Traditional Chinese dance

Shows two dancers of Chinese Girls Drill Team with costumes and fans performing Chinese fan dance on the street in Vancouver circa 1950. As one of many forms of traditional folk dances, fan dances have been preserved to share the stories and beauty of Chinese culture. Fan dances performed at ceremonies and Chinese celebrations (such as the Chinese New Year). Chinese Fan Dances are generally divided into folk dances and classical dances.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Subject

• Folk dancing, Chinese
• Dance in art

Identifier

• AMOS fandancer?

Date created

• approximately 1950

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Vancouver

Coordinates

• 49.24966, -123.11934
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical repository

• Chinese Public School (Victoria, B.C.)

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• Copyright held by Robert Amos. Permission granted for use on Victoria’s Chinatown website only. For all other uses please contact the copyright holder. These images are provided with the consent of Robert Amos, and cannot be reproduced or copied without his permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/hmxa-4w94

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