ABSTRACT
On the way to Guangzhou, the author's first stop was in Hong Kong to visit friends and colleagues at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and to rest. At the Academy, taking class, she could almost be in Juilliard or the SUNY-Purchase Dance Division. The festival celebration, for the modern dance students and all of those who were connected with the program, was very spare and simple. The author's teaching obligation at the Academy was four hours each day. They scheduled one and a half hours for technique class, a break, then improvisation and composition for two and quarter hours. The author loved watching the other Academy classes, to see the marvelous range of physical training. In China any composition to be performed in public must pass the censors. The author wanted to begin to show the work of the students to an audience, to bring them up to performance level.
