The history of Chinese ballet?

Ballet, the French translation of ballet, the European classical dance form, originated in Italy, formed in the seventeenth century in France, the eighteenth century into Russia, to the early nineteenth century has developed into an independent art, the creation of the pointe dance skills, and a complete set of training methods, and gradually formed different styles of Italian school, French school, Danish school and Russian school. Later there were different styles of classical ballet in many countries. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the modern form of ballet appeared and gave rise to many schools, popular in Europe and the United States. It is a theatrical art form that takes dance as its main means of expression and combines it with music, drama and fine arts.

Contemporary ballet's pointe dance, with multiple positions of strict norms, scientific training of the physical beauty of the characteristics, as well as control, rotation, jumping and other difficult skills, constituting its unique noble, elegant temperament.

In the 1920s, the United States and Italy had individual groups come to Shanghai to perform ballet. Afterwards, a group of Russian artists came to China to live abroad, in Harbin and Shanghai and other coastal cities opened a private ballet school, and the organization of the Russian ballet troupe. One of the more famous Sokolsky and his wife Baranova, taught China's earliest ballet students Hu Rongrong, Ding Ning and so on. Hu Rongronghai had assisted the expatriate performances.

Dai Ailian, the pioneer of Chinese ballet, grew up overseas since childhood and specialized in the art of ballet in the United Kingdom, with deep attainments. Returning to her motherland in 1940, she not only spread the seeds of ballet art in the 1940s, but also made outstanding contributions to the development of ballet art after the founding of New China.

After the founding of New China, Chinese ballet artists represented by Irene Dai, on the one hand, actively advocated that ballet be taken as a mandatory course for the training of performers in the newly-established singing and dancing performing groups; on the other hand, they actively engaged in the creative practice of ballet, and strove to explore the use of ballet to serve the cause of New China and its people. In October 1950, in the upsurge of the world peace signature movement of inspiration and promotion, the Central Academy of Drama Dance Company staged by the director of the Academy, the famous dramatist Ouyang Yuqian choreography, Dai Ailian and other collective choreography, and by Dai Ailian, Ding Ning starring in the large-scale ballet, "Doves of Peace". This is the first generation of ballet artists in new China want to use the form of ballet to reflect the social life of China, eulogize the attempt to defend peace, although not mature enough, but has a positive significance.

September to October 1953, the second national cultural congress, the All-China Dance Workers Association, Chairman Dai Ailian, in the "four years of the state of the dance work and future tasks" report, emphasized that "should be put to the national, folk traditions to learn the first place, in the inheritance of national traditions, at the same time, learn from the training methods of other countries and nationalities is very important, especially the Soviet Union ballet, and the first time, we will continue to work together to promote the development of ballet. important, especially the training experience of the Soviet Union ballet, which we should endeavor to study and learn." After the founding of new China, the end of a long period of time ballet in the scattered, unsystematic embryonic situation, and gradually into the formal development of the track.

In the 1950s, with the recovery and development of New China's national economy, cultural construction also saw a good momentum. On February 25, 1954, the Ministry of Culture hired a Soviet expert, Mr. O. A. K. K. K., to conduct a workshop on cultural construction in China, which was held in Beijing. A. Irina came to China on February 25, 1954, the Ministry of Culture hired the Soviet expert O. A. Irina to teach ballet in the Ministry of Culture Dance Instructor Training Course, which was the starting point for the development of ballet in New China.