Hang Yin Candy Lo
For Hang Yin Candy Lo, sometimes words alone are not
enough. A dancer and performer since childhood, Lo sees
the world through a physical, visual lens. This explains the
hole cut out of an illustration of the sky on her business
cards. Lo is the founder of Piece of Sky, a creative arts therapy
and counseling agency in her native Hong Kong. “Everyone
should have their own piece of sky,” Lo explains. “Everyone’s
dream should be different. Wherever you put the hole,
that’s your piece of sky. Piece of Sky gives my clients – and
me – a place to start, a place of potentials that can be fully
developed.”
Although Lo had long recognized that dance could be
therapeutic, she spent many years working strictly as a
performer. In her mid-20s, while working as a vocalist at
Hong Kong Disneyland, Lo began to rethink her priorities.
“I was seeking, and I was at a low point,” she says. Around
that time, in 2008, a massive earthquake in Western China
killed roughly 70,000 people. “My very wise friend said,
‘You don’t realize how many people are striving to live,’” Lo
“You don’t realize how many
people are striving to live.
If you’re so much in doubt,
give your life to them.”
recalls. “‘If you’re so much in doubt, give your life to them.’”
This propelled Lo’s decision to attend graduate school at
Antioch University New England to study dance/movement
therapy and counseling, as well as drama therapy. She earned
her MA in 2012.
Lo, who has lived in China, Belgium, England, and the
United States, has learned that people are more alike than
they are different. “Sometimes people will say, ‘I’m not a
dancer. I’m not creative.’ As human beings, we’re all creative,
actually. Every movement is dance. Life itself is creative. It’s
just a matter of whether or not we’re aware or we acknowledge
it,” says Lo.
Today, Lo says life is a balancing act between her various
identities: small-business owner, child-life specialist at the
Children’s Cancer Foundation, dance/movement therapist,
and performer. As a person who thrives on being somewhere
different every day, Lo says she feels “blessed, very blessed.”
Photo by Gary Yim
GROUNDSWELL.ANTIOCHLA.EDU |
J0953_GroundswellR.indd 21
21
12/18/13 11:19 AM