Cover news reporter Xun Chao
On December 18th, the 2021 Daliangshan International Drama Festival, the forum "Daliangshan Whispers - Dancing in a New Era to a New Peak" was held in Xichang. Chen Feihua, head of the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, Zhou Liya, a famous choreographer, and Song Guanlin, former chairman of China Oriental Performing Arts Group, discussed the development momentum and direction of high-quality drama in the new era around the stage art works.
Chen Feihua, head of the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe and a national-level choreographer, emphasized: "The most core task of a theater troupe is to grasp works. He took the dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave" as an example, "The audience after 90 and 00 on the scene is more than 70%, and even some viewers have repeatedly brushed this drama dozens of times." He believes that "the market audience for drama is always there, just to see what kind of work we come up with for everyone." Song Guanlin, former chairman of the China Oriental Performing Arts Group, director of the National Arts Fund, and supervisor of national first-level performances, believes that the emergence of a good work lies first of all in the fact that a good person in charge of the academy and troupe and a visionary producer can choose a good choreographer and create a good work." I think that the producer, the main creative team and the performance agency operation are the three important factors that constitute the excellent contemporary works. ”
"Pursuing something artistically is our creative instinct." On the evening of December 18, the dance drama "Only This Green" choreographed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen was staged in Xichang, which is also another masterpiece after the two continued "The Eternal Radio Wave" and "Shawan Past", which was loved by many audiences. The play is created under the IP of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and narrates through the outline of "exhibition volume, seal, singing silk, stone search, brushwork, quenching ink, and painting", leading the audience to "dialogue" with the talented painter Xi Meng of the Northern Song Dynasty, so that the audience can wander in the meaning of traditional Chinese aesthetics.
"'Only This Green' is freehand, so it's slow-paced. In fact, we were also particularly worried in the rehearsal, this section of such a performance, good for the audience. But for the pursuit of art, we are very yearning and persistent, one hand is facing forward, and the other hand is backward. You must take the audience's hand and lead them slowly into the theater, slowly into the art, into the dance drama works. In this way, more audiences will like it, will really feel it, and thus like more dance drama works. Just like the theme of our theatre festival – theatre is us. Zhou Liya said.
Zhou Liya
In Zhou Liya's view, in addition to being a high-quality content creator, dance drama choreographers should also link theaters and audiences, thereby forming a good cycle and helping the development of dance drama art. She also enjoys the creative moments, "As a creator, we must give every work and every theme to it, work hard, be down-to-earth, and feel and create with all our hearts." So the period of creation was the quietest and most simple. After the creation is finished, when you move the work to the stage, to dialogue with the audience, to really convey what you want to express, it is also the happiest time. ”
From world street theatre and modern performing arts to music performances and juggling, Daliangshan's unique humanistic charm is integrating contemporary avant-garde performing arts and diverse folk cultures into one space. Chen Feihua, Zhou Liya and Song Guanlin praised the Daliangshan International Drama Festival and said that they look forward to more works of art with temperature and quality coming to Daliangshan in the future.
Liu Kang
Liu Kang, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Liangshan Cultural Tourism Group, said bluntly in an interview with reporters: "The Liangshan International Theater Festival is not only an exhibition, nor is it just the use of the theater festival for local marketing, it actually drives the entire industrial chain." We will find that in addition to the performances in the Daliangshan International Drama Festival, there are also drama education, creative incubation, script fairs, etc. We use 7 fulcrums to drive the 'tourism group' with the troupe, thus shaping into a western cultural tourism IP, which is a strong support for cultural tourism. ”
It is reported that the Daliangshan International Drama Festival expresses the artistic, natural, social, national and international nature of drama, connects the communication, presentation and market of drama art in western and eastern China, the east and the west of the world, and leads the development of the whole industrial chain of cultural tourism innovation and integration. At present, the Daliangshan International Drama Festival is focusing on the original intention of building a "drama Shangri-La", with the goal of creating new coordinates of Chinese literature and art and a new IP of western cultural tourism, and striving to accelerate the construction of a sub-center of literature and art in Sichuan Province.