Self-expression is essential in the development of contemporary dance in China in terms of the making and receiving of dance. How to understand self-expression in performance? How to understand expression in performance? How do they manifest and under which forms?

In Chinese traditional folk dances the body is always a plural, a group, working together to shape the space, working towards sameness, expressing the common. In contemporary dance the body is uniqueness, individual, original, expressing the intimate. The performance is a series of dances, expressions of this duality, traditional and contemporary, east and west, the common and the intimate.