Lydia is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, movement, performance, projection art, and art therapy. Moving fluidly between media and disciplines, her practice is driven by a desire to find pathways of communication that touch the core of human experience and spiritual growth. In 2025, she earned her Master’s degree in MA Performance: Screen with Distinction from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.  

Lydia’s work unfolds at the meeting point of spirituality, philosophy, and embodied consciousness. Through a variety of art mediums and sensory experience, she explores how the unseen translates into the tangible — how intuition, memory, and awareness find form in the body. Embracing a devising approach rather than a predetermined script, her process values spontaneity and co-creation: each collaborator becomes a storyteller, and the work itself evolves as a living organism. Her creations are less about control than attunement — a gentle orchestration where the physical and the spiritual move toward coherence, allowing truth to surface naturally through presence, rhythm, and breath.

This philosophy is deeply intertwined with her creative process. Her recent work Breath In, Breath Out — a therapeutic multi-media performance combining experimental film and pseudo-holographic projection — was developed through collective devising and inspired by her personal experience with quantum hypnosis. The piece invites the audience into a meditative space where boundaries between performer and observer, projection and body, dissolve into one fluid continuum. Premiered at London’s Platform Theatre, it later became a symbolic extension of her ongoing research into body-based storytelling and therapeutic space-making.



“The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”
—— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986)

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Lydia’s journey has been recognized across multiple creative realms: CCTV national television, professional dance platforms, international film festivals, community collaborations and large-scale cultural events. Beyond her graduation project, she performed in the escape-room theatre project False Morels, shortlisted for the Artsthread Global Graduate Showcase 2025, and the short film Catching Alternative in China, selected for the Golden Rooster Film Project Maket 2025 and the FIRST Fantastic Film Festival 2025.

During her two years at the university (2023–2025), she consistently produced a wide range of works, including the experimental film Spring, the dance film Urban Breath, the music video Morning Dew, the installation piece My Weekend Hideaway, and the digital theatre project Bank Robbery, among others.

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“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”
—— Pina Bausch

Having trained between Beijing and London, Lydia has spent over a decade in dialogue with movement. Beginning as a self-taught dancer in her early teens, she went on to win awards in international competitions such as the Taoli World Dance Competition 2017 and World of Dance (WOD) 2018.  These experiences evolved through years of community practice: from leading high-school ensembles of forty performers, to establishing the “Dance Lab” collective at the UEA Chinese Student Scholarship Association, and became the Performance Director of UEA Korean Spciety for two years. In 2023, she joined Blooming Dance London as Cpop instructor, teached weekly dance sessions at the Danceworks Studio. 

In recent years, Lydia’s movement practice has grown beyond performance into facilitation and co-creation. At Central Saint Martins, she designed and led a series of art & movement workshops exploring collective memory, sensory awareness, and camera–body interaction. These sessions merged improvisation, meditation, and storytelling, encouraging participants to rediscover the intelligence of their own rhythm. Her collaboration Age UK on Portraits in Motion further expanded this approach, turning the language of movement and filmmaking into a tool of empathy and intergenerational connection.

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“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
—— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (2008)

In the future, Lydia envisions her artistic journey as a continuous exploration of the spaces between different media, technology and spirit. She aims to deepen her research into the therapeutic and transformative power of art, creating works that bridge inner and outer worlds, and connect people across cultures through shared emotional resonance. Guided by empathy and curiosity, she hopes to keep expanding the language of embodiment and perception — crafting experiences that heal, awaken, and remind us of our collective humanity.