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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. It organises courses and leads local young choreographers and dancers to the Mainland for performances and exchanges. In 2016, the dance company presented five original productions, hosted the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival and performed in Australia and the Mainland. It also set up the City Contemporary Dance Laureate awards to recognise individuals who have contributed to the development of dance in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Ballet

Hong Kong Ballet is one of Asia's premier classical ballet companies. It gave 45 performances locally in 2016, including the world premieres of Fei Bo's Shenren Chang and Edwaard Liang's Sacred Thread, Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias, and Ballet Classics for Children: The Sleeping Beauty. The ballet company also toured North America and participated in the Fall For Dance. Festival. More than 20,000 young people enjoyed its extensive educational and outreach.

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Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra presented over 140 concerts and arts education activities, and organised Music without Bounds - International Composers' Summit, a three-day symposium with attendees from 13 countries and regions.

Hong Kong Dance Company

The Hong Kong Dance Company promotes Chinese dance. It staged 58 performances in 2016, including Dream of the Past: Ancient Chinese Court Dances, Storm Clouds, Saturday Whispers, Reveries of the Red Chamber, Chinese Hero: A Lone Exile, 8/F Platform X-A Decade of Creativity, outdoor dance gala Chinese Folk Dance Fiesta, and shows in Seoul, Tokyo and London, reaching more than 43,500 people.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is the city's largest professional musical organisation, presenting more than 150 concerts every year featuring international and local conductors and soloists. In 2016, the orchestra performed Part 2 of Wagner's four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung - Die Walküre, and offered free concerts including the popular outdoor Symphony Under The Stars. More than 40,000 young people participated in its educational programmes. The orchestra also toured the Mainland.

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 2016 included 1894 Hong Kong Plague - a Musical, Footprints in the Snow, Whose Wife is it Anyway?, The Sin Family, Three Brothers and Hu Xueyan, my Dear. It also presented the second International Black Box Festival, extended its arts educational programmes, and toured Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Kaohsiung and Macao.

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