THE Hong Kong Dance Company will bring its large-scale dance drama “Kung Fu Artistry: Bruce Lee’s No Way As Way” to the Bay Opera of Shenzhen on Nov. 7-8.

The production, a 45th anniversary celebration work for the company, premiered in Hong Kong last November to strong reviews, drawing more than 8,000 attendees over two weeks.

The dance drama blends martial arts with contemporary dance, multimedia stage design and jazz music. It draws on Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy and artistic spirit, with professional dancers trained in martial arts using powerful yet graceful movement to explore the flow between “way” and “no way.”

Choreography draws from Lee’s martial arts movements, capturing the fluidity and power of his body and turning his philosophy into dance structure and aesthetics.

Dancers incorporate Jeet Kune Do, karate and nunchaku alongside Cantonese opera body techniques, Wing Chun centerline principles and ink-wash imagery. Jazz music and multimedia staging accompany the performance, which organizers say conveys Lee’s balance of hardness and softness and the courage to find one’s own “way.”

Lee (1940-1973), the first globally recognized Chinese film celebrity, was named one of TIME’s “20th Century Heroes and Icons.” A philosophy major and a Wing Chun student of Ip Man from age 16, he developed Jeet Kune Do and introduced the idea of “using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation.” His work helped bring the term “kung fu” into the English dictionary and changed Western perceptions of Chinese people.

The production draws particular inspiration from Lee’s 1972 film “Fist of Fury,” in which his character Chen Zhen shatters a “No Dogs or Chinese Allowed” sign, a cinematic moment organizers say dismantled decades of national inferiority with the declaration, “I am Chinese!”

Founded in 1981, the Hong Kong Dance Company is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. It is known for blending Chinese cultural heritage with contemporary innovation.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 7; 3 p.m., Nov. 8

Venue: Opera Hall, Bay Opera of Shenzhen, Bao’an District (深圳滨海艺术中心歌剧厅)

Metro: Line 5 to Baohua Station (宝华站), Exit D(Tang Li)