Yang Jingyan
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in January 1951 in Min County, Gansu Province. At the age of seven he began learning the art from his forebears, receiving rigorous training in the Tibetan-language musical notation of the Badang dance, and he has a comprehensive command of the dance's formal sequences, its vocal styles, and the meaning of the Tibetan-language vocal passages. He has actively collected and collated written and photographic materials on the Badang dance and has assisted the county intangible cultural heritage center in carrying out surveys of the dance. In recent years he has also promoted the transmission and development of the Badang dance by holding training classes and staging an annual Badang dance competition.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of the Badang Dance, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. As a Chunba (lead dancer), he is not only the Chunba of his own village but the chief Chunba of seven villages in the area where the dance is practiced, and the young Chunba he has trained are all outstanding bearers of the Badang dance.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Badang Dance Ⅲ-108
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