Guangzhou Ballet
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The Guangzhou Ballet Troupe is a classical ballet company based in Guangzhou, China. In addition to works from the classical European ballet repertoire, the company performs works of classical and contemporary Chinese ballet. The company is one of the top four ballet companies in China.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe|url=http://www.vccf.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128%3A2011-09-11-06-56-55&catid=17&lang=en|publisher=Vancouver Chinese Cultural Festival|access-date=March 10, 2012}} It was founded in 1974, and is currently headed by dancer Zhang Dandan.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe|url=http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|publisher=China Culture|access-date=March 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112174435/http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|archive-date=November 12, 2012|url-status=dead}} The company tours internationally.
History
Guangzhou Ballet was founded in 1974 by Zhang Dandan, a former dancer with the National Ballet of China.{{cite news|last=Griffin|first=Kevin|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe: East and West get in step|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/Guangzhou+Ballet+Troupe+East+West+step/5575860/story.html|access-date=March 10, 2012|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|date=October 19, 2012}} The current company has many members who are graduates from the Beijing Dance Academy. Notable dancers in the company include Zou Guang, Tong Shusheng, Zhang Dandan Guo Fei and Qiu Lu.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe|url=http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|publisher=China Culture|access-date=March 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112174435/http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|archive-date=November 12, 2012|url-status=dead}}
Members of the company are trained in the Vaganova method, following the tradition of Russian ballet introduced to China following the Communist Revolution. The Vaganova method has its origins at the Imperial Russian ballet in St. Petersburg.{{cite news|last=Griffin|first=Kevin|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe: East and West get in step|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/Guangzhou+Ballet+Troupe+East+West+step/5575860/story.html|access-date=March 10, 2012|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|date=October 19, 2012}}
Guangzhou Ballet is also involved in cultural exchanges with foreign ballet choreographers, dancers, and instructors. Foreign artists and ballet coaches from France, Canada, USA, Russia, Britain, Germany and Sweden have participated in projects with the Guangzhou Ballet Troupe.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe|url=http://www.vccf.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128%3A2011-09-11-06-56-55&catid=17&lang=en|publisher=Vancouver Chinese Cultural Festival|access-date=March 10, 2012}}
Guangzhou Ballet School
Guangzhou Ballet School is a boarding school providing classes to students age 10 to 18. The school facilities include 16 studios, academic classrooms, a cafeteria, and a pointe shoe factory.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet|url=http://blog.nac-cna.ca/blog/2011/10/14/guangzhou-ballet/|publisher=National Arts Centre, Canada|access-date=March 10, 2012}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Repertoire
Guangzhou Ballet has staged many ballet classics including productions of Coppélia, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, La Sylphide, the Butterfly Lovers, ballet dramas Anna Karenina, La Traviata and Romeo and Juliet, and selected scenes from Amelia Goes to the Ball, in addition to works by Ramuntcho, Rachmaninov and Bartók. Contemporary foreign works performed by the Guangzhou Ballet include Theme and Variations and Serenade by George Balanchine.
Guangzhou Ballet has also staged the Chinese-style ballets That Day, This Moment, Lan Huahua, Goddess of the Luo River, and in 1997 The Celestial Phoenix, which won several awards from the Fifth China Drama Festival. Dancing over the Xiaoxiang River was staged in 1993 as a newly choreographed work.{{cite web|title=Guangzhou Ballet Troupe|url=http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|publisher=China Culture|access-date=March 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112174435/http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/18/content_41184.htm|archive-date=November 12, 2012|url-status=dead}} The Yellow River and The Dream of the Red Chamber are other Chinese ballet works performed by the company.
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