日期：2025.11.10
Macao CDE Springboard Showcased a Splendid Success
Stella & Artists Nurtures Emerging Local Dancers
Recently, 2025 Macao CDE Springboard, organized by Stella & Artists, made a brilliant debut. With its diverse program planning, thoughtful nurturing mechanism, and in-depth international exchanges, it has become an important link connecting Macao with the Asian contemporary dance scene. Stella & Artists' artistic director, Stella Ho and Oscar Cheong, co-produced and participated throughout the entire process, witnessing the vitality of the dance world.
The showcase's program planning was ingenious, fully reflecting diversity. As an event which runs every 2 year as a cycle, the platform motivates new creation while inviting representative works to demonstrate. Among them, two local works, Consume Me Baby and Decalogue, incubated by the platform and previously invited to perform abroad, shone brightly. Simultaneously, three international works from the SAI Dance Festival in Japan, the NDA International Dance Festival in South Korea, and Hong Kong Dance Exchange were also performed, all using local traditional culture as material and integrating contemporary dance vocabulary to showcase the rich layers of Asian dance art.
For emerging local dancers, the platform's local incubation section is of profound significance. Given the lack of choreography courses in Macau, the program specially invited two instructors to teach, and students will decide whether to participate in the creation after completing the creation workshop. The platform not only provides rehearsal space and production time to ensure the incubation of works, but also provides professional lighting design to offer maximum support to potential dancers who start to choreograph.
Korea-Macao Dance Exchange Performance sparked unique artistic inspiration. South Korea's contemporary dance is highly developed, and the program invited Daegu City Dance Company, Designare Movement and Choomna Dance Company, whose dancers' professional skills are highly anticipated. Also noteworthy is the collaboration between local choreographer Cynthia Sio and a Korean choreographer, who performed the work "Faces" with local dancer Leong Pou Seng. Audiences commented that this work was very different from Cynthia Sio 's previous styles, perfectly demonstrating the charm of cross-cultural collaboration. Furthermore, under the promotion of Daniel Yeung, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dance Exchange, the platform has established a mutual invitation mechanism with several Asian dance festivals, building a close cooperation bridge for the Asian dance community and supporting the growth of local dancers.
Text: San San Ru Yi
The original article (in Chinese) was published on page C3 of the Macao Daily News on 10 November 2025.
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