Ballet brings curtains down on summer arts festival

The 2024 Gateway to Arts summer festival was brought to an end with a performance staged by the National Ballet of China at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on Saturday.

Besides excerpts from classic and contemporary ballet works, such as Swan Lake, and Cinderella, the ballet dancers also presented excerpts from the fairy tale ballet, The Nine-Colored Deer, allowing children to fully experience the beauty and depth of ballet art.