Guan Fang is a Beijing-based young artist, choreographer, and director, and the founder of WHITE MIST Art Studio, where he focuses on contemporary dance creation and the multidimensional integration of dance and film. He graduated from the Choreography Department of the Beijing Dance Academy and is a member of the Beijing Dancers Association.

Guan has served as choreographer for works presented at China’s 13th Tao Li Cup and 14th Lotus Award, and was selected as a choreographer for the 36th International Choreographic Competition Hannover. Works he has directed have received the Best Choreography Award at the Korea International Modern Dance Competition. His creations have been featured on major official media platforms including China Military Online, China Military, and China Youth Daily.

He has been invited to create repertory for the Classical Dance Department of the Beijing Dance Academy for the Tao Li Cup, and to develop commemorative works for the PLA National Defence University’s Military Culture College (formerly the PLA Arts Academy) marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Fascism. He has taught as a resident artist at the Master Workshop of Changchun Humanities Institute, and co-developed the teaching material Chinese Dance Movement Motif Library together with Professor Yuan He and Associate Professor Zeng Huanxing of the Beijing Dance Academy. He also serves as a mentor for site-specific dance creation workshops organized by the Jinhua Dance Association in Zhejiang Province.

Guan’s stage works include Night’s Finale, One-Track Mind, Visible and Invisible, Calling the Mountain, The Approaching Train, and Wives and Concubines. His dance films include Dream of the Inner Chamber, The Elephant in the Room, Imprint of the Burning Heart, Next Second, Dust, Uncontrolled Reason, Blue Delusion, Floating and Falling, and The Mission Left Behind.

His works have been invited to platforms such as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Dance Week and the 2022 Beijing LDTX Theatre “National Showcase” – Wangshu Project. As a filmmaker, his projects have been screened at art festivals and film events in more than twenty countries, including Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, and the United States, and have been featured in international film magazines. He has received over forty “Best Work” awards at international film festivals, including Best Experimental Short at the Hollywood Golden Age Festival, Best Experimental Film Director at the Europe Film Festival, and Best Dance Choreography at ARFF Amsterdam International Film Festival. His work has also been honored with an honorary laurel from the Royal Television Society in the UK, where critics selected his project as one of their best works of the past five years.