From Stage to Heart | Michelle Tong | TEDxSHSID Youth

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Princess, to be or not to be. At the end of a dance, as I stand still in my final pose, I find myself asking a very different question. To bow or not to bow.Bowing throughout history and across all human societies has always meant respect. It's a way for the performer to say thank you to the audience. But at the Chinese classical dancer, I'm not just a performer.Rather, I've become someone else. Whether as a tongrant who woke up in a museum or a waiting bride from Song Dynasty, ...