Dai Ailian

Dai Ailian

Dai Ailian (1916-2006), whose ancestral home is Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, one of the pioneers and founders of Chinese contemporary dance art, a famous dance artist, Dance Educator and honorary chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association. Known as the "mother of Chinese dance.". In 1930, she went to London to study dance. She studied with famous dancers Anton Dowling, Rudolph Laban, and later went to modern dance master Mary weigman. In 1939, he returned to China, and his main dance items included homesickness, selling, picking girl and so on. After liberation, Dai Ailian became the first head of the national dance company, the first chairman of the National Dance Association, the first president of Beijing Dance School and the first head of the Central Ballet.

He died in Beijing on February 9, 2006 at the age of 90.

Life of the characters

Born in 1916 in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, his ancestral home is Xinhui County, Guangdong Province.

In 1921, he began to learn dance and piano. Seven years later, his piano level has passed the intermediate examination.

In 1926, he entered the local dance school to study ballet.

In 1930, she went to London, England, where she studied with famous dancers such as Anton Dolin and Rudolf Laban. Later, she went to Mary Wigman, a master of modern dance. When she studied dance in London's Wigman company, she was expelled because she boldly proposed that modern dance and ballet should learn from each other and complement each other in skills. Later, because of the decline of his family, he worked part-time and studied part-time. He often performed dance in the London artists salon, or worked as an extras in film studios and theatres. Her works, such as flower girl in Persian square, Yang Guifei and umbrella dance, were created under such circumstances.

In 1939, he won the scholarship of the famous Eustace Ryder dance school. In school, he studied the famous dance theorist R. von Laban's theory and dance notation on emotional expression and stage performance technology, which had a profound impact on his later dance creation.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, Dai Ailian participated in the Chinese Sports Committee for many times in London, held benefit performances to raise funds for the Anti Japanese war for the alliance to defend China led by Soong Ching Ling, and wrote and performed such dances as "wake up" and "march forward" to praise the Anti Japanese spirit of the Chinese people.

Dai Ailian has been engaged in dance education since the 1940s, and many of her students have become successful dancers. In teaching, Dai Ailian has also been committed to the spread of Laban dance scores in China.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, she returned to her motherland. In the spring of 1940, Soong Ching Ling met her in Hong Kong.

After the Pearl Harbor Incident in 1941, she went to Guilin via Macao. Then he took part in the fund-raising performance activities to support the Anti Japanese War, and created the Dances "guerrilla story", "sell", "air raid", "Dongjiang" and "homesickness" with the theme of Anti Japanese and national salvation, which played a positive role in publicizing the Anti Japanese War and promoting the development of Chinese dance career. She is also engaged in the collection, arrangement, performance and research of folk dances of various nationalities. Dai Ailian created the drum of the Yao people based on the drum singing and dancing of the Yao compatriots when they were happy, and adapted the dance Lao Bei Shao according to "dumb back crazy".

In the autumn of 1942, she went to Chongqing to teach at the national opera school and the National Institute of social education. Later, she was hired by the educator Tao Xingzhi to establish the dance group of Yucai School. During this period, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao often cared for and helped her, encouraged Dai Ailian to learn from the folk and strive to develop the cause of Chinese folk dance. This had a profound impact on her later artistic practice.

In 1945, after watching Xinyang opera performed by Yan'an Literature and art workers in Chongqing Xinhua Daily, she created the song and dance "sister Zhu sends eggs". In the summer of that year, Dai Ailian and the famous painter Ye Qianyu went to northern Sichuan and Xikang to collect a large number of ethnic dance materials, and recorded eight Tibetan dances with Laban dance scores (now in the New York Dance score Center Library and London Dance Center Library, respectively). She also created Tibetan Dance "spring outing" and "Ganzi ancient dance", Yi dance "love song", Miao dance "month of Miao family", Uygur dance "dance of youth" and "song of coachman";

In 1946, with the teachers and students of Yucai School, a grand frontier music and dance conference was held in Chongqing. This performance had a great influence, not only made the folk dance of all ethnic groups in China on the modern stage, but also set off a popular movement of folk dance. In the autumn of the same year, Dai Ailian and ye Qianyu went to the United States to give lectures and introduce Chinese folk dance to the American people.

After returning to China in 1947, Dai Ailian presided over the private Shanghai music and dance school.

In 1948, he taught in National Normal University and Beiping National Academy of art. Dai Ailian is one of the pioneers of Chinese new dance art, and cultivates a group of professional talents for the new dance cause.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Dai Ailian successively served as the leader of the three dance teams of North China University, the head of the dance troupe of the Central Academy of drama, the head of the central song and dance troupe, and the president of Beijing dance school. During this period, she cooperated with other comrades to create large-scale programs such as the grand song and dance "long live the people's victory", the grand Yangko "motherland construction" (1949), and the dance drama "dove of peace" (1950).

Dai Ailian's "lotus dance" based on the folk dance form "lotus lamp" in Northern Shaanxi is very popular among the masses, and won the prize in the 1953 world youth student peace and friendship Festival.

In 1954, he presided over the teaching work of Beijing Dance School, the first dance school in New China. Under her leadership, batch after batch of dance talents have continuously become a new force in the field of Chinese dance.

In 1955, the duet flying in the sky, the first Chinese dance to show Dunhuang Art and dance treasures of the Tang Dynasty, won the prize at the world youth students' peace and friendship Festival.

Since 1980, Dai Ailian has presided over the Laban dance notation study class to cultivate Laban dance notation talents for China. In order to promote the exchange of dance art between China and foreign countries, Dai Ailian has visited Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, Denmark, Sweden and other countries.

In May 1981, the Royal Dance Academy displayed the head of Ailin Dai, which was carved by the famous British sculptor w. sokopp in 1939, in the hall of the Academy in recognition of her contribution to Promoting Sino British friendship and artistic cooperation. In the same year, the Stockholm Dance Museum collected copies of the statue in recognition of Dai Ailian's efforts to develop the international dance industry.

In 1996, the Hong Kong Academy for performing arts awarded the 80 year old Dai Ailian the title of "senior academician".

In November 2001, it was the inscription of "the collection of 100 messages from ten thousand people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait" organized by the China Federation of literary and art circles and the National Museum of China (Museum of Chinese History). Dai Ailian wrote the inscription "may the dream of national reunification come true as soon as possible" for Yu Chengsong's collection of Chinese landscape paintings Taiwan volume.

In 2002, the Ministry of culture awarded her the first national "research achievement award of plastic performance art creation".

On December 26, 2005, Dai Ailian raised her fist and took an oath under the party flag. Ye Mingming said: "on that day, the Union Medical College Hospital specially prepared a large rest room and a bright red party flag. Under the leadership of Sun Jiazheng, Minister of culture, Zhao Rujuan, head of the Central Ballet, and the CPC Pakistan Committee, Mr. Dai finally became a glorious member of the Communist Party of China."

On February 9, 2006, he died in Beijing at the age of 90. At 10 am on February 17, the farewell ceremony for Dai Ailian's body was held in the first farewell room of Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.

Emotional experience

first love

In 1939, when Mr. Dai was studying in England, he worked as a role model for sculptor Willy supkop. They had a lot in common in their thoughts and experiences. Although they were together for only two weeks, Willy became her first love. But Willie has been engaged to Simon, the daughter of a banker, and Dai Ailian has left the UK soon, so the relationship has not continued. The relationship took place in just two weeks, but it affected her life. And this British sculptor is the first love of Mr. Dai's life. This portrait witnesses a romantic love that year. However, this short-lived love soon ended.

marry

At the beginning of 1940, Dai Ailian met a handsome young painter in Hong Kong. A week later, they began to fall in love. After a charity performance, Dai Ailian and ye Qianyu held a simple and grand wedding in Soong Ching Ling's office. The two young hearts were combined under the impact of artistic passion, and Soong Ching Ling happily became their wedding host. During this period, ye created many dance themed works. Their marriage lasted ten years, and when it came to divorce later, Dai Ailian still regretted it.

Because she wanted to have a happy family life, Dai Ailian cooperated well with her colleague Ding Ning when she rehearsed the dove of peace, and believed that if she could cooperate with each other at work, she would be happy. So he married Ding Ning in 1956, but soon divorced.

meet again

In 1979, Dai Ailian was invited to attend the International Conference on "Laban's centenary birthday" held in London, England. She met Willie again 40 years later, and she and Willie's family became good friends. The year after Willie's wife died in 1994, Willie, who lived alone, suffered a mild stroke. With the help of their children

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