Daniel Yeung – Independent Curator/Choreographer/Arts Critic

Graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with major in Fine Arts and minor in Chinese Music, Daniel is a self-taught dancer and was twice awarded scholarships by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for his further studies of choreography in London and The Netherlands. Daniel was raved by Europe’s BalletTanz year book as “The Choreographer to Look At” and was awarded the “Rising Artist Award” by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2003. He is a six-time awardee of the Hong Kong Dance Awards (2000, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014), organised by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, and twice-won “Top Five Best Dance Works of the Year” from the South China Morning Post. In 2013, Daniel was awarded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as the “Best Artist of the Year (Dance)” for his total contributions on curating, choreographing, performing, teaching and criticism on developing Hong Kong dance culture. From 2020 on, he was appointed by the Government as Chairman, Dance Sector and Vice-Chair, Arts Criticism for Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

He joined Global Artists Committee of Asian Art Association In 2020.

Daniel is an active artist specialised in interdisciplinary and international collaboration works. He has been invited by the Japan Kyoto Arts Centre three times for teaching and presenting works in the International Creators Meeting and Hot Summer in Kyoto workshop festival curated by Monochrome Circus, and has been invited two times as an artistic coordinator and choreographer to set his dance works with choreographers from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia for the Little Asia Dance Exchange network touring program. Daniel has also curated and co-choreographed the multi-media dance work “Little Prince Hamlet” performed by himself with artists from Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia presented by the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2005. In 2007, he was appointed by the Seoul International Dance Festival as the artistic coordinator for an international collaboration dance works co-choreographed by dance artists from Singapore, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea.

Daniel had been granted by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority for a research on successful models of festival programs throughout Europe, and building networks on collaborations with different international dance festivals in Korea and Japan from 2013 to 2015. In 2017, Daniel was funded by the Home Affairs Bureau for presenting his first dance festival H.D.X (Hong Kong Dance Exchange) as an inter-Asia exchange programs festival and alliance with New Dance for Asia Festival (N.D.A.) Festival from South Korea, Round-table Dance Project from Taiwan, Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival and Japan Contemporary Dance Network from Japan. H.D.X. was funded again in 2020 for 2nd year and was expanded its alliance with 7 international festivals and creating 15 international touring productions for Hong Kong choreographers' works.

Recently Daniel has great interest in exploring and integrating contemporary dance and traditional Lion Dance.

His newest multi-media production “Contempolion” has been presented in June 2017 for the new Taikoo Place theatre ArtisTree as their grand opening program, in which he combined and collaborated with local and international artists from Japan, Taiwan, Belgium, Italy and Poland, ranging from Aerial Dance, Circus, Ballet, Contemporary dance and Parkour. His choreographies fused with traditional Cantonese Lion Dance technique and contemporary dance works have been invited by Hong Kong New Vision Festival, Shanghai International Arts Festival, Sanriku International Arts Festival (Japan) and Tanzmesse (Germany) from 2016 and so on.