This catalog features English translations of the titles of selected articles from Contemporary Dance Research, China’s leading dance research journal, to introduce a vision of the dance studies landscape in China to Anglophone scholars.
2024
Dai, Jinhua, Hou Ying, Julie Nioche, Gu Jiani, and Ge Huichao. 2024. “Discourse: The Meaning of Boundaries—Physical Fluidity, Connection, and Reconfiguration in Female Choreographers.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (4): 118–27.
Gao, Du. 2024. “Deeply Rooted in National Essence: Collective Consciousness and Individual Thinking in Contemporary Chinese Folk Dance Creation.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (2): 42–52.
Gao, Ya. 2024. “Focus on Global Transformation, Explore Future Dance Studies—Summary of 2024 International Dance Day Series Activities.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (2): 1–11.
Liu, Chun. 2024. “Reconceptualizing Dance Creation in the Context of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (4): 10–18.
Liu, Liu. 2024. “Beyond Myth: Swords, Guns, and Bodies in the Revolutionary Ballet The Red Detachment of Women.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (1): 80–93.
Qing, Qing. 2024. “The New Aesthetic Concepts of Chinese Contemporary Dance.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (1): 56–63.
Wu, Yunming. 2024. “Dance of Reproduction: Chinese Ethnic Dances and Fertility Worship from a Cultural Historical Perspective.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (4): 19–31.
Xiao, Xiangrong. 2024. “Technological Shaping and Physical Breakthrough: The Historical Context and Paradigm Shift as well as its Realization Path for Dance Art in the Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) Era.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (4): 2–9.
Xu, Junrui. 2024. “Mountains and Rivers in the Heart, Painted with a Pen—Script Creation Notes for Only This Green.” Contemporary Dance Research 9 (3): 125–35.
Zhang, Tingting, and Yang Ming. 2024. “Retro Reconstruction” and “Western Dance”: On the Dance Creation of Mei Lanfang’s The Flower-Scattering Fairy. Contemporary Dance Research 9 (2): 12–22.
2023
Liu, Qingyi. 2023. “On Dance Talent Fostering of Postgraduate and Discipline Construction in China—Considering the Recategorization of the Academic Disciplines of Postgraduate Programs in Arts.” Contemporary Dance Research 8 (1): 21–40.
Ma, Shengde. 2023. “Why Can’t Intangible Cultural Heritage of Traditional Dance be Trained in the ‘Academic School’ Education Model?” Contemporary Dance Research 8 (2): 41–46.
Miao, Fangfei. “Cross-Cultural Conflict and Body Reconstruction: The American Dance Festival and Guangdong Modern Dance Experimental Program——A Kinesthetic Methodological Inquiry into Dance Historicization.” Contemporary Dance Research 8 (3): 8–35.
Piao, Yongguang. 2023. “On the Origin of Nongak Dance in the Korean Ethnic Group.” Contemporary Dance Research 8 (1): 48–54.
Xia, Yanjing. 2023. “Reflections on the Newly-added Dance Doctoral Programs and the Construction of Dance Discipline.” Contemporary Dance Research 8 (1): 41–47.
2022
Deng, Wenhua. 2022. “The Definition of Dance in Monroe Beardsley’s Analytic Aesthetics.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 74–79.
Editorial. 2022. “Summary of Speech at the International Academic Forum on ‘International Dance Day 2022: Dance and Tradition—Aspects of Traditional Dance’.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (4): 1–24.
Hu, Yifeng. 2022. “Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art as a ‘Method’—The Cultural Fate of the Opera The White Haired Girl.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 1–7.
Li, Taoxiang. 2022. “Court Meeting, Worshiping Dance and Taoist Rituals: On the Textual Research and Reconstruction of Taiqing Moral—Manifestation Instrument by the Imperial System of the Song Dynasty.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 46–54.
Liu, Chanjuan. 2022. “Heritage, Faith and Power—The Communication Mode and Cultural Construction of Ballet The Red Detachment of Women from 2011 to 2021.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 60–69.
Liu, Shajing, and Wang Liesheng. 2022. “On the Origin and Semantic References of the Proposition of Public Education of Dance Art.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (4): 84–95.
Lu, Meizhen. 2022. “Origin, Symbol, and Function: Misidentification of Labanotation and Motif Notation.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (1): 104–17.
Lynn, Garafola. 2022. “Anna Pavlova: A Ballerina for All.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (4): 66–76.
Mu, Yu, and Yang Puchao. 2022. “Tao Dance Theatre: ‘Where There Is Dance, There Is Hope’—How the Private Modern Dance Troupe ‘Survives’ and ‘Exists’ in the Post-Pandemic Era.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 14–26.
Wang, Jie, and Huang Xiaoqian. 2022. “Form Creation and Emotional Strategy: The Adaptation of the Ballet Version of The White-Haired Girl.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 8–13.
Wang, Xin. 2022. “Anthropology and Chinese Dance Study.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (1): 97–103.
Weng, Zaihong. 2022. “The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting: A Contemporary Rule from ‘out of the Circle’ to Classical Reproduction.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (2): 111–17.
Yang, Xiaoxue. 2022. “Body or Matter?—The Materiality of Li Ning’s Body Theatre.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (1): 79–84.
Zhou, Ke. 2022. “Creation Notes on Dance-Drama White Snake.” Contemporary Dance Research 7 (4): 127–35.
2021
Buck, Ralph. 2021. “Whispers of a Revolution: Reflections upon Dance Education in China.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (1): 83–92, 100.
Chen, Lin, and Zhang Suqin. 2021. “Aesthetics of the Performative and Dance Studies: A Study of Body and Performance-Centric Methodology.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (1): 73–82.
Hutchinson Guest, Ann. 2021. “Two Lives Influenced by Labanotation.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 64–71.
Lan, Fan. 2021. “A New Study on the Inscribed Chinese Character for ‘Dance’ in Yinxu.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (2): 52–60.
Liu, Xiaozhen. 2021. “Shen Wei’s Integrate after His Return from Overseas.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (2): 24–27.
Lu, Shirley Dai. 2021. “Dancing and Drawing in Trisha Brown’s Works: A Conversation Between Choreography and Visual Art.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (2): 67–82.
Nie, Xinru. 2021. “Origin, Form and Narrative of Cartoon Dance.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 72–79.
Ruan, Wei. 2021. “The Body as a Bridge: The Role of Dance in Cultural Diplomacy and National Image Promotion in the 1950s and 60s.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 1–6, 12.
Sun, Huizhu. 2021. “Perspectives on Intercultural Performance Studies.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (2): 69–75.
Tong, Ruirui. 2021. “Notes to Creation of Dance-Drama Crested Ibises.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 112–15.
Xin, Ming. 2021. “A Study on the Principles of Rudolf Laban’s Movement Theory System.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (2): 55–66.
Yu, Qiuyang. 2021. “A Study on the Modernity of Tagore’s Dance.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 48–56.
Zhang, Ziyan. 2021. “Maniac Dancers in the Archeology of Knowledge: Rethinking Madness and Purification.” Contemporary Dance Research 6 (4): 40–47, 71.
2020
Kim, Youngsuk. 2020. “A Study of Korean Jeongjae Created in the Late Joseon Dynasty with Reference to Ancient Chinese Literature.” Contemporary Dance Research 5 (1): 28–32.
Liu, Jian, and Yiwen Zhang. 2020. “Reconstruction of Chinese Classical Dance Through Conceptual Adventure: Taking Dance in Han Dynasty Paintings as an Example.” Contemporary Dance Research 5 (1): 66–72.
Ma, Ming, and Liu Jie. 2020. “On the Protection and Collective Management of Dance-related Copyrights.” Contemporary Dance Research 5 (4):105-11.
2019
Abe, Suemasa. 2019. “Heritage of Japanese Gagaku and Its Continuation.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 20–22, 47.
Dai, Abao. 2019. “Gangnam Style: Disembodiment and Stylish Dancing.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 64–69.
Mita, Noriaki. 2019. “A Study on Rinyu-Gaku and Vietnamese Cham Dance from the Perspective of Japanese Gagaku.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 23–28.
Park, Tae-gyu. 2019. “On the Current Studies of Gagaku in Korea and Japan.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 39–47.
Perron, Wendy. 2019. “Judson Dance Theatre and Postmodern Dance.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 23–26.
Suwa, Haruo. 2019. “Japanese Classical Performing Arts’ Commonness with Foreign Classical Performing Arts and Japan’s Uniqueness.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 29–38.
Tong, Yan. 2019. “Yan’an Experience and the Soviet Model: Internal and External Factors of Dance Development in New China.” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 97–101.
Ying, Eding. 2019. “What Does the Dance-drama The Eternal Radio Wave Mean to Us?” Contemporary Dance Research 4 (1): 80–84.
