Daily.Stanford.edu – By Melanie Reynard
Meet Jin Xing, China’s most famous modern dancer/choreographer. On Saturday evening before a packed audience, a woman in a silky flowing ruby red dress takes front stage right. She looks with longing. The music chimes accents from an Asian garden, smeared into a Western classical symphony. She lifts her chin, reaches upward to the diagonal and pours in an arch over the edge of the stage before she frees her legs to slowly dial the circumference around her. The woman is elegant and striking, especially amid a troupe of eight dancers who have now entered the scene, wearing golden togas that obscure their masculine and feminine forms. They face the audience, form various clusters and perform gentle reaches and leg swings. Jubilation shifts to dark melancholy.