XY is an endeavor by contemporary choreographer and professor Xiang Xu to build a new dance language based on merging Asian philosophies and Asian body aesthetics into Western contemporary dance. This dance work focuses on discovering the philosophical concept of human self-awareness, which allows the audience to self-reflect and discovers themselves as human beings and how we see the world as a duality. Furthermore, XY explores the creation and performance of a new aesthetic balance between East and West, it also combines the internal world between males and females based on different cultural inferences. As a multicultural dance piece, I strive to discover inherent body languages based on social relationships and how these intangible movements play a roles between humans and the society.
 
Humanity is at the forefront of my choreographic exploration. Throughout my piece, discovery and reflection will be frequent states of mind as viewers will rethink the relationships between dance and humans alongside the transformation towards human philosophy. It is my desire to create art that not only expresses emotion or activities, but rather challenges and drives people to transition from denial towards self-awareness.