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When Folk Dance Was Radical: Cold War Yangge, World Youth Festivals, And Overseas Chinese Leftist Culture In The 1950s And 1960s, Emily E. Wilcox
When Folk Dance Was Radical: Cold War Yangge, World Youth Festivals, And Overseas Chinese Leftist Culture In The 1950s And 1960s, Emily E. Wilcox
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This article challenges three common assumptions about Chinese socialist-era dance culture: first, that Mao-era dance rarely circulated internationally and was disconnected from international dance trends; second, that the yangge movement lost momentum in the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC); and, third, that the political significance of socialist dance lies in content rather than form. This essay looks at the transformation of wartime yangge into PRC folk dance during the 1950s and 1960s and traces the international circulation of these new dance styles in two contexts: the World Festivals of Youth and Students in Eastern Europe, and …
Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies In Place, History, And Genre, Emily E. Wilcox
Locating Chinese Dance: Bodies In Place, History, And Genre, Emily E. Wilcox
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
This chapter begins with a discussion of water sleeve dance at the Beijing Dance Academy. It explains that Chinese dance is a modern twentieth-century concert genre that takes inspiration from existing performance practices, such as folk performance, xiqu, and ethnic minority performance. It introduces the main categories of Chinese dance, including Chinese classical dance and Chinese national folk dance, and it discusses the scope of contemporary and historical Chinese dance practice in China and the Sinophone world. It also discusses the history of Chinese dance and outlines key dance theories proposed by Dai Ailian and Choe Seung-hui. It argues that …
Introduction To "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance And The Socialist Legacy", Emily E. Wilcox
Introduction To "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance And The Socialist Legacy", Emily E. Wilcox
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Revolutionary Bodies is the first English-language primary source–based history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author.
Women Dancing Otherwise: The Queer Feminism Of Gu Jiani’S Right & Left, Emily E. Wilcox
Women Dancing Otherwise: The Queer Feminism Of Gu Jiani’S Right & Left, Emily E. Wilcox
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In twenty-first-century urban Chinese contemporary dance, gender and female sexuality are often constructed in ways that reinforce patriarchal and heterosexual social norms. Although “queer dance” as a named category does not exist in China, it is possible to identify queer feminist perspectives in recent dance works. This essay offers a reading of representations of gender and female sexuality in two works of contemporary dance by Beijing-based female Chinese choreographers: Wang Mei’s 2002 Thunder and Rain and Gu Jiani’s 2014 Right & Left. Through choreographic analysis informed by ethnographic research in Beijing’s contemporary dance world, this essay argues that Thunder …
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
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Rulan Chao Pian, who taught Chinese and music at Harvard University from 1947 to 1992, was a pioneer in the fields of Chinese Song dynasty musical history and ethnomusicological studies of Peking opera and Sinophone popular performance.
Meaning In Movement: Adaptation And The Xiqu Body In Intercultural Chinese Theatre, Emily E. Wilcox
Meaning In Movement: Adaptation And The Xiqu Body In Intercultural Chinese Theatre, Emily E. Wilcox
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Zhuli xiaojie (adapted from Strindberg's Miss Julie) and Xin bi tian gao (from Ibsen's Hedda Gabler) are two works in a recent series of intercultural xiqu productions by playwrights William Huizhu Sun and Faye Chunfang Fei. In these works, the xiqu body serves as a medium for theatrical expression, where music, costume, movement, and props come together in a super-expressive acting technique that foregrounds qing (情), or sentiment. In these adaptations, the xiqu body compensates for what is necessarily cut from the text in the transformation from spoken drama to xiqu performance.
Han-Tang Zhongguo Gudianwu And The Problem Of Chineseness In Contemporary Chinese Dance: Sixty Years Of Controversy, Emily E. Wilcox
Han-Tang Zhongguo Gudianwu And The Problem Of Chineseness In Contemporary Chinese Dance: Sixty Years Of Controversy, Emily E. Wilcox
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In 1979, after twenty-one years of political reeducation, Chinese classical dance professor Sun Ying (孙颖, 1929—2009) returned to the Beijing Dance Academy to instigate reform in the field of Zhongguo gudianwu, the official national dance form of the People's Republic of China. In creating the Han-Tang style of Zhongguo gudianwu, Sun challenged accepted notions of Chineseness within the field, especially the idea that Chinese indigenous theater, or xiqu, should serve as the primary foundation for a distinctively Chinese national body aesthetic. While Sun's alternative vision of Chineseness produced extensive controversy, this controversy is not antithetical to the historical aims and …
Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Class Act: Negotiating Art And Market In The Career Of Isadora Duncan, Anne Meredith Gittinger
Class Act: Negotiating Art And Market In The Career Of Isadora Duncan, Anne Meredith Gittinger
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"Dance, Dance Revolution": The Function Of Dance In American Politics, 1763-1800, Amy Catherine Green
"Dance, Dance Revolution": The Function Of Dance In American Politics, 1763-1800, Amy Catherine Green
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"Innocent And Necessary": Music And Dancing In The Life Of Robert Carter Of Nomony Hall, 1728--1804, John R. Barden
"Innocent And Necessary": Music And Dancing In The Life Of Robert Carter Of Nomony Hall, 1728--1804, John R. Barden
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