Essay about Compare and Contrast Chinese Classical Dance and European Classical Ballet.

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Title:
Compare and contrast Chinese classical dance and European Classical ballet.

Introduction:
The main topic of my research paper is comparing and contrasting the difference between Chinese Classical dance and European Classical ballet. The questions I will develop in the paper included as follows.
The first one is the difference of movement between Chinese classical dance and European Classical ballet.
The second one is the difference of performance between Chinese classical dance and European Classical ballet.
The third one is the difference of tools they use on the stage.
The method I used is “comparing and contrasting”, reading article and doing research
The main findings are that I’ve show the difference between Chinese
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I’ve saw the performance of “Technique display from 8th Taoli Competition”, in which Junting Shao won first prize in female division. She was the lead dancer in this butterfly lovers show. She is not meant to show her flexibilty, but rather to accentuate the beauty of dance. Rhythmic gymnasts may be crazy-flexible, but she makes them look like they have no artistic training. Also I’ve saw a Russian classical ballet, sleeping beauty by Maxim Ushakov. It simply tells the story and shows the perfectly flexible body of the dancers. I will explore more of them as follows.
Firstly, I’d like to list the different theory of movement between classical Chinese dance and the Russian classical ballet. The ballet dancer can keep relatively higher position than the Chinese dancer because they are always “flying” in beyond the ground, with which they can have good balance to make their movements dexterous. However, Chinese dancers are more stable.
Secondly, there’s difference of the performance from both of them. Russian dancers mostly show their beautiful body while Chinese dancers always show the meanings of the dance. Every movement has their own deeper meaning, such as raising head sometimes means rejecting. However, ballet dancers have multiple movements to explain what they want to show. In some individualism culture, it can get to the point. Finally, I’m exploring the difference of the tools they use on the