Award for Dance Spectacular, Best Choreography and Best Female Performer. To create the exotic song and dance spectacular "Dynamic Yunnan", Yang spent years traveling to remote villages of the 26 ethnic minority tribes in Yunnan and selected over 60 villagers who had the natural gift of song and dance, from whom she built an archive re-creating this rich feast of sight and sound. It is part of a trilogy that she directed and choreographed between 2004 and 2008: "Dynamic Yunnan", "Echoes of Shangri-la" and "Tibetan Myth". She toured Europe and the United States in 2005. In May 2009, she revealed a dance and music production 'Yunnan Sound', at the Yunnan Art Institute's Experimental Theater. On 17 November 2009, during US President Barack Obama's visit to China, she performed the classic dance "The Spirit of the Birds" at the Great Hall of the People. She is currently a judge on So You Think You Can Dance China. Choreographic works Moonlight Pilgrimage to Lhasa Two trees 雨丝 Fire Red temptation Daughter of the country Spirit of the Peacock Romantic peacock Echoes Of Shangrila Under Siege—The Full Story of Farewell My Concibine Dynamic Yunnan Peacock of Winter The Peacock Shangrila Dynamic Yunnan Dynamic Huangshan Personal life Yang's first husband was a colleague of the Central National Song and Dance Troupe and later divorced. Her current husband, Liu Yuqing, is a Taiwanese-American. The couple met in 1990 and married in 1995, but Yang wants to dance long-term dieting and cannot be pregnant. References External links Yang Liping photo - Dynamic Yunnan photo by Ali köksal (gurushots) Yang Liping photo - Dynamic Yunnan photo by Ali köksal (gurushots) Yang Liping photo - Dynamic Yunnan photo by Ali köksal (500px) Yang Liping Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America 1958 births Living people People from Dali Chinese choreographers Chinese female dancers 20th-century dancers 21st-century dancers Bai people