About Us
Founded in 2017 by Hong Kong arts professionals, Beyond Dance Theater (BDT) is a relatively young and highly creative self-funded arts group in Hong Kong.
Committed to the development of contemporary dance, it focuses on fostering dance theater and cross-disciplinary performance platforms, as well as promoting Asian arts talents and creations to the world by leveraging the founder’s overseas network.
“I strongly believe performing arts can heal inner wounds and mend souls. I hope my works will give the audience a shot in the arm.”
Kelvin Mak,
Founder and Artistic Director of BDT
to take on challenges, think big, explore the unexplored, and uphold artistic integrity.
STAY BOLD
on professional dance techniques, multilayered emotions, and simple stage aesthetics to expound relatable and intriguing life stories, bringing unique and high standard theater experiences to the audience, leading them to tap into and expand their spiritual realm.
STAY FOCUSED
and keep intervening and pondering reality. By examining and portraying human nature, we create space for the audience to resonate, reflect and get inspired.
STAY CURIOUS
Our unique artistic style and performance techniques set us apart in Hong Kong’s modern dance field. Theater and dramatic elements and stage imagery are important ingredients of our works. We invest a lot of time in devising, and throughout the process we repeatedly research, experiment, reflect, and improve techniques to create strong theater characters and emotional changes for our dance.
In addition, we are the only performing arts group in Hong Kong which embraces a persistent commitment to collaborate with young artists from diverse backgrounds such as ballet, Chinese dance, hip-hop, pole dance, drama, etc. Possessing extraordinary physical ability and energy, all these professional performers have had outstanding achievements and won many awards in their fields. By interweaving different movement techniques through cross-disciplinary cooperation, we develop and inject new movement vocabulary that makes our works more contemporary, expressive and appealing. At the same time, our performance style also helps expand the horizons of contemporary dance audiences.
In terms of dance movements, unique, difficult, dynamic, smooth and neat pas de deux and trio have become our hallmarks. During the rehearsal process, bodies from different dance backgrounds constantly collide, experiment and blend to generate scenes of exciting lifting and shifting movements that are rarely seen in other contemporary dance performances. In addition, what sets us apart from other small and medium-sized dance groups in Hong Kong is our powerful group dance. Except for the three large dance groups in Hong Kong, few professional group dance performances involve more than 6 people which are our characteristic. Through the clever use of stage space and dynamic formations, we continue to explore and develop possibilities of dance composition and scenes.
We insist on adopting simple stage aesthetics. By using stage space, rich movement vocabulary, multilayered contextual meanings, and strong theater lighting and sound effects, we create scenes that are intriguing and full of dramatic tension.
This arts group has a great vision and is very clear about its own direction...One creation after another despite the lack of funding support. For a long time Hong Kong has not seen a small and medium-sized arts group with such strength. It is worth noting.
William W.Y. Chan
Hong Kong arts critic
The works involve emotional depth and layers, bringing out a profound human dimension. Such extraordinary maturity, as well as the courage and skill to tackle important issues, is rarely seen among young artists…The works come with originality, strength, and entertainment, and can connect with a broad audience.
Hong Kong Alliance