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Titanic-like sweep of Hong Kong Dance Awards and a sinking feeling about dance’s standing
The Butterfly Lovers wins in 6 of 8 categories at Hong Kong Dance Awards, where speakers bemoan lack of resources for art form in the city
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You don’t often hear a Hong Kong dance production compared to a blockbuster film’s success on Oscars night, but that was how the Hong Kong Dance Alliance described a near clean sweep of its annual awards by Hong Kong Ballet’s The Butterfly Lovers.
“This is astonishing – it feels like Oscars night in the year of Titanic,” said the awards’ co-chairman, and Post dance critic, Natasha Rogai.
At the awards ceremony, held at the Fringe Club in Central district on May 19, The Butterfly Lovers won a record six awards: for best large venue production, best choreography, best set and costume design – won by Tim Yip, who earned an Oscar in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – best music for Tian Mi’s score, best female performance for Xuan Cheng, and best ensemble performance.
Of the other honours presented on the night, the two that eluded The Butterfly Lovers were the award for best male performance, which went to Luo Fan for his role in CCDC’s As If Snowing, and the award for best lighting, won by Yeung Tsz-yan for Hong Kong Dance Company’s The Legend of Lanling.
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