“Shield Dance" 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 members perform “Shield Dance,” a choreography adapted from Wenzhou folk performance. From national dance drama Dagger Society, premiered in 1959 by the Shanghai Experimental Opera Theatre. Photographer: Wu Yinbo. Originally published in Renmin huabao 1960, no. 16, p. 24. Courtesy of China Foto Bank.
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  • Theater and Performance
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  • 1960
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  • Figure 6.3. Dagger Society members perform “Shield Dance,” a choreography adapted from Wenzhou folk performance. From the national dance drama Dagger Society that premiered in 1959, performed by the Shanghai Experimental Opera Theatre. Photographer: Wu Yinbo. Originally published in Renmin huabao (People’s Pictorial) 1960, no. 16, p. 24. Courtesy of China Foto Bank.