No. 1650, Hongqiao Road, Shanghai, is a special place for Xin Lili. It’s where the Shanghai Dance School and Shanghai Ballet are located, and where she has been studying and working since 1973. Around the age of 9, Xin began as a student dancer at the school before joining the Shanghai Ballet in 1979 upon graduation.
“I was somehow destined or born to do it,” Xin, now the head of the Shanghai Ballet told . “That is how ballet is. It’s so amazing and it seems to have its own soul. Fall in love with it,
