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JOCKEY CLUB “In Search of Voice in a Cramped City” Dance Education Programme
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JOCKEY CLUB “In Search of Voice in a Cramped City” Dance Education Programme
賽馬會「音語來回」舞蹈教育計劃
The Programme is comprised of workshops, showcases and art creation etc. The ultimate goals of the programme are to deepen arts experience, foster meaningful communication with different groups of people among the society and enhancing social well-being.

The workshop is part of the Dance Education Programme that uses contemporary dance and its crossover with other arts discipline, including drama, visual arts, music and poem as media, to create a series of innovative programme activities.  Participants will experience dance/body creativity across various arts modalities, and express themselves and exchange ideas with peers through creative process. 

此工作坊為賽馬會「音語來回」舞蹈教育計劃的一部份,以舞蹈為主幹,融匯其他藝術範疇,引發青少年對現代藝術及舞蹈的興趣。每一節工作坊將由一位舞蹈專業老師聯同與另一藝術範疇的藝術家一同帶領,透過藝術探索及經歷去進行交流,從而增進與人溝通之技巧。

是項舞蹈教育計劃以探討「溝通」為主題,計劃同時包括演出及探訪等。

Dates: 3/10, 10/10 & 24/10 (Thu)
Time: 18:45-21:45
Venue: Studio 303, Chong Yuet Ming Cultural Centre
Language: English
Quota: 20

Online registration starts at 10:00 on 5/9 (Thu)
HKU Students Only - https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=67100

Organised by:
      Passoverdance


Funded by: 

     










Venue Support:
 


Schedule:
Date Time Venue
03 Oct 2019 18:45 - 21:45 Studio 303, CYM Cultural Centre
10 Oct 2019 18:45 - 21:45 Studio 303, CYM Cultural Centre
24 Oct 2019 18:45 - 21:45 Studio 303, CYM Cultural Centre
Bio of Instructor(s) 導師簡介:
Dancers

Gabbie ChanGabbie Chan Hiu-ling
Gabbie Chan Hiu-ling graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Chinese Dance. While studying at the HKAPA, she was awarded several scholarships; she took part in the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, USA, as well as exchange programmes and tours to Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, and Malaysia. Chan was a dancer with DanceArt Hong Kong between 2012 and 2014. She joined Passoverdance and began creating choreographic works, Recycle-green, which was presented at the i-Dance Festival (HK) in 2015, and The 16th Day, which debuted in the 44th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2016. Chan has performed in Germany, Bahrain, Korea, the US, and Mainland China.  
 






Elaine KwokElaine Kwok Hiu-ling

Elaine graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2005). She previously worked with Art Fission Company (Singapore) and is currently an independent choreographer and dance educator.
Her first solo, Of Mud and Dust featured in multiple dance festivals, starting with the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) in 2011, then the Guangdong Dance Festival (2012), the Beijing Dance Festival (2014), and the International Dance Theater Festival at Zawirowania in Warsaw, Poland (2015).
Solo performances, Solo (2011) and Melting Solitude II (2013) were commissioned by the HKAF and LCSD. Elaine was invited to be  the Guest Curator for the City Festival’s dance programme (2007) and her work, Let the Body Flow, was performed in Hong Kong and at the Patravadi Theatre in Thailand (2008). She also received the 2011 Hong Kong Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Dance for her work, Positioning.
 




Cherry LeungCherry Leung Tsz Yan

Cherry Leung graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2008, where she majored in contemporary dance and choreography. She received a full dance scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund in 2015 to obtain a master's degree in Choreography at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the United Kingdom. During her study at the HKAPA, she was awarded several scholarships and represented the school in performance tours to Southampton, London, Berlin, Brussels and Guangzhou.
Leung is also a dedicated choreographer. And her works have toured the UK, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, Guangzhou, and Beijing.

Leung is currently an active freelance choreographer, dancer, and teacher in Hong Kong.
  





Cally YipCally Yip

Cally Yip graduated from the HKAPA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2007, with a major in Contemporary Dance. While studying at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she represented the Academy in performance tours to Perth, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, and was awarded the Jackie Chan Charitable Scholarship and the Hong Kong Association of University Women Scholarship. Since graduation, Yip has performed with or choreographed for various organisations including the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Passoverdance, E-Side Dance Company, Y-space, TNT Theatre, Theatre Ronin, The Only Stage, and Goodnews Communication International. She has performed in the concerts of Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chen, and Leo Ku. An advocate of dance education, she has taught contemporary dance, jazz dance, children’s dance and choreography in various schools and organisations.







Other artists

Donut CheungDonut Cheung | Drama

Cheung Ka Lam, Donut, graduated from The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and obtained a bachelor degree of Fine arts, Major in Acting. After graduated, Cheung works as a freelance actress in many performances of different theatre companies. E.G Jumbo kids theatre: (A Fantastic Journey) , (Toasty’s adventure @veggie garden) , (Journey of The Car), (Monster Family) etc.  Besides actress work, Cheung does Drama Tutor works. She taught drama in Creative Kindergarten. She is now a freelance tutor teaching drama class in HKFYG Lee Shau Kei primary school and Evangel College (Primary School). Cheung is interested in Japan Culture and now studying Japanese Tea ceremony of Urasenke for more than seven years. Cheung is a Christian, and serves as a tutor in children Sunday school. She tries to mix drama education elements into bible study, let the children get more into the bible world.



Nina Chiu | Visual Arts
Nina Chiu Lai Yin, graduated from The Hong Kong University of Education. She engaged in more than ten years of art education, including teaching children, teenagers and parents about visual arts, and experience the fun and self-discovery of art. During the period, several exhibitions of works were held in the school and students to share the results with the students, teachers and parents. In the later period, some competitions and workshops on expressing art were held in the community to give younger generations the opportunity to think, explore and create spontaneously, such as “Draw in Dialogue”, to find young people to discover their deeper self in their personal works.

Following an individual's curiosity about the relationship between art and emotional discovery and treatment, she enrolled in the Master of Expressive Arts Therapy at the University of Hong Kong. She graduated in November 2018 and is currently an art therapy therapist, mainly in secondary schools for behavioral and emotional treatment work. She hopes to use art to improve the self-awareness of the younger generation, so as to conduct self-dialogue and reflection in the process of art creation, to find out their own values and roles in society and life, also to establish healthy and stable emotions, and to continue to grow positively.


Priscila ChuPriscila Chu | Music  
Priscila Chu is a composer graduated from York University in Canada. She has participated in different productions and has taught a wide range of performing arts programs since she moved back to Hong Kong. In the past few years, she has produced and composed music for musical ensembles, dance, theater performances and documentary film productions. Experienced also in dance and theater, she is particularly interested in integrating different art forms and styles in her creative works. She has received a teaching diploma and a Master's degree researched on Music for Autism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has recently earned a Ph.D. degree from Hong Kong Baptist University concentrating in music composition and collaborative arts. 







HYFHYF | Text-Image
HYF was born in Hong Kong. His family was originated in Nan Hai of Guangdong, a place he never paid a visit. At younger age, he was educated under colonial education. He finished his university studies in USA majoring in Drama. In the past 30 years, He has been utilizing theatre as cultural bridges, learning to unlearn the peculiar relationship of the self and the likely bonding with the surrounding social, political and cultural issues and phenomena. He believes in art-in-actions, through which to re-examine the unique cultural and social enigma of Hong Kong, hoping that alternative insight to refurbish independent thinking among common folks could be implemented through art and social works. HYF was the founder and artistic director of the former Theatre Fanatico (1996-2010). In 2011, he established Ho Bit Goon, a cultural hub for the arts. He loves all aspects of arts and travelling. He also plays a variety of roles in art and theatre making, from producing, directing, playwriting, designing to curating special projects for theatre-in-education and cultural planning. He has been a strong believer in using poetry, theatre, painting, music and storytelling to construct particular art-in-actions to construct better cultural exploratory works looking into the social and cultural phenomena both in Hong Kong and the Mainland of China.