| Siyu Lu is a multi-genre dancer with nearly 20 years of dance time in China and professional dance training since the age of 12. She has drawn on dance and art from different cultures. Throughout her professional development, she has focused on cross-cultural fusion, utilising the rigour of a Chinese education and the flexibility and progressive nature of an inclusive Western education, with the aim of sharing her own diversity and offering a fresh perspective on her surroundings, while learning from the cultures, experiences and stories of the artists she gets to share the space with. She is interested in art and dance at the intersections of cultural identity, censorship progressive ideals and intercultural fusion. Siyu is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of the inaugural Cohort 01. During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Theo Clinkard, Jenna Jalonen, Hannes Langolf, Paleta, Benjamin Jonsson, AE Company (Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq), Edivaldo Ernesto, Horacio Macuacua, Jozef Frucek and Alexandra Reynolds under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger and working closely with individual mentor Vanessa Vince Pang. |
My mentor Vanessa Vince Pang, who I developed with in the independent unit, provided the safest space, and at the end of my student years she helped me to transition smoothly through these insecurities and apprehensions, analysed and supported me as a new freelance dancer from a state of mind, status quo, and experience standpoint.