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Hong Kong Ballet

Artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet on ‘over the top’ characters in his The Wizard of Oz

by Haddis Thomas
Artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet on ‘over the top’ characters in his The Wizard of Oz

The choreographer, whose ballet version of The Wizard of Oz will be performed in Hong Kong for the first time, starting from August 30, says he read and reread the …

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Stunning Swan Lake lead dancers can’t hide flaws of new Hong Kong Ballet production

by Haddis Thomas
Stunning Swan Lake lead dancers can’t hide flaws of new Hong Kong Ballet production

With accompaniment by the Hong Kong Philharmonic and two guest Prince Siegfrieds (Ball and Constantine Allen from Dutch National Ballet) no expense has been spared. Sadly, the best intentions do …

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Why Hong Kong Ballet needed a new Swan Lake: Septime Webre on Yuri Possokhov’s production of classic work

by Haddis Thomas
Why Hong Kong Ballet needed a new Swan Lake: Septime Webre on Yuri Possokhov’s production of classic work

Ironically, the first staging, in Moscow in 1877, was a failure, and it was not until Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov created a new version in St Petersburg in 1895 …

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Breakneck Hong Kong ballet brings screams and cheers from the audience in a show of emotion rarely seen in the city

by Haddis Thomas
Breakneck Hong Kong ballet brings screams and cheers from the audience in a show of emotion rarely seen in the city

Created in 1934 and set to Tchaikovsky’s ravishing Serenade for Strings in C, it is a work of supreme lyricism and deceptive simplicity whose luminous beauty and subtle sense of …

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Shanghai Ballet’s A Sigh of Love: visually impressive, but too much padding and an off-key score

by Haddis Thomas
Shanghai Ballet’s A Sigh of Love: visually impressive, but too much padding and an off-key score

Coincidentally, the Chinese title is the same as Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. While the setting here is 1930s Shanghai rather than 1960s Hong Kong, the theme of …

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‘I felt loved’: how Yuri Ng got the ballet bug young, felt old by 25, and turned to choreography

by Haddis Thomas
‘I felt loved’: how Yuri Ng got the ballet bug young, felt old by 25, and turned to choreography

I went to North Point Methodist Primary School and then to Morrison Hill Primary School and did two years at Lui Kei Government Primary School. Ng with teachers from Wah …

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‘I wanted to create something’: Hong Kong Ballet choreographer Ricky Hu on why he switched from dancing, and finding his artistic voice

by Haddis Thomas
‘I wanted to create something’: Hong Kong Ballet choreographer Ricky Hu on why he switched from dancing, and finding his artistic voice

Government talent spotters came to his school and picked him to play piano. “When I heard that I had to learn piano, I was very sad, because I wanted to …

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