We sat down to speak with Weiping Chen and Lai Hongchong the night before Birdie's New York premiere on Friday, July 17th.

Thank you.

Thank you for welcoming us.

And I'm excited to be on this podcast.

I'm Weiping Chen.

I'm the operations director of Hongdance.

And actually, I joined this company last September, so almost a year.

So can you tell me when was Birdie first developed or performed? Like what was the route? When did it begin?