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Chinese National Ballet in Paris



Chinese National Ballet, applause for The Red Detachement of Women

. Foto: Henning Høholt

PARIS: The Chinese National Ballet has just been visiting Theatre du Chatelet in Paris with two performances, as we allready have informed about in www.kulturkompasset.com – We managed to enjoy the revolutionary inspired production “Red Detachment of Women  ” Which was good.

Review by Henning Høholt, text and applause photos
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It was interesting to get an introduction in a balletversion of how it worked out in the old days with the culture revolution, and we even got “Internationalen” two times on stage. It is a rather sweet, and sad history about how a rich family is living, and how the communistic regime is entering in to their privacy, and taking all from them, and punishing the father.

Typically communistic propaganda, but as dancetheater it functions very well, a lot of excellent soloists in the leading roles, which formed their roles splendid, both the theatrical part, and very much in their elegant dance. The large audience liked the performance
. Good costumes, good light, well functioning scenography, good choreography. The dancers are good, very virtuose and well dancing, in the leading roles we enjoyed:


From The Red Detachment of Women with the National Ballet of China that guested at Theatre du Chatelet 2. and 3. October

As Feng Ying, its director, rather nicely puts it, “the strength of the National ballet of China is that it is a kind of ‘three-legged duck’: classical ballet, contemporary dance and Chinese dance”.Founded in 1959, this dance company long bore the mark of the Russian school.

Yet, as early as 1964, the Ballet also laid the foundations for a Chinese repertoire wherein The Red Detachment of Women is considered the founding work

the way it cialis writing..

. Audiences at Le Châtelet having seen John Adam’s Nixon in China in 2012 were given an insight into this key work of the Chinese cultural revolution, which retraces the great era of the women warriors fighting for their freedom alongside the Red Army in the 1930s. Both ballets will allow audiences to see, in all its diversity, the broad influence of this tremendous Chinese dance company.

Music: Wu Zuqiang. Du Mingxin. Dai Hongwei. Shi Wanchun. Wang Yanqiao

Songs: Huang Zhun

Choreography: Li Chengxiang. Jiang Zuhui

Choreography: Wang Xixian

The dancers are good, very virtuose and well dancing, in th leading roles we enjoyed:

Wu Qionghua: Lu Na.

Hong Changqing: Tong Jinsheng.

The Commandant: Lu Di

Xiao´e: Wang Ye

Xiao Pang: Wang Sizheng

Camarade en armes: Zhang Jian

Lao I: Jiang Wei

Nan Bastian: Li Ke

and as chef of the girls dance: Xu Yan

 

 

 

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