How China Moves

The sights and sounds of China's performing arts are instantly recognisable; they conjure up a unique and unmistakable artistic world. In this six-part series, we see how China's performers are finding new ways of synthesising China's artistic heritage with fresh global influences. In this third episode, presenters Jeff Crosby and Li Tong discover how the ebb and flow of China's changing times is reflected in one of its oldest performance art forms - dance. In remote Dali in Southwestern China, Jeff spends time with Maya Dong whose unique talents in the Whip Dance have been inspired by the traditions of the Bai people. By contrast, Li Tong meets China's breakdancing supremo, Danny Wong, as he nurtures the next generation of Breakdancing performers into the international limelight with their distinctive Chinese characteristics. And Jeff witnesses the wunderkind of Chinese contemporary choreography, Hu Shenyuan, bring a new innovative dance to life in the tech city of Shenzhen.