Flye dance fitparty: how to get fit and make friends
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Meeting friends in a new city is always a challenge. For Eliza Jiang and Upekha Senaweera, two young female professionals working and living in Hong Kong, a mutual passion proved two people
with starkly different backgrounds can bond over some of the most basic human interests – music and dance. Advertisement Chinese-Panamanian Jiang is a lawyer who grew up dancing to salsa,
merengue and reggaeton in her birth city of Panama. Jiang moved to Canada to obtain her bachelor’s degree and then later New York for her master’s in law before finally settling in Hong
Kong. “I wanted to come to Hong Kong as it is one of the prime places, alongside Singapore, for international commercial arbitration work, which has been growing and booming as China grows
its economy and invests abroad,” says Jiang. “And outside work, in the city, I mingle with people from all different backgrounds – Sri Lankan Aussies like Upekha, Latin Chinese, British,
German – all of which adds to the city’s vibrancy and multiculturalism.” Advertisement While Jiang continued to practise law in the city and explore, she frequented various dance classes and
clubs, which led her to her friendship with Senaweera.