Chinese Dance / Chinese Nuo Dance / Chinese Yangge Dance

Description

Chinese Culture: Chinese Dance / Chinese Nuo Dance / Chinese Yangge Dance

中国文化系列：舞蹈 / 傩舞 / 秧歌

Order No. D3004

ISBN: 7885184420

EAN: 6937475383205

Picture Format: NTSC (good for North American users)

Length: 89 min.

Number of Disc: 1

Language: Chinese with English and Simplified Chinese subtitles

Publisher: Guangzhou Audio & Video Publication

Pub Year: 2007

Price: $14.95

This DVD program demonstrates the development and the characteristics of Chinese classical dances and Chinese folk dances, from which you will read a Chinese history of dances in rhythmic body language over thousands of years described.

It also introduces the show of Chinese Nuo Dance, a kind of dance in ancient sacrifice ceremony. It is a combined art of classical dance and colored pattern woodcarving and is credited to be a living fossil of dance.

The origin of Chinese Yangge Dance, its from of performances, its different characteristics in the south and the north are introduced in the DVD as well. Yangge Dance is an old national dance which was originally called the song of the sun, which is sung in the ceremony of sacrifice to Sun God. The Yangge Dance spreads a wide range of region.

Instruction: The following introduction is in Chinese. If your computer doesn’t show Chinese characters, please right click your mouse, select Encoding and then select Chinese Simplified to read in Chinese.

本片从古典舞蹈和民族民间舞蹈两个角度来介绍中国舞蹈的发展脉络和形式特点，用律动的身体书写民族的史话，飞扬的旋律记录家国的春秋。

傩舞是古代祭祀仪式中的一种舞蹈，傩祭源于原始社会的图腾崇拜。后世逐渐将傩舞发展成娱乐性的民间舞蹈，傩舞–亦名鬼舞或舞鬼，是古典舞蹈和彩绘木雕相结合的艺术，有“舞蹈活化石”之称。本片详细介绍了傩舞的表演、傩面具的制作以及傩祭的过程。

中国秧歌是一种古老的民族舞蹈，原称“阳歌”，是祭祀太阳神的一种歌舞。秧歌的普及范围之广，几乎遍及整个长江流域和黄河流域。本片从秧歌的历史起源，表演形式以及南北秧歌不同的风格特点等方面让你充分领略到中国民间狂欢节的独特魅力。

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