What kind of dance does Dunhuang Dance belong to?

Dunhuang Dance belongs to the Chinese classical dance.

Dunhuang Dance has strong cultural characteristics of the Silk Road, the content of the Mogao Caves frescoes as a prototype, reproducing the dance, costumes and music of the various ethnic groups along the Silk Road. Its direct source is a large number of ancient dance postures on the murals of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang.

It is a new type of dance created by contemporary dance artists based on the study of ancient Dunhuang frescoes and inspired by Dunhuang music and dance frescoes.

Introduction:

Dunhuang dance, one of the Chinese classical dance genres. The Dunhuang Cave Complex contains a large number of music and dance materials from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, including dance images in cultural relics as well as music and dance scores. The dance images mainly include the music and dance of the Heavenly Palace in the warp paintings, the folk song and dance scenes in the murals, and the images of national dances such as Hu Xuan, Hu Teng, Zhe Zhi, and Nishang Yuyi Dance.

Dunhuang dance is based on the inheritance of this tradition, adhering to the principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics, absorbing and borrowing from the western region of the various ethnic dances, the use of the rhythmic rhythms of classical dance, and the combination of static gestures and its stylistic unity of the process of action and the formation of a more complete system of dance movement and modeling.

The typical forms are the "S"-shaped three bends with crooked neck, twisted waist, shifted hips and hooked feet, as well as the multi-angled and multi-angle bends of the arms. The main representatives are Gao Jinrong, He Yanyun, Shi Min and so on. Representative works include the dance drama "Silk Road Flowers and Rain", "Great Dream Dunhuang", dance "Flying", "Thousand Hands Guanyin" and so on.