Dunhuang dance has strong cultural characteristics of Silk Road. Based on the murals of Mogao Grottoes, the content reproduces the dances, costumes and music of all ethnic groups along the Silk Road. Its direct source is a large number of ancient dance gestures on the murals of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.

It is a new dance created by contemporary dance artists on the basis of studying the dance movements of ancient Dunhuang murals and inspired by Dunhuang music and dance murals.

Introduction:

Dunhuang Dance is one of the schools of classical dance in China. Dunhuang Grottoes have a large number of music and dance materials from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, including dance images, music scores and dance scores in cultural relics. Its dance images mainly include the folk song and dance scenes of the Heavenly Palace and murals, as well as the national dance images of Hu Xuan, Huteng, Zhezhi and Nishang Feather Dance.

On the basis of inheriting this tradition, Dunhuang Dance is a relatively complete dance movement and modeling system that combines static posture and movement process with its unified style, absorbing and drawing lessons from the dances of various nationalities in the western regions.

Typical forms are "S"-shaped three-bend crooked neck, twisting waist, shifting hips and feet, and multi-edge, multi-angle and multi-bent arms. The main representatives are Gao, He and He. Representative works include the dance drama Rain on Silk Road, Dream of Dunhuang, Flying Dance, Guanyin with a Thousand Hands and so on.