2021 Jockey Club "In Search of Voice in a Cramped City" Dance Education Programme

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. Each session will be led by one professional dance instructor and one artist in other arts discipline. 

Objectives:
- To arouse the interest of tertiary students to experience dance/ body creativity across various arts modalities.
- To express themselves and exchange ideas with peers through creative process in which they can also develop their communication skills.

Date: 2021.9.16 (Thu), 2021.9.23 (Thu), 2021.9.30 (Thu)*
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: White Box, Tai Po Arts Centre
Tutors: Cally Yip, HYF
* Depending on the Covid-19 outbreak situation, we shall provide participants with either Face-to-face or Online workshops. If the situation allows, we incline to adopt Face-to-face format. Small group learning approach will be adopted in the online workshop.

Workshop Instructors

Cally Yip | Choreographer

Cally Yip graduated from the HKAPA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a major in Contemporary Dance in 2007. While studying at the HKAPA, she represented the Academy in performance tours to Perth, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, and she was awarded the Jackie Chan Charitable Scholarship and the Hong Kong Association of University Women Scholarship. After 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 con- certs 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.

HYF | 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.

Passoverdance

Established in 1993, Passoverdance is a local non-profit dance organisation, which later underwent a restructuring led by Pewan Chow, Antoinette Mak and a group of young artists in 2008. Passoverdance has been a recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Year Grant since 2016. The company is dedicated to fostering and developing local dance culture, as well as discovering and nurturing new talents in the community. In recent years, the company has toured to Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore, Bahrain, Taiwan and Malaysia. With its endeavour to explore the infinite possibilities in the art of dance, Passoverdance strives to reveal the purity and uniqueness in each work, creating a deeper dialogue and interaction between the audience and the work.
The mission of Passoverdance is centred around two dimensions:​

1) To foster the development of arts and culture in Hong Kong through
the exploration and creation of works of performing arts, with a focus on contemporary dance. We seek to instill positive messages into our works and illuminate art as a part of everyday life, inspiring the audience to reflect on and experience the power of art.​

2) By offering dance courses, workshops, choreographic opportunities and platforms for dance exchange, we hope to motivate the younger generation to develop their self-awareness, confidence, creativity and a sense of appreciation for the arts.