• Figure 6.2. Dagger Society leaders Zhou Xiuying and Pan Qixiang demonstrate the use of movement postures derived from Chinese opera. From the national dance drama, Dagger Society, performed here by the Shanghai Experimental Opera Theatre. Courtesy of Shu Qiao.

Opera poses in Dagger Society

From Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era by Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, and Siyuan Liu, Editors

  • Dagger Society leaders Zhou Xiuying and Pan Qixiang demonstrate the use of movement postures derived from Chinese opera. From national dance drama, Dagger Society, performed here by the Shanghai Experimental Opera Theatre. Courtesy of Shu Qiao.
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  • Asian Studies
  • Theater and Performance
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  • 1960
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