{"id":16056,"date":"2020-02-01T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T01:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offtheshelfandonline.blog\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2020-05-02T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:28:42","slug":"a-beautiful-and-tragic-love-story-performed-by-shanghai-ballet-the-butterfly-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/?p=16056","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful and tragic love story performed by Shanghai Ballet \ufffd \ufffdThe Butterfly Lovers\ufffd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Jan 29th 2020, \ufffdThe Butterfly Lovers\ufffd which is a famous Chinese love story was performed by Shanghai Ballet in Tryon Festival Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Jiaxuan Meng<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My ticket stub for the play<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 \ufffdThe Butterfly Lovers\ufffd is a\nChinese tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang and Zhu, who fell in love\nwith each other but forced to separate. Liang died for Zhu and Zhu died for\nlove. In the end, both of them transformed into beautiful butterflies to live\ntogether in another world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shanghai Ballet, which is one of the world\ufffds preeminent ballet companies, brought this legend of the Chinese love story to the international stage. The group of brilliant dancers performed this great ballet show at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on Jan 28 and 29, 2020 to celebrate Chinese New Year.  This play lets the world know better about the Chinese romantic love story from traditional Chinese culture and backgrounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Audiences waiting outside the theatre. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The\nperformance is composited of four acts: \ufffdIn School\ufffd, \ufffdFarewell\ufffd, \ufffdAgainst\nMarriage\ufffd and the last one is \ufffdTransforming into butterflies\ufffd. The four acts\nwell explained how they met and fell in love with each other, and why they\ncould not live together in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite act was the last one: \ufffdTransforming into butterflies.\ufffd This act showed the process that Liang died for Zhu and Zhu died for love. I was deeply impressed and moved when I saw this part. It had an amazing lightning visual effect and the background music \ufffdLiangzhu\ufffd was very touching. I can feel the sadness of their tragic love. They chose to live together in another world by transforming into butterflies truly expressed the deep love between the pair of lovers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The photo was taken at the end of the play when all of the characters returned to the stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a great performance and the way the Shanghai Ballet Group interpreted it was amazing! I was deeply impressed and I love it so much! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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