Ms. Xiao Fang Xu has a distinguished professional dance career that began at an early age in Shanghai Dance school. She graduated with the highest honor after six years of solid dance training. With specialties in Chinese classical and folk dance, Ms. Xu played many leading roles in different dance programs and danced in fifteen countries for the Arts Delegation of China. She has also played to many important guests of the Chinese government including President Nixon's first state visit to China. Ms. Xu came to America in 1985 as a visiting scholar at Ohio State and Brigham Young University.

Ms. Xiao Fang Xu was a member of the Chinese Dance Association and a board member of the Shanghai Dance Association. Currently, she is a member of Maryland Council for Dance. As a two-time winner of an individual artist award from the Maryland State Arts Council, Ms. Xu has choreographed 10 Chinese classical and folk dances in the past 5 years.