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Jo Riley Author & Translator

Jo Riley, a graduate of Cambridge University, learnt Mandarin to study at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. With over 20 years’ international experience she has led workshops, published, translated and edited extensively on Chinese theatre, European theatre history and intercultural theatre. Her special focus is the kinetic language of bodies in space, and bodies as pictograms of an idea.