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In a grudging journal entry the dramatist Charles Collé remarked in July 1754: "This month, all Paris has flocked to a Chinese ballet, given at the Opéra Comique. I do not like ballets, and my aversion to dancing has greatly increased since all the theatres have become infected with ballets; but I must admit that this Chinese ballet is ...
The first ballet performance was by Shanghai Dance Academy, Shanghai in 1965. It has also been performed by the noted soprano Guo Lanying . The opera is based on legends circulating in the border region of Shanxi , Chahar and Hebei , describing the misery suffered by local peasantry, particularly the misery of the female members.
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.
Though there are unmistakable elements of Chinese music, the music of this ballet was performed with basically a Western symphony orchestra. On 25 December 2015 Chinese Choreographer Wen Hui , the German Director and Dramaturge Kai Tuchmann , and the author Zhuang Jiayun premiered their work RED at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
There is a long recorded history of various forms of dance in China. The earliest Chinese character for "dance" (舞), , written in the oracle bones, is itself a representation of a dancer holding oxtails in each hand. [1] Some Chinese dances today, such as dancing with long sleeves, have been recorded since the very early periods, dating from ...
[57] [58] The stories told in these song-and-dance dramas are simple but they are believed to be the precursors of Chinese opera and theatre. [ 57 ] [ 59 ] Many of the dances of the Tang dynasty are described in Tang poetry : Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen wrote of the Whirling Dance in their poems "The Whirling Hu Girl" (胡旋女), Du Fu of the sword ...
An early form of Chinese drama is the Canjun Opera (參軍戲, or Adjutant Play) which originated from the Later Zhao dynasty (319–351). [12] [13] [14] In its early form, it was a simple comic drama involving only two performers, where a corrupt officer, Canjun or the adjutant, was ridiculed by a jester named Grey Hawk (蒼鶻). [12]
The etymology of the word "ballet" reflects its history. The word ballet comes from French and was borrowed into English around the 17th century. The French word in turn has its origins in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance). Ballet ultimately traces back to Italian ballare, meaning "to dance". [2]