Lu Dajie

05-2186Dragon DanceTraditional DancePudongxin, ShanghaiBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, of Han ethnicity, born in July 1949 in Shanghai. He is a technical committee member of the International Dragon and Lion Dance Federation and deputy director of the Referees Committee of the China Dragon and Lion Dance Sports Association. Steeped from childhood in the dragon and lion dances of the Sanlin area, he graduated in 1989 from the teacher-training program of the Shanghai Dance School, and in the 1980s took part in editing the Shanghai volume of the Compendium of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dances. Drawing on surveys that documented dragon and lion dancing in the Shanghai region, he learned dragon dance and hand-lion dance techniques as well as the crafting of dragon and hand-lion props from performers in many places. From 1993 he has worked on competitive dragon and lion dance, taking part in the discussion and drafting of rules, technical development, training and coaching, judging, the organization of competitions and lectures abroad. He has served more than thirty times as chief judge of major national and international dragon and lion dance competitions.

Honors & Recognition

Representative bearer of Dragon Dance (Pudong Raolongdeng), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Lu Dajie · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Dragon Dance
Item code: Ⅲ-4
Category: Traditional Dance
Region: Pudongxin, Shanghai
Born: —
Batch: Batch 5 (2018)

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