[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] On the Watershed, Looking Back—The Combing of the Characteristics and Achievement of Hong Kong Dance Prior to Its Professionalisation Joanna Lee Hoi-yin   The time frame covered in the “Research Project—Oral History of Hong Kong Dance Development” stretches from the 1950s...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] On the Watershed, Looking Back—The Combing of the Characteristics and Achievement of Hong Kong Dance Prior to Its Professionalisation Joanna Lee Hoi-yin   The time frame covered in the “Research Project—Oral History of Hong Kong Dance Development” stretches from the 1950s...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dance, Times, Politics —The Dance that Evolved through the Political Vortex of the 1950s and 1960s Lam Heyee   As a method of historical enquiry, the distinctive characteristic of “oral history” is that it starts from the individuals and retraces history...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] When Hard Work and Opportunity Meet Ringo Chan   Ringo Chan (1960-2016) was not among the then interviewees of the “Research Project—Oral History of Hong Kong Dance Development”, as he only became a member of dance sector at a later stage.....

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sixty Years of Blessings Joan Campbell   Joan Campbell was born in Reading, Berkshire. She came to Hong Kong in her 20s in 1954, and has been living in this city ever since. Hong Kong dance would have gone down a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dance is an Art of Team Spirit Lau So-kam   Lau So-kam is an overseas Chinese from Burma. In 1957, she moved from her hometown to study in Guangzhou. In 1960 she was transferred to join the Committee of Overseas Chinese...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Turning Hong Kong into a Dance World Lau Siu-ming   Lau Siu-ming is a familiar name to Hong Kong people. However, his role as a pioneer in Hong Kong dance before he became an active figure in the city’s pop culture...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Lifelong Dedication to Dance Cheng Wai-yung   Cheng Wai-yung is a Council Member of the Chinese Dancers’ Association, a member of the Board of Directors and Honorary Chairman of the Hong Kong Dance Federation, Chancellor of Starwave Dance Academy...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Zeitgeist of Dance Yeung Wai-kui   Dance came into Yeung’s life when he was a primary school student. He started choreographing in his high school days, and taught dance for adults in a newspaper office by the arrangement of his...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Untainted Dance in a Convoluted Era Florence Mo-han Aw   Aw joined the Hok Yau Club (HYC) in 1956, and she was the chairperson between 1962 and 1974. The predecessor of the HYC, the Hok Yau Dancing Club, was an arts...