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Aspects of Peking Opera
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This video examines martial arts of the traditional Peking Opera, looking specifially at how the performer creates scenes by body movements, rather than with props.Hu Hung-yen, Chinese dancer, begi...
This video examines martial arts of the traditional Peking Opera, looking specifially at how the performer creates scenes by body movements, rather than with props.Hu Hung-yen, Chinese dancer, begins with a demonstration of Peking opera make-up and then performs various dance patterns and presents a scene from The Butterfly Dream and the Scarf Dance.
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- Creator
- Fordham University (Firm)
- Included Title
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- Aspects of Peking Opera
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : Fordham University (Firm), [1980]
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017
- ©1980
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (15 min., 23 sec)) : sound, color
- digital
- video file
- Originally released by Fordham University (Firm), 1980.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 04, 2017.
- Streaming video file.
- Closed-captioned.
- The Peking Opera: Introduction (3:46); Men's Roles (5:08); Absence of Props (2:00); Ribbon Dance (3:13); Credits: Aspects of Peking Opera (0:25)