Message from the Dean of Dance
Prof Anna CY CHAN
As we celebrate four decades of artistic excellence, the School of Dance has prepared three excerpts from our Summer Dance 2024 production to join in the Academy’s 40th Anniversary Performance Showcase. This milestone is a testament to our students and faculty's dedication, talent, passion, and professionalism. Let us reflect on our achievements and look forward to an inspiring future.
As we celebrate four decades of artistic excellence, the School of Dance has prepared three excerpts from our Summer Dance 2024 production to join in the Academy’s 40th Anniversary Performance Showcase. This milestone is a testament to our students and faculty's dedication, talent, passion, and professionalism. Let us reflect on our achievements and look forward to an inspiring future.
About the School of Dance
Dance is an art form which can provide significant statements about the world, life and the human condition. Dancers and other artists are the spiritual heart of any society, and a reflection of its value and beliefs, hopes and aspirations. The School of Dance therefore aims to produce creative dance artists who are able to recognise Hong Kong as the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures with a global perspective, and to contribute to the development of the region’s diverse and ever-expanding dance culture.
Studying or taking up dance as a profession is no longer limited to dance performance, teaching and choreography. School of Dance strives to ensure that our young dance artists not only receive professional training in dance performance, choreography, but also develop a wider interest in the arts, cultural studies, and cross-disciplinary studies. School aims to cultivate students with a deep appreciation of the performing arts; encourage interdisciplinary research and cross-school collaborations so that students become articulate and intelligent advocates and entrepreneurs of their art form.
Integration lies at the very heart of the school’s philosophy; that is, the integration of its three specialisations of performance practice areas, of practice and dance studies theory, of technique, choreography, dance science, pedagogy and dance technology, of the school and the profession.
Three excerpts from brand new choreographies produced in 2024
Interwoven Souls: Reflecting Our Shared Humanity
1. Echoes of Existence
2. Human, Common Territory
3. Tashi Delek
Echoes of Existence
Artistic Team List
| Choreographer | Tim PODESTA |
| Rehearsal Director | Eve CHAN |
| Music | Uni Rec
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| Composers | Carsten NICOLAI Nils FRAHM Carl CRAIG |
| Dancers | HO Hei-yu LAU Oon-hei LIU Yu-Lun NGAN Sze-yu Ashley TAM Tsz-yiu Sara TANG Sze-wai WONG Chai YUEN Mei-wai |
Human, Common Territory
Artistic Team List
| Choreographer | Sharon VAZANNA |
| Rehearsal Director | LI Yongjing |
| Music | Franz SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D.959: II. Andantino
Performed by: Krystian ZIMERMAN |
| Composer and Sound Editor | Ian TANG Yat-yin |
| Dancers | Clara Neisha CALYSTA Hedy CHAI Priscilla CHAN CHIU Sum-yi Jon Henri Sagolili FERRER HO Wing-kam HUANG Ziyan LAI Lok-yan Natalia LAI LAM Hoi-ching LIN Ka-ying LIU Zhi TO Wing TSANG Wing-hang WONG Cheuk-lam WONG Hei-yiu WONG Hong-yan Kristy WONG Lai-kei XIONG Yilin XU Xitong YIP Sze-wai ZHAO Yuefan |
Tashi Delek
Artistic Team List
| Choreographer | YAN He |
| Rehearsal Director | YU Pik-yim |
| Music | Für Alina Tibetan Folk Music |
| Composer | Arvo PART |
| Dancers | Megan KWAN Man-ki LAM Tsz-yu LI Wan-kei MA Lie NG Chung-yu PANG Choi-man TANG Celine Laurelle TANG Hiu-wing WAI Lo-ying WEN Ziyin WU Hing-man YUNG Shuk-yi |