Karen Cheung

Head of Dance, Performing Arts, WKCDA

Karen Cheung is Head of Dance, Performing Arts at West Kowloon Cultural District. Between 2004 and 2011 she was Company Manager, Administrative Director and Producer of the theatre at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company. From 2011 to 2016, she was Director of the Guangdong Dance Festival. In 2015, she started the “Delta Moves” project to promote contemporary dance in the Pearl River Delta region. In 2017, Cheung was appointed Head of China Dance Development at City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in Hong Kong. She is also one of the key driving forces of HOTPOT – East Asia Dance Platform, a new festival network established between Seoul International Dance Festival (Korea), Yokohama Dance Collection (Japan) and City Contemporary Dance Festival (Hong Kong) in collaboration with ICEHOT – Nordic Dance Platform. Cheung was the Program Director of the annual Beijing Dance Festival (2012–2019) and the Programme Director of the first City Contemporary Dance Festival (2017).