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Wuxi Mandarin Visiting - Pavane Dance

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China dance, as a comprehensive art form, is an important part of the ancient Chinese term "Yue" which includes several elements such as poems, songs, dances and music. Chinese dance has its own unique meanings, and ordered structure that enable a dancer to fully express his thoughts and feelings with ease and grace.

Chinese dance possesses numerous types. Each nationality, each region and each type of dance carry its own folk dance forms with unique features and flavors. Folk dances directly reflect the lifestyles and customs of a people, and though their numerous folk dances, each and everyone is an invaluable part of China's cultural heritage. Yet it is also easy to discover that Chinese dance is actually an integral body with common spirits and views. The frequent communication and assimilation between different ethnic groups and regions, the different dance fields between entertainment for others and self-entertainment, professional and amateur, religious and worldly, royal and grassroots, etc., have all melted and become one in another. Dances for rituals, performances, social contacts, education, clans, trades, etc., all take up an important and indispensable place in the garden of dances....

Pavane dance is the famous traditional performance of Dai nationality in Yunnan. In Dai people’s heart,Pavane is symbolized as generous,wisdom,beautiful and auspiciousness. Among all categories of Dai dances ,pavane dance is one of the favourite、familiar and widely developed dance.In this summer ,our mandarin school’s students were lucky to get this chance to see the real pavane dance. When our mandarin learning students ——the french boy saw those graceful and coquettish dancer start to drooling now.....