"What do you think of drama?" Drama is a vision, a dream that can shine on the stage. Drama is a kaleidoscope through which I see a colorful world. The drama is me, it's you, it's him. ”
This week, the opening ceremony of the 3rd Shanghai Drama Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students was held at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. The opening ceremony was broadcast live online through the weibo official number of the "Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center", inviting the audience to enter the live broadcast room to feel the power of artistic fun and dreams.
The "3rd Shanghai Drama Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students" was held at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center from November 17 to December 5, 2021, hosted by Shanghai Municipal Arts Education Commission and Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, sponsored by Shanghai Dramatists Association, Shanghai Art Education Association, Shanghai Student Drama Alliance, and Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts (Group) Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Shanghai Drama Art Center and Shanghai Famous Teacher Yu Rongjun Drama Creation Studio. In accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention, the whole process of this year's drama festival will be carried out in the form of online live broadcast.
Vice Chairman of Shanghai Dramatists Association, Vice President of Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group, Artistic Director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center Yu Rongjun, Deputy Director of the Office of Shanghai Municipal Arts Education Commission Zhang Huan, and Director of Marketing Department of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center Lu Liping attended the opening ceremony.
It is reported that this year's drama festival received 58 schools in the Yangtze River Delta region submitted the registration for the exhibition, after screening, a total of 49 schools finally met the requirements of the exhibition, including 13 primary schools, 21 junior high schools and 15 high schools. Among them, the majority of original works, including the focus on the life and study of students under the policy of double reduction, the discussion of parent-child relations with parents, and the importance of establishing great ideals and beliefs; most of the adapted works still choose to use the true stories of revolutionary martyrs as the theme. In addition to adaptations of local works, many classic foreign works of art have also joined the theater festival to compete for awards. The rich and diverse themes of the participating plays embody the perspective of contemporary middle and primary school students observing the world and thinking about life from one side, including original works based on the reality of the present and classic works throughout the long river of history.
This year's drama festival has set up three units - "Drama Dream Factory" creation and training unit, "Drama Utopia" exhibition unit, "Theater Carnival" forum unit, all-round for primary and secondary school students to provide drama exchange, learning and display platform. From November 17 to December 5, 2021, the works of the "Drama Essence Utopia" exhibition and performance unit will be competed at the Drama Salon of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and the group and individual awards will be selected according to the three different groups of primary school group, junior high school group and high school group. Guo Hongbo and Gao Kun, directors and actors of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and Wang Yinan, Xu Rongzhen, Xu Shengnan and Zhao Haitao, actors of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, served as the judges of this year's Shanghai Drama Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students.
The performances at the opening ceremony of the 3rd Shanghai Drama Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students were performed by primary and secondary school students. Elementary school students, junior high school students and high school students of different ages will jointly perform at this year's drama festival after selection. The opening exhibition included youth messages invited by industry leaders to participate in the competition, the original musical drama "Qia Classmate Youth" cooperated by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and the Hongkou District Youth Activity Center starring the students recruited by the Chuangpei Unit, the song and dance "Looking for Its Color" performed by the Shanghai Xiaoyingxing Art Troupe Song and Dance Branch, the drama "I Want to Fly" performed by the schools affiliated Chinese to shanghai Chinese University, and the opening video "What is Drama?" 》。
In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and the Hongkou District Youth Activity Center once again cooperated to carefully create this original musical with Hongkou characteristics, "Qia Classmate Youth". On September 2 of this year, as the premiere of The First Lesson of Hongkou Education in the fall of 2021, it was unanimously praised by teachers and students. The opening performance of the Chinese Opera Festival showed the most exciting clips, which were jointly performed by students from the Affiliated Senior High School of Shanghai Theater Academy and Shanghai Jiguang Senior High School. Accompanied by exciting music, the students showed the vigorous vitality of contemporary teenagers, and a red stirring musical was presented to the audience.
Yu Rongjun, vice chairman of shanghai dramatists association, vice president of Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group, and artistic director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, expressed his feelings about the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center's commitment to aesthetic education and drama education for more than 20 years, and has always insisted on focusing on and carrying out youth aesthetic education, and introduced the "Elegant Art Run Campus - Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Principals Artistic Literacy Improvement Seminar (Drama Section)" project launched by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission this year to effectively improve the artistic appreciation ability of principals 3. The level of art theory and artistic practice ability have made our contribution to the solid and effective construction of a team of primary and secondary school administrators who can lead the comprehensive reform of basic education and comprehensively promote quality education. At the same time, he hoped that on the stage of the 3rd Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Students Drama Festival, the students would use drama as a medium to express their unique views on the world they were in, display their talents, pursue fun, burn youth, and work hard, showing the new era and forging ahead!
At the scene of the performance, around the question of "why do you get involved with drama", the small host on the stage competed to express his views. Subsequently, a video of the blessings of this year's "Youth Message" artists appeared on the big screen. The opening ceremony of this year invited Tao Hong, Li Nianning, Xu Yun, Xu Jun, Ivica Simic, Cao Xi, Sun Fei, Li Minghua, Joe Winston, Directors of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center He Nian and Zhou Xiaoqian, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center actors Xu Rongzhen, Lei Jiayin, Guo Xiaodong and Wang Yinan to record youth messages for the participating teachers and students, expressing their good wishes for this year's drama festival and the participating teachers and students.
After the heartfelt and touching greeting video, the song and dance "Looking for Its Color" was presented on the stage with music, and the song and dance performance told the story of Shanghai in the spring, a group of Young Pioneers holding paintbrushes and carrying drawing boards to explore the stars in the long river of the century-old history of the Communist Party of China, using the brush in their hands to paint the most beautiful children's paintings in their hearts for the centenary of the founding of the Party, and offering the most sincere blessings for the centenary of the Communist Party of China.
After the moving song and dance performance, the last appearance was the drama "I Want to Fly" brought by the Cloud Opera Club of the Affiliated Foreign Chinese School of Shanghai Chinese University, there was such a group of students, facing the problem of "going abroad or not going abroad", in the collision of ideas and emotions, thinking about the meaning of the home country... The wonderful expression of the students was vividly displayed on the stage of the opening ceremony party. The opening ceremony of this year also ended successfully with the wonderful performances of the young actors.
The Shanghai Drama Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students is the first drama competition in Shanghai with all primary and secondary school students as the protagonists. Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center will give full play to the advantages of professional institutions and the resources of theater talents, combine theme setting, performance experience and social benefits, and provide a more diverse display stage for teachers and students of colleges, middle schools and primary schools on the stage of this drama festival through public display, practice exchange, competition format, drama workshop and technical support. A total of 647 students from schools across the city registered for the training unit, and after the preliminary selection, they participated in the workshop experience on October 9 and October 31, and finally 147 people participated in the theater experience of the drama festival.
Not only the students who participated in the competition and participated in the exhibition, but also the theater experience assistants, the host, the actors, the volunteers, and the members of the stage design workshop were also composed of college, middle school and elementary school students after selection. Drama education as a whole promotes the development of drama education practice characteristic teaching in aesthetic education, expands the participation and autonomy of primary and secondary school students in drama festivals, shows themselves, helps others, and social practice, comprehensively improves the level of theater art of primary and secondary school students in Shanghai, transmits the positive energy of youth, and creates a city cultural brand business card of national artistic literacy. In this way, it stimulates the enthusiasm and cognition of primary and secondary school students in Shanghai for drama, inherits the classics, opens up thinking, and opens the first door to drama for primary and secondary school students.
As the main visual image, the Organizing Committee of the Drama Festival hopes to convey the thoughts and feelings on the theme of this year's Drama Festival through the poster, and after selection, Shen Yihan of Luwan No. 2 Central Primary School in Huangpu District, Shanghai, Tong Enyi of Shanghai Union Bilingual School, and Wang Weizhe of the Foreign Chinese Affiliated Chinese School of Shanghai Overseas Chinese University were selected to shoot the poster of the Drama Festival.
In addition to experiencing the poster shooting, the Organizing Committee of the Drama Festival will also provide students with the opportunity to record the bells in the professional recording studio of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. After selection, the theater experiencer recorded the bell for the festival and played it before the opening of the daily performance unit of the festival.
Shanghai Drama Art Center insists on holding the Shanghai University Students Drama Festival and the Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Students Drama Festival (formerly the Shanghai Secondary School Students Drama Festival) for 17 consecutive years, and this year's Drama Festival is aimed at the recruitment of directors' assistants and stage design workshop members for students in Shanghai's major, middle and primary schools. The assistant director assisted Xie Shuai, the general director of this year's theater festival, to complete the creative choreography and implementation of the theater festival, and worked and communicated with professional directors, producers and stage technical teams.
Under the guidance of the "professional" work of the director of Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, he expanded his aesthetic vision and increased his work experience in the field of professional theater. This stage design workshop specially invites professional stage design, taking students to build their own miniature stage from "zero", cutting, splicing, gluing, and witnessing the process from plane to three-dimensional
In line with the concept of student-oriented and let students be the masters, the Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Students Drama Festival links up with the drama education activities of each student, provides opportunities for students of all school ages and theater education enthusiasts to cooperate, increases the interaction between students of different school ages and theater education enthusiasts, and entrusts them with the operation and hosting of the theater during the drama festival. The youngest applicant among the festival hosts, opening and closing ceremony actors, and volunteers is only 6 years old. The Drama Festival provides students of all school ages with the opportunity to have more comprehensive contact with the front and back of the stage, and to enhance the core literacy ability of students with more drama extension activities.
Under the background of the "double reduction" policy series of measures, the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center actively responded to help the "double reduction" and the development of school aesthetic education, and held this thematic forum on drama aesthetic education - "Drama • Change 2021". This forum aims to disseminate the concept of drama education, integrate local practices, select various forms, and promote shared learning; provide an opportunity and platform for primary and secondary school teachers, teachers and students to speak from different angles and have dialogue on an equal footing; promote exchanges and cooperation among colleagues in the theater and education industry, and look forward to a new blueprint for drama education. The "Drama Change 2021" Teacher-Student Sharing Forum focuses on the theme of "Drama Aesthetic Education entering the campus under the Double Reduction Policy", focuses on the current frontier of the development of drama education in China, and invites drama education practitioners at all levels to share experiences and collide ideas. We believe that in the context of the double reduction policy, drama education will be combined with innovative education, aesthetic education and quality education on campus, and will become more closely related because of the participation and concern of more people. On November 28, 2021, we will gather with many experts, teachers and students who care about drama and education at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center to hold a "Drama Change 2021" Drama Education Teachers and Students Sharing Forum.
Source: Thoughtful