Chen Ailian
Chen Ailian, Chinese dancer. Famous dance performing artist, leader of Chen Ailian Art Troupe, principal of Beijing Ailian Dance School, dancer, choreographer and teacher of China Opera and Dance Theater. Member of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, Member of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, Director of the China Association for Foreign Cultural Exchanges, Director of the China Population and Culture Promotion Association, China Indonesia Economic Director of the Cultural Exchange Association, Director of the China Performance Association, and Director of the China Tian Han Foundation. Candidate for "Top Ten National Social Welfare Stars" in 2007. "Passionate Dream" art competition invites special art consultant.
Chinese name: Chen Ailian
Nationality: Chinese
Birthplace: Shanghai
Date of birth: 1939
Occupation: Dancer
Graduation school: Beijing Dance Academy
Main achievements: Transferred to China Opera and Dance Theater in 1963
Representative works: "Spring River Flowers" "Moonlight Night" (solo dance), "Snake Dance" (couple dance)
Original place: Panyu, Guangdong
Biography
Chen Ailian, a dance performance artist. Born in Shanghai in 1939, he is the former vice chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, researcher at the Dance Institute of the China Academy of Arts, director of the Chinese Opera and Dance Institute, dancer and choreographer of the China Opera and Dance Drama Theater, director of the Chen Ailian Art Troupe, and Beijing Ai Principal of Lian Dance School. She has starred in dance dramas such as "The Fish Mermaid", "The Red Flag", "The White-Haired Girl", "Princess Wencheng" and "A Dream of Red Mansions".
Chen Ailian was born in Shanghai in 1939 and her ancestral home is Panyu, Guangdong. Young orphan. In 1952, he was admitted to the Dance Troupe Affiliated to the Central Academy of Drama from Shanghai Yixin Orphanage. In 1954, he was admitted to China's first dance school, Beijing Dance School. In 1959, he graduated with excellent grades in all subjects. In the same year, she became famous after starring in China's first dance drama "The Fish Mermaid" that combined ballet and Chinese dance. She became one of the youngest dancers in China at that time. After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach dance for 4 years. In 1963, he was transferred to the China Opera and Dance Drama Theater. Her dance movements are light and smooth, with strong technical skills. She is good at Chinese classical dance, folk dance and other styles of dance. Since 1957, she has starred in the dance dramas "Zhang Yu and Qiong Lian", "The Fish Mermaid", "Red Flag", "The White-Haired Girl", "The Little Knife Club", "Princess Wencheng", "A Dream of Red Mansions", and "The Peony Pavilion" , "Fanyi", "Farewell My Concubine", etc., he is the dancer who has starred in most dance dramas in China. In 1961, at the 8th World Youth Student Peace and Friendship Festival held in Finland, she performed "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" (solo dance), "Snake Dance" (couple dance), "Bow Dance" (lead dance), "Grass Dance" "Li Dance" (lead dancer) won 4 gold medals in a row. She has also starred in the dance dramas "The Fish Mermaid", "The Red Flag", "The White-Haired Girl", "Princess Wencheng", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Peony Pavilion" and so on. After his comeback in 1980, he held his first solo dance party and won the first prize from the Ministry of Culture. Subsequently, he held many solo dance performances in Beijing, Shanghai and other places. He has performed with and led troupes in dozens of countries and regions, and is one of my country's most influential dance masters in the world.
In 1980, China's first personal dance party - "Chen Ailian Dance Party" was held, using expression techniques of Chinese classical dance, ballet, Chinese dance, Chinese folk dance, foreign folk dance, and modern dance. She performed creatively and successfully created ten female images with distinctive personalities from ancient, modern, Chinese and foreign times. Her performance was exquisite, graceful and full of love and dance, and was highly praised by the audience and the literary and art circles.
In 1987, Chen Ailian held the second "Chen Ailian Dance Special Gala", trying to combine traditional Chinese dance with modern dance and achieved success. Chen Ailian once created, choreographed and directed the dance drama "The Peony Pavilion" which won the first prize at the Guangdong Art Festival. He also created, choreographed and directed dances: "Trafficman Behind Enemy Lines", "Embroidered Gold Plaque", "Dusk", "Oriental Song", "Happy Young Man", etc.
Since 1980, Chen Ailian has given lectures and demonstrations in various provinces and cities such as Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Northeast China, Shanghai Dance School, Guangdong Dance School, Peking University, School of Foreign Languages, School of Posts and Telecommunications, Institute of Light Industry, Tianjin Nankai University, and other provinces and cities and dance associations and universities. Performance
Chen Ailian has been published in the most authoritative newspapers in China, "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "Beijing Daily", "Beijing Evening News", "Dance", "Culture and Life", Dance, etc. On the inheritance and development of Chinese classical dance, dance papers and review articles such as "Silent Language", "Talk about "Snake Dance"", "Turn Dance into Emotion, Use Emotion as Dance". In 1989, the Chinese Ministry of Culture approved China's first art troupe named after an individual - Chen Ailian Art Troupe, with Chen Ailian serving as artistic director and leader. In 1991, he led a delegation to visit the United States and performed to raise funds for the floods in Anhui and the Chinese community in New York. In 1992, he led a delegation to visit Macau to perform a fund-raising performance for the Third National Games for People with Disabilities, which was well received by people in the United States and Macau. In 1995, with the approval of the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Municipal Education Commission, the Chen Ailian Dance School was established, with Chen Ailian as the principal. In 1997, the large-scale national dance drama "A Dream of Red Mansions" was performed again.
On December 21, 2019, he participated in the finals of Hunan Satellite TV's youth dancer competition show "Dance Storm" as a dancing assistant, and performed the theme dance "Dance Storm" with the 80-year-old dancer Liu Jia. thunderstorm".
Main works
Performed at home and abroad since 1957:
Solo dance: "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", "Lamp Dance" (Mongolian Dance) , "Drumming" (Uyghur), "Fish Dance" (Dai), "Water" (Dai), "Trafficman Behind Enemy Lines", "Dream Return", "Sword Dance", "Ball Dance" (India) , "Death of the Swan" (Soviet Ballet), "Dance of Colorful Feathers", "Song of Slaves" (Tibetan);
Pas de deux: "Bow Dance", "Snake Dance", "Song of the Wanderer" ", "Spanish Pas de Deux", "The Fish Mermaid Pas de Deux in Three Acts", "Dusk", "Country Road", "Happy Young Man", "Straw Hat Song";
Women's Dance: "Grass Dance" , "Tea Picking Butterfly Dance", "Prairie Female Militia", "Red Silk Dance", "Gold Embroidery Dance", etc.
Representing Chinese dancers, Chen Ailian participated in the 8th World Youth Festival held in Finland and performed four performances: "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", "Bow Dance", "Snake Dance" and "Grass Dance" Dance and won four gold medals in one fell swoop. The solo dance "Long Feather Dance" won the Outstanding Performance Award for Specially Invited Dancers in the First National Dance Competition. "Chen Ailian Dance Party" won the first prize from the Ministry of Culture, and the dance drama "Princess Wencheng" won the first prize for performance. In 1987, she held the second "Chen Ailian Dance Gala" and tried to combine traditional Chinese dance with modern dance and achieved success.
Social Evaluation
Almost all newspapers and magazines in China have spoken highly of Chen Ailian's superb performing arts and her moral character for many years. In 1989, he founded my country's first art troupe named after an individual, the Ailian Art Troupe. In 1995, he founded the "Beijing Ailian Dance School". For more than ten years, she devoted all her energy and financial resources to running the school. He sold his property and used all his savings to build a 20,000-square-meter school building and purchase a large amount of teaching equipment, making Ailian Dance School a first-class dance school in my country and cultivating more than 400 outstanding dance talents for the country.
In 1997, she invested nearly one million yuan to re-perform the large-scale national dance "Dream of Red Mansions" and represented China in the 1997 Chinese Dance Drama Year. It received unanimous praise at home and abroad and has performed more than 300 times. field. In 2002, it hosted the "50 Years of Chen Ailian Art" - a series of public welfare performances, which was listed by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as one of the cultural activities to welcome the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
She has performed at the front lines, troops, construction sites, hospitals, etc. many times. She has also organized students and the Chen Ailian Art Troupe to actively participate in charity performances on CCTV and Beijing TV. More than 200 teachers and students were sent to participate in the 2008 Olympic Song Concert, and participated in hundreds of charity performances such as the dance performance at the opening ceremony of the Asian Cup football match.
Chen Ailian is willing to help children from poor families who are talented in dancing to pursue art. She always lends a warm hand to help them when they have difficulties, and exempts and exempts needy students from tuition, miscellaneous fees, food expenses, accommodation fees, etc. . In the past 10 years, Chen Ailian has funded more than 1 million yuan for poor children.
Although Chen Ailian is over sixty, she practices every day and becomes the oldest dancer in my country who can star in an entire dance drama. Due to Chen Ailian's unremitting pursuit of dance art and her contribution to society, she has won many art awards. She has been awarded titles such as "March 8th Red Flag Bearer" and "Outstanding Contribution Award" by the Ministry of Culture and Beijing Municipality. The mayor of New York in the United States personally presented her with the "Morality and Art Award", and the Duke of England presented her with the "Ultimate Achievement Award."
Chen Ailian has been engaged in dance art for half a century. 55 years have passed by and she is still dancing with the young boys and girls in their prime. "Youth is always there, and the skill is not diminished." Chen Ailian's growth history is closely related to the dance of New China. In 2002, central leaders Jiang Zemin, Zhu Ji, and Hu Jintao wrote inscriptions for Chen Ailian respectively, congratulating her on her fifty years of artistic youth! 2007 was the 55th anniversary of Chen Ailian's career as an artist. General Secretary Hu Jintao once again wrote an inscription for Chen Ailian in the Great Hall of the People: Artistic youth lasts forever! She is worthy of being a landmark figure in the history of Chinese contemporary dance. She has used her 55-year stage career to announce the miracle of the dance world!