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Fan Tinglu

03-0914Nuo DanceTraditional DanceYongjing, GansuBatch 3 (2009)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Beginning in 1947, he learned to dance the Nuo dance under the instruction of his master.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

He began performing Nuo dance in 1986 and devoted himself to the study of its performance techniques, becoming the jiuxia, or leader, of Nuo dance in his village and a master performer in the Yangta Township area. His representative pieces included Budai Ye (Lord of the Cloth Sack), Li Di (Ploughing), Wuguan Wu Niangzi, Li Cunxiao Da Hu (Li Cunxiao Slays the Tiger) and Fang Si Niang, among others. He regularly organized Nuo dance performances at the various temples and led the village Nuo team in more than two hundred performances. He repeatedly discussed and exchanged Nuo performance techniques with folk artists from beyond the village, and had more than ten disciples.

Honors & Recognition

Male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1935, died in November 2015, a native of Yongjing County, Gansu Province. He was a national representative bearer of Nuo Dance (Yongjing July Tiao Hui), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Fan Tinglu · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Nuo Dance
Item code
Ⅲ-7
Category
Traditional Dance
Region
Yongjing, Gansu
Born
1935.08
Batch
Batch 3 (2009)

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