Blue Ka Wing
Blue Ka Wing, left-hander, an independent dance artist in Hong Kong. Started her dance training at the age of 16. In 2010, she graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. Her works include "The Neighbor" presented by E-Side Dance Company. “The Left Hander" and Community Cultural Ambassador Scheme (2016, 2018) “My Daddy, My Flying Car and Me” were presented by LCSD. She premiered her short piece “Time Lag” at the 44th Hong Kong Arts Festival’s The Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series Programme 3 “Dance Off”. Afterwards, this piece has been invited to perform in Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival vol.10 (Japan) and New Dance for Asia-NDA International Festival (Korea). Blue’s “Time Lag” also got the shortlisted nomination by Hong Kong Dance Award 2017 as Outstanding Choreography.
“Experimental Relationships” is a 20-minute work which commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2019. A 2-week Japan tour came after the premiere, it is selected by Yokohama Dance Collection 2020. In the following week, it is presented in TPAM and UrBANGUILD (Kyoto) in February 2020. In the year of pandemic, Blue presented a 80-minute work “The Neighbor” in Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
During 2018-2019, Blue participated in several festivals/choreographic research weeks/residences.
-1 month residence of ImPulsTanz: ATLAS - create your dance trails in Vienna.
-11 days choreographic research week of B. Motion Festival in Bassano Del Grappa, Italy.
-2 weeks residence of “Creative Meeting Point: Hong Kong x Australia” in Melbourne Dancehouse.
Besides performing arts, Blue is also interested in making dance film. Her works were selected by worldwide festivals.
“God Limps”
POOL 19 - Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
5th Moving Images International Videodance Festival (Nicosia, Cyprus)
TPAM Fringe 2020 (Yokohama, Japan)
UrBANGUILD Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
ScreenDance Festival 2020 (Stockholm, Sweden)
“9”
POOL 19 - Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
International Dance Film Festival Brussels (Brussels, Belgium)
Fiver International Screendance Movement (Madrid, Spain)
Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival (Hong Kong)
VII. Festival de Videdanza de Palma (Palma, Spain)
5th Moving Images International Videodance Festival (Nicosia, Cyprus)
TPAM Fringe 2020 (Yokohama, Japan)
UrBANGUILD Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
CINEDANS 2020 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Body Motion Short Film Festival 2020 (Taipei, Taiwan)
Moovy, Tanzfilmfestival im Filmforum im Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany)
ScreenDance Festival - ScreenDance Festival 2020 (Stockholm, Sweden)
“9” is awarded the Mención especial Fiver from Fiver International Screendance Movement; 2019 International Dance Video Award and Audience's Choice from One Minute Jumping Frames Dance Video Competition. In 2020, Blue and Wilfred Wong are commissioned by Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival for the 21-minute dance film “Mountains, Seas, Panorama”, premiered at UA Cinema K11 Art House. In July of 2021, this film is selected by Cannes Court Métrage - Short Film Corner, the 74th Festival de Cannes.
Blue was a part-time contract dancer at Y-Space Dance Company during 2012-2013 and now an independent artist working with various dance companies and artists.
藍嘉穎
左撇子、香港獨立編舞及舞者。十六歲開始習舞，2010年獲香港演藝學院舞蹈藝術學士學位，主修當代舞及編舞。曾發表的作品包括：舞蹈新鮮人系列《左撇子》、東邊舞蹈團《鄰居》、2016和2018年社區文化大使計劃《飛飛旅遊爸》、香港藝術節2016「香港賽馬會當代舞蹈平台」中發表《時差》，其後獲邀到日本和韓國演出，並憑《時差》入圍香港舞蹈年獎2017的候選傑出編舞。
2019年初創作了《實驗性關係》，在香港藝術節首演後，入圍Yokohama Dance Collection 2020，隨後在TPAM 2020及京都巡演。2020年底創作了長篇舞蹈劇場《鄰居》。
近年憑兩個舞蹈影像作品《God Limps》和《9》入圍多個舞蹈短片節，在柏林、布魯塞爾、西班牙馬德里、西班牙帕爾馬、尼科西亞、阿姆斯特丹、香港等地放映作品及交流，並在當中獲得數個獎項。2020年獲「跳格國際舞蹈影像節」委約作品《山海流》，在UA K11 Art House戲院首映。翌年七月入選法國康城影展的Short Film Corner。