September 2026

[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]【FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE】 City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) proudly presents its flagship 2026 production Kylián and Sangba, bringing together a European dance legend and an Eastern choreographic voice in a historic pairing that pushes the extremes of physical expression and stages a dialogue across time and consciousness. The programme takes place on 30–31 October 2026 at the Theatre, East Kowloon Cultural Centre. Tickets are now on sale via art-mate, URBTIX, Damai and MoreTickets. Sleepless uses abstract movement to convey the insomniac’s loneliness and the drifting of consciousness. Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián, who served as Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) for more than twenty-five years, has written countless legendary chapters in twentieth-century contemporary dance, with works celebrated on stages worldwide. First performed in 2004, Sleepless is one of Kylián’s most representative contemporary dance works. Inspired by the choreographer’s acute observation of the shifting states of consciousness during sleepless nights, and by Argentine artist Lucio Fontana’s concept of 'slashing the canvas', Sleepless subtly disrupts the traditional spatial dimensions of the stage. Six dancers, engaged in a physical dialogue that balances suppleness and tension, precisely evoke the insomniac’s loneliness, struggle and drifting awareness in the deep night. The score blends the ethereal glass harmonica of Mozart’s Adagio KV 617 with contemporary electronic sound, leaving time to linger between stillness and suspension, and drawing the audience into a visually exquisite, soul-stirring dreamscape. a | ch layers distance and proximity, the real and the illusory, leaving space for unfinished imagination. Selected for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and trained in Germany under William Forsythe, CCDC Artistic Director Sang Jijia is renowned on the international dance scene for his intense kinetic aesthetic, spatial tension and integration of multimedia visuals. In his new work a | ch, Sang turns his gaze towards a realm of constant flux between the

[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Time is uncanny. A year can pass in a flash; a single second can feel very long. On the surface it ticks steadily forward, yet in truth it often shows up in our lives in unexpected forms. Under the theme 'Time Fantasy', the City Contemporary Dance Festival 2026 (CCDF 2026) invites audiences to dismantle the boundaries of time through dance. Eighteen original works traverse time and space, moving between reality, dreams, memories and prophecies, sketching poetic and fantastical responses to life at this moment. Tickets are now on sale at art-mate and URBTIX. A limited number of Festival Passes are also available at art-mate and Damai, unlocking all the festival’s highlights in one go. Initiated by City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in 2017, this biennial festival is dedicated to elevating Hong Kong’s contemporary dance onto the international stage, while leveraging the city's key influence in bridging Chinese and foreign cultures. This year's festival gathers top forces from the global contemporary dance scene to captivate audiences at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre with several major headline works: from French dance icon Maguy Marin’s absurd existential classic May B, and Armin Hokmi’s Shiraz, which revisits an avant-garde artistic community from the past, to the closing program featuring contemporary master Jiří Kylián’s Sleepless alongside Sang Jijia’s world premiere a | ch. Meanwhile, the 'HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform' makes its triumphant return, presenting the multi-sensory alternate dimensions of the Japanese focus, the Korean focus's time-bending imagination bridging past and present, and the dynamic vision of young talent supported by the China National Arts Fund in the Chinese focus. In this collision of body, time, and space, a sensory feast transcending the boundaries of reality and illusion will unfold for the audience. CCDF 2026 once again convenes curators and artists from around the world, aiming to