Dong Kedi
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1960 in Xiangshan, Zhejiang. At the age of twenty-one Dong Kedi was admitted to the Xiangshan Yueju Troupe, and in 1982 she was selected for the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yueju Troupe and took the renowned Yueju performing artist Zhang Guifeng as her teacher, making great progress in her art. In 1984 she went to Beijing to perform, and in Wu Nü Baishou she successfully created the artistic image of Yang Jikang. Her stage appearance is martial and commanding, her voice resonant and powerful, and her stage presence steady and magnanimous; she is acclaimed as "the most charismatic laosheng" and "the golden voice that never fails".
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Yueju (Shaoxing Opera), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; a first-grade actor; and a winner of the 17th China Drama Plum Blossom Award.
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