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opera
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Mao’s Last Dancer
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- I looked scary, comical—like an evil Beijing Opera character.†
Chpt 1.3 *opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- Heloved drinking rice wine and once he'd had one small glass his voice would rise an octave and he would begin to sing tunes from some of the old Beijing Operas.†
Chpt 1.3operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- To satisfy our need for stories, some friends and I turned to the opera and ballet storybooks which our older siblings were given at school.†
Chpt 1.6opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- There were also popular opera and ballet movies such as The Red Lantern and a ballet called The Red Detachment of Women, but the first half hour of every showing always screened documentaries about Mao's faithful followers—unbelievable but inspiring stories for us youngsters to absorb.†
Chpt 1.6
- But I loved the Beijing Opera singers as well, their singing, dancing, fighting and acrobatic skills.†
Chpt 1.6
- I liked the stories and the fighting in the Chinese ballet movies too, but I really thought the people looked funny standing on their toes, and they didn't speak any words, so opera always wonover ballet when it came to choosing a play for us to act out.†
Chpt 1.6
- Secretly I held a dream—one day I would be able to sing and do the Kung Fu steps that the opera singers did.†
Chpt 1.6
- Not only will you receive six years of ballet training, but you will also study Chinese folk dance, Beijing Opera Movement, martial arts, acrobatics, politics, Chinese and international history, Chinese and international geography, poetry, mathematics and Madame Mao's Art Philosophy.†
Chpt 2.8
- By the time we arrived, therewere over a hundred students from the opera and music academies already sitting at their tables.†
Chpt 2.8
- Our first would be ballet, followed by Chinese folk dance and Beijing Opera Movement.†
Chpt 2.8
- Our second class that morning was Beijing Opera Movement.†
Chpt 2.8
- Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†
Chpt 2.8
- I could hear the Beijing Opera students' voices coming from their studios and my heart wanted to leap out and join them instead.†
Chpt 2.9
- I thought about the Beijing Opera films I'd seen back in our commune, and I dreamed constantly about being a singer.†
Chpt 2.9
- She wanted us to combine traditional ballet steps with some Peking Opera movements, so from that point on our teachers made major changes to our training syllabus.†
Chpt 2.10
- In classical ballet training we had to turn our joints out, but with Beijing Opera movements we were required to do the opposite.†
Chpt 2.10
- Beijing Opera required sharp, strong gestures.†
Chpt 2.10
- We continued to practice our ballet, acrobatics and Beijing Opera Movement every day while we were living with the peasants.†
Chpt 2.10
- There were four dance-related exams that year: ballet, acrobatics, Chinese folk dance and Beijing Opera Movement.†
Chpt 2.10
- But for my ballet and Beijing Opera Movement classes I was scared to death.†
Chpt 2.10
- There were over fifty students, teachers and officials already sitting by the mirrors in the front of the studio on the day of theBeijing Opera Movement exam.†
Chpt 2.10
- The rest of my grades were "average," even for ballet, and my worst grade was "below average" for Teacher Gao's Beijing Opera Movement exam, which was no surprise to me at all.†
Chpt 2.10
- "I want to teach you a Beijing Opera Movement exercise," I began.†
Chpt 2.11
- Although Lujun was good at acrobatics, martial arts and Beijing Opera Movement, he struggled hard at ballet.†
Chpt 2.12
- The Eswralda pas de deux with Mary, in 1990, in a gala performance at the Sydney Opera 1-louse.†
Chpt 2.12
- I was a couple of minutes late for Gao's Beijing Opera Movement class.†
Chpt 2.13
- After lunch that afternoon, after I had confronted Teacher Gao, while everyone was taking their naps, I quietly slipped into one of the studios and started to practice my split jumps for our Beijing Opera Movement exam.†
Chpt 2.13
- For our entrance the Bandit and I walked on with furiously fast heel-toe Beijing Opera walks.†
Chpt 2.14
- She was frequently accompanied by a handsome retired dancer, or a retired opera singer, a movie actor or a Ping-Pong champion.†
Chpt 2.14
- I thought she looked more like a Beijing Opera singer, but she smelled so strong!†
Chpt 2.18
- He and Suzanne were guest artists that night, dancing Ben's pas de deux in the Houston Grand Opera's Die Fledermaus in an outdoor theater.†
Chpt 3.20
- I went to operas, symphonies, pop concerts and plays.†
Chpt 3.24operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- We had danced against competitors from the Bolshoi, the Kirov and the Paris Opera Ballet: we learned so much from them, and Martha and I had formed a close partnership.†
Chpt 3.25opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- I tried to remember the pain of my torn hamstrings during my Beijing Opera Movement classes back in China.†
Chpt 3.26
- Both scenery and costumes would be designed by David Walker, the famous ballet and opera designer from The Royal Ballet in England.†
Chpt 3.27
Definitions:
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(1)
(opera) a form of musical theater with orchestra in which most of the words are sung, often in a classical style and sometimes in a foreign language
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, the expression, soap opera, refers to a television or radio program that typically runs for many years and dramatizes the lives of a group of characters.