Ballet Poetry
by the Guangzhou Ballet from China
Endorsed by Valletta 2018 Foundation
Venue: Republic Hall, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta
Date: 30 December 2018
Time: 19:30
The Guangzhou Ballet is world-renowned for its outstanding artistic performance, characterised by excellent technique and passionate style.
Guangzhou Ballet has persistently pursued practices to attain high-standards and diversify its ballet operas, inviting some world well-known ballet masterpieces such as La Sylphide, and rehearsing excellent works of contemporary choreographers such as Serenade. Currently, Guangzhou Ballet has a wide repertoire of 17 large-scale dance operas and more than 70 small and medium-sized programs. Guangzhou Ballet`s unique artistic style inherits fine cultural traditions, creates and performs a serious of original operas, for example Anchor, Lanfang Mei and so on.
Ballet is particularly of fine form, visual magnificence and elegance. It can best show the strength in high-level artistic activities. Guangzhou Ballet won 42 international awards and 159 awards in various domestic artistic competitions. The dance opera 'Return on a Snowy Night' was conferred the 'Wenhua Award', which fully indicated that Guangzhou Ballet is the No. 1 among numerous Anchor artistic performance organizations in China.
Guangzhou Ballet has always been a major driving force in performances for international exchanges and domestic first-tier cities, and has held cultural exchange performances in more than 20 countries and regions, such as Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, Australia, Germany and other places. Their performances on European and American stages caused a sensation, evoking high praise from mainstream media and local audiences, greatly expanding the influence of the arts and culture of Guangzhou around the world.
Since its establishment in 1993, Guangzhou Ballet strives to make its mark in international exchanges and major cultural events, as well as aspired to enrich peoples cultural and spiritual life, so that it is a token of pride for the people of Guangzhou. As a 'National First-class Performance Company' branded company, Guangzhou Ballet has become the 'Culture Symbol' of Guangzhou.