Ballet Red Detachment of Women - The First Chinese Characteristic Ballet
19:30 22th - 23th August, Friday & Saturday
@ National Center for the Performing Arts
Price: 80/120/200/300/400/500
Performed by National Ballet of China
Ballet The Red Detachment of Women was premiered by National balletof China in Sept.26, 1964. It is the first and most successfulfull-length Chinese ballet, with both the theme and content reflectinga very unique Chinese style. The dancers even lived for months inmilitary camps to learn swordplay in order to portray the soldiersvividly on stage.
Since its birth, the ballet has been highly acclaimed for its movingand tragic plot, magnificent stage design, and graceful choreography.Its music, undoubtedly, also contributes a lot to the ballet's successand popularity.
It is said that The Red Detachment of Women was a prelude to theexertions of Chinese ballet artists trying to establish a Chineseidentity using an essentially foreign art form. The piece has beenhailed as a model of the successful combination of Western ballettechnique with Chinese folk dancing.
Synopsis:
It depicts a woman's journey into the People's Liberation Army. Thestory comes from the 1930s in China's southernmost Hainan Island. WuQionghua, the female lead, flees her home and joins the local Red Armytroop, gradually becoming an outstanding soldier with the RedDetachment of Women. Instead of weak, fragile women dressed in flutterytutus, women were depicted in military uniforms with rifles. Instead offrail motions, women had strong arms and clenched fists. This playshook the entire foundation of bourgeois art.
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