November 2025

[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="50445" img_size="large" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text](Hong Kong, 20th Nov 2025) City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) launches its new stage series “The Connect Stage” with the new production A Triple Bill, featuring renowned international choreographers: contemporary dance master William Forsythe, two rising stars Sita Ostheimer and Hung Tsai-Hsi. Through three different works, the program showcases the diversity of contemporary dance. A Triple Bill will take place from December 12-14, at Freespace’s The Box, WestK. Tickets are now available at URBTIX, art-mate, and Damai.   Classics re-voiced, the contemporary amplified A Triple Bill comprises three deifferent works that illuminate contemporary dance’s multifaceted appeal through divergent choreographic and musical languages, building a world-class stage experience. William Forsythe’s seminal quartet N.N.N.N. is performed by four next-generation male dancers—like a mind refracted into four perspectives. Through continuous oscillation and mutual pull, their bodies generate palpable musicality. The dancer's audible breath score binds them as a tightly linked entity; their limbs becoming singular voices, each tuned and in counterpoint to the others, as they enter into a complex, intense state of music making. The work allows audiences to “hear the dance and see the music,” and to sense the body’s resonant echo in space. This iconic work has toured the world for over two decades. Restaged by Cyril Baldy and Georg Reischl with CCDC’s male dancers, it makes its Asia debut this December. As Cyril notes, the piece is not rigid about form, so it amplifies each dancer’s individuality. Same steps, different bodies, entirely new expressions. Award-winning German choreographer Sita Ostheimer collaborates with seven CCDC female dancers on the new work LUNA. The moon—mysterious and profound—has long been personified through female archetypes, from Greek mythologies to Chinese lore. LUNA challenges these conventions. Through a collective of seven women, it reframes a force far beyond the narrowly “feminine”: nourishing yet incisive, serene yet transformative.

[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="50373" img_size="large" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]After two years hiatus, Jumping Frames 2025, presented by the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) returns with a new theme “Time Machine” this year, featuring screenings, lecture performance, and workshops, where movement transcends time through shifting media.  The festival will take place from November 13 to 23, 2025, at the Eaton Hong Kong and Broadway Cinematheque.  Tickets are now available at the Broadway Cinematheque website, its box office, and through art-mate.   The past is the future - a century-spanning journey through dance on screen The opening films – “Jumping Frames Time Machine” transport the audience to the festival’s own genesis.  Through 4 dance films from 2004 – Alienation, Ambiguity, dancescape@margin@beijing, and 10 Nights Rehearsal Note - curator Elysa WENDI revisited the inaugural impulse of the festival, returning to the early dance film experiments and re-experiencing the cityscape of Hong Kong, capturing the dancers across two decades with their movements echoing through time.   EXPANDED SPACE: Sometimes I See the Future by CHOY Ka Fai, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw follows.  The lecture performance explores the worlds of cosplay and digital entertainment, discussing the notions of telepresence in the age of extreme self, and the possibility of future bodies through virtual avatars.  This adaptation is supported by the Eaton Hong Kong Residency in collaboration with Jumping Frames, incorporating a virtual and philosophical aspect to this year's festival.   Expanding International Art House Cinema Landscape Spectrums: International Art House Showcase continues the dialogues with International film festivals, including Ann Arbor Film Festival of USA, POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin of Germany, Fiver Dance Film Festival of Spain, and Arkipel Jakarta International Documentary Experimental Film Festival of Indonesia, and more.  LIGHT CONE of France will be screening a selection of 16mm films.  Curators of the four festivals will also appear at the screening, engaging direct