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and Wayne Marshall together with leading Hong Kong artistes. Orchestral concerts were given by the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
As in previous years, Hong Kong's own Philharmonic Orchestra and Chinese Orchestra attracted large audiences.
Extensive drama presentations were given by overseas and local groups, including the Bristol Old Vic, the Traverse Theatre, the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and the Chung Ying Theatre Company. Silent theatre was presented by the British mimists Nola Rae and John Mowat. Contrasting dance styles were represented by the London Festival Ballet and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal from Canada. Other highlights of the festival included performances by the hilarious Flying Kamarozov Brothers.
Hong Kong Festival Fringe
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The Hong Kong Festival Fringe continued its growth from an annual festival six years ago, to a year-round arts umbrella organisation that puts special emphasis on cultivating and helping emerging artists, and the burgeoning of contemporary arts in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Festival Fringe '87, the open festival of the arts, covered a four-week programme of music, drama, dance, mime, street entertainment, film and video, painting and photograph exhibitions. There were some 223 performances, 47 exhibitions, three large-scale events, six workshops and four school shows by local and international artists. The Fringe Club contains a small theatre, several rehearsal studios, a pottery workshop, a painting studio, a showroom, exhibition space, a bar and offices. It has become a base for many performing and visual artists to work in and meet. This year, 140 shows and performances were staged. In addition, the Outreach Programme took 120 shows to different venues outside the clubhouse.
Hong Kong International Film Festival
The Hong Kong International Film Festival proudly entered its second decade this year, establishing itself as a major international festival with a strong Asian programme and thematic studies of the local film industry.
Held from April 10 to 25, the 11th festival presented 136 feature-length films from 31 countries. Over 98 000 people attended the 320 screenings in the 16-day event. The highlights included tributes to Andrei Tarkovsky and Mikio Naruse. Tarkovsky died in December 1986 and the festival in Hong Kong was the first film festival in the world to present a complete retrospective of the Russian master. The 21-film Naruse retrospective featured works by the great Japanese master between the 1930s and 1960s. In addition, a special six-film series from Latin American countries was presented.
In a continued effort to trace and study the history of the local cinema, the 11th festival took a look at the genre of Cantonese opera films. The 24 films brought back to the screen many memorable faces and unforgettable performances of Cantonese opera stars.
International Arts Carnival
The International Arts Carnival was the sixth annual summer festival organised by the Urban Council to provide quality entertainment for young people during the long holiday. Five troupes from Britain, Canada, France, Japan and the United States took part in the carnival. Together with five local groups, they gave 33 performances at the City Hall and Hong Kong Space Museum, six free performances at major shopping arcades and a fun fair at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct. The carnival included a children's musical, drama, puppetry, circus, mask show and clownery.