Courses (Tai Po)

Special Courses

Children Courses

Contemporary Dance

Current Term: Jan to Mar 2025

Introductory

The course is designed for students who have never or rarely been exposed to contemporary dance. It mainly focuses on practicing basic skills and using simple and easy methods to make it easier and faster for students to accept and understand contemporary dance.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO101 12/1 Sun 11:30-12:50 am CHAR Hoi-yan 1,675 11

Elementary

Students can explore the possibility of body movements through training focuses on simple combinations, basic dance movements and weight transfer.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO102 6/1 Mon 7:00-8:20 pm Peggy LAM 1,675 11

The course focuses on the basic Contemporary Dance technique and simple dance combinations. It aims to enhance the student’s understanding of body and contemporary dance.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO103 8/1 Wed 7:00-8:20 pm LEE Ka-ki 1,675 11

The course focus on how to build up the imagination and develop the personality by two main parts through the lesson: Improvisation and Contemporary Dance Technique. By using different creative and interesting games or method, it will be full of exploration and challenging.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO104 11/1 Sat 7:00-8:20 pm Annie AU 1,675 11

Elementary Progressive

Target: suitable for students who had received Contemporary Dance training before and half year of dance training.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO105 6/1 Mon 8:30-9:50 pm Peggy LAM 1,675 11 Full

Contemporary Dance Choreography

Elementary Progressive

The class focuses on learning dance combinations. Students will learn how to use the interaction between the body and music. During the dancing process, they will be able to find the body’s expressiveness and how to express emotions.
Suitable for students who have studied any dance for at least half a year.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CG101 9/1 Thu 7:00-8:20 pm Bobo LAI 1,675 11

In the class, it will be mainly focus on learning the dance choreography which is choreographed by the dance tutor. Through the dance choreography to learn different contemporary dance styles to train the body openness and movement control, and enhance the sense of spatial awareness, musicality, imagination and expression of body etc.
It would be great to join the Contemporary dance (Elementary).

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CG102 11/1 Sat 8:30-9:50 pm Annie AU 1,675 11

Last Term: Sep to Dec 2024

Elementary

Students can explore the possibility of body movements through training focuses on simple combinations, basic dance movements and weight transfer.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO101 23/9 Mon 7:00-8:20pm Peggy LAM 1,825 12

The course focuses on the basic Contemporary Dance technique and simple dance combinations. It aims to enhance the student’s understanding of body and contemporary dance.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO102 25/9 Wed 7:00-8:20pm LEE Ka-ki 1,825 12

The course focus on how to build up the imagination and develop the personality by two main parts through the lesson: Improvisation and Contemporary Dance Technique. By using different creative and interesting games or method, it will be full of exploration and challenging.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO103 28/9 Sat 7:00-8:20pm Annie AU 1,825 12

Elementary Progressive

Target: suitable for students who had received Contemporary Dance training before and half year of dance training.

Code Start Date Day Time Instructor Fee Sessions Remarks
CO104 23/9 Mon 8:30-9:50pm Peggy LAM 1,825 12

Instructors

Bobo LAI

After graduating from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2008, Bobo Lai joined the Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) as a fulltime dancer after working a year as a freelance dancer. Her early performances at GMDC including works by renowned choreographers, such as Liu Qi’s Upon Calligraphy and Sang Jijia’s Sticks. She also showcased her own works One Plus One Ant and X -85213 at GMDC. She joined CCDC in 2015.

Peggy LAM

Born in Hong Kong, Lam was the member of CCDC’s Scholarship Class and dancer of CCDC’s youth dance ensemble Young Sky and WuDaoQingNian.

She has performed widely with various professional dance companies. During her study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in Modern Dance, she was awarded several scholarships and has toured overseas with the Academy.

She graduated from the Academy in 2007 and joined CCDC in the same year.

LEE Ka-ki

Born in Hong Kong, Lee Ka-ki received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree, majoring in contemporary dance, from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts where he was the recipient of several scholarships. In 2009, he was awarded a scholarship to participate in the American Dance Festival. He has performed in various local and overseas dance performances and joined CCDC in 2012.

Annie AU

Annie is currently a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and singing bowl therapist. Annie graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in contemporary dance. During her study, Annie was invited to cooperate with international choreographers, including Gabrielle Nankivell, Dam Van Huynh, Jaime Redfern, Christine Gouzelis, John Utans, Cho Yi, Li Yongjing. She also performed in The 4th HK Butoh Festival, HK Dance Award, HSBC Community Festival.

In this several years, she cooperates with different local dance companies and Nongovernmental Organizations as the teaching artist and performer, including E-side Dance Company, CCDC Dance Centre Outreach department, CCDC, Rice Journey Studio, TWGHs, Caritas HK.

Her recent performance including Voyage by Rice Journey Production, The Rite of spring and Dance at Dawn by CCDC, The rose of the name by Trinity Theatre.

CHAR Hoi-yan

Graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Modern Dance)