{"id":14935,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/ong-yong-lock\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:34","slug":"ong-yong-lock","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/team\/ong-yong-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ong Yong Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Ong Yong Lock was born in Malaysia, joined the Hong Kong Dance Company in 1989, then joined the City Contemporary Dance Company in 1993. He has toured with the company to perform in various places such as the Mainland, Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, Japan, France and Israel, etc. Ong was a founding member of South &#8216;ASLI&#8217; Dance Workshop (SADW). In 1997, he became the Artistic Director of SADW (1997-2001). In 1998, Ong joined the Expressions Dance Company in Brisbane, Australia to perform in the Brisbane Festival 1998. In the same year, he was invited to teach modern dance in Japan and Malaysia as well as choreographed for the 19th Chinese Dance Festival in Malaysia. In 2000, Ong was invited to perform in the East Dragon Dance Festival and World Dance in Japan. He was awarded the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2002 for his choreography of ballet 4 In for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was appointed as arts advisor of dance by Hong Kong Arts Development Council in the same year. He received the Award for Best Artist (Dance) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2014.\u00a0In 2002, Ong founded the Unlock Dancing Plaza with Elsie Chau to promote and popularize modern dance. His choreographic talents also spoke for itself in the productions which were shown in Asian Art Festival, International Sino Dance Week, Malaysian Chinese Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Dance Festival and 20th International Academy of Dance Festival. He has collaborated with various dance companies including Hong Kong Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company, Beijing Dance\/LDTX, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Xiamen Modern Dance, The Hong Kong Ballet, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Queensland University of Technology. Ong&#8217;s highly acclaimed full-length works include\u00a0<em>10 Nights&#8217; Wanderings<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Whispering Of Love<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Love Sick<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kung Fu and Tofu<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Chopin VS CA<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Walls 44\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Wanderer<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Wanderer<\/em>\u00a0received the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Awards &#8220;Outstanding Achievement in Independent Production&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14935","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}