Company Members
Company Members
Pewan Chow
Artistic Director
As an independent choreographer and performer, Chow endeavours to contribute to the study, education and creation of dance at Passoverdance.
Her choreographic works include Grey Area, In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling, Maze, Homecoming, Xin Xiang, Solo Act, Searchlight, and Execute I, II, II -- Accomplish. She received the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2010 and 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production for Homecoming and for Outstanding Independent Dance Production for Maze respectively. Chow is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Youth and Community Dance for In Search of Space in a Cramped City: A Moving Exhibition – Urban Bottling in 2016, and Outstanding Dance Education for In Search of Motion in a Virtual City: Grey Area in 2018. Chow was awarded Artist of the Year (Dance) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2017 and awarded Honorary Fellow by Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2022.
Gabbie Chan
Associate Artistic Director
Born in Hong Kong, Chan graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2010, majoring in Chinese dance and choreography. During her studies, Chan was awarded the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship, Grantham Scholarship, and HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship. She also went to the United States, Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, Malaysia for dance and cultural exchanges.
From 2012 to 2014, Chan joined DanceArt as a trainee dancer; in 2016, she joined Passoverdance as a core member and started choreography. Chan's works are an in-depth exploration of human nature, looking for the connection between dance and life. She has been invited to participate in different dance platforms, including Hong Kong iDance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, City Contemporary Dance Festival, Hong Kong Dance Alliance: New Force in Motion Series, etc.
Chan subsequently graduated with a Master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapyfrom The University of Hong Kong. She is currently a registered art therapist of the Australia New Zealand Asian Creative Art Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and Associate Artistic Director of Passoverdance.
Pandora Sin
Company Development Manager
Pandora Sin graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the HKAPA, majoring in Choreography. After graduation, she worked as a dance instructor for educational outreach programmes at the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) and Hong Kong Ballet. She has performed and collaborated with various local artists and dance companies. At Passoverdance, Sin works closely with the Artistic Director in programme planning and developing networks with artists, arts companies and organisations locally and overseas.
Lam Sin Yee
Company Manager
Shirley is an arts administrator with extensive experience in planning local and overseas performing arts projects. She currently serves as the company manager of Passoverdance, the creative producer of Toolbox Percussion, and an independent arts practitioner. She actively seeks diverse projects and has a successful track record in securing government and private funding. During her tenure as the company manager of Passoverdance, she has been involved in the production of numerous professional dance works, as well as the planning and implementation of various arts education programs. She has led the company to participate in various international dance festivals, such as the CODA International Dance Festival in Oslo. In 2021, Shirley joined Toolbox Percussion as a creative producer, where she is responsible for project management, production, and organizing touring performances. The "A Double Listen" series she was involved in has been resident at the prestigious Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan.
Shirley brings a wealth of experience in implementing both local and overseas performing arts projects. She has coordinated cultural exchange tours to prominent destinations such as Europe, Oslo, Japan, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, and Taiwan. Shirley is dedicated to collaborating with artists from different fields to promote performing arts. She has collaborated with top performers from mainland China as well as renowned local and overseas artists and has served as a producer for several arts projects funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Shirley holds a Master's degree in Cultural Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A fellow with the International Society for Performing Arts.
Antoinette Mak
Company Tutor
Antoinette Mak graduated from the School of Dance of the HKAPA with a major in Contemporary Dance in 1988, and received the Outstanding Student Award in the same year. Formerly a member of CCDC and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Mak has performed in productions by Helen Lai, Susan Deihim, Willy Tsao, Chiang Ching, and Lin Hwai-min. She has toured internationally to Mainland China, Japan, the Philippines, Europe, Canada and the US. Mak has collaborated with various local artists and arts groups, including Kung Chi-shing, Rosaline Newman, Aaron Wan, Theatre Fanatico, Three Colours, DanceArt Hong Kong, Manna Dance, and Open Daily. Mak is currently a part-time lecturer at the HKAPA.
Cally Yip
Founding Member
Cally Yip graduated from the HKAPA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a major in Contemporary Dance in 2007. While studying at the HKAPA, she represented the Academy in performance tours to Perth, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, and she was awarded the Jackie Chan Charitable Scholarship and the Hong Kong Association of University Women Scholarship. After graduation, Yip has performed with or choreographed for various organisations including the Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Passoverdance, E-Side Dance Company, Y-space, TNT Theatre, Theatre Ronin, The Only Stage, and Goodnews Communication International. She has performed in the con- certs of Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chen, and Leo Ku. An advocate of dance education, she has taught contemporary dance, jazz dance, children’s dance and choreography in various schools and organisations.
Elaine Kwok
Founding Member
Graduated from HKAPA (2005). Previously worked with Art Fission Company (Singapore) and is currently an independent choreographer and dancer educator.
First solo Of Mud and Dust featured in Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) in 2011, Guangdong Dance Festival (2012), Beijing Dance Festival (2014), and International Dance Theater Festival at Zawirowania, Poland (2015).
Solo performances Solo (2011) and Melting Solitude II (2013) were commissioned by HKAF and LCSD. Invited as guest curator for the City Festival's dance programme (2007) and her work, Let the Body Flow, was performed in Hong Kong and Patravadi Theatre in Thailand (2008). Received the 2011 Hong Kong Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Dance for her work in Positioning.
Elyse Lai
Founding Member
Elyse Lai Yi-ting graduated from the HKAPA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), majoring in Chinese Dance. While studying at the HKAPA, she was awarded several scholarships including the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship, Bloomberg Scholarship, Chinese Dance Faculty Scholarship, and the Society of the Academy for Performing Arts Scholarship. In 2001, Lai was awarded the Hongkong Bank Foundation Hong Kong - Mainland Exchange Scholarships, and offered an exchange opportunity at the Sichuan Dance Academy for dance and cultural training. Lai has been a lead performer in many large-scale dance works, and she has performed in Singapore, Paris, Vienna, Hawaii, and Brussels.
Sarah Lo
Core Member
Born in Hong Kong, Sarah Lo Sze-long began her ballet training at the age of four, and later took up contemporary dance. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the HKAPA. While studying at the HKAPA, Lo was awarded several scholarships including The Disney Scholarship, the Society of the Academy for Performing Arts Scholarship, and the Carl Wolz Scholarship. In 2007, she received a scholarship to participate in the American Dance Festival in North Carolina in the US. In 2008, she was chosen by the World Dance Alliance to represent Hong Kong in an exchange programme at the Taipei International Dance Elite Academy (TAIPEIDEA). She has been a visiting lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2016. Lo is a registered ballet teacher of The Royal Academy of Dance (UK).