New Moves

Celebrated Tibetan choreographer Sang Jijia, who has been named the new artistic director of City Contemporary Dance Company this year, wants to bring change to the industry in Hong Kong

By Zabrina Lo.

The urban jungle of Hong Kong is a far cry from the lush plains and vast mountains of ethnic Tibetan choreographer Sang Jijia’s homeland in Gansu, north-central China. “I come from a herding family. Back in the 1980s, there were no telephones or TVs. We led a simple and innocent life. As children, we used to roam free on the plains with our buttocks exposed,” he recalls with a laugh. “I used to think the world beyond our lands was the same as ours.” And just as his upbringing contrasts with that of a city kid of his generation, so too does his introduction to dance; there was no dance school for him. “The concept of dance training was foreign to me,” he says. “My people would come together and…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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