Yin Mei _ Mountain River Project
30.07.10
Dance has figured prominently in the development of calligraphy as one of China’s
essential art forms. During the Shang Dynasty, it was dancing shamans who presided over
divination rituals in which oracle bones were cracked in order to commune with the ancestors.
Later, dancers also inspired drunken T’ang Dynasty monks to abandon the formalism of their age, seek freedom of expression and perform through calligraphy.
