The dance drama Red Flag, set against the backdrop of China’s automotive industrial development, pioneers innovative stage representation of national industrial themes. Through multifaceted strategies, the production transforms the mechanical logic of industrial production into vivid corporeal language. Geometric choreography of workers’group dances, anthropomorphic stage design, and symbolic encoding of red elements collectively articulate the aesthetic order of industrial systems while imbuing mechanical symbols with emotional and spiritual resonance. The work balances historical gravitas with individual lived experiences by intertwining depersonalized narratives of collective grandeur with nuanced secular emotions. Choreographically, it constructs an innovative mechanical mimicry movement system integrated with electronic industrial soundscapes, exploring the aesthetic transformation of bodily experiences during industrialization. Within a globalized context, the production reconstructs cultural identity mechanisms through bodily memory, symbolic construction, and corporeal praxis, offering an artistic paradigm for revitalizing industrial heritage and advancing industrial-themed dance dramas across multiple dimensions.

Yuan Kong. Embodied Narratives of National Industry: Emotional Structure and Choreographic Innovation in Chinese Dance Drama Red Flag. Frontiers in Art Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 4: 36-41. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2025.070406.

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