Willy Tsao (Company Director/Artistic Director) has been instrumental to the development of the modern dance in China. Tsao was born and educated in Hong Kong and received his modern dance training in the U.S. from 1973 to 1977. In 1979 he graduated from the University of Hong Kong with an MBA degree, and established the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company. He was invited to teach modern dance at the Beijing Dance Academy in 1986. From 1987 to 1991, he was the teacher and advisor for the Guangdong Dance School modern Dance Program. He has conducted intensive modern dance workshops in many cities in China since 1987, Including Shanghai, Wuhan, Kunming, Fuzhou, Taiyuan and Daqing etc. He helped to set up the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the first professional modern dance company in China, and had been its Artistic Director from 1992 to 1998. He was invited to be the artistic director of the Beijing Modern Dance Company in 1999. In September 2005, he left the Beijing Modern Dance Company and set up the Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company.

Tsao’s choreographic works vary in style and have been presented in the U.S., Canada, Korea, Japan, Israel, Germany, France as well as Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei in China. In July 1999, he was awarded the “Bronze Bauhinia Star” by the Hong Kong SAR government for his significant contribution to the development of local arts. Other honors and awards include the “Dancer of the Year” award from the Hong Kong Artists Guild (1988), the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” (1990) “The Badge of Honor” from H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II (1993) and the “Louis Cartier Award of Excellence-Outstanding Choreographer” (1998).

His major choreographic works include: “Bird Songs”, “Kunlun”, “China Wind, China Fire”, “Wandering in the Realm of Lightness”, “One Table Two Chairs”, “Sexing Three Millenniums”, “In Search of the Grand View Garden”, “Warrior Lanling” and more.

1992 Studied Dance at the Shanxi Province Arts School
1994 Majored in Chinese Ethnic Dance at the Beijing Dance Academy Attached Middle School
1998 Entered the Fujian Song and Dance Troupe
2002 Entered Beijing Modern Dance Company
2005 Founding Member of BeijingDance / LDTX

Major Choreographic Works: Tease You, Future, Snail，etc

Modern Dance Class Introduction
He says: Modern dance stresses the essential feeling of movement, emphasizes inner presence and focus. Liu Bin is a young dancer and choreographer at LDTX with exceptional technique and rich cultural understanding. His mature teaching style and rooted personal character have gained him a devoted following. In his Works class Liu Bin allows all enthusiastic students of modern dance to participate in his original choreography. He believes that by participating canonical works of modern dance, you will experience modern dance’s distinctiveness and beauty.

1997 Tested into Beijing Run Liang Song and Dance Troupe
2001 Entered Guangzhou City Song and Dance Troupe； Mid-year moved to Beijing Modern Dance Company.
2005 Founding Member of BeijingDance / LDTX

Major choreographic works: Dad, Endings, Snail，etc.
Major performance works: Cold Dagger, Nameless, New Peach Blossom Garden Diaries,10－3－1, Pilgrimmages.
Performed abroad with LDTX in Germany, Canada, France, the United States, and other countries.
Introduction to Modern Dance Professional Class

Xu Yiming, in the continuous process of modern dance study, has fallen in love with dance floor exercise routines. The flash meeting of body against floor bursts forth a powerful corporeal language— this is his interpretation of dance.

As a highly skilled dancer and choreographer in LDTX, Xu Yiming has an independent style and charts his own creative course. Through his meticulously taught Professional Modern Dance class, you will improve your entire physical technique and will experience the limitless power of
modern dance.

Liu Yifeng is from Hunan Province where he studied dance at the Hunan Hengyang Art School from 1995-1998. After completing his studies there, he moved to the Central University of Nationalities where he trained in the dance department from 1998-2001. In 2001, Liu Yifeng joined the Central Nationalities Song and Dance Company. Liu Yifeng also had the opportunity to study at the Japan Institute for Foreign Artists. He joined LDTX in 2006. Liu Yifeng has choreographed “Desert” and “Whispering Wind”.