Free spirit

Picked to be trained in ethnic dance, a Tibetan shepherd boy breaks loose from his constraints and storms the world stage with a powerful self-expression. Mu Qian reports

In Sang Jijia's latest choreography work As if to Nothing there is nothing to link it with the Tibetan background of the dancer/choreographer.

Rather, the work is full of urban tensions. Accompanied by the electronic beats of Hong Kong's avant-garde musician Dickson Dee, a group of dancers perform from behind a window, while a video artist records and projects distorted images of the dancers on a large side screen.