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: 2021.2.1 (Mon), 2021.2.4 (Thu), 2021.2.8 (Mon)*
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: Auditorium, Sir Run Run Shaw Hall
Tutors: Cherry Leung, Donut Cheung
* 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.

Workshop Instructors

Cherry Leung | Choreographer

Cherry Leung graduated with a first-class honours degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts from the HKAPA in 2008, majoring in contemporary dance and choreography. She received a full dance scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund in 2015 to obtain a Master in Choreography in Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the United Kingdom. During her study in the HKAPA, she was awarded several scholarships and represented the school in performance tours to Southampton, London, Berlin, Brussels and Guangzhou.

Behind the stage, Leung is also a dedicated choreographer. Her works were toured to the UK, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, Guangzhou and Beijing.

Leung is currently an active freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher in Hong Kong.​

Donut Cheung | Actress

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 is 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.

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.