Chinese Ribbon Dance - Fan - Lion Dance - Dragon Dance

Wushu Shaolin Entertainment is proud to present the Chinese cultural evening showcase at the Ramona Bowl Amphitheater on behalf of the Bank of Hemet who sponsored the event. The presentation was a unique cultural experience featuring Chinese Female Ribbon Dance, Flag Dance, Fan Dance, Lion Dance, and the renowned Wushu Kung Fu Warriors. For many in attendance, it was an eye opening experience set in the beautiful scenic sunset of the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California. The city is known for being home of Ramona, which is the title of an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson.

In honor of the novel, the Ramona Pageant is reenacted each year and is California’s official outdoor play, started in 1923. Since then the play is one of the longest running outdoor plays in the United States.

Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed race Scottish Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardships. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life contributed to establishing a unique cultural identity for the San Jacinto Valley.

Every century or so, a story will emerge that carries so much social and emotional importance that it becomes first a classic and then an iconic narrative. The tragic tale of Ramona and her lover Alessandro is just such a story. Like Romeo and Juliet, and even a more modern fable like The Great Gatsby, “Ramona” has planted itself in our cultural consciousness in a very unique way.

In the story, readers are urged to look at the wrongs of the past so that we might try to change the future. In the Ramona pageant perhaps Father Gaspara says it best; “What shall it profit a man if he gains all of the world but loses his own soul?”

Wushu Shaolin Entertainment is proud to be apart of the Ramona Bowl culture and history. There is no greater joy than learning and sharing culture, art, and history.

In China classical dance has a long history of thousands of years within the imperial palace and ancient theater and opera venues. After millennia, these dancing arts have developed profound wisdom featuring unique movements, rhythms, and value. Each dynasty would propel Dance forward with traditional aesthetic principles leading to the dawn of a new era.

Classical dance practices can trace as far back as 5,000 years and is rich with expressive powers. Dancers bring out the inner meaning of intrinsic thoughts and feelings, reflecting the peculiarities of human nature, morals, value, and religious divinity. The art is a big part of Chinese Culture and all of humanity as a whole. It was left to all of us by the ancients who came before. Its profound value and beauty can be shared by all of humanity.

Chinese culture is subdivided into many ethnic traditions that are represented by a vast assortment of traditions. From indigenous folk dances to distinct ribbon, fan, umbrella, and flag dancing, Chinese Ethnic identity is still being passed down through dance and art. Each performance provides a rare insight into ancient Chinese customs, culture, and even religious traditions. These instances of traditional Chinese Life are embedded into the dance itself and are inspiring.

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