Children Wearing Red Shoes

No. three Taiping Street

The Central Ballet is the only national ballet in China. It is located at three Taiping Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing. It has been here for decades.

Inside and outside the big iron gate, there are two worlds.

Push the glass door of the building, when you

Step by step, the sound of tiptoe shoes, the breath of actors rehearsed, announces this is their own world.

Almost all the actors in the Central Ballet, who graduated from the ballet branch of Beijing Dance Academy, can live all day without using iron gates.

There are no elevators in the buildings and the actors' dormitories. Before and after rehearsal, actors and actresses can often be seen doing exercises, wearing thick slippers and walking up and down stairs. They usually pay attention to the warmth of their neck and feet, often use extra training clothes as their necks, and their feet are covered with thick socks.

The pparency of the actors' skin is very good. It should be related to their sweating and regular work every day.

An innocent face in the life of an actress does not like makeup.

I like to see them in life, comfortable.

Examination

Ballet actors start from the measurement of the ruler from head to toe.

When they were about ten years old, they went to the examination hall of the dance college affiliated middle school. The soft ruler was placed on the long table in front of the examiner.

The length of the leg is no less than twelve centimeters above the upper body. This data is enough to announce that many children have no connection with ballet.

Ballet's selection is harsh. It has the criteria of N judgment, the proportion of various parts of the body, muscular quality, flexibility, coordination, temperament, ability, and musical feeling.

A ballet man will not have two words in his life.

They have used to look at others and themselves with a critical eye, and have had such a vision of scrutiny since childhood.

The children who came to ballet were very skinny. At the age of ten, they said that the ideal face of a ballet dancer was a thin layer of facial features.

They say that the pain of practicing dance is also a cheerful expression.

For example, one day to practice for a long time, easy to boring, shoes always wear their feet.

The children are comparing each other's pain, saying that ballet is bitter and sweet, and that those sisters who have done ballet have dropped their toenails at least two times.

They discussed each other's instep, saying Ballet's instep is more important than face.

A girl analyzed her little girl's little back and said that she was not good enough, so that she could practice her forefoot more.

So the other kids scrambled to talk about their front feet, such as holding towels or walking on their forefeet.

In 2005, there were thousands of children in the ballet branch of Beijing Dance Academy affiliated to the Beijing Dance Academy. There were sixteen classes of girls and fifteen boys.

compete

Children usually receive seven years of formal ballet training and begin seven years of collective life in the competition.

Weighing at least two times a week, who has lost one kilogram and lost a pound will become the focus.

Living together is a group life, and it is unavoidable that the daily necessities are all the same, so they grow up to be disgusted with others and use the same things, from clothes to mobile phones or even any details.

The words of a professional teacher in the class will be engraved on the minds of children.

The performers' super endurance is practiced from childhood. Teachers are very critical. They also have to be critical of themselves, and they are more intense in private.

The Central Ballet has a group dancer, who is always praised and born with good legs and won many envious eyes.

Not long ago did we know that her hind legs were trained by herself.

She said she would never practice in person before waiting for sleeping with other girls in the dorm before she began to practice secretly, practicing two hundred dorsal muscles.

Luckily, she sleeps on the lower berth. If it is the upper berth, her plan may have been wasted.

A lonesome child can't learn ballet.

Even if the stage attracts attention, it will be lonely.

Toe shoes

There is a small shop selling ballet products near the gate of Zhong ba. I can't help going in every time I pass by.

Shop is not big, only two salesmen, fortunately, they are not enthusiastic.

But once I walked in, and a new salesman looked at me and said, "you wear thirty-six yards of shoes."

I was a little nervous. I straightened my back and stretched my neck subconsciously.

"Tiptoe shoes or soft bottom shoes?"

At that moment, I was going to buy a pair of ballet shoes: "toe shoes, red satin."

It's easy to be considered ballet, but vanity.

The salesman looked surprised when he handed it over.

I paid the money and took the shoes and said they were expensive and left.

Only later did I know that actors usually wear meat and Pink Ballet shoes to dance and practice.

And getting a pair of new ballet shoes will definitely try them on. This is a very important procedure. A pair of unsuited ballet shoes will never be put on the stage.

In spite of the cowardly displays, I think of the movie "Hongling Yan", the red ballet shoes are in my hands, and the hard sole of the sole and the front half is not pleasant to wear.

Shoelaces need to be tested and stitched up.

I really tried it, stood up, almost cramped.

For ballet dancers, shoes are intimate lovers.

As far as I know, many actors have their first pair of ballet shoes.

Their make-up tables often contain everything, cosmetics, novels, magazines, half eaten snacks, and indispensable ballet shoes.

Although shoes and food are indeed somewhat indecent, it is enough to show the high status of dancing shoes.

They will check their shoes again and again before the performance.

I have seen an actress wearing shoes on the side screen, wearing it off, taking it off and wearing it again and again for six times.

Starting from around ten years old, they carry their sewing bags with each other, and sit on the floor with their legs on the floor before they practice or rest.

The first time I saw the actors knocking at the floor, I thought they were angry, and later realized that they made the shoes softer in this way.

When you get a pair of new toes shoes, use your hands to break several times. Sometimes you will ask the boy to help you step on the toe.

When you wear shoes, wrap your toes on your toes.

The longer the ribbon is, the better it is. It is completely flat and crosses a beautiful cross on the instep.

Finally, put a small knot in the inside of the wrist, subtract the excess ribbon, and carefully put the knot into the ribbon next to you. You should not see the knot from any direction, otherwise it will affect the beauty of the whole leg line.

Performers often carry band aids, absorbent cotton and pain killers, so that they can save their toes at any time and relieve their pain after intense dancing.

Boys wear soft bottom shoes all year round, and thin shoes make their feet wear cocoons.

Girls wear tiptoe shoes all year round. Their toes have been deformed and their bones are very prominent. Their toenails are often bleeding, and the toes and toenails are full of cocoons.

Since the very beginning, the actress has used her feet to adjust to the dance shoes. Some people wear shoes to drop more than two toes. Some of the ten children have lost their toes. They use rubber bands to tie their toes tightly, so that they feel no pain, so they can practise dancing when they lose their toes.

Their least confidence is their own feet, and they dare not wear sandals in hot weather.

They love their feet, and they mind stepping on each other's feet. An actress told me that one day she went out shopping alone, and just stepped out of the ballet's big iron gate. She stepped on the foot of a stranger who hurried on her way. She called out on the spot and said, "don't step on my rice bowl!"

Reduce weight

Ballet dancers are skinny in the eyes of outsiders, but they are often dissatisfied with their figure and feel that they are not thin enough.

The first time I went on stage, I was very nervous when I was dancing in my tight tights and tights.

Tight clothing means that every pore of your body is waiting for the audience's discerning eye. You will feel uncomfortable when you wear it.

In order for the tights to wear well, the actresses have many ways to torture themselves.

I've seen ten year old girls lose weight in the summer. They are already thin, but they have to control their weight at all costs.

For children learning ballet, eating happiness can be forgotten, and thin is the fundamental happiness.

The girls cling to the parts that they think they need to lose weight, twining back and forth on a couple of layers, wrapping it on a weight loss coat, and running dozens of circles in the hot day to the playground.

The weight loss clothing is breathable, the temperature is high, and the sweat will come down naturally.

The children did these movements like a skilled worker, and told me very strongly that they had managed to lose a kilogram the day before.

If you don't go running, wrap it up in hot weather, wear two sweaters and wear down clothes and sweat, but this will be worse than the exercise.

A little girl had not eaten the staple food for a semester, always symbolically holding the plate to get through the tough eating time.

Ballet children are familiar with the characteristics of scales, and they believe that weighing with electronic scales will be more important.

They weigh more than two times a week. Before weighing, they will go all the way to the toilet in a consistent manner. They think the extra one or two pounds will be owed to the ballet teacher.

When the girls weighed on the scales, they stood on tiptoe, with one foot and one foot standing cautiously on the scale. Even the lower head did not dare to move too much.

Mirror

I heard that mirrors can see people's souls.

There are several kinds of people in the mirror, including ballet dancers.

In peacetime training, the real audience is actually the mirror itself.

They believe in mirrors, almost every day, repeat the same movements countless times, and examine their movements in the mirror. The mirror is their faithful companion.

Actors in the dressing room jokes and chatter, as long as there are mirrors, they usually do not look at each other, but in front of each other in the mirror to exchange responses, this is their unique habit.

Impermanence

In July 19, 2006, I learned that several more people left the Central Ballet.

Though I knew it was sooner or later, I was still disappointed.

Actors often laugh and say that they have studied ballet for seven years, and that they have been able to last more than seven years.

As far as I know, most people don't get enough money, and there are a lot of people who jump for one year, two or three years, and after graduation, they have no chance to wear ballet shoes.

There was a girl in the ballet who came to the group for three years and was twenty years old.

She is a very strong child, and knows all about it.

She shut herself in the dormitory, no voice, no music, no lights, a person drowned in the darkness, not listening to the cries of friends, and isolated for four days.

In fact, her partners knew her pain, but no one dared to persuade her.

Because they knew that one day they would leave like her, and they had their impermanence.

When she was fifteen years old at the dance school, the girl had severe spines on her ankles. When she practiced, she always felt pain and did not want others to know.

Every day, the feet and the dancing shoes are silent against each other, and the pain is increasing day by day.

Finally, one morning, when the teacher was doing exercises, the teacher discovered the abnormal foot and told her to stop the class immediately and go to the hospital for examination.

The girl didn't go to the hospital. She strolled around the school. She came back to tell her teacher that the doctor had seen nothing.

Teachers grew up watching them grow up. They really understood these children, and soon called the girl's mother.

On the second day, my mother came from the field and took her daughter to the hospital. The reply from the doctor was that you should never dance again, and keep conservative treatment to keep your feet.

The child said to his mother, "I want to stop dancing unless I die."

No.3 Hospital of Beijing University has never done such an operation for a ballet dancer. They promised their children to make a new attempt. The girl didn't want to miss the practice too much, and asked the doctor if he could do it with his feet.