Ms HO Julianna
Lecturer (Dance Pedagogy)
Faculty
Biography
Graduated with a Master of Education from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) in Dance from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she has served as a lecturer at both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
Ms. Ho is passionate about dance creation and education. She went to Taiwan to receive dance educational training from the Cloud Gate Dance Theater, became a qualified teaching artist for the "Leap!" body movement program, and has taught creative movement in over 15 kindergartens and schools in Hong Kong.
Subsequently, she pursued teacher training courses with the American Montessori Society (AMS) and San Francisco Orff Music and Movement Training Level 1-3 through the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Art Educator Continuing Funding Program. International School of Bergamo invited her to be an artist-in-residence in school in 2020 and the speaker at the International Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg 2022.
At the same time, she is also actively developing creative movement education and contemporary dance performances targeted at children. In 2015, she established Rice Journey Studio, primarily developing creative movement education courses and teaching and training these courses for students and teachers in various kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools in Hong Kong. In 2017, she founded Rice Journey Production, developing and creating dance education theatre. Her choreographic work" Sprouting Journey" (2019) was invited to be presented at the Asian Alliance of Festivals and Theatres for Young Audiences' (ATYA) Annual General Meeting and Performing Arts Platform.