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Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

About the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (www.hkapa.edu)
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, established by Government Ordinance in 1984, is a leading tertiary institution in performing arts in Asia. It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies in Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, Theatre and Entertainment Arts, and Chinese Traditional Theatre. Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions, and interdisciplinary learning.

About School of Drama
Drama is at the very heart of human expression, its communication and identity. The School of Drama believes that its unique position in South East Asia offers an insight into this artform that will both inform and develop significant creativity and distinctive artists to engage with and feed the cultural community of Hong Kong, the Mainland and beyond. The School of Drama strives to be an incubator, catalyst and repository of the values and importance of the dramatic, and performative arts and expresses this in the nurturing of actors, directors, playwrights and teachers who will function as practitioner-artists making a tangible difference to their community and their chosen discipline.
 
Students acquire professional skills through formal training in classes, these are then refined, developed and explored in performances. Student performances take place both in workshop and in public, using theatre spaces specially designed to be adaptable to both classical and contemporary work. Students encounter theatre texts and practice from both the Western and Asian traditions. Its undergraduate productions are mainly in Cantonese although there are some opportunities to perform in Putonghua.
 
At undergraduate degree level the School also aims to cultivate a deep appreciation of the performing arts by a broad range of related studies in theatre and in interdisciplinary contexts. It encourages students to be active in the pursuit of cultural knowledge, to be well read and engage in the wider arts community through attending local and international performances. The School of Drama wants its graduating students to be both skilled practitioners and intelligent and articulate advocates for their artform.
 
The School is committed to be an important force in the creative development of drama in Hong Kong and to meeting the needs of local audiences, the theatre community and related cultural industries. At the same time the School is also international with a truly global perspective on world theatre.
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