2019 High Arts Into Campus----Journey Into the World of Ballet

Time

2019.11.27&28 19:00-20:30

Venue

Sports Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Registration

[For staff and students]

Ticket collection time:

11.22 (Friday) 12:00-14:30

11.25 (Monday) 12:00-14:30

Venue: In front of Pandora Food Court

Tips for collecting tickets

Please follow the WeChat account of UAC and get tickets with your student/staff cards. Each person can get no more than 2 tickets. First come first served.

[For the Public]

Scan the QR code below to sign up

11.27

11.28

Activity Process

Opening Dance

Excerpts from Pas de Quatre

Composer: Cesare Pugni

Choreographer: Sir Anton Dolin after Jules Perrot

Performers: Xu Ziyu, Sun Jinjin, Zhou Meiduo, Wang Ziwen, Ning Long, Wang Yi

First Part: Lecture on the Knowledge of Ballet

About the Lecturers

Liu Qi

Liu Qi (Deputy Leader of Dancers Team and Répétiteur of NBC)

Graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy in 2003, Liu Qi joined the National Ballet of China in the same year. In 2015, she obtained a master's degree in art from the Beijing Dance Academy. She has danced the Second Concubine in Raise the Red Lantern, Vivetta in L' Arlesienne, and Effy in La Sylphide. She has danced many Chinese and foreign classic ballets, such as The New-Year Sacrifice, The Red Detachment of Women, The Peony Pavilion, The Crane Calling, The Nutcracker (Chinese Version), Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, etc., and participated in many outstanding modern and contemporary ballet works including Serenade, Themes and Variations, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Carmen, Pink Floyd Ballet, Symphony No.7,Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3, Firebird and so on.

She has toured with the Company in many countries and regions such as UK, Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil and other countries and regions with the group. In September 2013, she was invited to Essen, Germany to participate in the Ballet Gala named "Ulrich and His Friends", in which Liu Qi shared the stage with the best ballet dancers from all over the world.

Yu Bo

Yu Bo (Répétiteur of NBC)

Graduated from Beijing Dance Academy in 1999, Yu Bo joined the National Ballet of China in the same year. He has starred in many major ballets, such as Coppelia, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Sylvia, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Giselle, La Sylphide, La Bayadère, L'Arlesienne, Carmen, Romeo and Juliet, Onegin, etc. He also starred in many outstanding modern ballet works such as Serenade, Étude, Pink Floyd Ballet, The Butterfly Lovers, Five Poems, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3, etc.

He won the bronze medal of the 3rd Nagoya International Ballet Competition in Japan in 2003 and the silver medal of the Seoul International Ballet Competition in 2005. In 2004, he was invited to Opéra de Paris in France to exchange and study. In 2006, he was invited by the Hong Kong Ballet Association to star in the ballet Giselle in Hong Kong, and then star in the ballet L'Arlesienne in Wytheville International Festival in USA. At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, Yu Bo attended the opening ceremony of the United Nations Art Festival in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007. In 2010, he won the "Outstanding Performance Award" in the Performing Season of National Art Troupes for his wonderful performance in Onegin. He has also danced his own ballet works like Fragments, Extremes, Dual Personality, Body and so on.

He has toured with the Company in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as well as many countries all around the world, such as Russia, Denmark, Turkey, Israel, USA, France, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore.

Second Part: Demonstration of the Ballet Training

Third Part: Interaction

Fourth Part: Performance of Outstanding Ballet Works

Programmes

Excerpts from La Sylphide Act II 

Composer: Herman Severin Løvenskiold

Choreographer: August Bournonville

Performers: Zhao Xinyue, Guan Chongzheng, Ou Mengru, Lu Chenqi, Sun Jinjin, Shen Mengfan, etc.

Snowflake Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker

or

Spanish Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker

Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Choreographer: Marius Petipa

Performers: Ou Mengru, Lu Chenqi

Modern Dance On the Way

Composer: Elie Semoun

Choreographer: Fei Bo

Performers: Qu Man, Liu Yuanhao

The Dying Swan

Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine

Performer: Ning Long

Pas de Deux from Cinderella Act II

or

Pas de Deux from Cinderella Act III

Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

Choreographer: Ben Stevenson, O.B.E

Performers: Wang Ye, Chen Zhuming，

Li Mengfei, Yan Hualong

The Fourth Movement of The Yellow River

Composers: Yin Chengzong, Liu Zhuang, 

Chu Wanghua, Sheng Lihong

Choreographer: Chen Zemei (Guest)

Performers: Ning Long, Bian Chentang, Xu Ziyu, Wu Ziheng, etc.

The Curtain Call Dance

Performers: all dancers

（Programmes and dancers are subject to change.）

National Ballet of China

The National Ballet of China was founded in December of 1959. All of The National Ballet of China’s outstanding artists come from professional academies. During decades of care and support from the government and friends from all social sectors, the company has never ceased enriching its solid Russian foundations with works of different schools and styles. The company’s repertoire includes classics like Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, Carmen, Onegin, The Little Mermaid, La Bayadère and Cinderella as well as original creations like The Red Detachment of Women, The New Year Sacrifice, Yellow River, Raise the Red Lantern, The Peony Pavilion, The Nutcracker (Chinese version), The Crane Calling, The Light of Heart and The Nine-Colored Deer. By both performing Western ballets and creating works of its own with distinct national characteristics, the company has found a successful path for the development of Chinese ballet. It is fusing the classical and the modern, and cultures from all over the world.

In the past six decades, the company is proud to have made great achievements in talent training and stage productions, as well as in ballet promotion and education. Numerous ballet dancers, choreographers, musicians and stage artists have won major international awards, and have collaborated with international stars in their respective fields. The company has a repertoire of more than 200 ballets, several of which are now known as classic Chinese works of art, and have become famous internationally.

As a world-renowned company with great international influence, the National Ballet of China serves as a cultural envoy and an important window to the nation, spreading the essence of Chinese culture. Meanwhile, it also endeavors to present high-class performances to the Chinese audience, and to promote the art form in universities, communities and among children. In accordance with their motto “United, Pragmatic, Independent, and Enterprising”, the company members are following the steps of their hard-working predecessors to make great strides in realization of their dreams. Currently, Feng Ying, a well-known ballerina and ballet mistress in China is the Executive Director and the Artistic Director.

The High Arts into Campus event, leads us into the world of Ballet.