The School of Dance Fall Performances presented by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (the Academy) will be held at the Academy Lyric Theatre on Dec 8 and 9, 2023. The Academy’s School of Dance, in collaboration with the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, will offer the audience an extravaganza that combines ballet, Chinese dance, and contemporary dance. 

One of the performances, Stream of Dust, is the collaborative project of the Academy with the City Contemporary Dance Company by the Academy Honorary Fellow, well-regarded choreographer Sang Jijia and the excerpt performance will be restaged in the School of Dance Fall Performances.

Synthetic is choreographed by the School's Head of Contemporary Dance, Dam Van Huynh. The audience is led into a deep state of meditation and embarks on a transcendental journey.

Le Jardin Animé is choreographed by the School's Lecturer of Ballet, Eve Chan and inspired by a nineteenth-century ballet masterpiece, Le Corsaire, incorporating its most memorable elements and highlights. 

The Land of… is co-choreographed by two of the School’s lecturers of Chinese Dance Yan Xiaoqiang and Yu Pik-yim. Their work explores the moments of hesitation, anxiety, solitude, struggle, and yet waves of overwhelming vitality in the hustle and bustle of the city through Chinese dance.

Coven+ is choreographed and edited by award-winning choreographer and photographer Mickael ‘Marso’ Riviere (also our former Artist-in-Residence), and produced and curated by Dean of Dance, Professor Anna CY Chan. Metaphorically, “Coven” is an imaginary sanctuary which gives us a sense of unity, with our super dance powers finally coming together on stage.

Stream of Dust is the collaborative project of the Academy with the City Contemporary Dance Company. The Academy Honorary Fellow, well-regarded choreographer Sang Jijia leads a troupe of over thirty students majoring in contemporary dance, ballet and Chinese dance on a journey to explore the theatrical aesthetics, defining the performativity of contemporary dance. 

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About The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) (www.hkapa.edu)

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), established by The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ordinance in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution in the performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies. The study encompasses Chinese Opera, Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions, and interdisciplinary learning.

Since 2008, the Academy has attained the Programme Area Accreditation (PAA) status awarded by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) to self-monitor and accredit its own undergraduate and post-secondary programmes in the five programme areas of Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, and Theatre and Entertainment Arts. Since 2016, the PAA status has been extended to cover Master’s Degree programmes and below; and since 2023, the programmes operated by the School of Chinese Opera accredited by HKCAAVQ has also received PAA status for its post-secondary and undergraduate programmes.  

Besides the main campus in Wanchai, Béthanie, the site of the Academy’s Landmark Heritage Campus in Pokfulam, has housed training facilities for the School of Film and Television since 2006.  

In the QS University Rankings announced in 2023, the Academy ranks 1st in Asia and 13th in the world in the Performing Arts category.