Introductory Contemporary Dance Workshop - Outreach Tour to University and Community

Commenced in July 2019, Jockey Club "In Search of Voice in a Cramped City" Dance Education Programme is a 3-year dance education project funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. This Programme fuses contemporary dance with other art disciplines: drama, music, text-image and visual arts as media, to create a series of innovative programme activities for youths to explore communication. ​ The Workshop comprises three 3-hour sessions totally 9 hours. Participants will experience dance/body creativity across various arts modalities, and express themselves and exchange ideas with peers through creative process through the workshop series.

Programme Details

Date | 23 (Tue), 26 (Fri), 30 (Tue) Mar 2021

Time | 2-5pm

Venue | CYM302, Chong Yuet Ming Cultural Centre

Language | Cantonese, supported with English

Participants | HKU undergraduate students and staff

Enquiry | 3917-1281 / cymcc@hku.hk

Registration | https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=74037 (HKU Portal login is required)

Instructors Biography

Gabbie Chan | Choreographer

Gabbie Chan Hiu-ling graduated from the HKAPA, 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 in the US, in addition to exchange programmes and tours to Shanghai, Inner Mongolia and Malaysia. Chan was a dancer with the DanceArt Hong Kong between 2012 and 2014. She later joined Passoverdance and began creating choreographic works. Her works include Recycle-green which was presented in the i-Dance Festival (HK) in 2015, and The 16th Day which was debuted in the 44th Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2016. Chan has performed in Germany, Bahrain, Korea, the US, and Mainland China.

Donut Cheung | Drama

Cheung Ka Lam, Donut.  Graduated from The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, 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 as a freelance tutor teaching drama class in HKFYG Lee Shau Kei primary school and Evangel College(Primary School).

Cheung interested in Japan Culture and now studying Japanese Tea ceremony of Urasenke for more than seven years. 

Cheung is a Christian, and serve as a tutor in children Sunday school. Try to mix drama education elements into bible study , let the children get more into the bible world.