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Subject(s)

• Dance—China [Browse]
• Dance—Study and teaching—China [Browse]

Editor

• Deng, Youling [Browse]
• Zhang, Yanjie [Browse]

Series

• Intellect China Library series [More in this series]
• [Intellect China library series]

Summary note

"Dance Studies in China is a collection of articles selected from issues of the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. This collection includes an interview with Shen Wei, the Chinese-American choreographer, painter and director living in New York City, USA. Founded in 1954, the former Beijing Dance School was the first professional dance school ever established since the founding of People's Republic of China. Beijing Dance Academy (BDA) officially established in 1978, it provides BA and MA degrees and has become the only institution of higher learning for professional dance education in China, as well as the largest prestigious dance school with comprehensive concentrations in the world. In recent years, BDA has committed to develop its research profile specialising in dance, the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy is one of such outcomes. The Academy is also actively engaging with international collaboration."--Publisher's website.

Notes

Series from publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Language note

Contributions translated from the Chinese.

Contents

• 'Dance Education Should Focus on People and Society': Interview with the President of Beijing Dance Academy, Professor Guo Lei / Guo Lei, translated by Cai Shuo
• 'The Mission of Artists is to Lead the Development of Human Culture in the Future': Interview with Shen Wei / Shen Wei and Zhang Yanjie, translated by Cai Shuo - The Formation and Direction of a Chinese School of Dance Studies / Deng Youling, translated by Cai Shuo - Interpretation and Reproduction of De Shou Gong Dance Notation from the Song Dynasty / Liu Qingyi, translated by Cai Shuo
• From 'Lady Gongsun' to 'Chinese Dama': Square Dance as the Latest Form in Chinese Dance History / Hu Yifeng, translated by Zhao Yuting - The Interaction, Integration and Synthesis of Square Dance and Traditional Dance in the Process of Urbanization in China / Huang Jiying, translated by Cai Shuo
• Structure and Function of the Self- Organized Folk Dance 'Flower-Drum Group' of the Yi People in Yunnan Province / Huang Longguang, translated by Cai Shuo
• Artistic Behaviour and Aesthetic Exploration in Western Experimental Screen Dance / Yuan Yi, translated by Zhao Yuting
• Reflections on the Aesthetic Dimension and its Structural Form in Contemporary Dance Creation in China / Zhang Ping, translated by Zhao Yuting
• The Reconstruction and Expansion of the 'Five Methods' of Xiqu in Chinese Classical Dance Shenyun / Wang Xi, translated by Cai Shuo
• Exploring and Realizing the Function of Dance in the Context of 'Healthy China' / Wen Rou, translated by Zhao Yuting.
• Part 1. Dance education in China
• Part 2. Dance artist
• Part 3. Research on dance theories and dance history
• Part 4. Research on dance culture
• Part 5. Research on dance creation and dance performance
• Part 6. Dance science.

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Other title(s)

Journal of Beijing Dance Academy.

ISBN

• 9781789385274
• 178938527X ((hardback))

OCLC

1276933142

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