Boy Story / Willy Tsao, a Vision for Modern Dance in China(CCDC)

Movie Name: Boy Story
Langauge: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese(Chinese, English Subtitle)
Duration: 35 Mins
Director: Maurice Lai
Story: Twenty years flew by in a blink. One by one teenagers become uncles, fathers, bosses, teachers. But it’s more practical to do something than to reminisce.
Choreographed by Yuri Ng in 1996, Boy Story is a legendary work from Hong Kong. The city’s three major companies – CCDC, Hong Kong Ballet and Hong Kong Dance Company – as well as Taiwan’s Cloud Gate 2 have either staged the piece or their dancers have performed in it. It toured to Japan and France and won the Prix d’Auteur at the 6th Rencontres Choreographiques Internationale de Seine-St-Denis, Bagnolet. Ng brought together all the original dancers eighteen years after the premiere and couldn’t resist treading the boards once more. Boy Story is more than the accolades it received and the places it visited. It is the story of struggles of Malaysian Chinese dancers. It is the other half of Hong Kong’s dance history.
Hong Kong was where the boys’ dreams came true. Boy Story was their paths intersected. Can Hong Kong still hold dreams?

Movie Name: Willy Tsao, A Vision For Modern Dance In China
Langauge: English(No Subtitle)
Duration: 34 Mins
Director: Michael Maurissens
Story: German director Michael Maurissens spent three months in the company of Willy Tsao, choreographer and festival and company director, capturing his incessant efforts in the development of contemporary dance in China. The film documents his artistic activities in Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong and his work with his dance companies, showing how this one man created multiple platforms to promote dance and artist’s development.

World Premiere

The film made possible by the financial support from Jumping FramesInternational Dance Video Festival