Ballet "white-haired Girl" Explore With The National Ballet Of Hu Rongrong

As one of the masterpieces of typical Chinese ballets,"Bai Maonv"(The White Hair Girl) has been laurelled as"the classic works of dancing in the 20 century in China". As one of the eight model dramas, its value has always been submerged in the strong element of politics. This essay aims to make an original study in perspective of intercultural performance with the purpose of exploring the value of the ballet"Bai Maonv"itself and educational and creative concepts that the choreographer Hu Rongrong made on the creation of national modern ballet and ballet education in China.Chinese Ballet"Bai Maonv"is a representative of intercultural performance adapted from the opera of the same name. In the middle 60s, the occidental noble culture of classical ballet had a huge conflict with the civilian culture in China, which was once on the edge of existence. Hu has made a bold revolution of occidental classical ballet in the principle of"make the past serve the present, make foreign things serve China"and"literature serves for the public"brought forward by Chairman Mao, which has successfully turned ballet into an integrated condition that it gives full play to the current lives of Chinese people and reaches a perfect joint of occidental and national culture. As the first attempt of nationalizing the ballet, from a small size to a large one, Hu has deepened and widened the nationalization of ballet step by step on the basis of the elementary forms of ballet and introduced multiple dancing elements to compensate for the deficiency of ballet to develop character and plot while, at the same time, the ballet terms could be best applied with. As to the performance forms,"establish typical Chinese images in the contemporary age"looks like a thread which makes a perfect combination of essences of classical ballet, folk dances, and traditional Chinese Opera dance and Spoken drama performance. Aiming to make national culture throughout"Bai Maonv", Many other measures were taken such as: performing music with both traditional Chinese musical instruments and western musical ones, singing in ballet, national costumes, national props and etc. The successful fusion of culture at home and abroad eliminates the strangeness of China audience to Ballet and the strangeness of foreign audience to China, which makes"Bai Maonv"play an important role in the culture communication."Bai Maonv"could not be a success without the intercultural cooperation conducted by Hu. She is specialized in ballet, having great passions for national dancing with a solid intercultural background. Hu contributes a lot to fields as drama, film, music, gymnastics and the traditional Chinese Opera which have provided great benefits to the ballet creation and communication between Chinese and occidental culture. Other three choreographers in the group are also with intercultural background of dancing both at home and abroad, especially with profound foundation of national dancing and rich experience of stage performance. In the intercultural cooperation, Hu gives full play to everyone and makes a whole contribution to figuring characters with the help of music, costumes and stage lightings which leads to a coherence of styles in the conflict of multiple cultures.After the policy of reform and opening up, Hu promoted the national ballet creation to a new height with the play of"Thunder Storm"."Bai Maonv"was born when nationalization was quite prevailing. It focused on the blending of Chinese and occidental dancing terms to tell the story; while"Thunder Storm"pays attention to revealing the deep heart of characters with the ballet terms, especially with double-dancing. Nevertheless, Hu kept the same principal on her national ballet creation: Starting with the nationalization by figuring Chinese characters; Setting themes and structure according to the features of ballet; Selecting, deconstructing and reconstructing of ballet movements according to the plots and roles; Emphasizing the blending of drama and dancing."Bai Maonv"is adapted from the exercising plays in classroom which stands for the concept of intercultural education under the guidance of"combination of Chinese and occidental cultures and put what you have learned into practice". As a famous educator, Hu considers that Chinese and occidental cultural environment differs from each other, so do the figure features of Chinese and occidental performers. She also believes that the development of Chinese ballet depends on the creation in terms of Chinese actors and audience. Consequently, Hu is the forerunner who brought Chinese drama into classroom for rehearsals, aiming to cultivate students multiple cultures in practice of Chinese and occidental plays. Thus, Hu fostered a great number of ballet elites and led a creation peak of Shanghai corps de ballet in 80s of 20th Century.Comparatively, the conditions to learn the western arts has been inproved much than before, while the passion to create the national ballet decline much than before. The successful modern national ballet products can rarely be found in these years. Therefore, the experience of Hu Rong Rong on intercultural ballet education and creation should arouse our enough attention.