China Dance Watch

Aside from occasional event-oriented coverage (and recently, the arrest of Ai Weiwei), the development of China’s artistic communities gets a fraction of the coverage that the development of its wealth has enjoyed. But wealth is a shallow measurement of a country or regions’ ascension—indeed, while China’s GDP has inflated, its creative wealth has failed to match the economy’s “march of progress.”

The creativity problem has serious repercussions for China, repercussions that have been lamented in passing by journalists covering topics such as business, science, and perennial favorites copyright infringement and education (re: China’s high test scores and oh-sh*t-american-education-is-failing-in-the-face-of-asian-asscention pieces). It is an incredibly important aspect that must be included in any discussion of China

Canada’s Wen Wei Dance ensemble has landed in China, marking the beginning of Beijing Modern Dance Company's collaboration with the company on its own soil. After a successful Canadian tour, artistic directors Gao Yan Jin Zi (高艳津子) and Wang Wen Wei (

I'm excited to say welcome to ChinaDanceWatch-- webquarters for English-language news, events, profiles, criticism, media, and discourse on China's dance scene. From China's world-class state-supported National Ballet to it's newly emerging, barely burgeoning independent modern dance scene, there's definitely a lot to talk about.