When the people in the dining room dispersed, only the car owner straightened his waist and picked up the gun, and the people who had sacrificed and were still fighting stepped out from behind the burning blood-colored curtain, symbolizing the powerful spiritual world and unswerving aspirations and beliefs of a generation of revolutionaries, and a singing word sounded: "Add food to the people, work hard; save the nation from danger, and fight to the end!" ”...... The bold words and ambitions of the revolutionary martyrs pushed the scene to a climax, and thunderous applause broke out again and again.
Stills from "Effort Meal"
This evening (29th), the dance drama "Effort Meal", which won the "Lotus Award", the highest professional award in the dance industry on behalf of Sichuan, was staged at the Sichuan Grand Theatre, officially opening the curtain of the "2021 National Excellent Dance Drama Invitational Performance" jointly sponsored by the Literature and Art Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, the Chinese Dancers Association and the Propaganda Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Map of the performance site on the evening of the 29th
The Red Star News reporter learned that in the next two months, 12 outstanding dance drama works such as the dance drama "Home", "The Eternal Electric Wave", "Awakening Lion" and "Eight Girls Throwing River" that bravely picked the Lotus Award, the Wenhua Award, and the Five One Project Awards will bring 24 high-level performances, so that elegant art will enter Sichuan and enter the art lover group.
The curtain opened, and Chengdu in the 1930s was presented to the Sichuan audience, with bamboo chairs and bamboo tables in the restaurant, bowls of tea with aromas, and xiao er, busy with rags. Back to the pot meat, mapo tofu, dan dan noodles... The air seemed to waft with the scent of garlic sprouts. The guests of the three teachings and nine streams are endless, plucking their ears, polishing shoes... Chengdu's well life jumped on the stage. The owner of the car who runs the restaurant building, the face changer who brightens his voice, the cold director who often visits the restaurant... In the crowded restaurant, people with different concerns are about to feel the tension of the sword.
As a red-themed dance drama, "Effort Meal" focuses on the "Effort Dining House" in the 1930s, and the main character in the dance drama, Che Boss, is based on the life deeds of the revolutionary martyr Che Yaoxian. Che Yaoxian, the founder of The Endeavour Restaurant, was a member of the Sichuan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China at the time, and engaged in revolutionary work under the cover of business. On the occasion of the Japanese invasion of China, he founded the "Loud" newspaper, which shouted for the salvation of the nation; established a restaurant "Effort Meal" to solve the problem of food and clothing for the masses.
"Effort Meal" is created by Chengdu Art Theater Co., Ltd., the main creative team after many times of style, selected the distinctive Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan opera, Sichuan song integration, Sichuan style rap and "the sun comes out of the happy Yangyang", "when the locust flower blooms" and other familiar Sichuan-Chongqing folk songs and Sichuan opera gongs and drums and other folk music integration, highlighting the unique regional elements of "Effort Meal".
Stills from "Jinggang Jinggang"
Among the works of "2021 National Excellent Dance Drama Invitational Performance", in addition to the newly promoted dance drama works that won the 12th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" such as "Hard Meal", "Wake Up Lion", "Cavalry", "Zhu Ziqing", "Pomegranate Blossom", etc., there are also dance dramas "Home", "Jinggang Jinggang", "Little Sisters of Grassland Heroes" and "Mulan" that won the "Lotus Award", as well as the dance drama "Eight Girls Throwing River", "The Eternal Radio Wave", "Shawan Past" that won the "Lotus Award", etc. It is understood that the relevant plays will be concentrated in the Sichuan Grand Theater, OCT Grand Theater, Chengdu City Concert Hall, the recent audience can buy tickets on the network platform, many exhibition and dance drama tickets also enjoy 100 yuan of huimin tickets and exhibition season packages.
Red Star News reporter | Qiu Junfeng
Edited | Duan Xueying
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