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2025 National Day Fireworks Display
AXA Presents HK Ballet Spectacular by the Harbour @Harbour City
[Hong Kong — 2 October 2025] To celebrate the 76th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China’s founding, the National Day Fireworks Display was held at 8:00pm on 1 October 2025 with over 30,000 firework shells. The dazzling 23-minute display featured eight dynamic scenes with whimsical giant panda faces along with beautiful peony and golden chrysanthemum pattern fireworks blossoming in the sky.
For the second consecutive year, Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) and Harbour City staged an innovative outdoor ballet show, ‘AXA Presents: HK Ballet Spectacular by the Harbour’, with AXA’s support this year. Choreographed by HKB Artistic Director Septime Webre, the inspiring 20-minute original performance featured 30 HKB dancers and 10 Hong Kong Ballet Academy students and seamlessly fused elegant classical ballet with beloved local traditions, delighting the audience. Highlights included six excerpts from the holiday classic The Nutcracker infused with Hong Kong elements like twirling dim sum, spirited racing jockeys and more. The memorable evening concluded with a powerful rendition of Carmina Burana, delivering a visually striking finale that brought the festivities to a thrilling peak!
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For further information, please contact:
Jerry Qiu | Communications & Programme Manager | T: 2105 9753 / 6879 6734 | [email protected]
Ruth Chung | Marketing and PR Manager | T: 2105 9716 / 9741 7319 | [email protected]
About Hong Kong Ballet
Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) is recognised internationally as a world-class institution that represents Hong Kong’s unique character. Since its inception in 1979, HKB has evolved into a vibrant performing arts organisation with a dynamic repertoire, forward-thinking community engagement initiatives and an emphasis on excellence.
Comprised of 50 dancers from all over the globe – Hong Kong, Mainland China and other parts of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, HKB has won recognition both regionally and internationally with celebrated re-stagings of the classics, neoclassical masterworks by George Balanchine and others and original ballets created for HKB and about Hong Kong.
Additionally, HKB performs works by its Artistic Director Septime Webre and some of today’s most soughtafter choreographers, including Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor, Justin Peck, Jiří Kylian, Nacho Duato and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa as well as innovative new works by its Choreographer-inResidence, Hu Song Wei Ricky, and numerous emerging Hong Kong choreographers.
HKB stands out as a dynamic Hong Kong cultural ambassador, sharing its unique repertoire and style with audiences in Europe, North America, Mainland China and Asia. With over 50 international tours since its founding, this year HKB will have performed or presented immersive works in Macau, Venice, New York, London, Seoul and Shanghai. HKB maintains the Hong Kong Academy of Ballet, a professionally-oriented ballet school, as well as a full schedule of award-winning community programmes and crossover collaborations throughout Hong Kong to ensure ballet is accessible to all. HKB has also produced engaging original videos and dance films that have collectively garnered over 10 million views online, connecting with ballet lovers worldwide.
