Driving cultural ambition with touring performances and global partnerships

Hong Kong is driving its arts and cultural strategy with touring performances to Australia and a global partnership with Art Basel.
Hong Kong Dance Company's 'Convergence' touring to Sydney. Photo: Supplied. Two dancers engaged in martial arts movements on a stage. The stage floor seems to be a digital screen with black and white swirls.

Sydney will be the only Australian city to host the Hong Kong Dance Company’s touring performance, Convergence , thanks to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Sydney. ConvergenceInfinity of Movement and Stillness features a fusion of Chinese dance and martial arts, and combines power, speed and aesthetics in both art forms.

Hong Kong Dance Company Artistic Director, Yang Yuntao 杨云涛 embarked on the collaborative study of Chinese dance in martial arts in 2018, and Convergence integrates martial art styles such as Hung Kuen 洪拳, Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛拳 and Fujian White Crane 白鹤拳.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_