戚健康的舞蹈人生

  戚健康先生，十五歲開始學習土風舞，一年後即擔任初班導師。於八十年代，他已經常帶領學員前往老人院、傷健中心等作社會服務及表演，並聯絡各土風舞團體舉辦大匯演。

一九八九年十二月一日，戚健康成立<舞之集>，定期舉辦訓練班及同樂日。他致力編舞，參加各項公開舞蹈比賽，令社員盡展所長，歷年獲獎無數。一九九六年，戚健康編的<烏克蘭婚禮舞>獲全港公開舞蹈比賽金獎殊榮，並應邀參加臺灣第十八屆泛亞舞蹈營作壓軸表演。迄今<舞之集>共有四分社，分佈港九新界，成員逾百。

戚健康先生乃香港的多產舞蹈家，二十年來，編舞三百支；其中<米蘭恰恰>、<悲哀嫉妒>、<血染的風采>仍廣泛流行。他經常舉辦不同主題的民族舞蹈同樂會，如：以色列舞之夜、新編舞之夜、東歐舞影、跨越二千、瘋狂勁舞馬拉松等等。

戚健康從事製衣業多年，縫製表演服裝親力親為，近年更承辦民族服裝訂製，<舞之集亦成為香港首個西方民族舞蹈服裝租借中心。每有舉辦民族服裝舞蹈活動，過半參加者的服裝便由<舞之集>供應。

為推廣土風舞，戚健康曾兩度主辦<東南亞舞蹈營>，集臺灣、香港及新加坡著名舞蹈教師共冶一爐，三地舞友齊齊研習土風舞。

Chik Kin Hong’s Detour on Dance

  Mr. Chik Kin Hong made his detour on dancing since he was 15, and became an instructor for beginners just a year later. In the 80s, he, together with his trainees, had always participated in social services and performed various performances at Homes for the Aged and Care Centres for Handicapped. He also played a crucial role in liaison with different Folk Dance groups to organize grand shows.

  On 1^st of December, 1989, Mr. Chik formed the Fans of Dance Club, where training coursed and gatherings were regularly held. He put his efforts in choreography and took part in various Open Dance Competitions, making the best of his members and gaining numerous prizes over these years.

  In 1996, ‘The Wedding Dance of Ukraine’, choreographized by Mr. Chik won the Golden Award in the Hong Kong Open Dance Competition, and the dancers of the dance were later invited to be the main performers during the 18^th Pan-Asia Dance Camp in Taiwan. Until now, the Club has four branches, distributed all over the territory, with members exceeding 100.

  Mr. Chik is one of the multi-productive choreograhphers in Hong Kong. In the past 20 years, he has been the choreographer of over 500 dancers and many of which have been widely popular. He invariably organizes National Dance Gathering under different themes. For instance, ‘Night of Israeli Dance’, ‘Night of Newly-Choreographized Dance’, ‘Silver-Lining of East European Dance’, ‘Into the Year 2000’ and ‘Marathon Night Fever’, and so on and so forth.

Mr. Chik has been engaged in the Garment Industry for many years, and has all the costumes for performing tailored by his own hands. In recent years, he has even engaged in tailoring dancing costumes as a living. Owing to this reason, the Club has also become the first Rental Centre for Western Folk Dance Costume in Hong Kong. Whenever there are National Costume Dance activities, almost over 50% of the participants’ costumes are supplied by the Club.

  In order to promote Folk Dance, Mr. Chik has twice organized ‘Southeast Asian Dance Camp’, gathering most of the famous instructors from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore to work on Folk Dance. In the last two years, Mr. Chik has been teaching some of his popular dances to the learners in Singapore and Malaysia.

  Over the 20-odd years, Mr. Chik has been indulged in the world of dancing, devoted all his time in choreography and organized gatherings, hoping the activities of Folk Dance and National Dance can again reach their peak in Hong Kong.