Yang Liping, a well-known dancer from Yunnan, has performed a dance "Peacocks’ love" with a partner on the 2012 Spring Festival Gala Evening. Nitizens have given high praise for the performance. It is said that this will be Yang’s last dance on the Spring Festival Gala Evening.
Yang was born in November 10, 1958. But, she still looks young. She is tall and thin, with slim waist and long nails. It seems that Yang is eternally youthful. Some nitizens wonder at how Yang preserves the vigor of youth. How does she keep fit? How does she keep energetic on the stage?
According to Yang, she dances every day to keep fit. Acidic toxins are eliminated from the body by doing such sports. She eats chili and nuts and drinks red wine, bean milk and pu’er tea. Moreover, she creates fun in life. Sometimes, she squeezes lemon juice with hands and put some honey inside. In her opinion, one will be happy if he or she is full interest and curiousness in the life. It is important to maintain energy.
Yang has performed in these dances below: "Moonlight", "Two Trees”, "Jolmo Lungma", "Fire", "Lhasa River", "Red Temptation", "Lady Kingdom", "Wing of Heart", "Spirit of Peacock". She toured Europe and the United States in 2005. Between 2004 and 2008, Yang Liping directed and choreographed a trilogy: "Dynamic Yunnan", "Echoes of Shangri-la" and "Tibetan Myth".
"Dynamic Yunnan" is a grand original ecological ethnic dance musical by famous dancer Yang Liping personally, which initiates a new theatrical art form in China. In May 2009, she revealed a dance and music production 'Yunnan Sound', at the Yunnan Art Institute's Experimental Theater. In 2004, "Dynamic Yunnan" won five major awards at the National Lotus Awards, including Gold Award for Dance Spectacular, Best Choreography and Best Female Performer. To create the exotic song and dance spectacular "Dynamic Yunnan", Yang spent years travelling to remote villages of the 26 ethnic minority tribes in Yunnan and selected over 60 peasants who had the natural gift of song and dance, from whom she built an archive re-creating this rich feast of sight and sound.
Yang’s dancing works has received awards, including: "Peacock Princess" and "Spirit of Peacock". In 1992, she went to Taiwan for performance. By then, she was the first dancer performing there. In 1994, the State Council of the People's Republic of China awarded her "Model of National Unity and Progress". In 1997, she gave performances in Japan Osaka International Art Festival and got supreme art awarded. She has been a life member of the Philippine National Folk Dance Association. In 2002, she acted in a TV play and got good praise.