The Impact of Yang Meiqi on Modern Dance in China
A Journey into Modern Dance: The Story of Yang Meiqi “Why do they fall down?” This intriguing question was posed by Yang Meiqi, a prominent Chinese dance educator, as she observed a modern dance class in Durham, North Carolina, in the summer of 1986. The person she directed this question to was Charles Reinhart, the esteemed director of the American Dance Festival, which she was attending at the…















