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In 2011, the festival was moved to Beijing and expanded to two weeks when it became the Beijing Dance Festival.

Buday's links with dance in the region go back a long way. The choreographer, who was the artist-in-residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2000 to 2003, used to travel frequently to Guangzhou to teach and choreograph performances.

He later returned to Australia to take up a position at the Queensland University of Technology.

Now, he is in Beijing with 17 students－15 dancers and two handling technical production－from the university to perform The Tipping Point at the festival.

If you go

Wednesday through July 26. At Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center (9 Tianqiao Nandajie, Xicheng district), Beijing Dance/LDTX Theater (16 Xiadianchangpocun, Xidawang Road, Chaoyang district), and Shanxi Vocational College of Art (95 Bingzhou Dongjie, Taiyuan, Shanxi province). 010-6405-4842.