“Hugh Cho brings a unique movement palette and a combination of styles with varied dynamics.” ── Sue Healey

A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts,Hugh Cho’s interest in choreography began during his time as Artist in Residence with Unlock Dancing Plaza,between 2010 and 2014. In 2013,Cho choreographed and performed in the dance video Eternal Sunshine shown in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival’s Film Corner. In 2015 he directed the short dance film yellow alert at the New Works Forum: Screendance, co-presented by the West Kowloon Cultural District and City Contemporary Dance Company,and was commissioned to further develop the film to be premiered in Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival 2017. In 2016,he was invited by the Japan Contemporary Dance Network to Okinawa and Hokkaido for exchange and creation. His dance piece Made in Hong Kong was invited to the largest international contemporary dance market and festival internationale tanzmesse nrw in Germany in the same year. Cho is now based in Hong Kong as a freelance dancer, choreographer and part-time Chinese opera acrobat.

“Yang Yuntao is a very powerful dancer,mature and knowledgeable.” ── Sue Healey

Yang Yuntao joined the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) in 2002 as Principal Dancer,becoming Assistant Artistic Director in 2007 and Artistic Director in 2013. A graduate of the Faculty of Dance at the Minzu University of China,Yang has been a dancer with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company,the Beijing Modern Dance Company and the City Contemporary Dance Company. He has received a number of awards at national dance competitions in China,and was recognised at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2003 and 2006. In 2009 he received the “Award for Best Artist (Dance)” in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

Yang has choreographed for various dance companies. His choreographic works for HKDC include Border Town,Romance of the Three Kingdoms,Spring Ritual‧Eulogy,Joseph Koo’s Dance Melodies 2013,The Legend of Mulan,The Butterfly Lovers,Storm Clouds,Voices and Dances of the Distant Land,L’Amour Immortel,Blanc in Reveries of the Red Chamber,and Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile. Spring Ritual‧Eulogy won the “Outstanding Achievement in Production” award at the 2013 Hong Kong Dance Awards and was presented in Beijing and Taipei in 2013. The Legend of Mulan won two awards at the 2014 Hong Kong Dance Awards and was presented in New York and Sydney in 2015,and in London in 2017. The Butterfly Lovers was presented in Korea in 2016. Storm Clouds and L’Amour Immortel won three awards at the 2015 and 2016 Hong Kong Dance Awards respectively. L’Amour Immortel was presented at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Centre and Guangzhou Opera House in July 2017.

“Yuh Egami’s movement is elegant,fluid and beautiful,and also contrasting strength and humour.” ── Sue Healey

Born in Okinawa,Japan,Yuh Egami graduated from The Royal Ballet School in London and joined Hong Kong Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2002. He assumed the additional role of Répétiteur for the Company in 2014.

With Hong Kong Ballet,Egami has danced in various works such as John Meehan’s Swan Lake,Stephen Jefferies’ and Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker,Ronald Hynd’s Coppélia,Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias,Natalie Weir’s Turandot,George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Nacho Duato’s Castrati, Jorma Elo’s Shape of Glow, William Forsythe’s Steptext,and Stanton Welch’s Clear.

Egami has presented his works at Hong Kong Ballet’s Choreographers’ Showcase,including Horn (2014) and White Lies (2012) with Ricky Hu Song-wei, OIOIO (2011), Mirage (2010), Collage of One (2008), Sakula (2007) and Kagé (2005). He has also contributed choreography to several full-length works including Carmen (2017) and The Frog Prince-A Ballet Chinois (2013) together with Hu and as associate choreographer to Yuri Ng,and Firecracker (2010) as an associate choreographer to Ng. His work Bolero (2015) with Hu,won Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2016.

Egami also re-choreographed Ng’s Devil’s Tale for Architanz,Japan in 2015 and choreographed Sonographer (2011) and Firefly (2016) for E-side Dance Company in Hong Kong.

“Ivy Tsui is young and lively with an independent personality and a body that gives a sense of brightness and ease.” ── Sue Healey

Independent choreographer Ivy Tsui specialises in site-specific dance. She graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2009 with a first-class honours degree and was recognised with the “Young Artist (dance)” award at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2015. Her site-specific dance work Quan Quan,which premiered in 2011,was recreated and performed at the Kubrick bookstore in Hong Kong in 2012 and again in 2017 at the Rahva Raamat bookstore (named one of the world’s four best bookstores in 2016) in Tallinn,Estonia.

Ivy’s choreography is inspired by her passion for nature and the environment. She has created a number of commissioned works for the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department, including Water Lilies (2017), Morning glory (2016), Dehydrated Flower (2015),and Frangipani (2015).

She was recently selected as one of three artists representing Hong Kong in “Creative Meeting Point: Hong Kong x Finland”,a dance exchange programme organised by the West Kowloon Cultural District and three Finnish dance institutions: Dance Info Finland,Zodiak – Centre for New Dance,and Dance House Helsinki.

Website: ivytheatres.com

“Daniel Yeung is a powerful performer,a thinker who likes to raise questions with a critical mind.” ── Sue Healey

Daniel Yeung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in Chinese Music. He is a self-taught dancer and was twice awarded scholarships to study choreography in Holland and the UK. In 2002,Yeung was nominated by the European Ballettanz yearbook as “The Choreographer To Look At” and was awarded the “Rising Artist Award” by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He is a six-time awardee at the Hong Kong Dance Awards (2000,2005,2009,2012,2013,2014),organized by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance,and has twice been named as one of the “Top Five Best Dance Works of the Year” by the South China Morning Post. In 2013,Yeung was recognized as “Best Artist of the Year (Dance)” by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for his contributions as curator, choreographer, performer, teacher and critic for developing dance culture in Hong Kong.

“Abby Chan possesses a theatrical flair,a global vision,and a rich sense of the contemporary.” ── Sue Healey

Abby Chan is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts,and was a dancer and guest choreographer with the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company from 1991 to 1998. The founder of Chan-Can-Dance Theatre and co-artistic director of Mcmuimui Dansemble,she received the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship of the Asian Cultural Council to present her work in New York. In New York her work has been presented at various theatres and festivals including the Mulberry Street Theatre, Joyce SoHo, the chashama OASIS Festival, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange Women’s Performance Festival, 92nd Street Y, Galapagos Art Space, Chen Dance Center and La MaMa.

Chan’s choreography has been performed in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Kyoto, Malaysia, Sydney, Sao Paulo, Colorado and New York, and she is a four-time recipient of the Hong Kong Dance Award.

In addition to her dance work,Chan has collaborated and performed with a number of theatre companies,showcasing her versatility in performing arts. Recent appearances include Candace Chong’s play Wild Boar,directed by Olivia Yun for the 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival; Unlock Dancing Plaza’s first serial cross-disciplinary creation,the trilogy Walls 44; and her own free-form dance theatre production Kidult Ophelia. She was also the director of movement for the Dionysus Contemporary Theatre productions Equus and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chan featured as an actress in the local independent movie Pseudo Secular,and performed and served as director of movement for O Theatre Workshop’s Black Monday and Reframe Theatre’s A Concise History of Future in Hong Kong’s New Vision Arts Festival.

Her latest production, Cattle Runway, mixes theatre, multimedia, and a live string quartet to create an exhibition-like experience of a catwalk and fast fashion that explores the dynamics of contemporary human behaviour.

Website: www.abbychancandance.com

“Joseph Lee’s signature brings an incredible malleable physicality,full of a young person’s kinetic energy.” ── Sue Healey

Born in Hong Kong, Joseph Lee began his dance training at the age of seventeen. After graduating from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a degree in Professional Accountancy,he continued his dance studies at The Place,London Contemporary Dance School in UK,obtaining a Master of Arts (Contemporary Dance) in 2015. Returning to Hong Kong,Lee joined Unlock Dancing Plaza,first as an apprentice and then as a resident artist. He has worked with Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot),Maresa Von Stockert (Tilted Production),Emmanuelle Vo-dinh,Sue Healey,Chou Shuyi,Ong Yong Lock and Pewan Chow,and performed in France,London,Tokyo,Taiwan,Seoul,Singapore and Malaysia.

Recent choreographies include The Other End (2015),Pardon...Pardon? (2016),It tastes like you (2016),Folding Echoes (2016),Confession Ain’t Solo (2017),The Way Horse Talk; The Path We Walk (2017)

In 2016 Lee was recognised with a Chin Lin Foundation Emerging Choreographer award for his solo work Pardon…Pardon? in Seoul. His directorial debut dance video It tastes like you was screened at the South Taiwan Film Festival 2016,Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival 2016 (Audience’s Choice Award),the Festival of Recorded Movement 2017 in Canada,and the 2017 Perth Dance Festival – Screendance Awards in Scotland.

Working with independent dance artist KT Yau,Lee recently launched the first crowdfunded dance project in Hong Kong,Re:do/ Joseph Lee/ KT Yau. His solo work Folding Echoes is currently on tour at the International Performance Festival in Mainz,Germany,the Beijing Dance Festival,the Guangdong Dance Festival,and the City Contemporary Dance Festival.

Website: www.josephwnlee.com