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Chinese choreographers began serious attempts at creating dance dramas
and ballet only after the founding of New China in 1949. They started off
on two different tracks. One group incorporated stylized dance
movements of traditional Chinese operas into the dramatic format of
classical Western ballets. The other group filled a dance drama or a ballet
with as many folk dance numbers as possible, making full use of folk
collections they accumulated during their travels in rural and
mountainous regions across the country.
Since then, a number of younger choreographers have developed folk
dance idioms to depict the lives of rural people in a realistic style. This
trend has caught on with many audiences, especially in the northern part
of the country.
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