(Hong Kong, 23  Feb 2026) City Contemporary Dance Company’s landmark 2026 production INterstices (《空間間析》), a programme of the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival, will have its world premiere at The Hall, East Kowloon Cultural Centre. Newly choreographed by Artistic Director Sang Jijia, the work harnesses his signature high-energy physicality and integrates multimedia stage vocabulary to dissect, layer by layer, the subtle relationships between space and body. The piece creates a field for perceiving multiple dimensions of “space,” inviting audiences into boundless philosophical reflection.

The production runs from 28 February to 1 March 2026 at The Hall, East Kowloon Cultural Centre. Tickets are now on sale through URBTIX, Art-mate, and Damai.

Stage Design Merges Installation and Video: Entering a Reimagined Space
Under the creative vision of Sang Jijia, alongside lighting and stage designer Lawmanray, the stage transforms fluidly—as if reconfiguring at will. Layered with video design by Oliver Shing, projections oscillate between the tangible and the ephemeral. Dancers navigate, interact with, and occasionally withdraw from installations and imagery. Body, installation, and video construct infinite spatial possibilities together. Logic constantly fractures and reforms. Through this interplay, audiences experience space anew—and with it, a deepened awareness of the human presence within it.

Stellar Creative Team: Envisioning Boundless Possibilities
Under Artistic Director Sang Jijia’s vision, the work draws together dramaturg Melissa Leung’s structural clarity, unfolding a systematic exploration across three dimensions: body, space, and perception. Composer Dickson Dee, an acclaimed music producer invited by the Venice Biennale, creates the score through experimental sonic vocabularies that respond to how space shapes psychological perception. CCDC’s resident lighting designer, Lawmanray, anchors stage and lighting design in spatial density and visual tension, creating dynamic dialogue with video designer Oliver Shing’s kinetic imagery, progressively establishing a multi-layered perceptual architecture. Costume designer Silvio Chan approaches the work from the constraints and fluidity of bodily movement within space, responding directly to the dancers’ physical interaction with their environment.

Sang Jijia, CCDC Artistic Director: “I hope audiences will encounter the work’s contrasts when they enter the theatre—intense, densely packed movement alongside deliberately spare choreographic language. The body and stage installations create distances that feel simultaneously vast and intimate. There’s tremendous space for interpretation, and I’m genuinely curious how audiences will read it.”

Lawmanray, Set and Lighting Design: “I hope this stage and lighting design can discover alternative possibilities and readable moments within what appears fixed and ordinary. Throughout this creative process, the entire team has worked toward a shared vision, and that collaborative energy makes me eager to see what emerges on stage.”

Melissa Leung, Dramaturg: “I hope audiences will step into a space where logic and perception are fractured—where they can fully inhabit the theatre’s spatial presence and rediscover their connection to the spaces around them.”

Performance Details

A programme of the 54th Hong Kong Arts Festival (2026)

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Choreography Sang Jijia

Sang Jijia received the Asian Cultural Council Scholarship 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. During his time in Germany, he joined the Ballet Frankfurt and Forsythe Company as Assistant Choreographer and Dancer, respectively. He returned to China in 2006 and has since choreographed for CCDC, BeijingDance/LDTX and Guangdong Modern Dance Company. He has also been commissioned by renowned dance companies around the world, including Ballet Frankfurt (Germany), Spellbound Contemporary Ballet (Italy), Carte Blanche (Norway) and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sweden). He was appointed as the Resident Choreographer for CCDC from 2015 to 2024. In 2023, he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2024, he was presented ‘Distinguished Achievement Awards’ by the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards and ‘Artist of the Year (Dance)’ by the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

His recent choreographies with CCDC include Mr Blank (2018), Re-mark (world premiere in 2018; Hong Kong premiere in 2019), Pa | Ethos (world premiere in 2015; Hong Kong premiere in 2022), Meeting In-between Time (2022), Stream of Dust (2023) and As if Snowing (2024).

Other cross-disciplinary creations and choreographic works include the dance video There is a Place, co-commissioned by CCDC and Dance Glasgow (the UK); a collaborative work with Goat Media (Scottland), musician/composer Dickson Dee and a local company of emerging and innovative technology LazyAnt, together they created an interactive installation between dance and technology – Hyperchoreography; Mr Blank video and sound installation at ‘On the Road 2023’, Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen) and As it were by Göteborgs Operans Danskompani (Sweden).

About City Contemporary Dance Company

Founded in 1979, City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) is the flagship of contemporary dance in Hong Kong. Since its inception, CCDC has presented over 200 critically acclaimed original works, delivering professional dance productions to audiences across the city. The Company is committed to shaping the contemporary dance scene with extraordinary performances that embody contemporary Hong Kong culture.

In 2025, CCDC welcomed its fifth Artistic Director, Sang Jijia. Building on his extensive experience with the Company, Sang is dedicated to pursuing excellence in local contemporary dance and exploring interdisciplinary development. Concurrently, CCDC has been actively engaged in global cultural exchange, having toured numerous cities worldwide and hosted international dance festivals and film festivals locally. By bring together dance talents, the Company fosters collaborations across diverse artistic fields, showcasing the power of Hong Kong dance to the world while highlighting the diversity of contemporary dance to local audiences.

CCDC aspires to make dance more accessible to the community while nurturing professional dancers. For the past three decades, CCDC Dance Centre has unceasingly offered dance courses and pre-professional training, while organising outreach programmes to promote dance in the broader community.

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