Li Chenglian's masterpieces include: "Pastoral Flute", "Moonlit Night of Spring River", "White Peacock", "Mr. Dong Guo", "Young Patriot" and so on.
One of his masterpieces
Pastoral Flute (won the Sixth World Youth Gala Dance Competition Silver Medal), Junior Patriot, Mr. Dong Guo, 1959 Spring River and Moonlit Night (won the Eighth World Youth Student Peace and Friendship Gala Gold Medal), In Memory of the Beloved Premier Zhou, and co-authored large and medium-sized dance dramas such as The Fish and the Beautiful People, People Definitely Winning, The Grassland Children. Rather Die Than Give In", "Children of the Grassland", "Proud Young Man" and so on. He participated in the choreography of other "Swan Lake" dance drama "Azalea Mountain" duo dance "Rendezvous". Most of his creations are blended with the charm of Chinese opera dance and has a strong national character.
Biography
Li Chenglian, born in 1927, is a native of Beijing. He is a choreographer of the Central Ballet and a member of the Chinese Dancers' Association.
Third, personal experience
At the age of 11, he entered the Peking Opera class of Tianjin Jigu Society to learn the roles of wu chou, wusheng, wudan, etc. At the age of 19, he was released from the class to perform in various Peking Opera troupes and had a deep knowledge of opera, and participated in the Northwest Sympathy Troupe, which went to North Korea for sympathy performances in 1950, and took part in the establishment of the Beijing School of Dance in 1954, and the construction of textbooks, and was a member of the teaching staff of the Chinese Classical Dance.
In 1955, she entered the first dance choreography class of the school to study under the Soviet choreographer V. Chaplin, and in 1957, she became the assistant teacher of the second dance choreography class of the Soviet expert Ankushchev. In 1958, she went to the Novosibirsk Opera House of the USSR as a choreographer and instructor of Chinese dances, and rehearsed a large-scale ballet, "The Lotus Lamp," for the house.
After returning to China, she worked as a choreographer for the Harbin Opera and Dance Theater and the Beijing Dance School, and was transferred to the Ballet Troupe of the Central Opera and Dance Theater as a first-class choreographer in 1972.