A chinese 'homecoming'

Austrian composer's masterpiece based on Tang Dynasty poems will come to a Beijing stage in May as a ballet by John Neumeier. Chen Nan reports.

John Neumeier has created more than 150 ballets since he took the position as Hamburg Ballet's director in 1973.

Among them, more than 10 ballets were choreographed to the music of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). However, he had never approached the Austrian composer's masterpiece, The Song of the Earth.