The 11th Guangdong Dance Festival will be held on November 8-15 this year, with over 40 performances staged in all 24 shows. Overseas dancers will gather around Guangzhou all the way from Italy, Canada, Israel, United States, Singapore, Portugal, Japan and Holland. Meanwhile performers from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanning and Zhuhai are going to make an appearance at the big party.

"Light of Change”, the opening performance held at 7:30pm on November 8 in Friendship Theater by Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GDMC), sums up the past ten years in 13 classical creations, picked out from all the pieces 1992 to the present day, such as “Bird Songs”, the first production of GDMC in 1992 when the company was founded, “I Want to Fly”, the work of Xing Liang, who won the Gold Award in the Modern Dance Section at the 8th Paris International Dance Competition in 1998, etc.

Half of the 24 shows are of a community plan called “Flower City Adorned with Dance”. Dancers will give free shows in the public space like Guangdong Museum and children’s palace. The other performances can be found on the stages of Friendship Theater, Guangzhou Opera House, Guangdong Song & Dance Theater and GDMC Theater. In addition, there are twelve indoor shows including performances from overseas and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.