Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) December 13, 2021 is the eighth National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. As a large-scale stage play and works rolling subsidy project of the National Arts Fund in 2020, with Tong Ruirui as the general director and screenwriter, the famous composer Guo Sida arranged, and the jiangsu Performing Arts Group Opera and Dance Theater performing the dance drama "Deep in Memory", which will be performed at the Jiangsu Grand Theatre from December 12 to 13.
Stills from the show
In the face of the Nanjing Massacre, a painful catastrophe in human history, the dance drama "Deep in Memory" did not tell the historical story, but strictly based on historical facts, taking the Chinese-American writer Zhang Chunru's exploration of the "Nanjing Massacre" tragedy as a clue, and through the interwoven memories of the rescuers based on Rabe and Wei Telin, the survivors with Li Xiuying as the prototype, and the confessors with Dong Shilang as the prototype - the four tragic witnesses, they jointly completed a revelation of the historical truth, and also sincerely commemorated and paid tribute to the compatriots who died in the massacre.
During this tour, Li Yiran, an outstanding dancer who has cooperated with director Tong Ruirui in the dance drama "The Source of the Great River", will inject fresh blood into "The Depths of Memory" and become one of the main characters Zhang Chunru, carrying this heavy memory with dancer Tang Shiyi. Previously, Yang Zheng, an outstanding young dancer, also starred in this role. According to director Tong Ruirui, at the beginning of the creation of "Deep in Memory" in 2017, Li Yiran participated in casting, and now that she has finally realized her dream, she has also digested Zhang Chunru's extremely difficult role well, injecting her courage and persistence into one breath and one breath, and reflecting the role.
Li Yiran plays Zhang Chunru
It is reported that since the birth of the work in 2017, "Deep in Memory" has been insisting on being staged during the National Public Festival Day on December 13. In the play, Zhang Chunru's actor Tang Shiyi, Li Xiuying's actor Qin Xi, Dong Shilang's actor Qu Jicheng, Rabe's actor Hu Xingdong, and Wei Telin's actor Song Fei'er have been with this work for four years.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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