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The first performance you should not miss after theatre re-opening! Hong Kong Dance Company’s Nezha: Untold Solitude, one of the celebration events commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, will be staged from 10 to 12 June 2022 at the Grand Theatre of Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Tickets are now available at URBTIX.
Nezha's story may resonate with one and all, but it is the tale of every man as an individual. His legend is our collective story, which epitomises the solitary path we all journey on as we race to seek and find where our souls truly belong. Hong Kong Dance Company's Artistic Director Yang Yuntao joins forces with a team of promising and dynamic stage designers and creative artists to revive the Chinese legend Nezha from a modern Hong Kong perspective, examining Nezha's rebelliousness and solitude, and searching for a romantic embodiment of his loneliness.
Production Team#:
Director & Choreographer: Yang Yuntao
Associate Choreographer: Xie Yin
Composer & Sound Designer: Lawrence Lau
Naamyam (Cantonese Narrative Song): The Gong Strikes One
Dramaturg: Janice Poon*
Set Designer: Jan Wong
Costume Designer: Mandy Tam
Lighting Designer: Yeung Tsz-yan
Video Designer: Dan Fong
#Please refer to the appendix for more details
*By kind permission of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Excerpt (around 130 words) Nezha's story may resonate with one and all, but it is the tale of every man as an individual. His legend is our collective story, which epitomises the solitary path we all journey on as we race to seek and find where our souls truly belong. Hong Kong Dance Company's Artistic Director Yang Yuntao joins forces with a team of promising and dynamic stage designers and creative artists to revive the Chinese legend Nezha from a modern Hong Kong perspective, examining Nezha's rebelliousness and solitude, and searching for a romantic embodiment of his loneliness. Dance Theatre Nezha: Untold Solitude |
Programme information |
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Venue |
Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre |
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Date, time and ticket prices |
10-*11.6.2022 (Fri-Sat) 7:45pm |
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Duration |
Approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes without intermission |
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Remarks |
- Suitable for aged 6 or above |
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Ticketing |
Tickets are now available at URBTIX |
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Discount scheme |
50% off |
Senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and a companion, wheelchair users and a companion, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients and full-time students. |
20% off |
Friends of Hong Kong Dance Company Prestige Member |
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10% off |
Friends of Hong Kong Dance Company Classic Member |
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Ticket holders must present proof of eligibility on admission. |
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Programme Enquiries |
3103 1810 / www.hkdance.com |
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Ticketing Enquiries |
3761 6661 |
Appendix: About the Production Team
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Yang Yuntao | Director & Choreographer Winner of two Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2003 and 2006 for his outstanding dance performance, and awarded Best Artist (Dance) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2009, Yang Yuntao is an accomplished dancer and choreographer. He joined the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) in 2002 as Principal Dancer. He was the company’s Assistant Artistic Director from 2007 and has been its Artistic Director since November 2013. Yang has choreographed for various dance companies. His award-winning choreography credits for HKDC include: Spring Ritual · Eulogy, winner of Outstanding Achievement in Production at the 2013 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in Beijing and Taipei in 2013; The Legend of Mulan, winner of Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in New York and Sydney in 2015, London in 2017 and Minsk in 2019; Storm Clouds, winner of three awards at the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards; L’Amour Immortel, winner of three awards at the 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards and presented in Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, Shanghai and Hangzhou from 2017 to 2019; Waiting Heart, winner of 2019 Hong Kong Dance Award for Outstanding Medium Venue Production; and Convergence, winner of 2022 Hong Kong Dance Award for Outstanding Online Production. His other works for HKDC include The Butterfly Lovers (presented in Seoul in 2016), Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Voices and Dances of the Distant Land, Blanc in Reveries of the Red Chamber, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile, In the Beginning in Vipassana, Lady White of West Lake, Dance of Strings, A Tale of the Southern Sky, Shan Shui: An Ode to Nature. Yang has also spearheaded a three-year interdisciplinary research study on Chinese dance and Chinese martial arts traditions. |
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Xie Yin | Associate Choreographer Xie Yin joined the Hong Kong Dance Company in 2002 as Principal Dancer. She has tried her hand at choreography since 2005. She won the Hong Kong Dance Awards for her co-choreographic works in 2006 and 2009. In 2012, her work Dawn received the Bronze Award at the Bauhinia Cup International Invitational Competition. Xie was invited by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to create And the Thunder Sings, and choreographed Lotus for the Hong Kong Ballet. Xie was Associate Choreographer of HKDC’s dance dramas The Legend of Mulan, Storm Clouds, L'Amour Immortel, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile, Lady White of West Lake as well as Artistic Coordinator of several productions for HKDC’s Children’s and Youth Troupes. Her most recent work was Four Seasons in Tale of Three Cities. She performed the principal role in the musical A Tale of the Southern Sky in 2020. Xie was appointed Artistic Coordinator and Instructor of HKDC’s Youth Troupe in 2012. She was a guest lecturer at the Chinese Dance Department of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2012 to 2014. She was appointed Dance Master of the Hong Kong Dance Company in 2014 and promoted to Assistant Artistic Director in 2021. |
Lawrence Lau | Composer & Sound Designer Lau Hiu Kong, Lawrence (劉曉江) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. His works cover music composition, theatre performance, audiovisual art, and installation. As a composer/electronic musician/sound artist, Lawrence’s works ranging from numerous chamber ensembles, orchestra, Chinese instruments, live electronics, and live audiovisual works. Apart from concert music, he also creates works for theatre, where he explores the various concepts in terms of theatrical and spatial sound designs.
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The Gong Strikes One | Naamyam (Cantonese Narrative Song) Founded in 2012, The Gong Strikes One specializes in Chinese traditional theatre music and embraces various kinds of performances, such as concerts, story-telling concerts, theatre and improvisation. Its debut theatre work, I, Wu Song (2017) is a one-man Chinese Opera with no words, which sets out to explore the very essence of operatic movements and music. Since then, the group devotes itself to producing a variety of creative and research projects; recent projects include: the radio programme, Melodies of Chinese Opera (2020 RTHK CIBS), the story-telling concert series, There Under the Sea Lay a Small Gong and a Long Story (2020 Community Cultural Ambassador Scheme); Hong Kong Music Miniatures, an online music library of newly written mini-music based on musical styles and dramatic needs of traditional Chinese theatres; interactive theatre, To Learn to Walk (2022), and Between the Notes, a research project on gongche scores from early Hong Kong (2022; supported by The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust).
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Janice Poon* | Dramaturg Hong Kong-based theatre artist and cultural practitioner Janice Poon is Senior Lecturer (Playwriting and Dramaturgy) and Academic Project Officer in the School of Drama at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She inaugurated both the MFA and BFA major in Dramaturgy programmes, the first of its kind in Asia region. She is also the Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dramatists, engages in interdisciplinary and intercultural creative work through playwriting, directing, dramaturgy and curating. Recent original works include In a Breath, Stragglers and interdisciplinary lecture performance Flow to Unfold. Her dramaturgical works such as Mr. Blank are highly appraised. She is a frequent speaker and workshop master at international theatre conferences and festivals, and her works have been presented in major cities in Europe, the U.S., China and other Asian countries. And Then, I Float won four major awards and was nominated best play at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre (2014), while Small Waisted won the Multicultural Short Plays Competition organised by UNESCO/International Theatre Institute in 2016. Online theatre Pornography was awarded “Featured Works of 2020” at the IATC(HK) Critics Award. *By kind permission of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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Jan Wong | Set Designer Jan Wong specializes in set and costume design, with recent theatrical credits including: Special Delivery 2: Politely Intractable Still; Heading West 3: The Final Trail; The Massage King; Hu Xue Yan, my Dear; Deling and Cixi; Principle; The Miracles of the Namiya General Store; Pa Pa Magician; Frankenstein: Relive; The Void; Luna Gale; Always by your Side; The Ward; The Shape of Things; and Good Times, Best Friend. Wong’s musical and operatic work includes: The Originals; Breathing at Zero; Songs of Portrait; Markus-Passion (BWV247); Hercules at the Crossroads; People Come People Go; Freespace Jazz Fest: Jazz Imaginarium, Angelita Li sings Billie Holiday—feat. Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and Ted Lo & Eugene Pao. His dance work includes: The Island Whispers…; The Last Dance; Waiting Heart; Dance of Strings; Reveries of the Red Chamber; Tenacity of Being,The Battle; and Re-mark II. He has received set design awards for The Island Whispers…, Reveries of the Red Chamber, and Hu Xue Yan, my Dear.
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Mandy Tam | Costume Designer Mandy Tam has been freelancing since her graduation. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the HKAPA, and a Master degree of Intercultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her work also been performed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Berlin, Canada, British, Macau, New York and Singapore. Her experience in costume design encompasses Chinese and Western opera, dance, drama, musical, physical theatre and ballet. 2004 and 2015 she won the “Best Costume Award” from the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies. During the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, she was part of the team representing Hong Kong with their work Dream of the West Chamber. In 2008, she went on a one-year study trip to New York funded by a scholarship from the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship of the Asian Cultural Council. To learn more about a systematic approach to costume conservation, she intends to take classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and fashion cultural research in New York. She is a freelance costume designer and education of theatre performing arts.
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Yeung Tsz-yan | Lighting Designer Yeung Tsz-yan graduated from the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, majoring in Theatre Lighting Design. She won Best Lighting Design at the 15th Hong Kong Drama Awards with Phaedra. She also received Best Lighting Design for Iron (We Draman Group), Attempts on her Life, Marriage and Le Père (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre). In 2012, she worked on Two Swallows, Ode to Wu Guanzhong, a production that won the Outstanding Design for Dance at the 14th Hong Kong Dance Awards. In 2011 and 2015, Yeung was selected to represent Hong Kong in Prague Quadrennial. Yeung has worked with major arts groups in Hong Kong and has designed for over 100 productions. She is now a freelance theatre worker.
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Dan Fong | Video Designer Graduated from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, and currently a digital visual artist and visual designer. Fong is passionate towards visual experiments on various media platforms all these years and works with many different creative units from theatre to popular music industry includes Zuni Icosahedron, Windmill Grass Theatre and W Theatre etc. His works have been shown in many internationally toured events, and he started in collaboration with various pop singers and involved in their video/ visual design for their concerts since 2010, collaborating pop singers include Miriam Yeung, George Lam, Priscilla Chan, Pakho Chau, Hins Cheung, Edmond Leung, Endy Chow, Chochukmo, Joker Xue, Yoga Lin, Hebe Tan, Kay Tse, SHINE etc. He also starts doing music video directing since 2014, his current works include Ellen Loo’s Darling, Chochukmo’s 8 and TFVSJS’s Shrine of out despair.
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We are nurtured in the cultural tradition of China, combining with the creativity of contemporary art, to impress the world with Chinese dance of Hong Kong character.
Established in 1981, the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) was incorporated in 2001 as a charitable and non-profit-making institution, and is financially supported by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As one of the nine flagship performing arts companies in Hong Kong, our mission is to promote Chinese dance with contemporary artistic visions and Hong Kong character. Since its inception, HKDC has staged over 200 productions over the decades, many of which were highly popular with critical acclaim. Recent productions include The Legend of Mulan, Red Poppies, Spring Ritual·Eulogy, The Butterfly Lovers, Storm Clouds, L’Amour Immortel, Dream of the Past: Ancient Chinese Court Dances, Reveries of the Red Chamber, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile, Vipassana, Lady White of West Lake, Tale of Three Cities, Waiting Heart, Liu Sanjie, Ode to the Silk Road, Dance of Strings, A Tale of the Southern Sky, Mazu the Sea Goddess, The Moon Opera, Shan Shui: An Ode to Nature, Nine Songs, as well as Convergence, a culminating work created through a three-year interdisciplinary research study on Chinese dance and Chinese martial arts traditions.
As a cultural ambassador of Hong Kong, HKDC constantly brings the city’s unique artistic style to the world by touring to different cities across the globe, engaging local audiences and encouraging cultural exchange. In recent years, we have brought our award-winning productions to the Lincoln Center in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Sony Centre in Toronto, the Concourse Theatre in Chatswood, Sydney, the Southbank Centre in London and The Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre in Minsk, among others.
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