Benis Cheng

Brainstormer, Connector, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Idea generator, Life mentor, Producer, Project manager

Educated and trained in the areas of Banking and Finance, Wealth Management and Strategic Planning, Benis had served in Private Banking for over 10 years prior to becoming Co-founder and Program Director of BEYOND Bollywood in 2015. Due to her enthusiasm in Bollywood dance, she was ignited her passion and mentally awaked to use performing arts as an medium of the transformative impact and led to the existence of BEYOND Bollywood. Currently, under the umbrella of BEYOND Bollywood, Benis has been lending her expertise and be a leading role of curator, producer, stage manager, art administrator, tour manager, strategic planner and super connector in different arts projects in which she focus on curating, conceptualising and executing the multi-format, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dance collaborations among artists through contributing to curate the Indian Film Festival, Artist Talks, explore and organise overseas cultural exchange, Arts and Cultural program on radio , dance education, dance-theatre production and performance. With her capacity of strong soft skills, extensive knowledge and solid experience gained in Finance sector, her vision is to explore, connect and collaborate with different talent around the world to sparkle more creative ideas and initiate Arts exchange projects through forming more new partnerships which aims to move BEYOND Bollywood to the next level and ultimately enrich the holistic dance ecology in Hong Kong.