The Artists

Dominic WONG

Associate Artistic Director

Dominic Wong was a TV artist for Asia Television Company from 1990 to 1992. He studied modern dance in The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He joined CCDC after his graduation in 1996 and was promoted as Associate Artistic Director in 2016. He received 2001 and 2013 Hong Kong Dance Awards “Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer” for his performance in Plaza X and The Comedy of K respectively. He is one of the founding member of the Zero Zero Ensemble. Wong’s choreographic work Men’s Chop Suey (All of A Sudden, 2003) was invited to rerun in the 1^st Guangdong Modern Dance Festival. He also choreographed widely for other dance companies including Zero Zero Ensemble, BiLiBaLa Physical Theatre and E-Side Modern Dance Company. Other choreographic works include E.Y.T. (2007), Xtremely Four Seasons (2008), What’s Next? (2009), Punk Side Story (2010), Blind Chance (2012), Second Thoughts (2014), Travelogue (2016) (previous title: Little Pieces), The Little Prince (2017), Day After Day in Season(s) (2018) and The Odyssey of Little Dragon  (2019). Xtremely Four Seasons and Blind Chance were invited to rerun in the 6^th and 9^th Guangdong Modern Dance Festival. Xtremely Four Seasons and What’s Next? were both hailed by South China Morning Post as one of the “Best Dances” in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Travelogue was awarded the Outstanding Medium Venue Production at The 19^th Hong Kong Dance Awards.

Sang Jijia

Resident Choreographer

Sang Jijia is the Resident Choreographer of CCDC. He had received numerous international dance awards and the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study in the US. In 2002, he was selected by the ‘Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative’ to study choreography under William Forsythe in Germany and joined the Ballet Frankfurt and Forsythe Company as Assistant Choreographer and Dancer, respectively. Sang Jijia returned to China in 2006 and has choreographed for CCDC, BeijingDance/LDTX and Guangdong Modern Dance Company. He is also commissioned by famous dance companies around the world, including Ballet Frankfurt (Germany), Spellbound Contemporary Ballet (Italy), Carte Blanche (Norway) and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sweden). In 2023, he has been awarded Honorary Fellowship by HKAPA in recognition of his remarkable achievements and contributions to the performing arts and cultural industry.

Sang Jijia is celebrated for his extremely physical and emotional movement language and his use of electronic music to interpret abstract concepts. Recent choreographies include: As If To Nothing (2009), Fragile Beauty (2016), Mr Blank (2018), Re-mark (2019), Pa | Ethos (2022) and Meeting In-between Time (2022).

Melissa LEUNG

Company Dramaturg

Melissa Leung graduated in Sports Science and Physical Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Then she pursued her professional development in theatre in Singapore. She was a graduate in “The Theatre Training and Research Programme” (TTRP, now known as Intercultural Theatre Institute, ITI). There, she received training in contemporary performance backed up by Taiqi and meditation, physical movement, post-Stanislavki acting techniques; and four classical Asian theatre forms, namely Bharatanatyam, an ancient Indian dance art, Wayang Wong, an Indonesia court dance; Beijing opera and Japanese Noh. Leung also pursued her master’s degree in Drama at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is among the first batch of graduates with a major in Dramaturgy. Leung is currently the Company Dramaturg of CCDC.

Leung was the Assistant Artistic Director (Education) of CCDC from 2018 to 2021. She directed a three-year “Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Literacy and Learning Project”, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. This project was awarded the 14^th Hong Kong Arts Development Award Certificate of Merit (Non-School Division) for Arts Education and the Outstanding Dance Education or Community Dance Award at the Hong Kong Dance Award 2020.

A very all rounded theatre practitioners, Melissa is known for her intense and exquisite physical acting. She cooperated with different dancing organisations and theatre associations, including Theatre du Pif, On & On Theatre Workshop, Unlock Dancing Plaza and Ho Bit Goon. Her recent works include Phenomenon of Man: REVOLVER 2021 (with On & On Theatre Workshop); A Fork In The Road (produced by On & On Theatre Workshop); Where is Our Sea? (Littlebreath Creative Workshop 2019 Community Cultural Ambassador project) and The Kassandra or the World as the End of Representation (presented by Littlebreath creative workshop, received the award for performer of the year at the IATC(HK) Critics Awards 2018). Also she is a movement coach at the production Stragglers by The Hong Kong Dramatist.

Shirley LOK

Rehearsal Mistress

Shirley Lok graduated in Ballet from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She received several scholarships during her studies. She has performed widely in Hong Kong and overseas with different dance companies, including Hong Kong Ballet and Hong Kong Dance Company. She joined CCDC in 2010 and received a Master of Intercultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. She became Senior Dance Artist in 2022 and was promoted to Rehearsal Mistress in 2023.

Her recent choreographic works include Besieged in In-between (2014), Journey to the West (2016), Generation Beta in 2019 Dancers’ Homework and Rebug in M.U.D. – Movement UnDefined in 2022.

QIAO Yang

Artist in Residence

Qiao Yang, Artist in Residence of CCDC, joined the Company for 27 years and debuted her full-length solo performance Almost 55 in 2019.

Born in Shaanxi, Qiao started learning Chinese dance at the age of 12. She received the Gold Award in the Modern Dance Duet Class at the Paris International Dance Competition in 1990 and became a founding member of Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 1992, where she performed extensively in major international arts festivals in Hong Kong, France, India, Singapore, the US, etc. She joined CCDC in 1996, received the Hong Kong Dance Award in 2003 for her outstanding performance in The Tragedy of Mr O, and was listed in the ‘Hong Kong Dance Hall of Fame’. Qiao received ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer’ at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2011 for her performance in Tales of Two Cities – Hong Kong, Shanghai, Eileen Chang, and received a nomination for the same prize at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2016 for Soledad. Qiao was awarded ’Artist of the Year (Dance)’ at the 14^th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2020 and ‘Secretary for Home Affairs Commendation Scheme (Arts and Culture)’ in 2021.

Almost 55 received great acclaim after its premiere. Qiao was awarded the ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer’ at the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2020 and launched a world tour to Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an and Singapore.