At a time when international touring is at a standstill, the Festival has put together a challenging collaborative dance project, Colossus, created by Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake, with more than 50 dancers from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Creating mass movement that is both organic and spectacular is a hallmark of Stephanie Lake’s large-scale public shows, such as .......

The play We Are Gay was expected to debut in the 2020 Hong Kong Arts Festival but had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of the pandemic. In its 2022 premiere, the work is presented as a newly rehearsed and designed version. ...

The theme of women battling adversity resounds through Heart of Coral and Women Like Us, two chamber operas previously staged at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, in 2013 and 2021 respectively. The two operas tell the stories of three women who strive in different times and circumstances, but whose lives are each shaped by the conflicts between love and fate. At the 50th HKAF.......

When representing literature in the performing arts, artists demonstrate different interpretations and expressions, while the meanings of works change with time. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Women Like Us and Journey to the West Rewind were deferred until the 49th Hong Kong Arts Festival....

In a year when a previously unknown virus spread like wildfire across the globe, theatre was forced to swiftly adapt to a new reality, branching out into new formats and production means. The result has been an enrichment of theatrical language by a raft of new insights and emotional responses....