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285 views • September 10, 2021

Principal Dancer Victor Li Talks About a Once-Lost Dance Technique

Dancer Victor Li says in dance, it’s important to make the movements grand and expressive. And what helps with that is one dance training he received at Shen Yun—“shen-dai-shou,” or “the body leads the hands”; and “kua-dai-tui,” or the “hips lead the legs.” “From our innermost, middle core area, we start our movements from here. So our movements have a bigger range,” he said. The once-lost technique is deemed to be the most difficult of or the best in classical Chinese dance skills. “Because we prepare to go on stage, so we need to make sure that our acting and our movements [are] really clear to the audience, even though they could be sitting like, very far away. So we try to make our movements as big as possible,” he said. The technique also improves the dancers’ ability to spin and enhances jumps and tumbling.
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