In China’s elite dance schools, students are facing ever greater pressure to lose weight, with coaches urging them to become “as thin as ... had a similar experience. She was accepted to a top Chinese ...

The roots of Ballet Tech’s Kids Dance took hold not in a dance studio but on the subway. It was 1977 when the choreographer Eliot Feld found himself sharing a train with elementary school children.

Compared to Chinese dance and ballet, modern dance in China is, in Wilcox’s words, “still niche.” But that may be changing. In 2019 and 2020, Shen served as a judge on “Dance Smash,” a ...