Kang Wenying
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1980 she became an apprentice to learn the art; in 1987 she won first prize at the Shanghai Balladry Festival; and since 1997 she has been a staff member of the Cultural Centre of Datuan Town, Nanhui District.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1962 in Shanghai. She excels in the singing, acting and drumming of Luogushu, and is thoroughly versed in such traditional skills as the coordination of hand, eye, body, step and voice, and of speech, enactment, song, action and percussion. Over more than thirty years in the art she has performed more than two hundred works and has exerted a certain influence on mass culture within the district.
Honors & Recognition
Second-batch national representative bearer of Luogushu, a national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Luogushu Ⅴ-22
Profile
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