Profile
Born in Heilongjiang in 1925, Liu came to Taiwan in 1949. After encountering Indigenous music and dance in Hualien, she travelled to Orchid Island to study Tao dance and music. That fieldwork was a distinct undertaking from her later reconstructions of Tang court dances.
In 1965 she studied the Tang repertory at Japan’s Imperial Household Agency. In 1969 she went to Germany to study Labanotation. She founded the Neo-Classic Dance Company in Taiwan in 1976. Her 1984 reconstruction of Huang Di Po Zhen Yue is number 99 in her catalogue.
Liu also choreographed modern works, among them Cao Pi and Zhen Mi (1996). She died in 2023. National Taiwan Normal University’s account of her 2011 lecture shows how Qing Bei Yue worked in a classroom large enough for a live performance.
Interviews and performances
Qing Bei Yue in a university gym
National Taiwan Normal University recalls the 2011 lecture-performance.
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