⧉Image Dance Props: Dance Diplomacy - 'Red Silk Dance'

Photograph documenting the Chinese Youth Delegation performing 'Red Silk Dance' (Hongchou wu 红绸舞) at the Third World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin in August 1951. Originally published in Chinese Folk Dance Image Collection (Zhongguo minjian wudao tupian xuanji 中国民间舞蹈图片选集), (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1957).

Photograph documenting the USSR National Folk Dance Ensemble dancers performing Chinese choreography 'Red Silk Dance' (Hongchou wu 红绸舞) during their tour in China in September 1954. Originally published in China Pictorial (Renmin huabao 人民画报) no. 11 (1954): 32.

This is a poster advertising cultural events at the 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. It shows dancers and musicians representing different parts of the world (from left to right): India, Korea, Soviet Union/Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and China. The dancer representing China is from the Red Silk Dance. This is also the only dancer using a prop (apart from the Latin American musician, who plays a tambourine).