City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) is proud to present a new production Soledad from 11 to 12 December 2015 at Auditorium, Kwai Ching Theatre. The production is directed and choreographed by Helen Lai with Peter Suart as composer and set designer. He also performs a theatrical role.

Soledad, solitude in Spanish, is a new dance theatre inspired by the Nobel literature prize winner Gabriel García Márquez's novelOne Hundred Years of Solitude. It is the first collaboration between local choreographer Helen Lai and the Hong Kong and UK artist Peter Suart. Between them, a world of love, desire, and power will unfold, a world existing within a great and inscrutable solitude.

Across a trio of breathtaking dance pieces (Variation 10, Project Rameau and Les Illuminations), ‘Illuminated’ offers a radiant marriage of movement, music and live vocals from legendary songstress Katie Noonan together with Jean-Philippe Rameau’s dazzling Baroque ballet and opera music roaring into the 21st century.

Running time of each performance is about 1 hour 40 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.

The Bluebird of Happiness

Broadway World Awards 2013 "The Best Musical"

"The Bluebird of Happiness" is a musical adaptation of the play written by Belgian playwright and Nobel Prize WInner, Maurice Maeterlinck.

It is a story about a brother and sister, Mytyl and Tyltyl, who go on a quest for the magical blue bird, which leads them to exciting adventures and meet enchanting characters that helps them learn a heartwarming and valuable lesson.

In October 2015, "The Bluebird of Happiness" will take flight again in Hong Kong, presented by MQ Musical Theatrer, a musical theatre company that has been promoting fun family entertainment to Hong Kong audiences, young and old since 2002.

A 'Dance On' Series double-bill contemporary dance production featuring

‘ODDs’: Lam Chun-ho, Ivanhoe, the choreographer, will partner with dancer Tsoi Wan-wa, Shirley, together with Swiss composer Benjamin Ryser, sound installation artist Fabian Gutscher, veteran stage designer Lee Chi-wai, and video designer Shing Pok-man - to forge an orbit within the soul that allows for introspection.

‘Galaxy Dreamer’ by Max Lee:  As an allegory of real life unfolds, an existing yet invisible dreamer plies between dreams and a life where dreams are lost. He carves a starry sky out of a wasted city. Beauty comes from a kind of decay, and decay is actually a kind of enlightenment.

Running time of each performance is about 1 hour and 10 minutes with an intermission

Drama about a young man who rekindles a relationship with a former professor. Based on the book. In Cantonese with English surtitles.

The Waste Land is the most influential poem of the twentieth century. Eliot's haunting vision of a spiritually barren post-war Europe is brought to life in a performance which draws out the poem's vast array of characters as well as its rich lyrical language. Dramatic presentations of The Waste Land are rare since it is often regarded as too difficult to perform. A performance of The Waste Land with live musical accompaniment is almost unprecedented. Julian Lamb and David Pereira deliver a fusion of music and spoken word which will appeal to aficionados of the poem as well as those who have never encountered it. The music will feature passages of improvisation, original composition, and direct quotation from the work of some of the most important composers of the twentieth century, including Sibelius, Shostakovich, and Schoenberg. Previously performed to rave reviews in Canberra.

Through music, art, dance and the technological magic of iLuminate brings this extraordinary spectacle to stage, combining mythical elements with adventure and romance, told through dance styles which include contemporary, hip-hop, Latin and breaking, all using the power of light.

Presented by Hong Kong Dance Alliance Limited.

7 emerging choreographers take the stage with world premiere work.

Venue and Ticketing Services sponsored by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

365 Ways of Doing and Undoing Orientalism is a highly acclaimed repertoire of CCDC choreographed by veteran choreographer Willy Tsao with Sang Jijia and Xing Liang . Through an exotic display and re-twist of “oriental” elements , 365casts doubts on the West’s fascination with the Orient. Let’s look forward to 2015 version after its previous success in Australia, the US and Italy! 

Encoded is a visually stunning work that creates a ravishing immersive world of shimmering images that dissolve and reform as the performers sweep across the space. It is an aerial dance performance that uses the latest interactive technologies to build a projected digital environment that responds to the movements of the performers.