Li De was born and raised in Guangzhou, China. At the age of 12, he was selected to attend Guangdong Dance School from where he graduated in 2007. Subsequently, he was invited to audition for The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and then offered a full scholarship to the Academy’s 4-year dance programme. Li obtained the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance in 2011 with first class honours. Since then, Li has danced in and created performances for many dance festivals, including Mindelcat Theatre Arts Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Taipei Kuandu Arts Festival, International Chinese Festival in Singapore, internationale tanzmesse nrw 2016 and Seoul International Dance Festival.
Li has also choreographed, performed and co- produced several dance and music videos that have toured Hong Kong, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam and at some film and arts festivals. His dance film Let’s Say awarded Best Choreographer from Festival AUGENBLICK in Genoa, Italy. In 2018, Li joined Robert Wilson’s artist summer programme at The Watermill Center, New York, as a guest performer in CocoRosie and played Iago in Robert Wilson’s Otello at The Watermill Center’s open day.