Dance has no physical limitation. It is a first step for students to explore, understand and discover themselves. With “body” as the theme and over 25 years of teaching experience, this project offers a series involving contemporary dance training and activities for students to start thinking from their daily lives regarding the power of their bodies to unleash the potential within, to achieve body-mind harmony through establishing a dialogue between them, build self-worth and reposition their self-image.

The project Don Quixote, based on the Spanish literature by Miguel de Cervantes, will guide students towards the creation of an instructive mini ballet drama. Through the workshops, participants will jointly create and perform this timeless ballet drama. They will express themselves through body language and also participate in the back-stage production.

The eponymous hero, Don Quixote, who misguidedly imagines himself a chivalrous and honourable knight, sets off in search of Dulcinea the fictional maiden with whom he has fallen in love. On his adventures he meets the beautiful Kitri and mistakes her for his beloved Dulcinea. This fun and feisty tale tells of Kitri and her sweetheart Basilio, and their encounters with the comically delusional Don Quixote and his simple squire Sancho Panza.

Students are guided to learn the classics as the start point for script creation. Participating students will perform their plays on stage and share with the public what they have learned over the year. Through the session, they will share their creative concepts and the fun of being behind the curtain. There are three secondary, two primary and two special schools participating in the finale performance.

After a year of intensive musical training, 170 students from 7 primary and secondary schools will present two full-length musical and a series of Broadway musical numbers to showcase what they have learnt and corp d’ esprit (team spirit).

Primary schools will be learning Peter Pan and secondary schools will be learning Sinbad.

Primary Schools – Peter Pan
In the centre of London who could have thought beyond your bedroom window, taking the second star to the right and then straight on ‘til morning, would take you to a world of mermaids, pirates, fairies, ticking crocodiles and flying boys!

When Wendy and her younger brothers, Michael and John Darling are tucked into bed by their canine nanny, Nana, they are surprised to see a young boy named Peter and his fairy friend, Tinkerbelle, at their bedroom window.

Peter teaches the Darling siblings how to fly, leading them to an extraordinary place… Neverland. It is place where people and fairies alike never grow up; a place where anything is truly possible with just a happy thought. Unfortunately, amongst such happiness the seas are sailed with hatred and evil. Villainous Captain Hook and his crew are set to defeat Peter, the Darling siblings and the Lost Boys (Peter’s Neverland friends).

A journey of self discovery, friendship and magic, join us on a remarkable adventure! Originally written by J.M Barrie, the story of Peter Pan has been adapted time again by: Disney animations, movie blockbusters and musical stage shows and now by Seals, the boy who never grew up is a tale much loved by all.

Secondary Schools – Sinbad
A notorious thief of the seven seas, Sinbad, is faced with the adventure of a life-time! On his attempt to steal the book of peace, the most valuable item to Syracuse and 11 other cities, he encounters a very old friend, Prince Proteus. Despite their history the Prince defends the book from Sinbad and his thieving crew. Sinbad is unsuccessful in his attempt but is greeted by Eris, the Goddess of Chaos; she offers him riches beyond his thieving dreams if he steals the book on her behalf.

Sinbad accepts her offer and follows the book which is under Prince Proteus’ safe guard back to Syracuse. On acting on his plan, Proteus intervenes and introduces Sinbad to his finance, Marina. Sinbad recognizes the woman and aborts his plan. Whilst departing, Eris frames Sinbad for the theft of the book; Sinbad is sentenced to death but Proteus takes his place. He believes in Sinbad’s claims of Eris’ evil hand.

Sinbad has 10 days to retrieve the book from Eris who resides on the edge of the Earth (Tartarus) to save Proteus from execution. The course is dangerous and temptation is around every corner.

After a year training of HipHop or Jazz Dance, each participating school will perform the dance with stage lighting and music. The students will perform on stage and share their achievements with the public.

The performance will mainly comprise simple group performances, including group demonstrations of martial art and a new Cantonese Opera for children, The Magic Lamp, which is inspired by Fung Bo-bo’s movie, is a story of filial piety and righteousness. It is about a troubled genie (Magic Lamp) and the good-hearted villagers Jiang Shui and his daughter. The father and daughter are intimidated by the local bully Zhi Laohu. The Magic Lamp and Jiang Shui’s family support each other to stand up against the bully, who receives the punishment he deserves in the end.

Although music composition is a huge undergoing that requires years of training and experience, this requirement does not necessarily prevent new learners to achieve meaningful results within a shorter period of time. We will encourage students to discover their hidden talent by focusing firstly on sound design, rather than complicated topics like harmony and counterpoint. With the project theme “East and West”, students will explore various kinds of creative sounds on voices, instruments, percussion and everyday objects, and will arrange these sounds in an organized manner in musical contexts, exchange sessions on composition are also arranged for participants to enrich their music writing experience. This will naturally lead to the studies of rhythm, notation, pitch organisation and form. Having mastered these basic skills, students will be guided to write creative types of music, for example, emphasizing on irregular phrasing, surprising melodies, dissonance chords, arrhythmic patterns, extended instrumental techniques, etc., with the ultimate aim to express their individuality through instrumental music. Each student will compose his/her own compositions.

Through a formal audition exercise, a panel of adjudicators will study all the final compositions and select the best pieces among the four participating schools for the finale concert to be held at a performing venue outside school so that students will share the results of their training with members of the public.

Dance has no physical limitation. It is a first step for students to explore, understand and discover themselves. With “body” as the theme and over 25 years of teaching experience, this project offers a series involving contemporary dance training and activities for students to start thinking from their daily lives regarding the power of their bodies to unleash the potential within, to achieve body-mind harmony through establishing a dialogue between them, build self-worth and reposition their self-image.

The project aims to adopt children stories written by the renowned children literature writer in Hong Kong, Ho Tsz as the blueprint for theatrical creation. After reading his works, students will be guided by the instructor to enrich the script and characters for a theatrical performance. Students would be able to act on those characters that carry strong local characteristics. Not only could they be guided to learn about creative presentation expression skills for theatre, they would also understand more about the relationship between literature and theatre.

After a year of literature theatre training, students are going to share their learning outcome with the public. A sharing session will be set after each school’s performance where participating students could share with the audience their creation process and performing experience. There will be three primary and two special schools participating in the finale performance.