About the Company
DanceArt is a pioneer in self-choreographed solo productions in Hong Kong. In this dance theatre, the group will be presenting a poignant work featuring themes on Hong Kong. Under the artistic direction of Francis Leung, and building on fifteen years of collaboration between Leung and Andy Wong since they founded DanceArt in 1995, the group will strive to take the art of dance to wider and higher realms of excellence.
The two artistic directions of DanceArt are:
1. To develop dance art with local character within a theatre context. The works will incorporate arts of various media in order to develop the genre of multi-arts contemporary dance theatre.
2. To inject timeless and borderless life experiences into cultures that are close to people’s hearts by using dance as a bridge for ‘in-depth and soulful’ dialogues with the masses; and to provide a new creativity platform for the young generation, with the ultimate aim of gearing up cultural development.
Some of the significant stage productions of DanceArt include Individual Dreams... Shared Bed, Butterfly Effect, Blind Dates, Asunder -Virtual or Real and Unreachable Distance.
DanceArt has been a one-year grant recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council since 2000. It has gone on cultural exchange tours to many parts of the world. It gave performances and lectures in Taipei and North America at the invitation of Dance Forum Taipei, the New York Institute of Dance and Education and the World Dance Alliance (2006), attended the 10th Asian Art Festival held in Zhengzhou (2008), and performed at the Kuandu Arts Festival in Taipei (2010).
In 2003, DanceArt received a Hong Kong Dance Alliance Dance Award with its A Beautiful Life Series, in recognition of its efforts in addressing social issues through dance.
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Francis Leung, Artistic Director
Leung was trained in Chinese dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
In 1988, he was invited by Lin Hwai-min to teach Chinese classical and folk dance at the Taipei Institute of the Arts. He joined the Hong Kong Dance Company in 1989, and later that year received a scholarship from the Asian Cultural Council to further his training at the University of Hawaii. He joined the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in 1990, with which he danced leading roles in many of its major productions. He taught dance at the Tainan College of Home Economics (now the Tainan Woman's College of Arts & Technology) and Tsoi Ying Senior High School in Taiwan in 1993 before he rejoined the City Contemporary Dance Company in 1994, and he was actively engaged in choreography and promotion of dance.
He joined DanceArt Hong Kong in 1995 as a choreographer and core member, and went on tour with the company to Taiwan, Germany and the United States. More recently, he was invited by many dance companies to perform in their productions, such as Loose Pages from a Women's Diary by CCDC, and Falling Angel by Crossover Dance Company of Taipei and its Hong Kong production In Search of Eileen Chang.
His recent performances include DanceArt Hong Kong's Individual Dreams... Shared Bed, Butterfly Effect and Asunder - Virtual, or Reality; Y-Space's None of Your Business; and Theatre Fanatico's Exposed/Still Burning for the 2006 New Vision Arts Festival, My Life as a Dancer - The Evolution for the 2007 Hong Kong Arts Festival and Muse Motion's Twirling Haze. His choreography was also seen in The Good Woman of Szechwan, which was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival; Mosaic of Memories; Merry-go-round; Mayflies in the City, which was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Just You and Me and Crossologue - In and Out (All Independence Dance Series 1999 and 2000); Vinyl Tranquilizer - Railway Blues; www.2000/1/1.unknown; The Fairy of the Ninth Heaven of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra; and Peach Blossom Fan of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. Leung is currently the Artistic Director of DanceArt Hong Kong.
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Yvette Huang, Resident Choreographer & Education Co-ordinator
Huang was trained in Chinese dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Upon graduation, she joined the City Contemporary Dance Company. In 1993, she represented the Academy to perform the solo dance work by Mui Cheuk-yin, Awakenings in a Dream. In 1996, she starred in the Festival Fringe opening programme, Lianne & Chuck; it was followed by going on tour with Mui Cheuk-yin to London to participate in the 'Re: Orient' Dance Festival.
Huang joined DanceArt Hong Kong as a core member in 1995, and with the group she toured Taiwan, Germany and various cities of the United States. She debuted her work, Remembering at the Asian Contemporary Dance Festival in New York. She choreographed and performed in The Good Woman of Szechwan, which was commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Festival 1998.
Huang has been teaching dance at the City Contemporary Dance Company, the Hong Kong Ballet, the outreach programmes organized by DanceArt, and served as dance instructor and choreographer in various schools, spanning primary, secondary and tertiary, in a bid to promote dance.
She has participated in many DanceArt productions, including the recent Blind Dates, Butterfly Effect and Asunder. She gave her solo dance showcase, She's The One in May 2005.
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