Author Archives: Jiaxin Li

It’s tea It’s wine It’s dance In China, there is a long history, unique style, and well-known dance which is long-sleeve dance. Long Sleeves dance is an important part of body charm teaching and stage performance. Long sleeves dance comes from the traditional Pekin Opera dance “Shuixiu” . Wrist, elbow and shoulder are coordination andContinue reading “Long Sleeves Dance”

Wisps of bright streamers fluttering with the wind Stunning the world’s eyes Each action is like the picture on the Mogao Grottoes Graceful and mysterious As one of the four major classical dance of China, the Dunhuang dance has a history of less than 40 years. The Dunhuang dance remained dormant for thousands of yearsContinue reading “Dunhuang Dance”

Where do you dance? The lonely figure in the moonThe feather falling from the clouds. Yang Liping is a very famous folk-dance dancer in China. she is always very bold in her artistic creation. Her bold use in pursuing the sharpness and integrity of her art was admirable. She not only changed people’s sensory experienceContinue reading “Dynamic Yunnan”

I lived for artI lived for loveI never did harm to a living soul The nightingale and the rose story. The nightingale’ lover wants to get the most beautiful rose. However, the arrogant rose says to the nightingale that I can be picked by you, as long as you feed me with blood. The nightingaleContinue reading “Nightingale”

When the ballet meets Chinese traditional storiesMagic will happen I have watched “Dance Smash” about 11 episodes. These talented dancers have contributed dozens of classic pieces to our repertoire, but to pick one of my favorite dancer, my answer is Wang Zhanfeng and Ao Dingwen who are ballet dancers.  Dancing “Jiu Er” is performed byContinue reading “Ballet & Chinese Stories”

If we can fly I wanna be a bird on the sky In the darkness of the Northern Ocean, there is a fish named K’un. The K’un is so big that no one knows how many thousands of tricents [three hundred paces] its body extends. —— Chuang Tze Recently, I started to watch a TVContinue reading “Meet Destiny”

She was dressed in a shade of redThe flame of life This is the best dance drama I have never seen before because the main female character acted by a man but so beautiful and elegant. The meaning of his action is even better than a women to explain this character. Consort Yu (the mainContinue reading “Farewell My Concubine”

A dance drama based on a true story in China. This is the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe’s innovative exploration of the first “spy war dance drama” in China. With the body language of the dance art and the modern temperament of the stage space, the troupe has given the dance drama “The Eternal Wave”Continue reading “The Eternal Wave”

I’m Jiaxin Li. My pics of dancing. I ‘m a postgraduate student at UCL now. Before I came to London I have learnt Chinese dance for 20 years and also had professional dancer experience in my life. If you ask me why I started dancing? I can’t answer you specifically because I started dancing whenContinue reading “Why dance?”