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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

City Contemporary Dance Company

The City Contemporary Dance Company is a professional modern dance company that nurtures creative dance talent in the context of contemporary China. In 2013, it produced four original productions and hosted the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Showcase. It also performed in the Mainland, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Italy, and its Dance Centre organised educational and outreach activities to promote modern dance in Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Hong Kong Ballet

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The Hong Kong Ballet, one of Asia's premier classical ballet companies, is gaining recognition in the international dance world. In 2013, it gave 56 performances, including Ballet Classics for Children: Cinderella; The Sleeping Beauty; The Frog Prince - A Ballet Chinois; The Merry Widow; Swan Lake; The Dream of the Red Chamber and The Nutcracker. It also presented two performances of Swan Lake at the Guangzhou Arts Festival.

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra promotes the development of Chinese music and gives over 140 concerts and arts education activities each season. In 2013, it performed in Russia at Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Tyumen and Moscow and to showcase its Eco-hugin series.

Hong Kong Dance Company

The Hong Kong Dance Company has staged over 100 productions since its establishment in 1981 to promote Chinese dance. Its 50 performances in 2013, including Feng Shui, Pop Classics: Joseph Koo's Dance Melodies 2013, The Happy Prince, Masquerade and The Legend of Mulan, reached an audience of more than 40,000. It also conducted overseas tours to Toronto, Washington, DC, Beijing and Taipei.

Hong Kong Philharmonic

Celebrating its 40th professional season, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is the city's largest professional musical organisation. The orchestra presents over 150 concerts for 200,000 music lovers every year. Featuring international conductors and soloists, the orchestra performed a broad variety of music in 2013 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. The orchestra also toured to Taipei in 2013.

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. In 2013, it presented 13 productions, including 18/F Flat C, The Professor, A Bowlful of Kindness, The Emperor, his Mom, a Eunuch and a Man and The Cherry Orchard. It also developed new black box projects, extended arts educational programmes and toured to Mainland.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta

Hong Kong Sinfonietta is one of Hong Kong's leading symphony orchestras. It regularly commissions new works and collaborates with artists from different art forms and brings

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