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About the programme
Opened in November 1989, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC) has become an important cultural landmark in Hong Kong through offering performing platforms for artists and dance companies, both local and visiting, enhancing the viewing experience of the local audience, and facilitating international cultural exchange. Over the past thirty years, the HKCC has witnessed the development of dance in the city. Generation after generation of leading dance artists has delivered their humanistic, social and contemporaneous concerns through their works.
For dance enthusiasts in Hong Kong, veteran arts critic Dr. Lo Wai Luk is going to curate and host five talks on the theme of 3 Decades of Dance in Hong Kong. Dean of the School of Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), Anna Chan and Chairman of Dance Alliance, Stella Lau are serving as the advisors of this Lecture Series. Sharing the podium with him will be local dance practitioners including Willy Tsao, Pewan Chow, Yuri Ng, Paul Tam, Dick Wong, Miranda Chin, So Kwok Wan, Lau Tin Ming, Victor Ma, Richard Lee, Ricky Chan and Pun Siu Fai, etc.
3 September The Venue, Its Space, and Their Dance Stories
In this talk, we shall look back on landmark performances in the past three decades and recall how choreographers and dancers have been inspired by the various spaces of the HKCC to create their dance works: from the Grand Theatre to the Foyer, from the Studio Theatre to the Piazza, and from the stage to the special corridors…
10 September On the Ecological Development and Vista of Dance in Hong Kong
The emergence of local professional dance companies in the late 1970s and early 1980s changed the ecology of the dance sector in Hong Kong. By the 1990s, the opening of the HKCC not only provided new performance venues for local dance companies but also created new forms of partnerships. These developments, together with the impact brought about by visiting international dance companies, have created a healthy environment for dance in Hong Kong to flourish.
24 September Dance Appreciation - Art and the Urban Experience
Leading dance companies of the world in the genres of modern dance, ballet and folk dance have performed at the HKCC. What sort of impact and novel viewing experience did their diverse and quality productions have on the local audience to make art an important part of the urban experience of cosmopolitan Hong Kong?
8 October Hong Kong Dance: Personality, Style and Character
In the thirty years after the HKCC opened its doors to the arts community and the audience, the programming and content of dance shows have changed a lot. Local dancers have also kept themselves abreast of the times. It’s time to see if Hong Kong has its own dance, or whether there is such a thing as ‘Hong Kong Style’.
15 October ‘For the Times They Are A-changing’ – On the Reciprocal Relationship between Dance and Epochs
Each era has its own form of art. In the past thirty years, what eras had Hong Kong gone through? What sort of experiences had Hongkongers gone through? How did the June Fourth Incident, the 1997 Handover, the new millennium, and SARS influence the creative concepts and directions of choreographers? When confronted with the predicaments of the times, how did dancers play a part in our future by expressing through physical movements and opening up new spiritual journeys?
The running time of each lecture is approximately 2 hours without intermission.
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Lo Wai Luk
Lo Wai Luk, Chairman of Art Criticism Panel, HKADC, Honorary Residence Writer, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, was a member of the committee of Major Performing Art Companies, HAB, and an advisor of Art Form Panel, LCSD. Started writing dance criticism since the 1990s, and has published two books: Dance Words, In Search of Hong Kong Dance. In 1994, Lo wrote the text for CCDC’s Dairy of the Crazy Man of Kowloon City (directed by Pun Siu Fai), and directed the multimedia performances of Life and Death of Xiao Hong(2013), The Duras Project(2015), choreographed by Mui Cheuk Yin and Abby Chan respectively.
Willy Tsao
Willy Tsao is an influential figure in China’s contemporary dance development as a choreographer, educator, curator, manager and director. Tsao founded the first and only professional contemporary dance company City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong in 1979 and has held the role of artistic director since 1989. He also established China’s first independent professional contemporary dance company, BeijingDance/LDTX in 2005. Tsao’s contribution to dance has been widely recognised. He received numerous awards and honours. He takes inspiration from the full breadth of Chinese culture including philosophy, history, opera and even Chinese rock & roll. His works have been performed internationally.
Anna CY Chan
Dean of the School of Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), Anna CY Chan was Head of Dance at West Kowloon Cultural District Authority from 2014 to 2018. As the district’s inargual Head of Dance, Anna shaped West Kowloon’s artistic direction and dance strategies and led the launch of a series of New Works Forum programmes and award winning dance learning & participation projects; exploring innovative forms of creating and performing, and new ways of discussing and thinking about topics related to contemporary performances. She also co-curated West Kowloon’s annual Producers' Network Meeting & Forum and was Chief Producer for the ON VIEW: HONG KONG and Look Two Ways dance productions.
In 2007, Anna became the Vice-President (East Asia) of the World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific. She was also the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance from 2006 to 2011 and has acted as Dance Advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2008. She was awarded the Hong Kong Dance Award in 2004, the City Contemporary Dance Laureate in 2016, and in 2018 the prestigious Hong Kong Dance Award for Distinguished Achievement in recognition of her significant contributions. Anna also serves on many local and international dance organisations & jury members for many prestiges compeitions and awards.
Stella Lau
Chairman of Dance Alliance
Pewan Chow
Pewan Chow was among the first cohort of graduates from the School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). She was awarded a scholarship by the London Contemporary Dance School to pursue further study in choreography and performance in 1988. Upon her return to Hong Kong, she taught contemporary dance at the HKAPA from 1991 to 2007, during which she received a Master of Arts in Choreography from the Laban Centre, London in 2003.
As an independent choreographer and performer, Chow endeavours to contribute to the study, education and creation of dance at Passoverdance. Her choreographic works include Grey Area, In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling, Maze, Homecoming, Xin Xiang, Solo Act, Searchlight, and Execute I, II, II -- Accomplish. She received the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2010 and 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production for Homecoming and Maze respectively. Chow is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Youth and Community Dance for In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling in 2016, and Outstanding Dance Education for In Search of Motion in a Virtual City: Grey Area in 2018. Chow was awarded Artist of the Year (Dance) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) in 2017.
Yuri Ng
Currently Co-Artistic Director of the a cappella choral theatre company Yat Po Singers. His original theatrical works include the opening performance for Tai Kwun THIS VICTORIA HAS NO SECRETS (Director, Choreographer, Stage and Costume Designer), collaboration with Taiwan theatre group Mr Wing Theatre Company PICA PICA CHOOSE (Director, Choreographer). Ng received the “Distinguished Achievement Award” at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2012 and the “Award for Best Artist (Dance)” from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2013, and the “Outstanding Choreography Award” at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2019 for his choreography of REQUIEM HK.
Paul Tam
Mr Paul Tam has been Executive Director of Hong Kong Ballet, one of Asia's premier ballet companies, since January 2014. Previously, he was General Manager at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2013. Prior to that, Director of Marketing at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the largest performing arts group in Hong Kong with an annual audience of over 100,000.
Mr Tam holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Piano Performance and Composition as well as an MBA in Arts Administration from York University, Canada. He was a Vilar Fellow at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2003-2004). He was awarded a scholarship to attend the Harvard Business School Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program in July 2015 and another scholarship by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to participate in the Advanced Cultural Leadership Program by the University of Hong Kong in 2012.
Mr Tam is currently Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Committee Member of Art Form Panels (Festivals), Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Advisory Board Member for the EMA (AME) Programme, HKIED. Mr Tam is an awardee of the 2015 The Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme for his contributions to the development of arts and culture in Hong Kong.
Miranda Chin
Chin founded the Miranda Chin Dance Company in 1989. Considered the first generation modern dance choreographer in Hong Kong, Chin choreographed, coordinated and danced in over 100 pieces of dance works. Chin was listed in the Who's Who of Contemporary Award by the American Biographical Institute. Since 2001, she has created a series of Chinese cultural modern dance of "Martial Arts & Tai Chi". In 2011, Chin gave touring lectures at Universities in Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan in which she shared her creative experiences and findings. Chin was also listed in TOP 100 Artists 2017 from the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.
Lau Tin Ming
Tin-ming graduated from the University of Hong Kong majoring in Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. His master thesis focused on the development of Contemporary Dance in Hong Kong in 1990s. Since 2006, he has been very active in the local arts and culture ecosystem, taking part as curator, choreographer and advisor of dance-related projects and arts education. His curated project Positioning received Hong Kong Dance Award 2011 in the environmental and educational category. From 2013 to 2018, he was a member of LCSD Art Form Panel (Dance and Multi-Arts).
Tin-ming has been a teacher, Vice Principal and then Principal of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKSC) from 2006 to 2018. During his time at HKSC, he was responsible in co-designing, monitoring and implementing the school based CPOP (creative professional oriented programme), which started as a school based programme and was evolved into a full-fletched Level 3 Diploma in Creative Arts programme approved by HKCAAVQ.
Through his networks in the arts, Tin-ming has organized the Summer Arts Festival at HKSC worked with the HKSC Arts & Cultural Centre team to curate the annual Ambassador programme for ADC and art internship programmes for students. His contributions in the arts and education was recognized in the Secretary for Home Affairs Commendation Scheme in 2017.
Ricky Chan Chi Kuen
Ricky Chan graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with honors degree in 1996, majoring in Set and Costume Design. After graduation, he worked extensively in the theatre, commercial field and interior design. He has also participated in activities promoting theatre arts education and conducted talks on set and costume design. He was the chairman of Hong Kong Association of Theatre Technicians and Scenographers from 2008 to 2012. He is currently Head of the Theatre Design Department of the HKAPA.
Chan is one of the most important set and costume designers in Hong Kong, his design works toured to different countries in Asia and Europe, including two performances in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. He has designed for over 100 productions of various genres such as Opera, Chinese Opera, Chinese Dance, Contemporary Dance and Drama in his professional life and has won critical acclaims. His design for Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s Dr. Faustus won him his third Award of Best Set Design at Hong Kong Drama Award in 2011. In Recent years, he has worked on a lot of large-scale Cantonese Opera productions such as Shade of Butterfly and Red Pear Blossom.
Richard Lee
Technical Director (Performance Venues) of LCSD
Victor Ma
Victor Choi-wo MA founded Y-Space in 1995 and is the artistic director. He was in the first graduting class of the School of Dance of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Upon graduation, he joined The Hong Kong Ballet, and resumed study at the HKAPA School of Drama in 1990. In 1996, he received the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship to conduct research on dance and theatre in the USA. In 2002, he further received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council-University of Leeds-Chevening Scholarships for a Master’s degree programme in Performance Studies in the UK. As a choreographer with over 65 creations, he has also been a movement director for many local and international companies. His major works include None of Your Business, Not a Double Room, Unconscious I & II, Dance In’ Possible!? I - IV, Improvisation Land Series 1 - 72, Air and Breath I & II, Body, I.D. & Space I - V, Victor Ma's Dance Exhibition I & II, RE/evolution, Suddenly, Room X, Door, TransDance etc. He has been the Artistic Director and Curator of i-Dance (Hong Kong) since 2009.
Dick Wong
So Kwok Wan
Associate Programme Director of Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF), So Kwok Wan has been curating and producing international theatre, dance, circus, multidisciplinary works and contemporary music (new music to jazz, world and pop indie) for HKAF since 1995. Over the years, he has invited and produced hundreds of international artists who made their first appearance in China or Asia in HKAF.
One special focus of his work at HKAF is to commission and produce new works from Hong Kong, as well as international and collaborative projects. He has curated, commissioned and produced more than 100 original new works and special projects for HKAF, ranging from theatre, dance, concerts, chamber opera and live art/installations; and working with artists and arts institutions from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Asia, Europe and US.
Pun Siu Fai
Ex Director of CCDC Dance Centre
Yan Yuntao
Winner of two Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2003 and 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 credits for HKDC include: Spring Ritual · Eulogy, winner of Outstanding Achievement in Production at the 2013 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in Beijing and Taipei in 2013; The Legend of Mulan, winner of Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance in the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in New York and Sydney in 2015 and in London in 2017; Storm Clouds, winner of three awards in the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards; and L’Amour Immortel, winner of three awards in the 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in Beijing and Guangzhou in 2017. His 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 Waiting Heart.
Lecture Series: 3 Decades of Dance in Hong Kong
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03.09.2019 (Tue) 19:45
10.09.2019 (Tue) 19:45
24.09.2019 (Tue) 19:45
08.10.2019 (Tue) 19:45
15.10.2019 (Tue) 19:45
AC2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
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