Artist's Biographies

Leung Kwok-shing
Artistic Director, Hong Kong Dance Company

Graduated from Guangdong Dance School, Leung Kwok-shing joined HKDC in 1981 as the first cohort of company dancers. He led the cast in the first grand dance dramas Romance of the Eastern Sea and New Flower of the Mirror, and later served as an rehearsal master, choreographer and director in the company. Since 2005, Leung has been the Assistant Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dance Company. Leung is recognized as a capable choreographer in Chinese Dance in Hong Kong, and his creations are based on traditional Chinese art and dance forms, blending Eastern and Western cultures together. He has also choreographed numerous highly acclaimed dance dramas and performances. His appointed works include The Story of Zhou Xuan, Suppressed Romance (1991). Since then his productions include Classical Retrospective, King of Fairy Tales—The Eternal Child, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Qingming Riverside, Snow Fox and Eagle Companions.

Suppressed Romance, a Guangdong folk dance that blended East and West, was praised for being uniquely Hong Kong. Musical dance drama The Smiling, Proud Wanderer was regarded as a "fabulously choreographed, superbly structured" piece by famous martial arts novelist Jin Yong, the original author of the story. Qingming Riverside was praised as an artistically elegant dance poem and invited to be staged at the “5th Beijing Arts Festival”, and toured to Hangzhou, Nanjing and Guangdong. It was also staged in the National Centre for the Performing Arts as part of the “Meet in Beijing 2008” Arts Festival at the Olympics period. The audience encored and honoured it as a marvelous Chinese dance poem in a recent era. It also triumphed at the “2008 Hong Kong Dance Awards” and won the “Special Grand Award” and the “First Class Award for Choreography and Direction” at the “2008 Guangdong Art Festival”. In 2008, he created The Call of Life to raise fund for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. He was also involved in the choreography of Hong Kong – Equestrian Capital, which represented Hong Kong at the opening ceremony of the “Beijing Olympic Games 2008” in the Beijing National Stadium, and again achieved great success. Leung won the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2008 by Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2008. He had also created and choreographed dance pieces in celebration of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and China's National Day. Leung is the Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Dance Company since April 2009.

Faye Leung
Guest Artist

Born in Shanghai and trained at the Shanghai Ballet School. She joined the Hong Kong Ballet in 1996 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2001. Faye had danced all the leads in classics and also had many roles created for her by a variety of choreographers. Faye was featured in RTHK's “The Best 10 of the Artists” in 2006 and in 2008. She was also awarded the Hong Kong Dance Award. She has been invited to perform in various touring performances and won acclaims. She is now a freelance dancer and is active in a variety of stage performances.