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===The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe==

The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uygur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Trope has produced many spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in several international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.

Major artists of the Troupe include Adili Wuxiuer, Anniwaer Maimaiti, Ruxianguli Aibaidula, Yu Tianyong, Zhang Jinfeng and Peng Tiekang. It made Chinese history on June 22, 1997, when the young funambulist Adili Wuxiuer crossed the Yangtse River over the Three Gorges, in 13'49" and established a Guinness World Record. The Uygur Autonomous Region Government has awarded Adiji Wuxiuer the honorific title of "King of the Upper Skies".

[[Category:Chinese Acrobatics|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Hand Balancing|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]]

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	* Video: [[Xinjiang_Video_(2015)\|The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe, ''Journey of Man'']], hand balancing act, at the Idol Festival in Moscow (2015)		* Video: [[Xinjiang_Video_(2015)\|The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe, ''Journey of Man'']], hand balancing act, at the Idol Festival in Moscow (2015)

−	[[Category:Chinese Acrobatics\|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Hand ~~Balancing~~\|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]]	+	[[Category:Chinese Acrobatics\|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Hand Balancers\|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]]

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-* Video: [[Xinjiang_Video_(2015)|The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe, ''The Journey of Man'']], hand balancing act, at the Idol Festival in Moscow (2015)
+* Video: [[Xinjiang_Video_(2015)|The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe, ''Journey of Man'']], hand balancing act, at the Idol Festival in Moscow (2015)
 [[Category:Chinese Acrobatics|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Hand Balancing|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]]

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 ===The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe Today===
-The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uygur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Trope has produced many spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in several international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.
+The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Troupe has produced a great number of spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.
-Major artists of the Troupe include Adili Wuxiuer, Anniwaer Maimaiti, Ruxianguli Aibaidula, Yu Tianyong, Zhang Jinfeng and Peng Tiekang. It made Chinese history on June 22, 1997, when the young funambulist Adili Wuxiuer crossed the Yangtse River over the Three Gorges, in 13'49" and established a Guinness World Record. The Uygur Autonomous Region Government has awarded Adiji Wuxiuer the honorific title of "King of the Upper Skies".
+Major artists of the Troupe include Adili Wuxiuer, Anniwaer Maimaiti, Ruxianguli Aibaidula, Yu Tianyong, Zhang Jinfeng and Peng Tiekang. The Troupe made Chinese history on June 22, 1997, when the young funambulist Adili Wuxiuer crossed the Yangtze River over the Three Gorges, in 13'49", establishing a Guinness World Record. The Uyghur Autonomous Region Government has awarded Adiji Wuxiuer the honorific title of "King of the Upper Skies".
 [[Category:Chinese Acrobatics|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]][[Category:Hand Balancing|Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe]]

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 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 Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe Today==
+===The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe Today===
 The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uygur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Trope has produced many spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in several international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.

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		+	''By Dominique Jando''
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		+	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.
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		+	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.
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		+	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.
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		+	===The Show Of One Hundred Skills===
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		+	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''.
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		+	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.
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		+	==The Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe Today==

	The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uygur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Trope has produced many spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in several international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.		The Acrobatic Troupe of Xinjiang, in the Uygur Autonomous Region in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, was created in 1961. After decades of development, the Trope has produced many spectacular group acts that have won several gold, silver, and bronze awards in several international circus festivals and national and regional competitions. The Troupe has been commended by the Chinese Ministry of Culture for its excellence.