Spring Begins symbolizes a good start and the release of accumulated 

knowledge.  Every year, BeijingDance/LDTX provides a platform to 

showcase dancers’ choreographies and the 2019 showcase is scheduled 

to take place around the start Spring.  Eleven choreographers: FENG 

Xiao-ming, HAO Ying, Alexis KAM, LI Ke-hua, MA Yue, SHEN Wan-ying, 

SUN Meng-yao, TIAN Ru-meng, WU Mi, and ZHANG Xue-feng, will present 

two showcases with four evenings of original works, as a reflection of the 

experience gained and growth achieved, and also as a presentation of one’s 

individuality, attending to oneself, and as a way to communicate and convey 

to the society and the world.

2019 Spring Begins remains to be composed of individualistic pieces, full of 

energy with wild creativity inviting audience to take part and engage in 

conversations with the dancers.

Lighting

Joy CHEN

Costume

XING Ya-meng

Prop

WANG Shi-jie

Program duration

90 mins

Premiere

2019.02

Tomb

Life is destined to be a lonely journey.  Proceed, stop, move 

on again, at a halt again, then at some point you would simply 

stop going.  Staying put, reminiscing, forgetting some people.  

At the end it’s as if setting up a forever tomb of time.

Choreography/Dancer

Lico LI

Music

Mercedes SOSA

Ryuichi SAKAMOTO

Kouichi OKAMOTO

Raz MESINAI

Aube

The Surface to be continued

Is what you see is what is real?

What if you can no longer see tomorrow,

Would you remain calm & open and travel around?

Or become narrow and agitated afraid of stepping forward?

Choreography

SHEN Wan-ying

Music

Laurie ANDERSON

Dancers

YAN Han-yi, LIU Shi-yu, FENG Xiao-ming, 

TIAN Ru-meng, MA Yue

The Two Persons Inside

Perhaps the ultimate quarrel of a desire is to be fully filled 

in, met, so that I desire no longer. The ultimate melancholy 

experience is the experience of the loss of desire itself.

   -- Pervert’s Guide to Ideology by Slavoj ŽIŽEK

Choreography

SUN Meng-yao

Music

HE Xun-tian

Dancers

YAN Han-yi, SUN Meng-yao

The Name of This Piece Cannot Describe The Content of This Piece

We use language to communicate because we were born 

and told to be so.  But have you imagined if language is 

not accurate?  It cannot convey nor describe everything?

Choreography/Dancer

Alexis KAM

Dramaturgy/Sound Design

WANG Yuan-qing

Drama

LIU Xiao-ye

Script

WANG Ying-lu

Not!? Same!? Idea!?

Same idea not?  

Idea not same?  

Not, same idea!

Not…!?  

Same…!?  

Idea…!?

Choreography

MA Yue

Music

Goldmund

Ester BRINKMAN

Leon MINKUS

Tchaikovsky

Dan GIBSON

Dancer

FENG Xiao-ming, YAN Han-yi, HAO Ying, 

CHEN Wei-jie, ZHANG Xue-feng, WU Mi, MA Yue