Carlo Pacis, Additional Choreography
Carlo Pacis is a dancer, teacher and choreographer who graduated from the Philippine High School for the Arts in 1993 and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998 with First Class Honours. He joined the Hong Kong Ballet shortly after graduation and obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Dance degree from the HKAPA in 2009. As a senior soloist at the Hong Kong Ballet, he danced lead roles in ballets such as The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and Firecracker. He also danced principal roles in Balanchine’s Rubies and Stanton Welch’s Clear. In 2002 he received a Hong Kong Dance Award for his technical artistry and the depth of his dramatic reading of roles.  

His choreographic works include one-act ballet Beatles On A String in 2004 and There’s A Fly In This Soup in 2006, which appeared at the 1st Asia Pacific Ballet Festival in Seoul, Korea. He also choreographed for the Opera Hong Kong’s Aida in 2007. It was later restaged for the Beseto Opera in Seoul in the same year. In 2010 he received a PhilStage Award for Outstanding Choreography for a Dance Production at the GAWAD BUHAY 2010 for his work Shifting Wait with Ballet Philippines. Also with Ballet Philippines, his full-length ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream earned him five PhilStage Awards in 2013. 

Pacis is currently based in Hong Kong and teaches at the HKAPA. He is also a certified Pilates and Gyrotonic instructor and is the Director of the Elevate Studio in Central, Hong Kong.