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Abby Chan, an internationally renowned professional dancer active in the Hong Kong dance scene, is celebrated as an all-around performer and choreographer. She has received four Hong Kong Dance Awards from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. Her recent works include the outdoor multimedia dance spectacle "Desire.West.Kowloon" for the Hong Kong Dance Festival and serving as the movement director for the stage play "EQUUS," directed by Olivia Yan and starring Anthony Wong and Hins Cheung.
This masterclass, organized by Psalms Dance, invites Abby Chan to Macau on June 5th and 6th to lead the first workshop of this year's "Solo/Duet Dance Exhibition" series. The focus is on guiding participants in the use of body language and performance techniques.
Abby Chan graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Modern Dance. She was a dancer with the City Contemporary Dance Company from 1991 to 1998. In 1995, she received the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship for an exchange program in the United States. In 1998, she co-founded "MMM Dance Theatre" with dancer Amy Yeung, a distinctive female duo known for its Hong Kong local flavor. Her choreographic works have been invited to perform in New York, Colorado, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Guangzhou, and Brazil, among others. She has been awarded four Hong Kong Dance Awards for her choreography in "Fiber Optics" (2003), her performance in "The Rite of Spring" (2004), the production of MMM Dance Theatre's "The Story of a Domestic Pig," and organizing the "DanceWide Hong Kong/New York Dance Exchange Program" (2006). Her recent works include directing and performing in the site-specific dance theatre "Minced O," participating in the Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned work "Wild Boar," the dance serial "Wall 44" by Unlock Dancing Plaza, the outdoor multimedia dance spectacle "Desire.West.Kowloon" for the Hong Kong Dance Festival, and serving as the movement director for the Godot Theatre Company's "Equus."
