Chinese acrobats
Before 1949 and Liberation, acrobats in China were looked down upon as one of the nine lowest professions, and likened to tramps, thieves, and vagabonds. After the revolution led by Mao TseTung, new attitudes to all forms of art were adopted, and acrobats were re-es-tablished amongst the top performers of the people’s art. Since then, acrobatics have become to China what ballet is to Russia. Filmed in the Chinese province of Hobei, where acrobatics began 2000 years ago, “Acrobats”, which screens as the Wednesday special on Television Two tomorrow, looks at acrobats in action.
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Press, 12 August 1980, Page 15
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