Qualifications
Dance M.F.A. – Hollins University 2011 (Scholarship provided by the Music and Dance Fund from the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
B.F.A. (Honours) in Dance – The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts 2000
Roles and responsibilities
Bruce teaches on Undergraduate courses and the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) scheme. His teaching includes contemporary technique, improvisation and choreography.
“I started dancing because I saw Michael Jackson and M.C. Hammer on TV, so I applied for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts without knowing what modern dance was, and then went on to dance for over two decades! I love dancing and I’m also passionate about martial arts. I’ve spent years practising Ba Gwa, Tai Chi, Wing Chun, Brazilian Jujitsu and MMA. In both teaching and performing, I see movement as conscious awareness of myself being in the world.”
Bruce is an experienced dance artist, choreographer, rehearsal director and educator. He holds a BFA in Dance from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he majored in Modern Dance, an MFA in Dance from Hollins University, USA, and completed the MA Dance Teaching and Facilitating at NSCD in 2026. Bruce worked with City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong for over two decades as a dancer, choreographer and rehearsal director, performing and creating work internationally across Asia, Europe and North America.
At NSCD, Bruce teaches contemporary technique, improvisation, partner work, Tai Chi and creative/rehearsal practices. His teaching draws on his professional performance and rehearsal direction experience, supporting students to develop technical clarity, physical curiosity, embodied awareness and independent artistic thinking. Since joining NSCD, Bruce has created and directed choreographic and rehearsal-based projects with undergraduate students, contributing to their performance development and collaborative creative practice.
Bruce is also an award-winning practitioner of traditional Chinese martial arts. His movement practice is informed by Tai Chi, Bagua, partnering and improvisation, and he continues to explore how martial arts principles can enrich contemporary dance training, cultural understanding and embodied decision-making within higher education.
Prior to joining the staff team at NSCD, Bruce worked with City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in Hong Kong for 22 years, as a dancer, choreographer and rehearsal director. Alongside dancing in numerous works with the CCDC, Bruce also presented his own choreographic work with the company, including Dress Me Down in Strip Teaser 2012, Re/dis-connect in It’s My Turn 2013, How to become… in Eureka 2015, Why not kill us all? 2017, Rainbow House (dance video) 2020 and Listen Carefully in Days are Numbered 2021.
In 2022, Bruce worked as a movement coach for Cantonese chamber opera KungFood. Bruce has also worked as a choreographer for Wild the Musical for the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.
