"Red Detachment of Women" is China's first national ballet works, as a sign, Chinese ballet really opened the process of creating a national style step.
The Red Detachment of Women was born on the eve of the establishment of **** and the country in the sixties, when it was the period of prosperous development of the red art of new China.
At that time, China's cultural and artistic life was y influenced by the Soviet Union, which gave China's ballet a wonderful opportunity to develop.
China's ballet in accordance with Premier Zhou's instructions "revolutionization, nationalization, mass" for the reform of the first attempt is the "Red Detachment of Women", which in the history of the arts in the new China has a very high position in the cultural revolution was also treated as "eight model theater "
The first impression of The Red Detachment of Women is that it has a strong flavor of life.
For example, the 22-minute scene in the video, in which a farmer comforts a girl scout during her company's drill, is clearly from real life.
The dance during the Girl Scout company drill is also derived from the movements of real army drills.
There are also a variety of martial arts scenes of action, various scenes of the background layout, etc., are from life.
One of the most impressive scenes of The Red Detachment of Women is the second scene when the Detachment of Women's Scouts is practicing.
At the beginning is a group dance by the people, after which the melody that rings out from the stage is the familiar "Song of the Company of the Maiden Scouts".
"Forward, forward, the warrior's responsibility is heavy, the women's grievances are deep, in ancient times Hua Mulan went to the army for her father, and now there are the Niangshi Scouts carrying guns for the people." Hearing this familiar melody, can not help but excited.
Then, the company of the Niangshi Scouts appeared on the stage, and the music was changed from a unison song to a rousing performance by the band.
Then came a solo dance by the Company Commander of the Nymphet Company, which was very impressive with its flowing steps.
The steps of the Girl Scout drill combine traditional ballet with the various movements of army training, with the softness of ballet and the rigidity of the warrior.
As we all know, ballet originated in Italy during the Renaissance.
Initially, ballet was a dance that belonged only to the princes and nobles, and its subject matter was initially limited to the love stories of princesses and princes.
Later, with the decline of feudalism and the development of capitalism, the subject matter of ballet has also been changing, but like the Red Detachment of Women, the revolutionary war as the theme of the ballet is the first time - after all, who can imagine that the revolutionary war and the ballet will have any connection between it? The birth of The Red Detachment of Women is a milestone in the history of Chinese ballet.
Even some Western art scholars have commented that the value and connotation of The Red Detachment of Women has gone beyond the limitations of time and ideology, and can be said to be part of the cultural heritage of mankind.