Ong Yong Lock was born in Malaysia. He joined the Hong Kong Dance Company in 1989, then the City Contemporary Dance Company in 1993. Ong was a founding member of South 'ASLI' Dance Workshop (SADW). In 1997, he became the Artistic Director of SADW (1997-2001). In 1998, Ong joined the Expressions Dance Company in Brisbane, Australia to perform in the Brisbane Festival. He was awarded the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2002 for his choreography of ballet 4 In for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was appointed as arts advisor of dance by Hong Kong Arts Development Council in the same year. He received the Award for Best Artist (Dance) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2014.
In 2002, Ong founded the Unlock Dancing Plaza with Elsie Chau to promote and popularize modern dance. His choreographic talents also spoke for itself in the productions which were shown in Asian Art Festival, International Sino Dance Week, Malaysian Chinese Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Dance Festival and 20th International Academy of Dance Festival. He has collaborated with various dance companies including Hong Kong Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company, Beijing Dance/LDTX, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Xiamen Modern Dance, The Hong Kong Ballet, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Queensland University of Technology. Ong's highly acclaimed full-length works include 10 Nights' Wanderings, Whispering Of Love, Love Sick, Kung Fu and Tofu, Chopin VS Ca, Walls 44 and Wanderer. Wanderer received the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards "Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production".
Andy Lee graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Contemporary Dance. He began ballet training in Jean M. Wong School of Ballet at the age of twelve.
He performed in a series of Hong Kong Ballet Group production: Carnival of the animals, Cinderella's Slipper, La Sylphide, Swan Lake as well as Play Boys in 2002. Then he followed the academy to Conservatarie de Paris to perform Patition en black and Circle song.
Recent works include Boy Story. Reborn, Comfort Zone, #danceless01 - The Sound, Take 55, Alice Dream in Hong Kong, Dialogue of space series 2 - Did not kill a single man, Dialogue of space series 3 - Canton disco, Upside down, Kaledoscope of dance from Yunnan, Grey Area, Room X and Cattle Runway.
Graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Contemporary Dance. Yau has participated in many performances and choreography. Recent performances and choreographic works include Desmond Pang's concert STILL DREAMING; Unlock Dancing Plaza's Hero@ Eb Major, Chopin VS Ca and Chopin VS Ca II; The Media Evangelism Limited's An Ark Sparks In The Dark…; Jade Kwan's concert Shining As Star; Hong Kong Dance Alliance's Dance x Men and YEAH SHOW 2010, 2011. Yau is the choreographer of Man Hard for E-Side Dance Company in the Hong Kong Dance Festival. He also serves as dance and drama tutor for several youth centers, schools and Christian organizations.
Yau also has extensive experience in theatre. He is Founder and Creative Director of Sweet Three Theatre since 2006. He has received Outstanding Director Award at Rotary Club Drama Competition in 2007 with works Sinking Dream. In 2009 and 2010, he participated in performance tour of a commissioned work by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). He was community cultural ambassador and actor of When Man Meets Lady for Goodnews Communication International in 2011. His performance has received critical acclaims. Yau joined Unlock Dancing Plaza as Resident Artist since 2012.
Kerry Cheung graduated from School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been engaging with contemporary dance since university, and is particularly interested in body perceptions, hoping to conduct bodily conversations and connect humans to nature through dance. She has been participating in different body trainings and performances after graduation.
She has performed in New Force in Motion series’ Unmixed , REAL showcase series’ FIT in WHAT, 2018 Arts Voyager: As Day Alights… and Maze: Shifting Boundaries by Passoverdance, Dance On series: Untitled III , Mobile Dance : Maybe Tomorrow in Jockey Club New Arts Power, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series’s Elephant in the Room.
