Analysis of the Present Situation of China Ballet and Western Ballet?

People in China have been studying ballet for 70 or 80 years. As early as 1930s, dancers in Shanghai and Harbin studied ballet. 1950, dancer Dai put the ballet Dove of Peace on the Beijing stage for the first time. In the long history of nearly 60 years, ballet has gradually been accepted and loved by China people as "China Ballet". In the mid-1960s, China Ballet successfully performed Red women soldiers and White-haired Girl, which made a gratifying step for the nationalization of western ballet in China. Founded in the late 1970s, Beijing Dance Academy has brought great changes to dance education in China. Then, China's dances competed in the international arena, and excellent dancers emerged constantly.

In the mid-1980s, Mars, a ballet major in the middle school affiliated to Beijing Dance Academy, won two gold medals on the international stage after several years of hard work, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of Chinese people to learn ballet. Then, with the wave of reform and opening up, the ballet dancers in China were deeply inspired. The relaxed creative environment has freed many directors from the shackles of the past and surpassed their inherent concepts. They dare to innovate, incorporate China's traditional culture and national culture into ballet, and choreographed many China ballets with national connotations, such as Blessing, Feng Xuan, Mei Lanfang, Turandot, Yellow River, Butterfly Lovers, Two Springs Reflecting the Moon and Fairy Peony.

After arduous struggle, China Ballet has gradually transformed western ballet into China ballet, won prizes in international competitions and occupied a place on the international stage. However, what is the future market prospect of China Ballet in China? It is not easy to answer this question.

The author thinks that the prospect of China ballet market must depend on domestic popular culture and art. Undeniably, in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, with the economic prosperity and social progress, people's desire to appreciate fine arts has become more urgent. Like symphony, painting, sculpture, photography and other art forms, it is deeply loved by the masses. Some people even spend expensive money to watch, appreciate or buy collectibles. However, ballet originated in the west, and its artistic features are mainly the outward opening and upright posture of lower limbs, the dance from the inside out, and the tiptoe, which constitute a unique set of sports symbols, embody the national complex of ballet flying upwards, and have a strong aristocratic atmosphere and gentlemanly demeanor. Her light, elegant, upward, tall and straight dancing and temperament make many people love and even obsessed with it. This is different from China's dancing, which embodies the national complex of oriental attachment to the earth, and has more traditional cultural differences between the East and the West. It takes a long time for the masses to be familiar with, understand and love ballet and really appreciate it, which is related to the appreciation level of the audience and the appeal of a popular culture.

Richard Gracci, a senior British dancer, ballet teacher and choreographer, was deeply moved after watching the performances of five ballet companies in China during his short-term teaching in Beijing Dance Academy in 20065438+0. He once said in his article, "What is particularly worrying is that the audience's response to the truly outstanding part of the dance did not show the corresponding appreciation level, except for the high-handed applause for each leg ..." He broke the appreciation attitude of China audience to ballet. It can be seen that it is complicated and long-term to improve the audience's appreciation of ballet, which requires the joint efforts of China ballerinas and literary and art workers.

How can China ballet be accepted and loved by the audience?

First, the popularity of elegant art, ballet in the gym.

People in Guangzhou who care about and love ballet can remember that it was the first time in Guangzhou in early 1998, and two performances of 1998 New Year's Day World Ballet Night were held in Guangzhou tianhe sports center Gymnasium. Although it is not perfect, most Guangzhou audiences still welcome this attempt of elegant art and low consumption. Since then, major ballet companies such as the Central Ballet led by Zhao Ruheng and the Guangzhou Ballet led by Zhang Dandan have taken the steps of popularizing elegant art ... As President Zhang Dandan said, Guangba entered the campus and the community, popularized the knowledge of ballet art, and cultivated ballet audiences. Free ballet performance in colleges and universities is to let more people know about ballet and fall in love with it, which will impact the future development of ballet in China. Due to the unique sports symbols of ballet and the cultural background differences between the East and the West for thousands of years, the audience can't understand the true meaning of dance, even like watching flowers in the fog, let alone "like". Obviously, only by greatly expanding the coverage of ballet cognition can the ballet market in China really flourish. However, only a few experts and leaders watched the performance, and even the excellent works that won the grand prize still belonged to a few people. The real prosperity is to attract more and more ordinary audiences into the theater, so that people can be familiar with, understand, love and really appreciate ballet. Second, ballet is integrated into national culture, and professionals are involved in popular literature and art.

In the mid-1960s, while maintaining the classical ballet style, the artists of Shanghai Ballet had the courage to innovate, rehearsing the ballet "White-haired Girl" and "Red Female Soldier" with the theme of China folk stories, which were loved by the audience all over the country and performed all over the world, and were highly concerned and welcomed, becoming the "red classics" of China Ballet. In the past 40 years, the white-haired girl has given 65,438+0,500 performances in China and won more than 20 medals in international ballet competitions. What is the reason? In addition to maintaining the essence of classical ballet in performance skills and styles, it is more important that it integrates China's national culture into the drama. In the process of scriptwriting, artists first emancipate their minds, innovate their theories, fully understand the audience's desires, create moving stories that reflect the real society in China, and truly integrate China's traditional culture into ballet.

It is more beneficial to let ballet professionals devote themselves to mass cultural and artistic work, let them work in non-professional institutions at the grassroots level, go deep into the grassroots level and publicize ballet. At present, the number of actors and teachers who have received ballet training in colleges and universities is increasing year by year. When training talents, the state should fully consider the market demand and market prospect, add some courses or majors related to mass literary and artistic work, consciously and systematically arrange ballet professionals to join the mass cultural and artistic team, and open up a new and broad employment market. In the next few years, we will strive to have a ballet professional in every local, city and county mass art group year by year, and go deep into the cities and counties to meet the market demand.

How to make ballet professionals engaged in mass culture and art promote ballet? The author realizes that we must rely on the strong support of local leaders and mass literary and art workers, go deep into the grassroots, go into schools, factories, units and communities, carry out various ballet training classes, and carry out preliminary ballet cognitive basic education, so that more people can understand ballet and finally fall in love with it.

Third, quality education is imperative, let dance enter the middle of children.

In order to select torchbearers for the Asian Games held in Beijing, teenage girls auditioned in Shanghai. After the closing ceremony, the senior dancers in Shanghai said with deep feelings that there is still something that makes them imperfect, that is, the lack of a "sense of temperament" after ballet practice. At present, many colleges and universities offer the course "Appreciation of Dance Art" in quality education. Just as people are pursuing beauty and beauty enjoyment, they also need to find their likes and dislikes in movies, literature, music, painting, sculpture and other fine arts to appreciate the beauty in their hearts. The main purpose of this course is to improve the quality education from understanding to appreciation of dance art, and people's own physical beauty quality needs to be practiced from an early age. Therefore, as a quality education for children over six years old, it is very important to let ballet enter primary and secondary school children. Just as Yibing Ouyang, a famous dance artist and critic, called for: Let dance be liberated from the isolated palace and go to children, college students, sheds and fields ... to awaken their dance consciousness and potential, and then enter the theater of dance art.

As a quality exercise and physical exercise in pursuit of beauty, it is of great significance to hold adult ballet training classes in spare time. First of all, this practice actually makes up for the regret that some people did not have the conditions to learn ballet in the past, so that they can find their childhood feelings, rebuild their heroic youth, and at the same time keep fit and stay young forever. In a word, let ballet enter every family as a new culture and become the connotation of family culture, which can well increase the harmonious factors of the family. Because family culture is the cell that constitutes a powerful organ of social culture, which is the foundation of popular culture.

The author believes that with the strong support of local governments at all levels, and through the unremitting efforts of ballet professionals and mass cultural and artistic workers, China Ballet Company will gradually gain the audience's love and recognition. In the near future, more and more people will rush into the elegant dance theater and experience the charming and charming China ballet for themselves.