Shi Shunmin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Miao ethnicity, born in 1949 in Xiangxi, Hunan. From childhood Shi Shunmin was influenced by her mother, Long Paying, who is now deceased, and learned to dance the Miao drum dance. Her Miao drum dance is rich in movement, graceful in posture, strongly rhythmic and technically demanding, and highly rewarding to watch, and she has developed a distinctive style of her own. Her representative works include Qing Fengshou (Celebrating a Good Harvest), Yingbin Gu (Welcoming Guests with Drums) and Tuanyuan Gu (Drums of Reunion).
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She has taught the Miao drum dance since the 1980s, and in 2004 she raised the funds herself to open the first Miao drum dance training centre in Xiangxi, the Shunmin Miao Drum Dance Training Class, where rural students are trained free of charge.
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