All along, it has never been easy to find a good place to nurture arts and culture in Hong Kong. Is lack of space and venues one of a variety of reasons why creation of art cannot develop comprehensively here?
Born and raised in Hong Kong, MA Choi-wo, Victor, was the winner of the Artist of the Year (Dance) Award presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1996. He and his wife, YIM Ming-yin, Mandy, are among the first batch of graduates from the School of Dance of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 1988. Ever since the two established their dance team in 1995, they have been exploring new dance language, form and direction. Over the years, they have created over 110 pieces of work, and they also have 120 productions of different scales and 470 performances.
In addition to stationing in Hong Kong, they were also invited to participate and perform in the dance festivals around the world, from which they brought experiences back to Hong Kong. In 2009, they founded the Hong Kong i-Dance Festival, and successfully promoted dance education, which in turn, inspired artists in Taiwan, Korea and Japan, to held similar events in their own countries.
Nonetheless, since they established their dance team, they have been constantly looking for suitable venues for their dance studio. Not only does an ideal studio need space, it also has to meet a number of conditions: safe and flexible parquet floor, spacious, no columns to block view, high ceiling, comes with windows, etc. Unfortunately, with the scarcity of land in Hong Kong, it is not easy to find an ideal dance studio without substantial resources. From farmland in the New Territories to factory buildings, they have been renting different places but were somehow forced to move out at the end because of different reasons. While their dance studio still does not have a permanent address, they have not been discouraged. From youth to middle age, they still continue to create, continue to find, and co
藝術文化，在香港一直找不到好的土壤成長，當中有各種各樣的因素，而空間場地的欠缺，又是否其中一個令藝術創作未能完善發展的原因？
2016年獲香港藝術發展局頒發藝術家年獎（舞蹈）的馬才和(Victor)，是香港土生土長的舞蹈家，他和太太嚴明然，同屬於1988年香港演藝學院第一屆舞蹈學院畢業生。兩人自1995年成立舞團開始，不斷探尋嶄新的舞蹈語言、形式和方向，多年來已創作超過110個作品、120個大中小型製作和470場演出。
除了紮根香港，他們還應邀參與世界各地舞蹈節交流演出，為了將經驗回饋香港，於2009年創辦香港 i 舞蹈節，成功推廣舞蹈教育，並影響到台灣、韓國、日本等地的藝術家，在當地舉辦類似活動。
然而，自成立舞團開始，兩人卻不斷在尋找合適地方當舞蹈工作室。跳舞需要空間，一個理想舞蹈工作室更需要多項條件：安全有彈性的地板、大空間、沒有柱阻擋、樓底高、有窗口等等；可惜在寸金呎土的香港，沒有豐裕的資源，想找到理想的舞蹈工作室，並不是容易的事；從新界農地到工廠大廈，二人多年來曾租用不同場地，卻因各種原故，結果仍是被迫遷，舞蹈工作室依舊未有長遠地址，但他們從未氣餒，兩人從青年走到中年，仍然為舞蹈，繼續創作、繼續尋找、繼續努力！
