Stills of the National Ballet of China's "Century" by Chen Li
Beijing, December 27 (Xinhua) -- From December 25 to 26, the large-scale original symphonic ballet "Century" was staged at the Tianqiao Theater as the closing performance of the fifth China International Ballet Season.
As a large-scale original symphonic ballet specially created and rehearsed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the play runs through the profound ideological context of "a thousand years of questions and a hundred years of answers", and deeply expresses the contemporary inheritance of the Chinese national spirit. The closing performance "Century" was also broadcast online at the same time, allowing more audiences to witness the successful conclusion of this Year's China International Ballet Season under the normalization of the epidemic.
The National Ballet of China closed the curtain after the performance of "Century" chen li photographed
The 5th China International Ballet Season kicked off on November 19 with an online performance. Gala offered the audience wonderful excerpts from nearly 20 ballet classics with a luxurious international performance lineup, which was beautiful, and more than 30 million people at home and abroad watched the online performance.
In the following month or so, the 5th China International Ballet Season provided the audience with 12 live performances, 6 high-definition video screenings, and the extended art activities of the diversified 5th China International Ballet Season were welcomed and loved by the majority of the people, and have become another hot spot during the performance season and the expectations of ballet lovers, among which Chinese ballet artists explained the ballet "Onegin" in the form of online and offline art lectures from music, choreography and performance, which benefited the audience a lot and was deeply popular The China International Ballet Photography Competition freezes the beautiful moments between the square inches; accurate and vivid "micro-dance commentary" allows ballet reviews to enter the self-media; the opening of the ballet creative space allows the majority of audiences to come to the central axis and bring the ballet culture home, this series of colorful artistic activities, so that the audience can enter the theater to feel the art of ballet at the same time, get rich ballet knowledge, and ballet "multi-directional, zero distance" contact.
Stills of the National Ballet of China's "Onegin" photo by Wang Chongwei
During the performance season, from the witty humor and colorfulness of "Cinderella" to the wonderful presentation of "Ballet Boutique Evening", from the touching deeds of "Yimeng" to the peak of theatrical ballet of "Onegin" in succession. With its strong artistic strength, the National Ballet of China has deeply touched countless audiences.
The multi-perspective presentation of Eifman Ballet's "Brothers Karamazov", the delicate portrayal of the characters of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet "La Traviata", the gentle romance of Stuttgart Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet", the unique choreography of the Royal Ballet 'The Dance of the Party Cellist', the playful and cute British Royal "The Daughter Who Can't Be Held", the fairy, court and secular performance of John Neumeer Hamburg Ballet's "Dream of A Midsummer Night", In the form of high-definition screening, the audience can see the world's ballet masterpieces in the Tianqiao Theater, which makes the audience sigh the sense of restoration brought by the venue performance brought by the art video in the specific stage environment of the theater.
The 5th China International Ballet Season has received great attention and good wishes from ballet artists such as world-renowned choreographers John Neumel and Boris Eifman, international ballet superstar and famous choreographer Natalia Makarova, Chief Svetlana Zakharova of the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia, Reed Anderson, Artistic Director of the John Kranko Foundation in Germany, and Xin Lili, Director of the Shanghai Ballet in China. This international ballet event on the central axis has built a bridge for the communication of ballet art in the world today, and has written another brilliant chapter for the exchange and development of Chinese and foreign culture and art.
Stills of John Neumel's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Hamburg Ballet in HD Photo: Kiran West
The China International Ballet Season, which is held every two years, was founded in 2013, with the approval of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, hosted by the Central Ballet, hosted by Tianqiao Theatre and Beijing China Ballet Performance Co., Ltd., and supported by the Beijing Xicheng District Culture and Tourism Bureau, and has brought together top artists from 58 theaters from 27 countries on five continents to participate in the performance.
Affected by the epidemic, the fifth China International Ballet Season added more artistic activities and more diversified artistic expressions, the online performance set a record for the highest number of spectators in the performance season, and the high-definition screening on the theater stage brought the audience into the atmosphere of live performance, making the whole performance season more diverse and three-dimensional. (End)