Multimedia dance work inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony in which audience members, equipped with 3D glasses and silicon heart transmitting the performers' heartbeat, connect with their inner and outer worlds.

World premiere, commissioned by the New Vision Arts Festival, of Aeschylus' text, minimalized by mainland director Li Liuyi from a translation by Luo Niansheng - in Mandarin with Chinese and English surtitles.

Shakespeare's classic adapted and transposed to Hong Kong in the 1900s by Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection's Vicki Ooi in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Education Department.

In English with English and Chinese surtitles.

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After the performance on 23 October, the audience is invited to stay for a documentary screening of the Bravo! Hong Kong Youth Theatre Awards Scheme 2015-16, which will wrap up 18 months' training for some of the younger cast members.

Another extra activity will be pre-performance Reader’s Theatre sessions in Chinese in the foyer of the theatre (6:45pm on 22 October, 2:15pm on 23 October; free admission; in Chinese). They are the culmination of AFTEC’s Plays for Young People project in which 13 emerging translators translated 4 select overseas plays into Chinese under professional mentorship.

A world premiere from dancer/choreographer Chen Kai, transposing the movements of traditional Chinese opera into modern dance - part of LCSD's ongoing 'Dance On' series.

Discounts available for groups and for full time students/senior citizens/special needs.

O Duo use a variety of percussion instruments, including marimbas, glockenspiel and bongos. In addition to the works by minimalist music icons such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the programme will also feature rearranged favourites by Bach and Vivaldi

Were there cities, glorious as fireworks in the sky, vanished at the height of their magnificence. The loving dwellers within were scattered to the four winds.

No, this is not our story. We have walls built with sturdy concrete and the endless bustle of city life. We have ambitions burning in heart, a cold shoulder to every stranger we pass.

It is our story, perhaps. Look up and we see fireworks burn. Look down and we find ourselves standing in desolation.

Don’t tell them: this is not the same city.

After As If To Nothing, CCDC Resident Choreographer Sang Jijia reunites with experimental musician Dickson Dee to create Fragile Beauty – a story of cities told through the powerful and exquisite language of movement.

Irrespective of their age, Ong and Chou can genuinely feel the usefulness and uselessness in their bodies through their dance, and notice that people change along with the world’s ups and downs.

In a society of extreme development, we are all striving to keep up with the time while human evolution is becoming more complicated.  ‘Usefulness’is a war of fight, a void of emptiness, some sedimentation and hopes.  Faced with all these, how shall our body proceed?

The high-octane, feel-good Danz Up is a spectacular new dance drama with over 20 dancers and actors, who take to the streets with their dreams as urban dance warriors. With popping choreography from Shing Mak (choreographer of the hit homegrown dance movie The Way We Dance), this young energetic cast led by veteran stage director Tang Wai-kit and award-winning playwright Matthew Cheng will perform a spectacular dance off.

Don’t just stand there. Get movin’.

Light and shadow, real image and mirror image, right and left, left and right... Beijing choreographer Gu Jiani explores different attitudes towards life through changes in the qualities of the two dancers’ movement. At times perfectly in sync, completely antagonistic, domineering and submissive, fraught with anxiety and hysteria, Right & Left exposes the tangible and intangible constraints endured by us in search of our place in this restrictive society, but there is no single answer, only points of view and open-endedness. Another world premiere piece, The Weight of Force will also premiere.

Ancient court dances are one of the long-lost treasures of China. Resplendent, exquisite and ceremonious, they showcase not only China’s aesthetic achievement in the art of dancing but also her traditional culture in rite, music, etiquette, costume, poetry and song. To recover these hidden riches, Hong Kong Dance Company joins forces with the Classical Dance Department of Beijing Dance Academy to present Dream of the Past: Ancient Chinese Court Dances. The performance recreates, with extensive reference to archaeological archives, a representative collection of Chinese court dances from different times.

Join us in this journey to the past to explore the grandeur of the precious long-lost dance and culture of ancient China, in the Hong Kong premiere of Dream of the Past: Ancient Chinese Court Dances.