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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

Hong Kong Dance Company

The Hong Kong Dance Company was established in 1981 to promote Chinese dance. It put up 59 performances in 2015, including Shao Nian Yau, The Legend of Mulan, Magical Adventures of Baby Polar Bear and the 12 Zodiac Animals, Voices and Dances of the Distant Land, L'Amour Immortel, outdoor dance gala Folk Dance Fiesta, and performances during New York and Sydney tours, reaching more than 48,000 people.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is the city's largest professional musical organisation, presenting more than 150 concerts for 200,000 music lovers every year. Featuring international and local conductors and soloists, the orchestra performed a broad variety of music in 2015, including Part 1 of Wagner's four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung - Das Rheingold, and offered free concerts headlined by the popular Symphony Under The Stars. Through its acclaimed education programmes, more than 40,000 young people learned about orchestral music. The orchestra also toured Europe during the year.

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. Its 15 productions in 2015 included Hello, Dolly! - the Musical; The Last Supper, The Sin Family; The Emperor, his Mom, a Eunuch and a Man; Marriage; A Bowlful of Kindness and Circle Mirror Transformation. It also developed new black box projects, extended its arts educational programmes, and toured Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Seoul and Macao.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta

The Hong Kong Sinfonietta is one of Hong Kong's leading symphony orchestras. In 2015, it gave more than 120 performances, including concerts with violinist Gidon Kremer, cellist Pieter Wispelwey, trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger and composer-conductor Krzysztof Penderecki. The orchestra appointed Christoph Poppen as Principal Guest Conductor and opened its 2015-16 season with a tour to South Korea and Japan under his baton. The orchestra also made its debut in Switzerland.

Zuni Icosahedron

Zuni Icosahedron's original theatre productions in 2015 included The World According to Dance, Invisible Cities, East Wing West Wing 12 Let It Be One Country Two Systems and The Book of Changes. It presented the Arts Education Programme Creative Playground and was also invited to perform in Hanover, Shanghai and Milan Expo 2015.

Culture and Arts Presentations

LCSD Cultural Presentations

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department presents high-quality cultural programmes throughout the year. In 2015, more than 409,000 people attended 1,022 performances featuring local and visiting artists. Music programmes included the Russian National Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Hagen Quartet, Vienna Boys Choir,

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