Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe
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Chinese Acrobatic Theater
The People's Republic of China is a multi-national country, an ancient civilization with a long history and a rich and brilliant culture. Over several thousands of years, its peoples have created many form of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles.
They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in the particular art form involved. Although China started contacts with non-Asian countries more than two thousand years ago, foreign influence were absorbed and rendered with a Chinese flavor for the sole benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century. of this evolution.
- Video: Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Bicycle Act, in the Big Apple Circus production of The Big Apple Circus Meets The Minkey King (1988)
- Video: Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Plate Spinning Act featuring Chen Mei Hong, in the Big Apple Circus production of The Big Apple Circus Meets The Monkey King (1988)
- Video: Yang Xiao Di and John Lepiarz, Plate and Egg Reprise, in the Big Apple Circus production of The Big Apple Circus Meets The Monkey King (1988)
- Video: The Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Lion Dance, in the Big Apple Circus production of The Big Apple Circus Meets the Monkey King (1988)
- Video: Qiang Jian Ping, Qian Juian Hua, and Qian Jian Wen, Juggling Act, in the Big Apple Circus production of The Big Apple Circus Meets The Monkey King (1988)
