American Airlines takes center stage at Beijing arts festival

A young mother surnamed Li brought her 8-year-old daughter to the National Center for the Performing Arts for the first time one evening at the end of last month, to enjoy the famous ballet, Swan Lake.

Li said her daughter, who is learning ballet, loved the performance, which was held as part of the ongoing 15th Beijing Arts Festival, which ends on May 30.

The festival, sponsored for the fifth year running by American Airlines, is considered the biggest spring arts event in Asia.