A Study Of The Ballet History In People's Republic Of China

Almost a decade passed, for the history of ballet in China, from the 20th century until present. The essay collected and applied plenty of evidence from numerous related materials, to fully and objectively described the developing track of Chinese ballet history from the period of Ms. Ronglin Yu to year 2007. Produced independent analysis and evaluation clearly for those important history events, figures and works among all collections by doing research extensively and deeply with considerable quantities of data collections, and also, after large-scale of interviews and discussions with those related specialists, scholars and senior professionals. Through history review, the author probed the develop pattern for the arts of ballet, tented to induction out a comparatively completed develop history of Chinese ballet for PRC ( People's Republic of China -China after 1949-liberation). The purpose of the research is to reconsider how a foreign culture was accepted, and integrated with the ancient Chinese culture, grew out unique fruit of arts with balmy breath; to trace-back the up-down progress as sowing, sprouting, and growing of ballet art in China; to provide useful experience for its future development, also, to throw a sprat to catch a whale for our deeper research of ballet dance henceforth.I. The goal of the study:1. The important events of ballet development in People's Republic of China;2. The developing status of ballet in aspects of education, plays, ballet dancers, choreographer-director, market, etc.3. During the developing process of Chinese ballet after liberation, how it was affected by culture thought, social environment, economy development;4. Attempting to analyze the future development trend of Chinese ballet along the historical trend.II. The content of the research:1. The major developing history of ballet arts in China; 2. The influence of VIPs in the developing process of Chinese ballet;3. The developing history and achievement of the Chinese ballet education;4. The demonstrating significance of studying and performing western classical ballets for Chinese ballet.5. The developing history of Chinese ballet groups.6. The creates of the Chinese ballet and the artistic pursuit of the host creators;7. The developing history of the performing arts of Chinese ballet.III. The key problems of this article tending to resolve are as following:1. To accomplish the 1st independent and completed Chinese ballet history research of People's Republic of China;2. To combine the effect of education, creates, and performance in Chinese ballet history with people's evaluation at that time, and analyze its reason and value in today's eyes of view;3. To pay especially attention to the mutual affection produced thru culture communication about the ballet development between China and other countries, to reveal the motive force of foreign culture to the Chinese ballet development.The main clue of the essay is bringing history out by plays, as to unfold the statement of the development history of Chinese ballet by surrounding the introduction and comments of ballet plays, since the highest achievement in the development of arts of ballet is to create ballets. All of the actress training, setting up of the educational institution, and building up and developing the performance group, etc. are for the reason of producing outstanding ballet plays. The essay states 5 main parts separately according to the 4 history periods of Chinese ballet:Charter 1 The foundation of ballet undertakings (1950 - 1965 )Chapter 2 Chinese ballet during the "culture revolution" (1966 - 1976)Chapter 3 The resurgence and prosperous of the Chinese ballet (1976 - 1989)Chapter 4 The thriving period of the Chinese ballet: ballet development under market-oriented economy (1990 - 2007 )Chapter 5 Problems and strategic advice about the establishment of school of thought for Chinese ballet.Each chapter includes the background analysis of that age (in area of politics and culture ), the introduction and comments of representative ballet plays, the development of the professional educational institution, the introduction about the situation of the performance group and the circumstances of foreign art exchange between China and other countries. For the introduction of ballet plays, include the introduction of the plot of play, the evaluation of the artistic achievement in aspects of music, dance, stage arts and costumes, etcWhile researching the development of Chinese ballet, we saw what Chinese absorbed and emphasized from the learning process of western ballet. While western ballet was imported in china, also, we saw the ability of containing and reformation.