Xin'an Touring Troupe
Xin'an Touring Troupe
Xin'an Touring Troupe was also an active promoter of revolutionary arts and progressive dances. In the early years of the war, the troupe performed and spread the "Children's Dance", "Navy Dance", "Anti-Japanese Rising Dance" and revolutionary rice-planting songs that had been handed down in the era of the Red Army. 1940, under the leadership of Wu Xiaobang, the performers underwent formal and basic training, and rehearsed dances such as "News of Spring" and "Love in the Human World" as well as the dance drama "Master Tiger". They drew nourishment from folk art and created and performed "Children's Liberation Dance", "Flower Stick Dance", "Juvenile Marching Song", "Join the Army", etc. After the Anhui Incident in 1941, the troupe was forced to leave Guilin and moved to the anti-Japanese base area behind the enemy lines of north Jiangsu Province, becoming a children's and young people's literary and artistic team under the leadership of the New Fourth Army. During the war of liberation, Xin'an Traveling Troupe performed in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, promoting the waist drum and so on, which was warmly welcomed by the soldiers. in May 1949, it accompanied the army southward to liberate Shanghai, and took part in the entry ceremony with the "Advancement of Waist Drums" and "Victory Flower Drums", and created and performed a large-scale rice-planting song and dance, "Construction of a New Shanghai", etc. In 1952, the Troupe was merged with the People's Art Theater of East China, which was changed to the Shanghai Opera House. The opera house.