The international Liao Pa original ballet "Qixi Festival" is in intense rehearsals and will premiere at the Liaoning Grand Theater on August 10. Photos provided by interviewees It was two volts when he walked into the rehearsal venue of the Liaoning Ballet, and a heat wave hit his face. Under the heat, all the ballet dancers sweated and rehearsed quickly. Refining every movement and every expression, the French choreographer Maarten Shakes stood by, communicating with the dancers from time to time to improve the details.

The performance kicked off with the group dance "Flower Rain and Butterfly Dream". The award-winning contestants showed their talents, classic ballet variations, modern dances of various styles, and group dances, showing the breadth and depth of the creative works and performance levels of the participating units and contestants. Among them, there are many familiar figures of young contestants who have participated in the competition many times. They have emerged and continued to grow on the platform of the Ailian International Youth Ballet Competition. On the stage of Tianqiao Theater, the young contestants followed the footsteps of ballet artists and fully blossomed their passion and dreams.

"Ballet Stars Classical Boutique Collection" will be staged at the National Grand Theater. 14 star dancers from world-renowned ballet companies will come together to present a dazzling ballet night to the Beijing audience with their enduring works.

The repertoire fuses classical aesthetics and ballet art, and uses light comedy techniques to humorously show Eastern culture on the basis of retaining the original story line. On the stage, the phantom of a giant snake suddenly appeared, meandered through, and finally became huge; on the other side is the spectacular picture of waterlogged mountains. The repertoire cleverly uses layers of falling curtains to create a naked eye 3D-like water flow effect, making people feel as if they are there.

After Alina Koyokaru and Edwin Levazov presented their bouquets to John Neumeier, more than 30 leading actors on the stage piled their bouquets at Neumeier's feet, and countless streamers fell from the sky... The dramatic scene took place inside the Hamburg State Opera on July 14. After five and a half hours of "long" performances, a "Nijinsky Gala" concluded the 49th edition of the Hamburg Ballet Festival. At the same time, Neumeier also spent his last night as artistic director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet. During the introduction of the last dance, "Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony," Neumeier choked up and burst into tears on the stage.

"Chinese Light · Ballet Star GALA" will make an appearance at the Grand Theater of Shanghai International Dance Center. For the first time, 11 young Chinese dancers from 8 overseas international ballet troupes will come together to show the Shanghai audience the charm of Chinese ballet stars active on the world stage with a classical and modern ballet GALA. This ballet GALA performance is only one stop in Shanghai in the country. The performance invited 11 young dancers, including Yu Hang, Wang Mingxuan, Shi Yue, Bai Dingkai, Liu Sirui, Liu Chenxin, Sun Jiayong, Chen Zhiyao, Xia Jun, Liang Zecheng and Peng Huiwen, from eight of the world's top dance companies in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland. Producer Ao Dingwen said: "This performance is to hope that the world can see the future power of Chinese ballet and show the unique charm and profound heritage of Chinese ballet."