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The National Ballet of China (NBC), known in China as the Central Ballet Troupe was founded on 31 December 1959. [1] It is the national ballet company of the People's Republic of China . The ballet company works from the Tianqiao Theater , this was specifically built for NBC in 1959, and it was renovated in 2001.
Li Chengxiang (Chinese: 李承祥; 1 October 1931 – 14 December 2018) was a Chinese ballet dancer, choreographer and educator.He was best known as one of the choreographers of Red Detachment of Women, one of the most influential ballets of China.
The ballet was later adapted to a Beijing opera in 1964, and as with the ballet itself, both stage and film versions were produced. The 1970 film version of the ballet made Xue Jinghua (as Wu Qinghua) and Liu Qingtang (as Hong Changqing) superstars along with a dozen other artists who were cast as protagonists in other model plays of the time.
A Chinese dance. Dance in China is a highly varied art form, consisting of many modern and traditional dance genres. The dances cover a wide range, from folk dances to performances in opera and ballet, and may be used in public celebrations, rituals, and ceremonies.
Bai Shuxiang (Chinese: 白淑湘; pinyin: Bái Shūxiāng; born 1939) is a Chinese dancer and former prima ballerina, known for her role in the early development of professional ballet in China. After training at the Beijing Dance School as a teenager, Bai was appointed principal dancer of the newly formed Central Ballet Ensemble in 1958 ...
When she was ten years old, Liu gained admission to the Beijing Dance Academy middle school. [2] In 1993, [7] when she was eleven years old, [8] she entered the Beijing Dance Academy middle school. Liu enrolled at the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of eighteen. [2] [6] She studied professional dancing with a major in classical Chinese dance. [7]
The Goh Ballet Academy was founded in 1978, by Choo Chiat Goh and Lin Yee Goh after they immigrated to Canada from China. Choo Chiat Goh trained on a scholarship at London’s The Royal Ballet, the Beijing Dance Academy and in 1959 he joined the National Ballet of China.
Guangzhou Ballet has staged many ballet classics including productions of Coppélia, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, La Sylphide, the Butterfly Lovers, ballet dramas Anna Karenina, La Traviata and Romeo and Juliet, and selected scenes from Amelia Goes to the Ball, in addition to works by Ramuntcho, Rachmaninov and Bartók.