Stuart King

Russian dancers fleeing the revolution first introduced the western art form of ballet to the city of Shanghai in the 1920s, with Madame Mao personally promoting the formation of China's national dance school in the 1950s. Xin Lili, herself one of the company's former leading dancers has been director for the past 15 years and advocates interpretation and inclusion of both western-inspired classics and more traditional, Chinese-stylised subjects.

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