3. Ballet The White-Haired Girl
Premiere: 1965
Shanghai Ballet
The ballet is adapted from the opera with the same name, and combines moves from the Chinese folk dances, classical dances with ballet art. It is based on the subject of Chinese revolutionary, and shows the complex struggle of Chinese rural life. It reveals the contradiction between poor peasants and landlord class in the old semi-colonial and semi-feudal China.
Cultural Exchange
Shanghai tea salon in London brews cultural ties
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Chinese people at home and abroad bond together in ritual ceremony