Dance Season 2024-25
As the leaves turn golden, let’s ignite ardency with a 45°C flame and heat up a feast celebrating the body, dance and harvest.
What are the concepts behind ‘An Ardent °Fall’? It is the latitude and longitude of winter, spring, summer going to autumn. It is an immeasurable and measureless formula, reaping and amassing what has been sown. It is both yields and experiences, at once harvesting and sharing. It is not fervent acclaims, but full blooms; not reaping, but sowing; not the past, but the future. It is embracing, celebration, and living in the present.
Marking the 45th anniversary of City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), the Dance Season 2024/25 is themed on autumn, while refining dance into numbers. It is maths, it is romance, it is dance. 45-year-old Justyne Li has conceived the opening performance for CCDC’s 45th dance season to honour happiness 45² times; (5-12)∞ little dancers slide into a wonderland; two cross-generational choreographers Helen Lai and Chou Shu-yi take inspiration from Bei Dao’s poem February, exploring particular movements and shadows in twofold; Qiao Yang, following her solo dance at the age of 55, will perform a new work by Sang Jijia tailor-made for her at the age of 60. Collaborating with two guest dancers, Luo Fan and Kelvin Mak, the work is transformed into three different ‘sound frequencies’ to reverberate the snowing sound at (55+3)Hz.
An Ardent °Fall – the accumulation is complicated and the assessment is even more so. Why not make it into a revelry? Dissolve the barriers, infuse imagination, and remove the constraints. This is an unending banquet. As the leaves turn golden, our expression keeps flowing.
Advance booking is available at CCDC website and art-mate during 21.3-9.5.2024.
| No. of Programme(s) | Discount |
| 1 | – |
| 2 | 10% off |
| 3* | 20% off |
| 4* | 25% off |
50% discount are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, and comprehensive social security assistance (CSSA) recipients.
*For each purchase of 3 or more different events during advance booking period, patrons may receive one complimentary ‘Dance Inspirations’ membership.
Programme Enquiries: 2329 7803
Terms and Conditions: Concession tickets for full-time students are available on a first-come-first-served basis (Except the programme Sliding into Heart) / All discounts are applied to standard tickets only. / Prices to be rounded up to the nearest dollar. Ticket discounts can only be applied once per ticket. / One person per ticket regardless of age and subject to age limit specified for each programme. Tickets sold are non-refundable. / Discounted tickets are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Allocation of seats will be at the discretion of CCDC. / No other discount will be offered during advance booking. Other discounts with partners and performing arts groups are only applicable during public sales. / CCDC reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute the programme, artists, seating arrangements and audience capacity.
Design Gallery
10% off* on regular-priced products of HK$100 or more at HKTDC Design Gallery Wan Chai CEC shop and Airport shop upon presentation of any ticket or ticket stubs of Dance Season 2024-25 programmes. *Discount does not apply to fixed price or discounted items. Discount cannot be enjoyed in conjunction with any other special discount arrangements. In case of any disputes, the decision of the HKTDC Design Gallery shall be final.
45th Anniversary Events
Season Programme
Ode to Joy Evolving
10.5.2024 [Fri] 8pm
11.5.2024 [Sat] 8pm
12.5.2024 [Sun] 3pm
Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre
As If Snowing
12.7.2024 [Fri] 8pm
13.7.2024 [Sat] 8pm
14.7.2024 [Sun] 3pm
19.7.2024 [Fri] 8pm
20.7.2024 [Sat] 8pm
21.7.2024 [Sun] 3pm
Shouson Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre
International Arts Carnival 2024: Sliding into Heart
9.8.2024 [Fri] 8pm
10.8.2024 [Sat] 3pm, 8pm
11.8.2024 [Sun] 3pm
Auditorium, Sha Tin Town Hall
Certain Movements and Shadows
15.2.2025 [Sat] 8pm
16.2.2025 [Sun] 3pm
21.2.2025 [Fri] 8pm
22.2.2025 [Sat] 3pm, 8pm
23.2.2025 [Sun] 3pm
Shouson Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Overseas Programme
Jumping Frames—Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival
Mar, Jul, Oct-Nov 2024
Amsterdam, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Tainan
Contemporary Dance Development
Past Production
Date |
Production |
Choreographer(s) |
Venue |
2017 Season Programmes |
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| 31.3-1.4.2017 | Post-Perception/Transcendence | Sang Jijia | Grand Theatre, HK Cultural Centre |
| 26-28.5.2017 | Why Not Kill Us All | Bruce WONG | Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre |
| 11-13.8.2017 | The Little Prince | Domonic WONG | Auditorium, Sha Tin Town Hall |
| 21.11.2018 | Testimony | Helen LAI | Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre |
2016 Season Programmes |
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| 15-17.4.2016 | Little Pieces | Dominic WONG | Studio Theatre , Hong Kong Cultural Centre |
| 3-4.6.2016 | Fragile Beauty | Sang Jijia | Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre |
| 26-28.8.2016 | Journey To The West | Willy Tsao, Ronly Kong, Peggy Lam, Shirley Lok | Auditorium, Sha Tin Town Hall |
| 9-10.12.2016 | She Says, He Talks | Noel Pong, Ngoc Nguyen Anh | Auditorium, Kwai Tsing Theatre |
| 6-8.1.2017 | 2016 Dancers’ Homework
Aurora |
Ivan Chan |
Jockey Club Dance Theatre, CCDC Dance Centre |