Article
Dance in Wartime China: Liang Lun’s Choreographic Migrations of the 1940s
무용역사기록학 (The Journal of Society for Dance Documentation and History of South Korea)
(2019)
Abstract
The period from the late 1930s through the 1940s was a tumultuous time in China because of two devastating wars—the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949). This essay examines the impact these wars had on concert dance, at the time still a newly emerging art form in China, by examining the case of Liang Lun 梁倫 (b. 1921), a dancer from Guangdong who began his dance career during the 1940s. Although Liang is widely considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Chinese dance, he has received almost no attention in the English language scholarship. This essay thus serves as a preliminary examination of Liang’s early choreographic repertoire, as well as a reflection on the ways in which Liang’s experiences reflect broader trends in Chinese dance during the wartime period.
Disciplines
Publication Date
March, 2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26861/sddh.2019.52.45
Citation Information
Emily E. Wilcox. "Dance in Wartime China: Liang Lun’s Choreographic Migrations of the 1940s" 무용역사기록학 (The Journal of Society for Dance Documentation and History of South Korea) Vol. 52 (2019) p. 45 - 75 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/emily-wilcox/23/