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Ballet celebrates Chinese epic, draws from opera
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At Jia Baoyu's birthday celebration, family and friends indulge in a night of raucous drinking in A Dream Of Red Mansions .
PHOTO: NATIONAL BALLET OF CHINA
Jocelyn Chng
National Ballet of China
Esplanade Theatre
March 13, 8pm
Quite unlike much of the standard Western ballet repertoire, the National Ballet of China’s A Dream Of Red Mansions is memorable for its particular aesthetic flavour. Based on the 18th-century Chinese literary classic of the same title, this work combines pointe shoes and ballet technique with strong influences from Chinese dance and opera.
