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The Korean Fan Dance is a festive and colorful dance often performed to commemorate special occasions. The performers, who are from Dance One
Institute, are dancing with embroidered fans
with traditional garbs and headdress to celebrate the Chinese New Years.1
Flowers and Butterflies is a dance designed to imitate a game played
by young children in ancient times. The children, dressed in
traditional colors of yellow and red for fortune and luck, chase each other with small round fans with colorful silk streamers.2
Dancers performing the Korean Drum Harmony dance, directed by Dance One Institute and
College and Prep Head Lisa Me Hee Seo, celebrate the Chinese New Year with
brilliant swishes of cloths and colorfully-painted drums.3
The Lion Dance, a traditional performance to usher in each Chinese New Year, is
performed by a Chinese Youth Club not affiliated with Blair in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. The
dance is usually performed to bring luck and courage to life in the
new year.
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Performers enact a scene from the Kunqu play "A Stroll in the Garden"
from "The Peony Pavilion" (Mu Dan Ting) on Feb. 4. Kunqu is an ancient form of Chinese Opera with 500 years of history behind it.5
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The Korean Fan Dance is a festive and colorful dance often performed to commemorate special occasions. The performers, who are from Dance One Institute, are dancing with embroidered fans with traditional garbs and headdress to celebrate the Chinese New Years.
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