Silicon Valley Dance Festival streams international artists with pandemic purpose
Rachel Howard December 13, 2020Updated: December 16, 2020, 5:09 pm Beijing Dance/LDTX performs “Arc,” choreographed by Adiya. Photo: Yin Peng By her own description, choreographer Philein Wang is used to making “diplomatic” art. In fact, in 2013 her ZiRu Dance company won a $50,000 grant from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for the purpose of diplomacy, funding the first of 10 tours to China over five years. The dances Wang took there were family-friendly and emphasized human beauty and cross-culturalism, though they did not explicitly address ra...