been a long-serving Arts Advisor (Film and Media Arts) of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and was also recently appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of Hong Kong Dance Alliance. Having worked for over a decade in an environment which actively mixes entertainment and the arts, Joycelyn is known for her energy and passion in connecting the arts industry with the commercial world. In 2019, Joycelyn was awarded the Hong Kong Scholarship for the Clore Leadership Programme (a unique training programme in the UK), which enabled her to further explore and further her mission in expanding the arts and cultural perspective with references to international practices.

Angela Hang graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and was awarded a scholarship by the Asian Cultural Council to attend the American Dance Festival in North Carolina and New York. Hang is the founder of a local dance studio —Studiodanz, and has been worked with many local artists and as an instructor at HKAPA, City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong Arts Centre, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, The Education University of Hong Kong and Beijing Dance Academy. Hang has also devoted to nurturing local new dancers, she established one of the Hong Kong biggest dance competitions—The Best Dance Crew, and a lot of dancers from Hong Kong and Mainland China grab the chances to exchange with international dancers from worldwide through this platform.

Stella Lau was born and raised in Hong Kong. Lau entered the Hong Kong Academy of Ballet for full-time professional training in 1982 and was awarded twice the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music Fund Scholarship in 1983 and 1984. Upon graduation, she began her performing career with the Hong Kong Ballet and in 1990 became the first homegrown dancer promoted to principal in the company’s history. After ten years as a professional dancer, Lau furthered her study with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1995 where she graduated from the BFA (Hons) program in dance with first-class honors. She began teaching at the School of Dance as part-time lecturer in 1997 and was cross-appointed as tutor to the Interdisciplinary & Liberal Arts department. In 2003 Lau was showcased in the Hong Kong Dance Hall of Fame. Lau is currently a full-time ballet lecturer at the Academy and she completed the MFA in Dance program in 2010.

Sylvia Ting–Yan Lee is a dance practitioner and artist born and raised in Hong Kong. She graduated with a BFA (Hons) from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was awarded The Ohel Leah Synagogue Charity Scholarship. She was a medallist and scholarship recipient at the Hong Kong Ballet Group's Stars Award competition to attend international ballet seminar in Denmark. As a performing artist, Sylvia intertwined her classical ballet training into contemporary dance which enabled her to collaborate with different dance companies and platforms such as Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Dance Company, Passoverdance and Hong Kong Arts Festival. She is a co-founder of Siu Lung Fung Dance Theater promoting artistic exchange. The company 10th anniversary production Run received Hong Kong Dance Award in 2023. Sylvia has also managed Hong Kong Ballet Group Stars Award Competition, 2nd and 3rd Asian Grand Prix and Asian Elite Dance Competition (Shen Zhen) in 2019. As a project manager of the Hong Kong Ballet Group’s 50th-anniversary performance Sleeping Princess, the production has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Youth and Community Dance by Hong Kong Dance Award in 2015. In 2022, Sylvia pursued a master’s degree at her alma mater and was selected to train with the Royal Ballet School’s INSPIRE dance teaching program. With her dedication to inspire young dancers in an innovative approach through bodywork training, she launched “Head to Toes” research project, supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and 20 young dancers from different dance schools in Hong Kong, the project has facilitated a one-year experimental dance training program.

Alice Ma is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. She performs regularly on stage and explores various ways of showcasing dance, collaborating both with artists from different disciplines and with numerous art institutions and groups. Recent works include City Contemporary Dance Company’s I Don’t Mean It (2021), Hong Kong Arts Festival's Ding Ding Ding Ding (2021), E-Side Dance Company's Leg (2023) and You? Choreograph (2024). Ma received the Tom Brown Emerging Choreographer award at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2020 and was honoured with the Young Artist Award at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2021. Ma has frequently participated in the Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Platform at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. One of her works, Wu (2018), was presented at the Seoul New Dance for Asia International Dance Festival in Korea and received a 5-star review at the Edinburgh International Festival 2023, while she was invited to perform Over-master (2019) in Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Macau. She is a part-time instructor at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

An ethnic Tibetan born in Gansu, Sang Jijia studied at the Beijing Central University for Nationalities and was a dancer with Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) from 1993 to 1998. He won the Gold Medal in the Modern Dance section of the Paris International Dance Competition in 1996 and was hailed as “Star of the Century” by the Guangdong Provincial Government in 1997. He was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Scholarship and American Dance Festival Scholarship in 1998 and 1999 respectively. He was a dancer of CCDC from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, Sang was chosen by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative to study choreography under William Forsythe in Germany and stayed with Ballett Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as assistant choreographer and dancer. Sang returned to China in 2006 and, since then, has created a number of full-length works for dance companies – CCDC, Beijing’s LDTX and GMDC. These works include Unspeakable (2007), Sticks (2007), As If To Nothing (2009), Standing Before　Darkness (2010) and Layer Code (2013). Recognised for his powerful technique and performing to rave reviews in Asia and the West, Sang has collaborated with leading choreographers around the globe. He created Reflection of Others for Frankfurt Ballett in 2004. In 2013, he was commissioned by the Norwegian dance company Carte Blanche to create Not Here, Not Ever and Pa|Ethos for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 2015, taking part in Fabbrica Europa Festival for the second time. Sang Jijia is currently Resident Choreographer of CCDC. His latest work Fragile Beauty premiered in Hong Kong in June 2016. It was restaged at the Beijing Dance Festival in July to great acclaim.

Septime Webre is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. This season he joins Hong Kong Ballet as its Artistic Director after 17 years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in Washington DC, US from 1999-2016. Previously he served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet, based in Princeton, New Jersey, US from 1993-1999. In addition, Webre serves as the Artistic Director of Halcyon, a Washington DC-based foundation, launching an annual international Festival for Creativity in Washington DC in June 2018. During Webre’s tenure at The Washington Ballet, the institution’s budget grew by 500%, and it enjoyed unprecedented advances in the scope and quality of its work on stage, in the size and reach of its professional school, and in the development of several far-reaching community engagement programmes, which he founded. Webre launched an array of artistic initiatives including The American Experience, which developed great works of literature into full-length ballets, including The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises among others. As a choreographer, Webre’s works appear in the repertoires of ballet companies throughout North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Colorado Ballet, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, Milwaukee Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, and many others, and he has worked frequently in theatre as well as opera. As a dancer, Webre was featured in solo and principal roles from the classical repertoire as well as in contemporary works by choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham. He has served on the juries of a number of international ballet competitions, including those in Varna, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Cape Town, New York, Seoul, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of Dance/USA and his work has received numerous honors, grants and awards. He holds a degree in History/Pre-Law from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the seventh son in a large, boisterous Cuban-American family.

Winner of two Hong Kong Dance Awards (2003, 2006) for his outstanding dance performance, and awarded Best Artist (Dance) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2009, Yang Yuntao is an accomplished dancer and choreographer. He joined the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) in 2002 as Principal Dancer. He was the company's Assistant Artistic Director from 2007 and has been its Artistic Director since November 2013. Yang has choreographed for various dance companies. His award-winning choreography for HKDC includes: Spring Ritual·Eulogy, winner of Outstanding Achievement in Production at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2013 and presented in Beijing and Taipei in 2013; The Legend of Mulan, winner of Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in New York, Sydney, London and Minsk in 2015, 2017 and 2019 respectively; Storm Clouds, winner of three awards including Outstanding Achievement in Production at the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards; L’Amour Immortel, winner of three awards at the 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards, presented in Beijing and Guangzhou in 2017, in Taipei in 2018 and in Shanghai and Hangzhou in 2019; and Waiting Heart, winner of Outstanding Medium Venue Production at the 2019 Hong Kong Dance Award. Other works for HKDC include The Butterfly Lovers (presented in Seoul in 2016), Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Voices and Dances of the Distant Land, Blanc in Reveries of the Red Chamber, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile, In the Beginning in Vipassana, Lady White of West Lake and Dance of Strings.

Catherine is a freelance Dance Practitioner, focusing on dance education and dance writing. Catherine is a Dance Educator for over 25 years, teaching widely for different levels. She is the Associate Professor of Practice of the Lingnan University Wong Bik Lai Music and Performing Arts Unit and the Guest Lecturer of The Education University of Hong Kong Department of Cultural and Creative Arts. She helped creating credited dance courses for the universities. She also designs curriculum and conducts workshops for various schools and organizations. Some of the organizations she has worked with include the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), Hong Kong Ballet, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGHs) Hong Kong Institute of Aesthetic Education (HKIAE) and others. Catherine has a strong interest in dance research and dance writing. She is currently the Editor, Researcher and Writer for the Dance Chapter in the Performing Arts Category of the publication Hong Kong Chronicles: Culture. Her dance articles and reviews could also be seen in dance journal/HK, ARTiSM, Artistic Moments, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Times and others. She has also served as the External Course Assessor for a Dance Appreciation course for the Metropolitan University (MU), External Examiner for the Master programs in dance for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), and the External Academic Reviewer for the Applied Learning Course “Taking a Chance on Dance” for HKAPA. Catherine also serves as the Examiner of the Dance section of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2008.

Brian Yu has years of experience in performing arts, media communication, and public relations. Since 2005, he has worked for major electronic and print media outlets, including Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times,TVB, and Phoenix TV. He has focused on local and global cultural and artistic development,covering projects such as the West Kowloon Cultural District, Shanghai West Bund Culture and Art Pilot Zone, Venice Biennale, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. Brian has received The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong "Best Arts & Culture News Reporting Award" three times in 2012 and 2014. With his extensive media experience, Brian has also ventured into the fields of communication and public relations. He has collaborated with organizations such as the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. In 2016, he officially joined the Performing Arts Department of the West Kowloon Cultural District as an editor, overseeing the production of all communication and marketing materials for the department, and implementing policies and strategies with other departments. He has participated in projects such as the "The internationale tanzmesse nrw" (in collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts Development Council), “Choreographer and Composer Lab" (in collaboration with the Hong Kong Ballet), and “ONVIEW: HONG KONG" (including a publication documenting the creative process).