
Imagination Boom 3
Warning: September 10 4pm matinee is 'photography allowed'
Category: Theatre/Dance
Genre: Dance
Company:
E-Side Dance
Venue:
Ngau Chi Wan Civic Center
Date and Time:
8pm September 9; 4pm & 8pm September 10 & 11
Ticket Price:
80
Location:
Kowloon
Nearest MTR Station:
Choi Hung
Ticketing By: Urbtix
Age Limitation: 3
Artistic Director Jacky Yu brings together six local choreographer-dancers for Imagination Boom 3: Carman Li, Janet Wu and Lo Lok-yiu, who graduated from Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance; Wong Po-lui, winner of 2016 Daegu International Choreography Festival - World Choreography Competition (Solo part); Maze Chan, now studying in Taiwan; and Helen Leung, recently graduated from her Media and Cultural Studies programme in Hong Kong.
E-Side Dance Company was founded in 1988 by Jacky Yu. It has been a Venue Partner of the Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre since 2008, providing platforms for dance artists to create new work and aiming to encourage Asian modern dance exchanges. In 2006 one of its representative productions, Toppling the World, received a Hong Kong Dance Award; in 2012 the company was awarded a Hong Kong Dance Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2016, Jacky Yu received “The Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2015 – Artist of the Year (Dance)” from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.