Text: Natasha Rogai Legacy & Heritage is the theme of this year’s Hong Kong Dance Awards (the Awards). Since they began in 1999 the Awards have themselves become part of the legacy of the dance sector, offering a precious record of its leading lights and their achievements. Hong Kong is notorious for neglecting or forgetting its heritage. Buildings are torn down, iconic local traditions like street hawkers are disappearing, land in the New Territories which held small fa

Text: Natasha Rogai Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and marked the occasion with international guest...

REVIEW: HONG KONG BALLET THE GREAT GATSBY Text: Natasha Rogai Hong Kong Ballet’s revival of artistic director Septime Webre’s The Great...

Text: Natasha Rogai After many trials and tribulations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) at last returned to the...

The Hong Kong Ballet Group (HKBG) celebrated its 55th anniversary in style, with a performance bringing together over 150 local students from numerous ballet schools for a Bournonville programme. Staged in masterly fashion by Vivi Flindt, former principal and ballet mistress of the Royal Danish Ballet and featuring two of the company’s dancers, this was a golden opportunity for local ballet students and audiences to experience the unique qualities of the pure Bournonville sch