Ms Grace Tse, MH is the founder and chairman of i Dance. Grace and her family are successful entrepreneurs who have built multiple businesses in the past three decades. Including being the manufacturer of an Australian skin care product, a major distributor of French red wine, European and American branded apparel, aromatherapy, and premium skin care products.
Grace has worked with some leading international corporations such as Revlon and The P&G Company. For 20 years, she successfully assisted these well-known brands to develop and expand their markets to major cities in China including Beijing and Shanghai. With her extensive market development experience, Grace is a seasoned professional in brand and people management.
Grace began setting up i Dance in 2009. She intended i Dance to be a high-quality dancing school with scale and systematic management in Hong Kong. Her strong belief that dancing can help people attain a happier and healthier life led her to partner with well-known local celebrities: Mr. So Boss and Ms. Mary Hon to set up i Dance. She later successfully recruited many other honored local and international dancers as full-time instructors. i Dance offers a wide range of dance classes and workshops for different people, satisfying the needs of all ages. To Grace, i Dance is not only a brand, but also her passion to help others achieve a healthier lifestyle through the holistic body-mind-spirit positivity - "i Dance, I Change".
Besides dance classes for individuals, Grace launched the Hong-Kong-first Team Building Dance Workshop in 2017 by bringing dancing into corporations. Grace later collaborated with the Hong Kong Management Association to launch the “Inhouse Wellness Workshop”, helping enterprises build confident, creative, and effective work teams.
As of today, there were over 100 corporations that joined the Workshops, among which were Government bodies such as Hospital Authority, ICAC, Labour Department, Electrical & Mechanical Services Department; and commercial enterprises, namely the HK & China Gas Company, the Swire Group, the Jardines Group, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Bank of China (HK), Estee Lauder and L’OREAL.
With dedication and hard work, i Dance has become Hong Kong’s largest and most well-known dancing school, highly regarded by the individual learners, enterprises, and industry practitioners.
In 2018, i Dance was awarded the "Hong Kong Q-Mark Service Scheme" certification by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, becoming the first and only high-quality company in the Provision of Dancing Training Service in Hong Kong to be awarded this certification!
After obtaining the Q-Mark quality certification, i Dance has made persistent efforts and successfully obtained the accreditation of "Training Qualifications UK" (East Asia and Southeast Asia Division)" (TQUK ESEA) in 2019. i Dance is the first international education course customized with dance. And it is the only dance academy in Southeast Asia to obtain TQUK Recognition of Professional Qualifications. The certified Dance course exclusively covers East Asia and Southeast Asia, including Macau, Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia and other countries and regions, and Hong Kong is used as the main test base to promote dance Formal education writes an important chapter.
Different from traditional dance schools, i Dance breaks through with an innovative management. Certification or awards can promote i Dance to be better and more progressive, and work towards a more ambitious goal.
Between 2009 to 2020, i Dance had been recognized with over 300 awards, including “GBA Outstanding Women Entrepreneur 2018”, “PVCBS Brand of Excellence 2018”, "Hong Kong Q-Mark Service Scheme" certification awarded by Hong Kong Q-mark Council, “5 Years+ Caring Company” awarded by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, International Beauty Professionals Validation Association Beauty Business Leadership Awards etc.
Grace also contributes to society by taking on a number of public services and social responsibilities, including The Founding Chairlady of Greater Bay Area Hong Kong Women Entrepreneurs Association, The Vice President and Executive Committee of the Federation of Hong Kong Zhuhai Community, The Honored President of the Hong Kong Ladies Dynamic Association, The Chairman of the Cosmetic & Perfumery Association of Hong Kong, The Art Director of the Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA), The 1st Vice President of the Innovative Entrepreneur Association, The Vice- President of The Professional Validation Centre of Hong Kong Business Sector etc.
Looking ahead, Grace will continue to spread the “i Dance I Change” vision to the Greater China region, South East Asia and other parts of the world, enabling people to dance and change.