Artist unknown / Long-sleeve Dancer / 3rd century B.C.

Artist unknown
Long-sleeve Dancer
3rd century B.C. - 1st century
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Creator Name: artist unknown
Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese
Creator Name-CRT: Artist unknown
Title: Long-sleeve Dancer
View: front
Creation Start Date: -29
Creation End Date: 99
Creation Date: 3rd century B.C. - 1st century
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: pottery
Materials and Techniques: Earthenware
Dimensions: H.20-5/8 x W.8-13/16 x D.6 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 2000.87.1
Credit Line: Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Many types of pottery dancing figures have been retrieved from Han tombs but, examples of this large size with finely sculpted naturalistic details are relatively rare. The performance of ritual dance during Han was a court prerogative, and the number of dancers permitted to each noble was regulated according to his rank and merit.

This thin elegant dancer is dressed in the traditional shen-i garment; long and layered robes with oversized sleeves. She captures the stately motion and austere spirit of the "sleeve-tossing dance" style (chang-hsiu wu) which featured a continuous, controlled and coordinated movement of the long sleeves.

The Han dynasty writer Ch'ang Hung (78-139) described this dance form in one of his poems:

Their vermilion slippers danced between plates and goblets

And they waved their long, dangling sleeves

With a curvaceous, cultivated bearing

Their lovely dresses fluttered like flowers in the wind.

AMICA ID: MIA_.2000.87.1
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: ? The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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