It’s the start of another school day, children arrive, meet their friends, chatter and play. The bell rings, time for class, the journey of learning and new discoveries begins afresh.

Playing Hooky celebrates childhood, creativity and companionship. Created by dancer-choreographer Pierre-Paul Savoie, it uses texts by French writer Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) whose poems, familiar to almost every French schoolchild and adult, have been turned into recording hits by such stars as Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Joan Baez and Nat King Cole. His film scripts include many long regarded as classics of French cinema, most famously Les Enfants du Paradis, one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time.

As founder and dancer-choreographer, Pierre-Paul Savoie has led PPS Danse to become a pillar of Quebec’s vibrant dance community.

Júlia Kubinyi is considered as one of the most talented young artists in the new generation of folk-song singers in Hungary. Her repertoire covers the whole of the Hungarian inhabited regions. She was awarded “Young Mater of Folk Arts” – a Hungarian state award in 2012. In the same year, Júlia was the only singer entering the final round of “The Peacock Has Taken Wings”, the folk song and folk dance competition for young talents organized by the Hungarian National Television. Júlia received the Junior Prima Award in 2013. Since 2008, she has been the dedicated singer of Düvő Ensemble and a regular guest-artist of many Hungarian folk music groups. From 2014, she has been a guest artist of Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. In the past year, her own singing work came to the forefront with her first solo recording Magma járom – On my way. Since 2002, Júlia has regular performances in Europe including Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, France, Sweden and Romania; and she started performing out of Europe since 2006, including the USA, Canada and Uruguay.

 Emerging choreographer Dorothy Sek, together with four dancers, compiles an enthusiastic dance and movement forum. ​ For more information, click here.

Au-delà du Temps is an invitation for the audience to enjoy a contemporary Chinese dance about time and transcendence in life. Visions of the future and moments of sweet memories often intertwine in a lifetime. What if time can be reversed and the future “recollected”? In Au-delà du Temps, let’s travel through time and life, and reflect upon its meaning and value from different perspectives. Is time merely an illusion?

Now in its second year, the HK Choreography Festival showcases performances by local and international artists plus workshops, 'meet the artist nights' and more (for details click here).

Programme for each night's performance includes:

1 June: Roberto Olivan & Impossible Dance Company (Spain), Hui Ju (Korea), Eugenia Kim (US), Jiao Li (China)

2 June: Laura & Johanna (Holland/Germany), Guanghao (China), Miku Tsuchiya (Japan), Freda Fitch & Edivaldo Ernesto (Mexico), Alexandra Waierstall Dance Company

3 June: Lilian Steiner (Australia), Meleat Fredriksson (Sweden), The Van-L Dance Company (UK/Greece), Ling Min (China), Alexandra Waierstall Dance Company

4 June: Sasha Roubicek (UK), Evelin Keller (Brazil), Zjana Muraro (US), Kurt Dreyer (Switzerland) with local artists.

Hong Kong Dance Company’s “8/F Platform X” celebrates Asian dance pieces of the last decade, gathering artists from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Shanghai and Hong Kong to fuse together the old with the new. pushing the boundaries of choreography and tradition. 

25th anniversary concert celebration of  Cadenza House features Songs From China singing contest winners plus Sandra Ng, Xiao Yang Zhao, Iris Chung, Sui Ming Chu, Chan Kwok Fai, Jason Lam plus the Sintonia & Lantau Choirs.

Dan Yu with students performs works by Bach, Spohr, Jongen, Granados, Parish Alvars, Ravel, Handel, de Falla, Moszkowski, Kune, Tournier, Khachaturian, Thomas and Mortari

Award-winning theatre company The Shadow Players present a 'very modern, laugh-out-loud production' of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece.

The  Hong Kong International Choreography Festival is associated with the Hong Kong International Collective Artists in Residency for Opportunities and Sustainability (HKICAROS) initiative which runs from 14 March to 13 April and aims to give more opportunities to artists living and working in Hong Kong by  interacting choreographically with international artists from around the world.

Over four nights at the Sheung Wan Civic Theatre, the festival will stage a range of performances by artists participating in HKICAROS in collaboration with other artists bringing their productions to the festival.

For each night's performance repertoire, please check the HKICF website.