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Adaptation of play gives love a revival

Renowned writer's classic inspires a new version as a dance drama that focuses on the fearless strength of the protagonist, rather than as a tragic character, Chen Nan reports.

By Chen Nan????|????China Daily????|???? Updated: 2026-03-03 07:07

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Hu Jie (front) stars as Du Liniang alongside Luo Yuwen as Liu Mengmei in the dance drama Dream in Peony Pavilion. Li Xing views the production not simply as a love story, but as a reflection on existence itself.

For dancer Wang Shengxi, the character Liu is not a fragile, romanticized scholar, but an ordinary young man driven by extraordinary sincerity. "I was drawn first to Tang Xianzu's dreamlike poetry and then focused on translating the character's inner world through the body," the dancer says.

He built Liu's literati temperament from subtle details — restrained posture, measured steps, a quiet gaze — before revealing the courage beneath the calm. "Hesitant yet steadfast, this Liu dares to defy fate and even descend into the underworld for love," Wang says.

Playing Chunxiang, Du's devoted maid, is dancer Ma Chi. "It's a process of gradually realizing the bond with Du through rehearsal after rehearsal, performance after performance."

Initially, she saw Chunxiang as simply lively and cheerful, but over time, she added depth: "The emotional expression between Du and me ... was gradually cultivated and felt."

Sitting backstage before the premiere on May 30, 2025, is a moment that stands out. Ma recalls, "I felt like I was in a daze that, finally, I'm going to meet the audience. The whole process is like a plant you have been carefully nurturing."

In 2026, the dance drama continues touring at home and abroad, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March.

Li hopes the show carries something distinctly Eastern with it — a quietness, a restraint, a poetic density.

"It's different from Western classics," he says. "There's an inner flavor, a kind of controlled beauty that belongs to Chinese culture."

But he resists grand claims about it being a cultural export. Instead, he offers a gentler metaphor.

"Every production is just a seed planted in a dancer's heart, or in an audience member's heart," he says."Maybe it becomes love for contemporary art, maybe for classical literature. We don't know.

"But once the seed is planted, it will grow," he says.

Though classical literature has become one of his signatures, Li doesn't see himself as a "period" choreographer. His artistic life runs on two parallel tracks.

One is literary dance dramas like Dream in Peony Pavilion and A Dream of Red Mansions, in which he searches for the contemporary pulse within old texts.

The other is what he calls his "urban dance theater series". Works like The Hotel and The Station, which take place in modern architectural spaces — transient places where strangers brush past each other, carrying private emotions.

"The most important thing," he says, "is truth in people."

In September and October 2025, the Global Masters' Showcase brought together the finest international creations and the strength of 24 outstanding Chinese dancers. The project, touring Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Guangdong province, staged three dance works: I Wonder Where the Dreams I Don't Remember Go, Yoann Bourgeois and Marie Bourgeois' collaborative work with Nederlands Dans Theater 1(NDT1); Cacti, a representative work by Alexander Ekman; and Minus 16 by Ohad Naharin.

"The experience opened a whole new world to me as a dancer," recalls Huang, whose participation in the project allowed her to experience contemporary dance for the first time.

"I grew up training in classical Chinese dance, and I have been dedicated to portraying different roles. But with this project, I explored myself with lots of impromptu movements, which was a process of self-discovery as a dancer," adds Wang.

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