THE COMPANY

Atlanta Chinese Dance Company (ACDC) educates and entertains audiences about Chinese dance, history, and culture. Founded in 1991 by Hwee-Eng Y. Lee and co-directed by Hwee Eng and Kerry Lee, the nearly 100-dancer troupe has enchanted Chinese and non-Chinese audiences alike through numerous original full-evening Chinese dance productions and community outreach performances for schools/universities, libraries, senior centers, arts festivals, international days, corporate events, military observances, Asian community events, and more. Most notably, ACDC helped showcase Atlanta to the world as performers in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Centennial Olympic Games. For more than a decade, they performed the “Chinese variation” in the Atlanta Ballet’s The Nutcracker.

THE DIRECTORS

Hwee-Eng Lee (Founder and Co-Artistic Director) has been a pioneer in the development and appreciation of Chinese dance, history, and culture in metro Atlanta. A native of Singapore, she studied Chinese dance and ballet from a young age and choreographed and taught for Singapore Experimental Studio and Singapore Ballet Academy. In 1978 she immigrated to the US, where she completed her BA and MA degrees at SUNY Cortland and Boston College while studying jazz and modern dance. In 1984, she continued her Chinese dance studies with instructors from Beijing, China. Hwee-Eng has been teaching Chinese dance in metro Atlanta since 1986. She founded the Atlanta Chinese Dance Company (Georgia's first non-profit Chinese dance troupe) in 1991 – leading 20 productions and countless community performances. Among other honors, Hwee-Eng has been named Lexus Leader of the Arts by Public Broadcasting Atlanta.