Abstract: | In recent years, the China Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble (the Ensemble) has continued to produce high- quality gala performances, in which such pieces as A World of Auspicious Emblems, Creating Glory Together, Harmonious China, Dancing Between and Earth, and China's Golden Age have been added to the Ensemble's classical repertoire. The Ensemble has made its mark not just throughout China, but though international performance tours too, thus disseminating to the world the art of Chinese folksong and folkdance, and demonstrating ethnic relations of"equality~ unity, mutual assistance and hannony" in contemporary China. |