A Dance from the Art of Ancient China

www.thewayofdan... - Mimi and Lesandre used dance as a medium to bring to life the art of ancient civilizations, specializing in archaeo-choreology, or the research into and recovery of lost dance forms. Studying the statues, figurines, scroll paintings, wall frescoes from royal tombs, religious writings and poetry from the Han and T'ang Dynasties, they constructed an image of the dance from that time, based on their formal classical Chinese dance training at the Chinese Arts Institute in Mill Hill, London, directed by Nancy Kuo. Music is by the Flowing Stream Ensemble of San Francisco. For inquiries, please visit: thewayofdance.com/prod.htm
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[@Nahmee143.]

My goodness! Such elegance along with equal intrigue in costume! ^O^ Never seen such wonderful styles.

[@alexldl]

great dancers

[@cellestiall]

very good!

[@Puntonghua]

Amazing :-)

[@慕嘉兒]

在youtube上搜下面詞匯就可以看到的漢舞視頻: 謝公屐clog dance（dance in ancient China） 踏歌 Spring Outing Dance / 汉族舞蹈 Han Folk Dance 漢武帝-佳人歌 清平調舞 楚腰 桃夭

[@慕嘉兒]

在youtube上搜下面詞匯就可以看到的漢舞視頻: (謝公屐clog dance（dance in ancient China） 踏歌 Spring Outing Dance / 汉族舞蹈 Han Folk Dance 漢武帝-佳人歌 清平調舞 楚腰 桃夭

[@bluepharie]

...THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!! :)

[@arthurqbj]

The second part is great, amazing! but the make-up and costumes needs improvement.

[@owenoury1]

Are they Chinese?

[@ouyangyuxi6]

the second dance is from the "tang" dynasties of china

[@ArchKW]

to make it clear, they are really beautiful if it wan't for the makeup, sans doute! but it realy freaked me out when they bent down to pick up the lights. i thought they were picking up humers and ready to turn into tortoise, those of u who understand what i meant. it's a inside joke. they shouldn't have shown their hands. in those days, women had to marry a guy if he saw he say her hand. imagine that. i sometimes find guys back then were pretty lucky

[@gariadara]

@ArchKW Nope, not true. During the Tang Dynasty, there is no such thing as "marrying the guy who saw your wrist." That ridiculousness came way later....and way before. The Tang period was extremely liberal and open. Women wore dresses that were translucent and had very low cleavage. People were also much more sexually promiscuous than the later dynasties, in fact, when Persian visitors went to Tang China (Chang'an capitol), they commented on the "loose" women.

[@慕嘉兒]

外國人跳漢舞? 我覺得還不錯, 就是服裝糟了點

[@ArchKW]

are these men!? Can i just say that they are wearing men's cloth with female's wigs. europeens can't pull these off. just like no chinese looks good in a swallowtail, well, hardly any

[@pearlblack9753]

this is pretty horrible... the way they move is not elegant enough and their costimes and make-ups ar just o.O watch this if u wanna see some real chinese dance.. /watch?v=veSOJYyQBSQ&feature=feedf