Jiang Fan began to learn to dance at the age of eight and joined Shanghai Opera House after graduating from the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2009. She began to have doubts about traditional choreography methods and became interested in experimental dancing. In 2015 she resigned from the Shanghai Opera House and began working as an independent choreographer and performer. In 2014, she founded Qiankongfan Theatre, a group concerned with crossover dance, drama and visual art. In her work she studies social and sentimental themes brought about by the intense urbanisation in China. She has created such works as Return of the Shadow, Rhapsody of the Last Day of the World and The Dining Table. In 2014, Return of the Shadow won the Drama of the Year award from Shanghai’s Yixiju and Fan’s theatre was named “the most promising dance troupe in Shanghai”. In 2017, she created multimedia dance theatre show Rate of Flow as an artist-in-residence with the support of Shanghai International Dance Center and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. Fan has also performed as an independent artist at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Beijing Living Dance Studio, Archa Theatre, Eurokaz, and Zagreb Dance Center, and has toured her work in Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Czech Republic and China.