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: 2020.10.20 (Tue), 2020.10.23 (Fri), 2020.10.27 (Tue)*
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: Auditorium, Sir Run Run Shaw Hall
Tutors: Gabbie Chan Hiu-ling, Nina Chiu
* Depending on the Covid-19 outbreak situation and the group gathering restriction measures, 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, 3 sessions, approx. 1-1.5 hours for each group.

Chapter 2 “Hear, We Dance” will be held in the next phase in late-2020 and early-2021. Priority will be given to student participants who have attended the Introductory Contemporary Dance Workshop – Outreach Tour to University and Community.

Workshop Instructors

Gabbie Chan Hiu-ling | 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-DanceFestival (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.

Nina Chiu | Visual Arts

Nina Chiu Lai Yin, graduated from the Hong Kong University of Education. 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 hope 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.

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.