Anna Chan

Dean, School of Dance, HKAPA

Anna CY Chan is a practicing arts educator, performer, producer, curator and administrator for years.  She received her professional dance training in Hong Kong, Australia and the UK, and holds a Professional Dancer Diploma from the Royal Ballet School (London), an MA degree in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey and M.Ed degree from the University of Sheffield.

Anna is currently the Dean of School of Dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.  She was the Head of Dance, Performing Arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority from 2014-2018 and from September 2018, she serves as Dance Advisor. In her tenure as Head of Dance, she was responsible for shaping the district’s artistic direction and strategies for dance.  Under her leadership, a series of programmes that offer Hong Kong artists a platform to explore innovative forms of creating and performing with international artists have been launched and co- presented, including “Dance Dialogue with Wayne McGregor”, “Screendance”, “Writing Choreographic Process”, “Dance x Multi-media”, “Choreographer x Composer Lab”, “Dance in Alternative Space”, “Dramaturgy and Beyond” and a new initiative of cultural exchange and creation programme “Creative Meeting Point” between Finland, Australia, Spain & UK. She also leads her dance team to produce WKCDA’s monthly WE Dance programme, ON VIEW: Hong Kong and Look Two Ways productions, and initiates the development of Asia Network for Dance (AND+) which will be launched in May 2018.  Apart from programme development, Anna also collaborates with WKCDA’s project development team, architects and theatre designers on the design of the Freespace (450 seats Blackbox theatre) to be opened in April 2019, the Lyric Theatre Complex (1450, 600 & 250 seats theatres) and the first Resident Company Center for Dance which will be opened in 2022/23.