City Contemporary Dance Festival 2017: Quality Choreography from across East Asia

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Founded in 1979, the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) is Hong Kong’s leading contemporary dance company. The inaugural edition of the City Contemporary Dance Festival 2017 will open with a revival of one of CCDC’s most renowned productions: Testimony by choreographer Helen Lai, for which veteran stage actor Lee Chun-chow returns to this pioneering dance theatre which deciphers the music of Shostakovich.

This six-day dance festival will see many Hong Kong premieres,  including Cold Arrow – Game of Go (Weiqi) (Beijing), a work filled with Chinese cultural imagery; NINA – materialize sacrifice (Japan), a piece that explores how to create a body which would absorb the energy of the floor and would not fall even when being pushed; The Encounter of Confucius (Shanxi), a performance that clashes modern thoughts with traditional culture; and closing piece Moon-looking Dog ‧ I saw the elephant (Korea), a search for the inner self within the modern identity.