Artists A to I

Carol Chen is a Chinese dancing performer. With a passion and practice in dancing since very young age, Carol has been involved in various events for dancing programme in the UK since arriving in London. The main big events include Chinese new year celebration, Mid-autumn festival, Dragon boat festival and Nottinghill Gate Carnival.

Her dancing performance mainly focuses on Chinese traditional folk dancing, including fan dancing, handkerchief dancing and ribbon dancing. Apart from the performances, Carol is also involved in many dancing workshops for both adults and kids in order to develop more opportunities for those people in UK who are interested in learning or understanding Chinese dancing.

Erhu (Chinese violin) expert, former professor at the Shanghai Music Conservatory, widely played and recorded in China and Europe. Co-founder of UK Chinese Orchestra. He is performing, teaching throughout the country. CD available).

Qing Qing Li (Chloe Li): As a dedicated and experienced Choreographer and Dance Educator, Qing Qing Chloe Li works with all ages and abilities towards strengthening movement awareness and the mind-body connection. Not only has she been exploring and creating movement for a lifetime and discovered dance through her intuitive connection with music, but has also been able to interject her unique eastern background into choreography.

As a professional dancer herself, Chloe excels at a diverse range of dance styles ranging from Classical Chinese dance, Chinese folk dance, Contemporary dance through to Latin and ballet. In particular, as an expert of Chinese Folk dance, she is enthusiastic in researching specific onmovement of Chinese Minority Folk dances, and this enables her to fuse elements of these genres within her choreography confidently.

Fenfen Huang was born in the province of zhejiang, south of shanghai, on the eastern coast of china. She has been trained in various dance forms including Chinese, Contemporary, Jazz, Ballroom and Street from Beijing Dance Academy, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Liverpool Community College, New York Broadway Dance Studio. Rambert Dance School and London Contemporary Dance School and is specialized in Chinese and Contemporary.

She is currently based in liverpool and has done a number of workshops, choreography, performing and directing assignments across the U.K.

Beijing-born Han Ying began her musical studies at the age of six with the piano, later taking up the Yang Qin (Chinese Cimbalom) with Zhou Ying Yun at the Shen Zhen Arts School. At the invitation of Prof Wang Guo Tong she commenced studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1997 on full scholarship, graduating in 2001 with the Advanced Diploma in both Yang Qin and Chinese Percussion.

Ying's varied performance career has included concerts as both soloist and accompanist with various Chinese music ensembles in China, Hong Kong and parts of Europe, including Austria, Holland and the UK.

Acrobat; one of the best known female acrobats in China, leading artist of Hunan Acrobat Troupe; winner of national and international competitions.

Acrobat; jumped into the world of circus at the age of six. He has won several gold and silver medals in national and international competitions.

Born in Gansu Province in northwest of China. Hu has a passion for Dizi and Xiao music since he was a child. He developed his skills under the guidance of several masters.

He worked as a Dizi player in the Gansu Province Opera Troupe for several years, and then entered the Department of Art in the Northwest Teacher's University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province. After his graduation in 1987, he worked as an art teacher at the same university. He was also a freelance Dizi and Xiao player. He has been performing in Europe since the early 1990s.

Opera performer, trained at the Beijing Opera School in China for four years. Has ten years of professional theatre experience in Europe and China. Founder of Beijing Opera Society. Co-founder of China Star.