The large-scale science and technology folk dance drama "Awakening Lion MGM" recently premiered in Macao.
1. The Macau IP cartoon character Jialu Chicken joins hands with the and olive humanoid to welcome and interact with the audience before the opening.
2. "Awakening lion MGM" is the first time that guangzhou song and dance theater has performed in a city outside the mainland.
To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, the Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre and MGM Cotai jointly created a large-scale technology folk dance drama "Awakening lion MGM", which recently premiered in Macao (December 19).
The "awakening lion culture" in the Greater Bay Area has the same roots and origins
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have the same roots and the same origin, with Lingnan culture as the common root, and have inseparable geographical and cultural bloodlines. "Awakening Lion MGM" takes the awakening lion culture as an opportunity to strengthen cultural exchanges in the Bay Area, give full play to the advantages of Guangzhou and Macao, and jointly disseminate excellent traditional culture.
According to reports, "Awakening Lion MGM" is based on the large-scale dance drama "Wake Up Lion", the winner of the dance drama award of the "Lotus Award", the highest honor of Chinese dance. "Where there are Chinese, there are waking lions", "Waking Lion" is China's first large-scale dance drama with the theme of "Guangdong Awakening Lion", and is also the winner of the "Lotus Award" Dance Drama Award, the highest honor of Chinese dance. The dance drama combines the elements of awakening lion, southern fist, dance and folk intangible cultural heritage, intends to abandon lines, and boldly and innovatively shows the unique artistic charm of the play with music, choreography, lighting and costume modeling, tells the story of the intangible lion awakening, and develops and disseminates Lingnan culture.
The reporter learned that the dance drama takes the national awakening as the intention and the traditional culture as the expression, telling the self-awakening and transformation of the two lion dance teenagers in the face of love and hatred, the great righteousness of the family and the country, and different life choices, reflecting the indomitable spirit of the sons and daughters of China.
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 'suitable integration and integration; cultural promotion, tourism to promote culture'. While helping the integrated development of Macao's cultural tourism to a new level, it also highlights the personality of the SAR and the charm of the new era. ”
"Awakening the Lion MGM" 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 is produced by the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism and MGM.
Sui Ao joined hands to "wake up the lion" more scientific and technological
The 70-minute performance of "Awakening the Lion MGM" is full of momentum and compact plot, "awakening as a god" and "taking the lion as the root", under the blessing of the dancers' superb skills and high-tech, presenting the essence of Lingnan awakening lion culture.
Shi Qianjin, director of guangzhou song and dance theater, who is also the artistic director and general director of the dance drama "Awakening Lion MGM", according to him, "Wake Up Lion MGM" is not only a new breakthrough for "Awakening Lion", but also symbolizes the cultural integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Our creators have innovatively displayed traditional intangible cultural heritage elements on the stage in the form of art, resulting in "Wake Up the Lion", which is known as the most 'burning' dance drama and is loved by young audiences. The new and shocking "Awakening Lion MGM" is a new challenge for the production team, and a new breakthrough in the integration of culture and tourism between the two places. MGM Theater is very modern and fashionable, the dance drama is based on "Wake up the lion", combined with the technical advantages of the theater to create a new creation, in the visual and auditory so that the audience is refreshed; and the dance drama in the form of a combination of real scene and virtual, also fantasy and reality, integrated into the awakening lion, southern fist, dance and other intangible heritage traditional elements, bold and innovative presentation of the essence of Lingnan culture. ”
Shi Qianjin introduced, "In order to cooperate with the performance at the 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." ”
The reporter learned that the performance venue of the dance drama, the MGM Theater, is the venue with the highest gold content in Asia's science and technology, and the top specifications of the black box theater equipment are set up, which further increases the entertainment and observability of the traditional dance drama; the dance drama also makes full use of the world's largest permanent indoor LED screen and other high-tech facilities in the theater to bring a strong visual impact to the audience.
Sui'ao IP "superimposed" to tell the story of waking lions in the Bay Area
According to reports, in order to inject Macao characteristic elements into "Wake Up Lion MGM", MGM and the Macao IP cartoon character "Galu Chicken" joined forces to jointly create a rooster and olive humanoid "Galu Chicken", which was welcomed and interacted with the audience before the opening of "Awakening 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, the "Jialu Chicken" incarnates into a rooster and a humanoid rooster, combining local elements and bringing together Lingnan and Portuguese characteristics.
He Chaoqiong once said: "'Awakening Lion MGM' is a new milestone for MGM and the first shot of the 'Meishi IP' tourism experience product. 'Meishi IP' is a new way for travelers in the new era to taste Macau, with MGM's lion image as the core and lingnan culture as the main axis, launching a series of grand events. It means that MGM's lion intention remains unchanged, and it is committed to building Macao into an exchange and cooperation base with Chinese culture as the mainstream and multicultural coexistence, further deepening the cultural and tourism integration in the Greater Bay Area, and promoting the construction of a high-quality humanistic Bay Area. ”
Shi Qianjin, president of Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre, introduced that "Awakening the Lion MGM" is the first time that Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre 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. "Personally, I very much hope that this work ("Awakening Lion MGM") can go international and go global."
"Wake up the lion" joins the new route of "Australian Food and Accommodation Tour"
The reporter learned from the official website of the Macao Tourism Office that in december, there is a designated tourist route with the main axis of enjoying the large-scale national dance drama "Waking Lion MGM" and visiting the old city of Taipa, which departs on December 20, 21, 24 and 25 respectively, that is, "Awakening Lion" will "walk" to the wider Macao citizens in this form.
Since its launch on 15 April 2021, the "Food, Accommodation and Tourism for Macao People" campaign has been very effective and has been highly welcomed by Macao residents since its launch. MGTO said that under the premise of ensuring public safety, it hopes that the "Macao people eat, live and travel" activities will support tourism-related practitioners, promote domestic demand and promote community consumption, and promote the healthy recovery of tourism and related industries.
Industry insiders said, "Macao Tourism Board in the tourism industry at the same time to help macao residents also make Macao residents more sense of belonging to Macao, strengthen the understanding of local tourism resources, when the tourism industry gradually recovers, residents can also play the role of tourism ambassadors, the special highlights of macao tourism to tourists, while spreading the human touch of Macao, so that tourists have a home-at-home experience." ”
Written by: Nandu reporter Xiao Yang
A guide to watching the show
The first round of performances of "Awakening Lion MGM" will be held from December 19 to 25, 2021, and the ticket price will be MOP280-600. Tickets are available for public sale on MGM's official website, Damai.com, Guangxing Communications-Macau Ticketing Network, Klook and major travel agency agents.
The second round of performances will run from February 6 to 12, 2022.
Show Time:
19-24 December: 8 p.m.;
25 December: 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. 20% discount for students.