Chen Ailian is considered a dancer of the new China's patriarchal class, specializing in classical dance, and she was a highly skilled dancer who danced as light and pleasing to the eye as clouds and water.
In 1959, Chen Ailian starred in the stage play "Fish Beauty," a combination of ballet and traditional dance, and became famous and celebrated as a young and famous dancer. Since then, she has been making frequent appearances on the Chinese stage, starring in a number of stage productions, such as The Little Dagger Society, Princess Wencheng, Dream of the Red Chamber, Peony Pavilion, Farewell My Concubine and many others, making her one of the dancers who has starred in the most stage productions in China, and enjoying an international reputation as well.
As a professional dancer, she has taken her dance career as her life, and even at the age of 80, she continues to practice and perform dance. She can also be seen in 2019's Dance Storm, where she and Liu Jia performed Thunderstorm, completing several difficult moves that shocked the audience.
Although she is already 80 years old, but her state is still young, years of persistent exercise and practice, but also let her retain the muscle power of 30 years old, her graceful physique, dance posture, even if it is a difficult movement is also a one-two punch, completely unable to see the old state.
So, she is also the "Dream of the Red Chamber" to 80 years old to complete the 2 hours of the main role of the dancers, in this age dance full house, can be said to be in the world is also very difficult to see, it can be said that it is this kind of love for the dance, so that she can do these ordinary people difficult to do things.
It's just a pity that she died so soon after the disease, this is probably due to genetic relationship, because her mother also died of gastric cancer, and the second is because as a dancer, for the control of diet is also extremely harsh, especially the older the metabolism will be slower, which requires her to eat less, or for her immersed in the dance practice, and may have ignored the body's warnings.
Nevertheless, this was a great dancer and I hope she can continue her dancing career in heaven.