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05-2281Mongolian SawuerdengTraditional DanceHejing, XinjiangBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

She is a Mongolian woman born in June 1949 in Hejing County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. She is the third-generation bearer of the traditional Mongolian Sawuerdeng dance. She began learning Sawuerdeng at the age of eight and is familiar with eleven forms of the dance; her arm movements are rich and highly expressive, and she is the folk artist who commands the greatest number of Sawuerdeng varieties. Her dancing is graceful and moving, and she renders both the humour and the dignified elegance of Sawuerdeng with great fidelity. She has taken many pupils, more than five hundred in all, and enjoys considerable artistic influence in the area.

Honors & Recognition

She is a fifth-batch national representative bearer of Mongolian Sawuerdeng, a national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Butai · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Mongolian Sawuerdeng
Item code
Ⅲ-94
Category
Traditional Dance
Region
Hejing, Xinjiang
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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