Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) The classic ballet "Onegin" of the Central Ballet of China premiered and staged at the Beijing Tianqiao Theater on the evening of December 16, and the play debuted as a key play in the fifth China International Ballet Season, with three groups of different actors bringing their own unique performances.
Dance drama "Onegin". Photography at the time
As a model work of theatrical ballet, the dance drama "Onegin" breaks the stylized expression of classical ballet, and vividly expresses the complex dramatic conflict and the extreme emotions of the characters in the play with creative action design and choreography, and at the same time, it is also a double challenge for the actors to dance skills and portray the characters. At the premiere scene, Zhang Jian and Ma Xiaodong, the chief actors of China Ballet, played the heroine Dagjana and the male protagonist Onegin respectively, and the young actors Zhan Lilu, Zheng Yu and Wu Dianyu played Olga, Liansky and Duke Graming. Under the baton of Music Director Zhang Yi and led by Concertmaster Wang Xiaomao, the China Ballet Symphony Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky's picturesque music.
Feng Ying, head of the China Ballet and artistic director, said of the significance of the re-rehearsal of "Onegin": "The world ballet classic "Onegin" is a model of the outstanding wisdom of pushkin, Tchaikovsky and John Kranko. Since its appearance in 1965, it has influenced generations of dancers and choreographers around the world, and to this day, the works still shine like a beacon of art. In 2008, China Ballet first put the play on the Chinese stage and injected the unique oriental artistic charm of Chinese ballet. More than ten years later, the new generation of young artists in China and Barba have shown the characters of the play on the stage layer by layer in the face of life and death, emotion and dignity, friendship and love choices, and inner contradictions. I believe that "Onegin" will bring you a different and profound understanding. ”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned German artists who planned to participate in the rehearsal were affected, but based on the understanding and trust of many collaborations, china and Germany jointly made a very challenging decision - Reed Anderson, artistic director of the John Cranco Foundation, conducted an online rehearsal for China Ballet.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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