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The sights and sounds of China's performing arts are instantly recognisable.

The sights and sounds of China's performing arts are instantly recognisable. This series takes us into a world of Chinese performance that is rarely seen outside of China.

The sights and sounds of China's performing arts are instantly recognisable. From the first plucked notes of a guzheng, to the drama of the Whip Dance, they conjure up a unique and unmistakable artistic world. In this series, we see how China's many and varied performers are finding exciting ways of synthesising China's artistic heritage with fresh global influences. We discover a China that's absorbing new ideas and art-forms hitherto unknown there, and hear how these have been infused with Chinese characteristics. Over six episodes we explore the traditional and the cutting edge in Chinese music, dance and theatre - from ballet to street dance, from Beijing opera to the latest pop - the series takes us into a world of Chinese performance that is rarely seen outside of China.  

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China on Stage: Leading Women

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Meets the star female performers helping to transform the performing arts in China.

Jeff Crosby and Li Tong meet some of the star female performers helping to transform the performing arts in China.

The sights and sounds of China's performing arts are instantly recognisable; they conjure up a unique and unmistakable artistic world. In this six-part series, we see how China's performers are finding new ways of synthesising China's artistic heritage with fresh global influences. In this fourth episode, presenters Jeff Crosby and Li Tong meet some of the star female performers helping to transform the performing arts in China. The superstar of Peking Opera, Wang Peiyu explains how she is seeking to demystify the art form with the help of social media. Ying Huang, a western style opera singer, reveals how she is schooling a new generation of singers on to the operatic stage. Leading theatrical producer Xiao Yan shows how she has turned the classic novel, Six Records of a Floating Life, into an immersive theatrical experience, and the acclaimed director, Wang Ping, reveals how she adapted the story of Shanghai's revolutionary past into a sell-out dance-spectacular, The Eternal Wave.

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