Born to Dance

It was at the London premier of Bravo China! that I first saw her. She was performing Soul of the Peacock and it seemed to me not an artist but a bird - a graceful peacock with a small elegant head and proud gait - that danced before me, Four years later I met Yang Liping, arguably the most famous folk dancer in China, in person, She is of the Bai ethnic minority that lives in southern Yunnan Province.