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Ni Jingxia Ni Jingxia is of Han nationality. After graduating from the Guangdong Dance School in 2010, she appeared in the opening ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games and the closing ceremony of the ASEAN Games, and won the Gold Medal of the Tao Li Cup group dance, and the first and second prizes of the Lingnan Dance Competition. In 2015 she graduated from the Yunnan Art College. She participated in the Tenth Youth Awarding Gala and the Chinese Dream evening, and was the executive director of the Yunnan Fire Art Festival and the executive director of Hunan Yongzhou Chunyue. From December to May 2014 she participated in the dance drama Yun Jiuzhang. She joined Yang Liping’s company in 2015, performing in The Peacock, the tour of Winter Peacock and the world tour of Under Siege (2017 Melbourne International Arts Festival). Zhao Ying Zhao Ying trained at the Dance Academy of Shanghai Theatre Academy and the National Taipei University of the Arts Dance Performance Institute. During her studies in Taiwan she participated in the annual performance of the National Taipei University of the Arts and the performance of Of Any If And at the Taipei Guandu Festival. Last year she participated in The Spring of Silence in the early summer performance of the National Taipei University of the Arts. She participated in the 2017 International Symposium of Dance Friends of the Taiwan Dance Research Society and published ‘The Respect and Innovation of the Traditional Performing Arts’, guided by Professor Wu Sujun. In 2016 she won the Best Director award in the Campus Dance Competition. In 2014 she won the Gold Medal at the One Touch Red of the Hohhot Minority Dance Performance Exhibition. Ziye Chen Ziye Chen specialised in dance at the Sichuan Normal University. She won first prize in the Sichuan Sixth Minority Art Festival professional group performance, second prize in the Ninth National Dance Competition and first prize in the Sichuan Seventh College Student Art Festival. She previously toured in Yang Liping’s Under Siege (2017 Melbourne International Arts Festival).