Chinese Dance · Mongolian and Northern Peoples' Dance · SE10124

Ordos Dance

Jia Zuoguang's Mongolian group dance

Introduction

A group dance Jia Zuoguang made in 1953, which won an award at the 1955 Warsaw festival

Ordos Dance is a Mongolian group dance of about four minutes, created in 1953 by the choreographer Jia Zuoguang. It was performed at the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw in July and August 1955 and won an award there. A poster printed in 1957 shows the scene, with a Mongolian dance troupe called back for repeated bows after dancing the prize-winning piece. The poster's designer had also attended that festival. Jia Zuoguang, a Manchu dancer who lived from 1923 to 2017, was hailed as the dance god of the East and received a lifetime achievement award from the Chinese arts awards in 2011.