The Xinshi Dance Art Festival kicked off on Saturday in Xinshi ancient town of Deqing county, Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, featuring diverse dance shows and cultural activities that blend dance art with local cultural landscape.

With a focus on fusion and environmental dance, the festival aims to showcase an innovative and inspiring presentation of dance art, which is set against the background of the natural, ecological and cultural landscape of the ancient town. Dancers turn the waterways, stone roads, ancient bridges and homes into stages, offering local residents and visitors a variety of contemporary, classical, folk and ballet dances.