Shanghai Yunfeng Theatre Acrobatic Show

Shanghai AcrobatsChinese acrobatics with a long history that can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. It is an interactive art form very popular among the Chinese people. Now it has become one of the most popular evening entertainments for tourists in Shanghai, as it is no language barrier and culture border, you an appreciate it as long as you can see. Shanghai is known as the best place in China to enjoy a perfect Chinese acrobatic show. The wonderful gravity-defying contortionism, juggling, unicycling, chair-stacking, and plate-spinning acts, etc. will make you unforgettable. You will be strongly impacted both mentally and physically when watching a chinese acrobatics.

The artistic characteristics of Chinese acrobatics

Chinese acrobatics ranks among the best in the world thanks to its long history, rich repertory and distinctive artistic characteristics. The artistic characteristics can be summarized as follows:

Chinese acrobatics has long stressed the basic training of the waist and legs, and has attached great emphasis on the skill of standing on the head and hands. And it characterized by feats of strength and daring performed cleverly, precisely and accurately, and the ability of retaining balance in motion.

Shanghai AcrobatsChinese acrobats can juggle, both light and heavy objects with dexterity, especially with their feet. Juggling objects with the feet is mostly done by females lying on a special square platform. It features the combination of great physical strength and quick and nimble somersaults, and requires unusual physical strength on the part of the performer supporting a pyramid. According to the records that a acrobat in the Tang Dynasty, balanced a long pole on his head while 18 people performed aerial stunts.

Chinese acrobatics is an art form closely related to people's production and daily-life activities, uses labor tools and objects as props, including ropes, whips, poles, bowls, plates, jars, cups, ladders, tables, chairs, hats and umbrellas, etc.. Some items are based on production activities, folk games and sports, like lassoing horses or cattle, driving carts and skipping rope. In addition, Chinese acrobatics employs a number of beautiful traditional handicrafts as stage props, including porcelain jars and plates decorated with colorful designs of dragons and phoenixes, and tastefully patterned silk umbrellas and rugs.

Nowadays, the Chinese acrobatics is famous in the world. It has maintained a strict master-apprentice system and has been closely related to other forms of the performing arts.

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