The iterative advancement of digital technology has profoundly reshaped the landscape of cultural and artistic dissemination, offering a historic opportunity for Chinese classical dance to break through the boundaries of its inheritance and dissemination. Chinese classical dance is a body language system of Chinese civilization, with its physical language and aesthetic expression carrying profound cultural connotations. Against this backdrop, how to leverage digital technology to activate its cultural genes and achieve creative transformation and innovative development has become an important contemporary proposition. This paper focuses on the deep influence of digital technology on the innovative dissemination and dynamic inheritance of Chinese classical dance, delves into the dialectical relationship between its breakthrough of traditional art boundaries and its core mission of cultural inheritance, and constructs a new expression system integrating “form, meaning, and technique”. It combines virtual reality technology and real-time interaction technology to reconstruct the spatiotemporal logic of the theater, enabling audiences to experience the “body and spirit” aesthetics through immersive interaction, and build a new “field” for dance among diverse cultural subjects. In the digital dissemination ecosystem, it expands the fragmented dissemination on short-video platforms and cross-media narrative strategies, promoting the breakthrough of classical dance from the circle barriers and forming a dissemination chain of “cultural symbols – youth culture – mass consumption”, thereby expanding the survival space of classical dance and establishing a balanced mechanism and feasible path for “upholding tradition” and “innovation” in the “breaking the circle” dissemination of Chinese classical dance under the empowerment of technology. It ensures that digital technology is no longer a supporting role in dance but becomes an indispensable part of its texture, expanding the boundaries of dance dissemination and redefining the concepts of “body”, “space”, and “performance”, ultimately serving as an important carrier for the construction of a dance cultural community.
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Liu, Y., He, T. (2025) An Exploration of the “Breaking the Boundaries” and “Reinvention” of the Dissemination Paths of Chinese Classical Dance Works Driven by Digital Technologies. Journal of Social Development and History, 1(6), 82-91.