Taking street dance to campus

The show invited 20 dance clubs from higher education institutions, including the Central University of Finance and Economics, the Macau University of Science and Technology, Beijing Sport University, Fudan University and the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, to go through rounds of competitions.

"Instead of making the show competitive, we would like to lean more on presenting how those young people articulate their thoughts onstage and encourage their attempts at emotive self-expression using artistic movement," says Tang Yuan, the show's producer.

Some of their performances expressed their reflections of a wide range of topics, including school bullying, environmental protection and free-choice marriage; some artistically reproduced scenes from classic movies and Chinese legends, while others incorporated elements of intangible cultural heritage such as piying, a traditional Chinese shadow play performance, into choreography.