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On December 19th, the large-scale science and technology folk dance drama "Awakening Lion MGM" was shockingly premiered at the MGM Macau Theatre.
To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, MGM and Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre jointly created, using MGM Theater's top technology and its world's largest permanent indoor LED display, in the form of a combination of real scene and virtual, and then integrated into the intangible traditional elements of awakening lion, Southern Fist and dance, bringing refreshing visual impact effects, boldly and innovatively showing the essence of Lingnan culture.
The 70-minute performance was full of momentum and the audience was full of praise. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
"Wake up the lion MGM" live performance
Based on the dance drama "Wake Up the Lion"
"Awakening Lion MGM" is based on the large-scale dance drama "Awakening Lion", the winner of the "Lotus Award" Dance Drama Award, the highest honor of Chinese dance.
With the national awakening as the intention and traditional culture as the expression, the repertoire tells the self-awakening and transformation of two lion dance teenagers in the face of love and hatred, the righteousness of the family and the country and different life choices, reflecting the indomitable spirit of the sons and daughters of China.
In order to cooperate with the performance at MGM Theater, the dance drama has been comprehensively improved in terms of character modeling, video background, stage props, dance choreography, and even the use of music, integrating the characteristics of the current era and the traditional national spirit, and condensing the Global Chinese in a new form.
"Awakening the Lion MGM" is the first time that guangzhou song and dance theater has performed in a city outside the mainland, cooperating with MGM to highlight cultural self-confidence with modern scientific and technological techniques, and promoting the millennium Lingnan culture in the form of industrialization, making dance drama more international.
"Where there are Chinese, there will be lions", the two sides have joined hands to achieve the inheritance of Chinese and Lingnan excellent culture, carry forward the spirit of the times, and tell Chinese stories well.
In order to inject Macao characteristic elements into "Wake Up MGM", MGM and the Macao IP cartoon character "Garo Chicken" joined forces to create a rooster and olive humanoid "Garo Chicken", which was welcomed and interacted with the audience before the opening of "Wake Up Lion MGM".
One of Guangzhou's intangible cultural heritage features, the chicken olive is a traditional snack peddled on the street, and it is also one of the characters of Awakening Lion MGM.
As the mascot of the fusion of Chinese and Portuguese cultures, "Jialu Chicken" incarnated as a rooster and a humanoid rooster, combining local elements, bringing together Lingnan and Portuguese characteristics, attracting dance drama audiences to stop and punch.
The two places jointly disseminate excellent traditional culture
Ms. Ho Chiu-chung, Co-Chairman and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited, said, "Lingnan culture is an important part of Chinese culture and a treasure of Chinese culture.
Using the essence of Lingnan culture and innovative technology, "Awakening Lion MGM" adds vitality to traditional culture, pushes culture and tourism to a higher quality of development and extension, and promotes the culture of the Bay Area to the world.
MGM hopes to enrich the tourism experience and creativity through cultural elements, so as to achieve 'integration and integration; promote tourism with culture, and promote culture with tourism', which will help the integrated development of Macao's cultural tourism development to a new level, and highlight the personality of the SAR and the charm of the new era. ”
The premiere of "Awakening Lion MGM" attracted many audiences
Shi Qianjin, artistic director and general director of the play and president of Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre, said: "'Awakening Lion MGM' is a new challenge for the production team, and it is also a new breakthrough in the integration of culture and tourism between the two places.
Guests and performers take a group photo
MGM The Awakening Lion is supported by the Ministry of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central Government in Macao, the Macao Tourism Office and the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and produced by the Publicity Department of the GUANGZHOU Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism and MGM.
It is reported that the first round of the show will be held from December 19 to 25, 2021, and the tickets have been publicly sold on MGM's official website, Damai Network, Guangxing Communications - Macau Ticketing Network, Klook and major travel agency agents, with ticket prices starting from MOP 280; the second round of performances will be from February 6 to 12, 2022. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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