As one of Hong Kong’s most creative dance ensembles, CCDC brings new voices to the dance floor with Dancers’ Homework, a showcase for CCDC dancers to express their choreographic talent. 

A highlight of Hong Kong’s contemporary dance scene, Dance Off continues to blaze new trails as works from the series catch the eye of the international dance scene and receive invitations from festivals and competitions across the globe. This year’s showcase sees the return of Tracy Wong, who reflects on the condition of one’s self being filled with pressures from the outside world. Sudhee Liao probes the performer’s relationship with a hyper-real dance space, and Felix Ke examines fear of death by drawing inspiration from Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. Rex Cheng revamps the physical movements of Chinese opera in a contemporary dance duet, while award-winning street dancer Solong Zhang dances his dream of living as his authentic self. First-time choreographers Alice Ma and Evains Lui explore the sense of trust amongst city-dwellers and the state of our breathing in everyday life with their respective works.

The 7 pieces are:

La Double Vie

Choreographer and Dancer: Rex Cheng

Chinese Opera Performer: Ng Kwok-wa

Composer: Yuen Wai-fung

White Noise

Choreographer: Felix Ke

Dancer: Lo King-san, Christy Ma

Hermetic Diode

Choreographer and Dancer: Sudhee Liao

Dancer: LO King-san

Visual Artist: Andrew Luk

Respiration

Choreographer and Dancer: Evains Lui

Dancer: Bobo Lai

Wu

Choreographer and Dancer: Alice Ma

Composer: Leung Po-wing

Sous vide

Choreographer and Dancer: Tracy Wong

Soprano: Shao Lok-man

Most Things haven’t Worked Out

Choreographer and Dancer: Solong Zhang

Two pieces: from Israel's Ofir Yudilevitch, 'Gravitas'; and from Australia's Nick Power 'Between Tiny Cities' (for which there is no seating)

Asia Pacific Dance Platform X, now in its 10th year, showcases  cutting edge contemporary dance in the Asia Pacific region features emerging and established choreographers from Japan, Australia and Israel who explore the theme of identity.

Australian/German Martin Hansen revitalizes the punk/DADA fantasy of 'no future'.

Asia Pacific Dance Platform X, now in its 10th year, showcases  cutting edge contemporary dance in the Asia Pacific region features emerging and established choreographers from Japan, Australia and Israel who explore the theme of identity.

Leading Korean choreographer Hong Sung-yop brings the Daegu Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) to Hong Kong with Moon-Looking Dog and I Saw the Elephant, works originally commissioned for the 2000 Lyon Dance Biennale in France.

Part of this year's inaugural City Contemporary Dance Festival 2017.

Inspired by Testimony, the controversial memoirs of Shostakovich, Helen Lai choreographs and Lee Chun-chow plays the Russian composer plus Shakespearean tragic characters and a Chaplinesque funny man in this unprecedented fusion of dance, music, moving image and theatre.

Winner in 2007 of a Hong Kong Dance Award, this show returns one decade on for this year's inaugural City Contemporary Dance Festival 2017.

City Contemporary Dance Festival (CCDF) is an initiative by CCDC as a platform showcasing quality dance pieces to Hong Kong audiences as well as introducing top-notch dance artists from Hong Kong and Asia to presenters of international theatre and festivals.

The Festival is made up of three main components: "Dance X" brings cutting-edge contemporary dances from Hong Kong and Mainland China to the international stage, "Asian Contemporary Dance Company Touring Network" presents productions by Korean and Japanese professional dance companies; and HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform showcases new contemporary choreographic works from Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwanese choreographers. 

The Festival will be held from 21 to 26 November 2017: more information at www.ccdc.com.hk.

Seven emerging Hong Kong choreographers are given free rein to experiment, culminating in seven works for any number of performers between 10 and 15 minutes long.