Sheng Yubin

05-2183Yangge DanceTraditional DanceHaiyang, ShandongBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1948 in Haiyang City, Shandong Province. From the age of nineteen he studied the Guluojiang (Tinker) role of Haiyang Big Yangge under Yan Mingyu, a yangge artist of his own village; through unremitting and painstaking study his performance matured and took on a humorous, witty style. His Tinker captures both outward form and inner spirit with striking verisimilitude, and his movements are supple and exaggerated: the weighty, steady rising-and-sinking step, the nimble and ever-changing turning-back-to-beckon-with-the-fan, and the sharply rising and falling three great strides are all performance techniques of his own devising. The movements he refined and reworked have become a model for the Tinker role in Haiyang Big Yangge.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Yangge Dance (Haiyang Big Yangge), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1994 he took part in the Fourth China Shenyang International Folk Dance (Yangge) Festival, where he received the Golden Rose Award. Beyond his active participation in performances and competitions, he attaches particular importance to training new generations of yangge performers.

References & Archival Sources

Sheng Yubin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Yangge Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-2
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Haiyang, Shandong
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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