Reunited to deliver moving performance

The dance was performed straight after the parade of athletes during the opening ceremony on Friday. It began with 96 female dancers from the Beijing Dance Academy walking from around the edge of the performance area to the center of it together.

Each of the dancers, holding one of the snowflake-shaped team placards, danced across the over 11,000-square-meter floor of the stadium. They eventually gathered around a giant snowflake, made of individual snowflake-shaped placards-each representing the 91 nations and regions taking part in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Wang received the invitation to join the creative team for the opening ceremony over a year ago from director Zhang. Then, along with her six team members, including visual artist Tan Shaoyuan, Wang began the choreography of the dance piece last summer.

"We tried many versions, hoping to deliver the message of togetherness and unity," Wang says, adding that the dance piece echoes the official motto for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, "together for a shared future".