Dancing to an inner rhythm

"I was used to a busy life, but suddenly I had no work to do. It has been very difficult for me to adjust. I decided to find something to do," Jiang says.

She wrote on a poster, "Would you like to dance with me?"

She stuck it on the door of her dance studio and to her surprise, nine villagers applied.

Zhang Ping, 44, and her 83-year-old mother, Fan Chunyan, are now frequent visitors to the studio, where Zhang wants to let her mother relax through dancing.

In the 42-year-old Jiang's eyes, their bodies haven't been through professional dance training and for beginners, the first step is to help them feel the body and let it be free.

"In modern dance, you must first connect with yourself, and then set up connections among people and in society," Jiang says.

For villager Pan Guangyin, who has studied dancing with Jiang for more than a year, this approach defines Jiang's understanding of dance.