Dr. Xu Rui, President and Professor of Beijing Dance Academy, Doctoral Supervisor at China Academy of Art, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK. He is the Vice Chairman of China Musical Theatre Association, Beijing Dancers Association and Beijing Literary Critics Association. 

He was selected by the National Ministry of Education for the New Century Outstanding Talents programme and received a full scholarship from Asian Cultural Council of America. His book The Aesthetic and Self-Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Folk Dance Creation is awarded the First Prize of Literature Criticism by the Ninth China Federation of Literary and Art Critics. He has created more than ten dance dramas and musical masterpieces, which won the Wenhua Grand Prize and the “Five One Project Award”.