https://www.scmp.com/rss/508166/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Christmas just isn’t the same without the Nutcracker. The fourth wave of coronavirus meant the Hong Kong Ballet had to cancel its performances of the festive classic this month. However, 360 guests did see a live-streamed version on Boxing Day during a virtual staging of the ballet company’s Christmas fundraiser. Forty-eight children of members of the gala organising committee aged twelve or younger (with one impossibly precocious dancer just one-and-a-half years old) starred alongside seven... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3115419/nutcracker-danced-lucky-360-hong-kong-ballet-its-only?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3115419/nutcracker-danced-lucky-360-hong-kong-ballet-its-only?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Dec 2020 08:45:14 +0000 An online exhibition of photographs spanning 140 years of Hong Kong’s history as a British colony has just been launched by the University of Hong Kong. These historic images have been selected from the thousands the university acquired last year from photojournalist Frank Fischbeck, a treasure trove of visual records since the 1860s of such events as the Japanese occupation during World War II, the 1967 riots and Britain’s handover of the city to China in 1997. About a third of the photographs... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3113873/old-photos-hong-kong-show-historic-events-made-it-city-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3113873/old-photos-hong-kong-show-historic-events-made-it-city-it?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:45:18 +0000