Ren Naigui
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han, born in April 1950, a native of Rudong County, Jiangsu Province. In early 1980, together with other dance specialists, he took part in the excavation and systematization of the folk ritual dance "Shaomafu Xiang" (Burning the Horse-Groom's Incense); while preserving the inherited character of the dance, they revised it and formed the traditional dance Tiaomafu (Horse-Driving Dance). He has taken part many times in provincial and municipal folk song and dance pageants, always serving as lead dancer, and was at the same time responsible for making costumes and props. He established two Tiaomafu transmission and training bases, at Rudong Secondary Vocational School and at Nantong University, and was engaged there as a guest professor.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Tiaomafu, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2006 the three-hundred-strong Tiaomafu he choreographed won a gold award at the opening ceremony of the 16th Jiangsu Provincial Games, and in 2010 the one-hundred-strong Tiaomafu he choreographed received the Quintessence Award in the display and assessment of intangible cultural heritage projects at the First China Farmers' Art Festival, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Culture and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Tiaomafu Ⅲ-97
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