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==Chinese Acrobatics==

''By Dominique Jando''

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 millennia, its peoples have created many forms 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 a particular art form.

Although China started contacts with non-Asian countries more than two thousand years ago, foreign influences were absorbed and rendered with a Chinese flavor for the sole benefit of that evolution. In this peculiarity lies the most important difference between Chinese and Western cultural traditions: The latter is more organic and open to new components, while the Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.

The Chinese Acrobatic Theater followed the same development pattern. Whereas European and American circuses were in a constant search for novelties and new techniques (driven in part by commercial needs, especially in the United States), Chinese acrobats limited their repertoire (although it came to include over two hundred different specialties—which is quite a number in any respect), but they constantly improved their presentation and increased the level of difficulty of the tricks involved, always striving to reach an elusive perfection.

===The Show Of One Hundred Skills===

Historical records, carvings and mural paintings in tombs and grottos (such as the brick carvings discovered in the Han Dynasty tomb of Chengdu, in the Szechuan province) date the origins of Chinese Acrobatics more than two thousands years ago, during the Warring States period. They developed mostly during the Qin and Huan Dynasties (221 B.C.-230 A.D.) and reached a remarkable level of quality and refinement during the Western Huan Dynasty, evolving from a simple exhibition of skills into a performing art, with a rich and eclectic repertory including tumbling, balancing, plate spinning, pole balancing, rope dancing, etc. This acrobatic performance was known as ''The Show of One Hundred Skills''.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government, following its policy of "Let a hundred flowers blossom and weed through the old to bring forth the new," brought about a spectacular renaissance of the Acrobatic Theater. Acrobatic troupes were created in each province and every major city, and were given their own theaters. The teaching was (and still is) done within the troupe, old performers training the new generation. These troupes experienced a serious setback during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), but only to see their vitality soaring afterward.

=== The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe===

Founded in 1956, the Changchun Acrobatic Troupe is the only acrobatic troupe of the Jilin province, in the northeast of China. It is well known for its balancing acts on rolling globes, and it originated the Chinese specialty of unicycle juggling on a rolling globe. The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1987, where it was awarded the ''City of Monaco'' and ''Télé Monte-Carlo'' prizes. The troupe has also won the Gold Lion Prize at the [[Wuqiao International Acrobatic Festival]]. It has toured extensively in Europe and in Asia.

==See Also==

* History: [[The Chinese Acrobatic Theater]]
* Biography: [[Wang Lixin]]
* Video: [[Anhui_Troupe_Risley_Act_BAC_Video_(2005)|Wang Lixin, juggling on unicycle]], in the Big Apple Circus production of Happy On!'' (1998)

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 === The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe===
-Founded in 1956, the Changchun Acrobatic Troupe is the only acrobatic troupe of the Jilin province, in the northeast of China.  It is well known for its balancing acts on rolling globes, and it originated the Chinese specialty of unicycle juggling on a rolling globe. The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1987, where it was awarded the ''City of Monaco'' and ''Télé Monte-Carlo'' prizes. The troupe has also won the Gold Lion Prize at the [[Wuqiao International Acrobatic Festival]], and Junior Gold Nikulin award at the [[''Artist'' Festival]] in Moscow in 2025. It has toured extensively in Europe and in Asia.
+Founded in 1956, the Changchun Acrobatic Troupe is the only acrobatic troupe of the Jilin province, in the northeast of China.  It is well known for its balancing acts on rolling globes, and it originated the Chinese specialty of unicycle juggling on a rolling globe. The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1987, where it was awarded the ''City of Monaco'' and ''Télé Monte-Carlo'' prizes. The troupe has also won the Gold Lion Prize at the [[Wuqiao International Acrobatic Festival]], and a Junior Gold Nikulin award at the [[''Artist'' Festival]] in Moscow in 2025. It has toured extensively in Europe and in Asia.
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 * Biography: [[Wang Lixin]]
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 * History: [[The Chinese Acrobatic Theater]]
 * Biography: [[Wang Lixin]]
-* Video: [[Anhui_Troupe_Risley_Act_BAC_Video_(2005)|Wang Lixin, juggling on unicycle]], in the Big Apple Circus production of Happy On!'' (1998)
+* Video: [[Wang_Lixin_BAC_Video_1998|Wang Lixin, juggling on unicycle]], in the Big Apple Circus production of Happy On!'' (1998)
 [[Category:History|Changchun Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Artists and Acts|Changchun Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Acrobats|Changchun Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Chinese Acrobatics|Changchun Acrobatic Troupe]]