Olivia, Yin Ting Kwong

Choreographer and Dancer of Contemporary and Traditional Chinese Dance.
Artistic Director of S.O.S. Dance Company.
One of the founders of Informal Space. 


Born and grow up in Hong Kong. Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2003, Major in Chinese Dance and Choreography.  

During the time in the HKAPA, she received the Hong Kong Bank Foundation Hong Kong - Mainland Exchange Scholarship in 2001 and has studied in the Sichun Dance Academy (China).

In 2003, she received the same scholarship to Sichun again for the 7th Tao Li Bei National Dance Competition (China), and won the 2nd place of Performance (Group) with the choreography of Pik-Yim Yu - "Life?".

She has also represented the Academy to perform several times in Macau, Singapore, Sichun... etc.

After graduated, Olivia joined the Odyssey Dance Theatre (Singapore) in April 2004 as a full time dancer.

She has also participated in the Hong Kong Dance Company as a project dancer, including the performances of:
"Red Poppies" in 2006, by one of the first choreographer in China - Ling-Li Liu.
In 2007, she followed the company to tour in China and performed "Red Poppies" in the 8th China Art Festival in Wuhan, and the choreography of Artistic Director - Kwok-Shing Leung, "Qing Ming Riverside" in Hanzhou, Nanjing and the 5th Beijing International Dance Festival in Beijing.

In 2003, with Simona Chan, Ho-Ting Chan, Peggy Chu and Cecilia Tang, they formed and registered a dance group "Informal Space" in Hong Kong, and were invited to perform their choreography, "Qi Cui Gu Dong - Korean Long Drum Dance" in the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2005.

In 2008, she created her own dance company “S.O.S. (Space of Olivia’s Style) Dance Company”, and has sucessfully performed in several events and dance festivals in Italy (Milan, Bologna, Rieti, Jesolo, Bicocca... etc).
On 08 June 2010, this company has successfully registered as a society in Hong Kong, known as "S.O.S. Dance".

By her special way in choreographing Contemporary Chinese Dance, Olivia represented "Enemy" and won her first Choreography Award (her students won the Honours Award of Performance - Contemporary dance section) in the 40th Hong Kong School Dance Festival.

With another of her wonderful choreography "Because of … YOU - Painting", she won the 1st place (choreography section - category A) in the 18th International Dance Competition (Rieti Dance Festival 2008), Italy.

In 2010, Olivia was invited to perform and give a Chinese Dance Workshop in the Venice Oriental Dance Convention 2010.

With a great honour, Scuola di Danza Schininà – Vecchi (directed by former dancers of Teatro San Carlo - Naples, Italy) has invited her to be one of the juries for their school's final exam in June 2010.

Recently, Olivia has choreographed for the play “An Angel in the Slums” (and as a main actress), which has successfully performed in Rome and New York for the International Arts Festival on Spirituality (Divinamente Roma & New York 2011).

She is now working as a freelance choreographer, dancer, improviser & dance teacher.



(About the detailed Curriculum Vitae of Olivia, please visit: Memories)