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Recreation, Sport and the Arts

Hong Kong Dance Company

Established in 1981 to promote Chinese dance, the Hong Kong Dance Company has staged over 100 productions so far, with 47 performances staged in 2012 before 30,000 people. Programmes included Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Evacuation Order, The Enchanting Orient, Spring Ritual • Eulogy, Plateau Bluebells and the Chinese Folk Dance Fiesta held at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza.

Hong Kong Philharmonic

The Hong Kong Philharmonic is the city's largest and busiest professional musical organisation, including musicians from Hong Kong and around the world. Jaap van Zweden became its Music Director in 2012-13. It presents over 150 concerts for 200,000 music lovers every year. Featuring an enviable roster of international conductors and soloists, the orchestra performed a broad variety of music and offered free concerts headlined by the ever popular Symphony under the Stars. Through its acclaimed education programmes, over 40,000 young people learned about orchestral music.

Hong Kong Repertory Theatre

The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre aims to produce and develop excellent, creative and diverse theatrical productions of Chinese and western works and local originals. It celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2012 with two popular original plays: Bowlful of Kindness and I Have a Date with Autumn and another nine productions, including the award-winning play Rabbit Hole and SCROOGE - the musical. The company also toured to Guangzhou and Taipei in 2012.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta

The Hong Kong Sinfonietta is one of Hong Kong's leading professional orchestras which not only performs with world-class musicians and conductors, but also commissions new works regularly and collaborates with artists from different art forms. The orchestra performed in USA, Canada, France and Macao in 2012.

Zuni Icosahedron

Zuni Icosahedron celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012. Among its productions, Zuni presented the multi-media music theatre - Eighteen Springs, and Danny Yung Experimental Theatre - Stage Sisters. The Tian Tian Xiang Shang exhibition and activities were held in Japan. and Hong Kong and Zuni performed in Suzhou, Tokyo, Singapore and Taipei. In addition, Zuni's Looking for Mies was awarded the 'Merit Recognition' of the Design for Asia Award this year.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund is a non-statutory trust fund, administered by a board of trustees, which awards scholarships to young people to pursue an integrated programme of post-diploma and post-graduate studies, or professional training in music or dance at leading institutions, or to pursue less formal studies outside Hong Kong. Five scholarships worth about $1.58 million were awarded in 2012.

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