A mix of martial arts and Chinese opera, this traditional dance of “heroes” with ancient roots still lights up parts of Guangdong province. The Yingge dance -- literally "songs of heroes" -- ...
Produced and performed by the China Oriental Performing Arts Group & Meishan Song and Dance Theatre, Dongpo: Life in Poems is the latest contemporary operatic dance directed by the international ...
BEIJING — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and ...
Atlanta Chinese Dance Company will honor everyday heroes of ancient and modern Chinese American stories through two Chinese dance dramas in an original production Everyday Heroes on September 28-29 at ...
Editor’s note: Emily Wilcox is a professor of Chinese studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at William & Mary in the United States and recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim ...
Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...
Older generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay Area revel at the sight of traditional Chinese opera performances. But younger folks? Not so much. That's why several San Francisco teenagers launched ...