Greater Bay Dance Festival

The first “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Dance Festival”, to be presented by the Cultural, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau and the Cultural Center of Shenzhen Longgang District, and to be organized by BeijingDance/LDTX, is scheduled to take place at the Shenzhen Longgang District Cultural Center from 4 – 8 December, 2020. HKDance/FLSH is one of the co-organizers of the event.

This contemporary dance festival composes of four modules:

Workshop

Internationally renowned dance artists and teachers from Australia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, US, and from China Greater Bay area will be present to provide multi-dimensional workshops touching on modern dance techniques, choreography and improvisations, enabling participants to experience a wide array of styling and training.

Forum

In addition to the busy morning Workshops, there will be a Forum held daily in early afternoon, to be attended by artists from around the world with renowned dance artist, Willy TSAO, as facilitator, discussing on latest development.  Attendees will be able to participate fully to both receive information first-handedly as well as to raise questions & express views.

Showcase

Endless showing of latest original choreographies by young artists every late afternoon.

Main Stage

Worldclass professional dance groups presenting their works with Australasian Dance Collective from Australia, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre from Israel, Silvia Gribaudi Company from Italy, Namstrops from Japan, Lukas KARVELIS from Lithuania, and Beijing’s BeijingDance/LDTX, Shenzhen’s Round House Dance Company, Hong Kong’s Beyond Dance Theatre and Macao’s A Wonderful Player.

By taking part in the training, discussion, performance and appreciation of performances,
participants will be able to gain a better understanding on the latest development of contemporary dance.

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