Dunhuang dance belongs to the classical dance, the creation of Dunhuang dance is the long history of Dunhuang culture in the dance mural image as the original material, after the people and experts from all walks of life excavation, collation, processing, and the original creation of a novel dance performance form.
Dunhuang dance successfully created a choreographic method of resurrecting dance from ancient materials, adding vitality to the development of Chinese dance art, while creating a new school of dance and forming a dance art system with a unique performance style.
Additionally Dunhuang dance has a dance score, Gansu Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Cave 17 (Cave of the Tibetan scriptures) preserved in China Tang, five generations of dance score scrolls, referred to as Dunhuang dance score. These scrolls in 1907 ~ 1908 were British A. Stan and French A. Burghill and smuggled out of China, the original is now in the Museum of London (No. S.5643) and the National Library of France (No. P.3501).
Expanded Information
The Dunhuang Dance Score consists of three parts: the title of the piece, the preamble, and the group of characters that represent the dance movements, rhythms, and associations between the dance and the singing. The names of the songs in the dance score include [Nanxiangzi], [Fengyuyun], [Yafangyuan], [Double Swallows], [Runningsha], [Leaning Mountain Stream], etc. Most of the songs in the dance score have been written in the same way as the songs in the dance score, but they have been written in the same way as the songs in the dance score.
Most of them were the names of popular songs at that time. The preamble mainly describes the beat, rhythm, passage, and transition between the beginning and end of the song and dance. The word group consists of the words "order", "send", "dance", "according", "odd", "shake", "head", "about", "drag", "please", "with", etc., with two, four, or eight segments for each song.
There are mostly 4 segments, with 12, 14, 16, and 22 words per segment, and the beats expressed are also different. Because researchers at home and abroad on the meaning of the words "order", "send", "according" and "etc." as well as the calculation of the beat have not been able to have a consistent explanation, the study of the Dunhuang dance score is still in the preliminary stage of exploration.