Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 19:30 (Entry at 19:00, 30 minutes in advance)

Venue: Sunrise Concert Hall, Xueyuan Road Campus

Performing Troupe: BeijingDance/LDTX

Eligibility: Current undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students of Beihang University.

Registration: Please register via the Boya platform (https://bykc.buaa.edu.cn).

About the Performer:

BeijingDance/LDTX (AKA: LDTX) is an independent professional dance company, co-founded in 2005 by Willy TSAO and LI Han-zhong. Its name, LDTX, is an acronym for Lei Dong Tian Xia which translates as "thunder rumbles in the universe." Since its establishment, it has been under the artistic direction of Willy TSAO. The company operates in full spectrum from creation, performance, education, to outreach programs, providing a platform where Chinese artists may freely express their ideas and perspectives, thus driving forward the multifacet development in dance. The company has created a full repertoire of over 100 works and has been invited to perform both nationally and internationally, with touring footprints spanning over 20 countries and regions across five continents.

The company curates and organizes significant international cultural festivities, such as the Beijing Dance Festival, Greater Bay Dance Festival, Living Dance Festival, Lunar Charioteer Program, and the China Dance Station alliance. In 2022, it established the "LDTX Youth" modern dance education program training dance teachers to communicate the three main attributes of modern dance to their students — personality, originality and contemporaneity. Through this program, the teachers cultivate the students to have a healthy and agile body as well as an open mindset, encouraging them to reflect on individual expression, to pursue creativity, and to be mindful of present happenings and issues.

The company's talented professional dancers come from various cities across China, who are passionately dedicated to the art and creation of dance, infusing individuality with exquisite artisanship, techniques and creativity.

About the Performance:

Quadrille is curated by Willy TSAO, artistic director of BeijingDance/LDTX. The program is of lecture and dance combination format to take the audience into the mysterious and magnificent world of modern dance.

Quadrille leverages on the four different channels to lead the audience to enjoy modern dance. From "body resonance,""spiritual perception,""logical reading," to "worldly traveling," with the dancers' performance of excerpts of Arc, Scavenger of Light, In Searching of The Grand View Garden, and Plaza Dance 1.0, demonstrating the four different channels heading into the different dance scenario.

Editor: Liu Tingting