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Beijing Dance Academy

"BDA offers a wide range of academic programs in Performance, Choreography, Dance Studies, Artistic Design for Theatre, Film & TV and Public Administration, with 18 concentrations at undergraduate level and 36 concentrations at postgraduate level..."

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Dai Ailian Foundation (DAF)

"Dai Ailian Foundation (DAF) is a non-profit company, incorporated on July 26, 2011 in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.DAF was formed to honour Dai Ailian, an international dance icon, distinguished principal dancer, teacher, choreographer, dance company artistic director, researcher, labanotator, lecturer and demonstrator who was born in Couva, Trinidad in 1916..."

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Dai Ailian

Madame Dai

"Born in Trinidad, West Indies, of Cantonese parents on May 10, 1916. Educated at St. Hilary’s High School in Port of Spain, Trinidad.At the age of 5, Dai Ailian learned ballet from her third-removed cousin, Sylvia Chen (Chen Xilan), who had studied in London, England...."

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CHOREOGRAPHY

Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies

1928

‘Happy Feet’, Tap Dance (Solo)

1929 

‘Easter Egg’, Ballet Dance (Solo)

London, England

1932

‘Happy Feet’, Tap Dance (Solo)

1934

‘Beggar’, Chinese Dance (Solo)

1935

The Ballet section of the Opera ‘The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief’ (Strauss) for an amateur opera company (Principal Dancer)

1935 

‘March’, Chinese Dance (Solo)

1936

‘Weeping Willows’, Chinese Dance (Solo)

 

‘The Concubine Beauty Dances for the Emperor (Solo)

1939

‘Alarm’, Chinese Dance (Solo)

Hong Kong

1940

Ruth the Gleaner’, Biblical Dance (Solo) and ‘East River’ (of Guangdong), Chinese Dance (Solo)

 

Chongqing, Sichuan

1941

‘Longing for Home’, Chinese neo-classical dance (Solo)

1942

‘Sale’, Chinese contemporary dance (Short Ballet)

1943

‘Moon of the Miaos’, Chinese Dance (Pas de Deux)

 

‘Dance of Youth’, Ughuir folk Dance (Solo) (Duet) (Quartet)

 

‘Air Raid’, Chinese Dance (Short Ballet)

 

‘Dream’, Modern Dance (Pas de Deux)

 

‘Guerrilla Coup (Short Ballet)

1944

‘Yao Ceremonial Dance’, Chinese Dance (Solo) (Trio)

‘The Mute and the Cripple’, Chinese Classical Dance (Solo), and from 1950 changed the character of the ‘Cripple’ to a young child and after called ‘Grand-father Piggybacks his Grand-daughter’, (Lao Bei Xiao)

 

‘Auntie Zhu Presents Eggs’ (to the Army), Yang-ge Dance (Short Ballet)

 

‘Mme. Kan Ba Han’, Ughuir Folk Dance (Pas de Deux)

1946

‘Happy Cocks’, Kanba Tibetan Folk Dance (Group)

 

‘Tibetan Spring’, Kanba Tibetan Folk Dance (Group)

 

‘Laughing Buddha’, after Lama Dance of Tibetans (Sketch)

 

‘Lolo Love Song’ (Group Dance)

1941-6

Many performances in Guilin, Guizhou, Chengdu and Chongqing

1946 

In August, gave 4 solo performances in Yi Yuan, Shanghai

Beijing

1949

‘Victory of the Chinese People’, took part in the collective choreography of this panorama

1950

‘Construction of the Motherland’, Yang-ge

 

‘Doves of Peace’, neo-classical Ballet (Principal Dancer)

1953

‘Lotus Dance’, neo-classical Chinese Dance (Group)

1955

‘Flying Apasaras’ (Flying Celestials), neo-classical Chinese Dance (Pas de Deux)

1961

‘Heroic Little Eight-Routers’, short Chinese Ballet for children

1976

‘Women Oil Drillers’, modern Chinese sketch for the Dance Group at Victory Oil Fields, Shandong Province