Chinese folk legend Liu Sanjie gets modern dance makeover
5 years, 9 months ago

Chinese folk legend Liu Sanjie gets modern dance makeover

China Daily  

Dance drama Liu Sanjie incorporates modern dance styles to present antagonists in a comical way. Huang Wanqiu, the original actress who portrayed the titular character in the film Liu Sanjie, is working on the production as an artistic consultant, and she acknowledges it as "a treasure of China's dance drama". "The cast are using their creative dance styles to portray the charm and spirit of Liu Sanjie, and I feel each character is very accurately and vividly presented," Huang says. Huang says she is happy that the dance drama is bringing Liu Sanjie and Guangxi folk culture to a bigger stage: "The story of Liu Sanjie has conveyed optimism, truthfulness, compassion and beauty to a lot of people through folk songs.

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China Daily  

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