Court Dance

          Dance was important in the courts of China, Korea and Japan. The traditions of court dancing and the preservation of forms and dance compositions survie in great strength in Korea and Japan. Here are a number of court dances from Korea and Japan.

           

          Korea

          The Nightingale Dance
          The Drum Dance

          Japan

          Taiheiraku
          Tagyuraku
          Hannari
          Karybin, a Children's Dance


        • Links to other related pages

          Ya-yueh in Korea.
          Yen-Yueh in T'ang China and in Korea.
          Japanese Kagura
          The Shosoin Imperial Repository.


          Robert Garfias
          Anthropology
          UCI

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          rgarfias@uci.edu
          Last Updated 12.16.98