Mui Cheuk-yin

Choreographer & Chairperson of Dance Sector, HKADC 2013-2019

MUI won the Hong Kong Young Choreographer Competition and received a scholarship to study modern dance in New York in 1985. Upon returning to Hong Kong, she created works Awakenings in a Dream, Cursive Script and the Diary Series.MUI became an independent choreographer /dancer /teacher in the 90s. Under the auspices of Asian Cultural Council, she took part in the International Choreographer’s Programme at the American Dance Festival and performed at the East & West Center, University of Hawaii. Mui had created new works for the CCDC, the Hong Kong Dance Company and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Internationally renowned solo artist, she has been invited to many international arts festivals. In 2000, MUI was invited by Pina Bausch & Folkwang Tanzstudio to choreograph Whispering Colour and to perform as a guest dancer in The Rite of Spring with Tanztheatre Wuppertal. She was named the “Dance Ambassador” (2000) and awarded the Hong Kong Dance Awards for choreography by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance in 2001 and 2009.