2021 Beijing Performance Market Review: Writing a New Chapter in the Capital

2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and is the year to achieve the first centenary goal and start a new journey towards the second centenary goal. In the past year, the capital's literary and art workers have adhered to the pace of the times, dedicated themselves to the people with fine products, and worked hard to create a cultural business card of "big drama to see Beijing", and the capital's literary and art stage has shown a good situation of comprehensive recovery, wonderful and vigorous. Looking back at the creative performances throughout the year, there are mainly the following characteristics:

Key word one: recovery

In 2021, the repeated fluctuations of the epidemic will still affect the performance market. However, under the condition of normalized epidemic prevention and control, the confidence of the Beijing performance market has gradually recovered, showing sustained growth and steady recovery. Throughout the year, a total of 2,415 performances were launched in the city, 20,597 commercial performances were held, the number of audiences was 5.135 million, and the box office revenue was about 783 million yuan. Compared with the same period last year, the number of performances increased by 195%, and the number of performances has returned to 90% of the pre-epidemic (2019) levels. Among the various types of performances, quyi, talk shows and drama performances are the most numerous, accounting for 63.6% of the sum of the performances. Among them, the drama box office revenue is the highest, about 240 million yuan.

Keyword two: red

In 2021, the main theme performance has attracted much attention, and red has become the most distinctive background color of the capital's literary and art stage. The large-scale sitcom "The Great Journey", which celebrated the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, was a complete success at the National Stadium, and the glorious course of the party in the past century was praised in artistic language. From April to July, the "Outstanding Stage Art Works Exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China" was carried out nationwide by combining theater performances and online performances, of which 50 plays were intensively displayed in Beijing. The main melody works produced by the Beijing Academy of Arts and Performing Arts troupe and performing arts institutions, such as the Peking opera "Li Dazhao" and "Xu Yunfeng", the drama "Xiangshan Night", "Shangganling", the opera "Long March", "Daughter of the Party", the musical "In the Distance", "Xinhua Newsboy", "Stenographer", the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", and "Xian Xinghai", were both acclaimed and acclaimed, creating a good atmosphere for celebrating the party's centennial birthday. The dance drama "Heavenly Road" and the commentary drama "Tibetan Rainbow" won the Best Repertoire Award and the Repertoire Innovation Award of the Sixth National Ethnic Minority Literary and Art Conference respectively.

Key word three: inheritance

Build a national-level exhibition and performance platform to promote the inheritance and development of opera art. Held China's largest and highest level Peking Opera art event , the 9th China Peking Opera Arts Festival , focusing on nearly 40 performance groups in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, with more than 90 million online and offline audiences. The Fifth China Opera Culture Week highlights the characteristics of the "Opera in the Garden, The Garden in the Opera" activity, and 23 literary and art groups in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei carry out more than 1,000 performances, lectures, interactions and other activities, and the number of all-media views on the whole network exceeds 86 million. The newly compiled Peking opera "Big Knife King V" and "Lady City", kunqu opera "Guofeng", "Lin Huiyin", Beijing opera "Everywhere", Hebei Zizi "Huaya Canal" and commentary drama "Blessing" launched during the year all let the audience appreciate the unique charm of traditional culture.

Keyword four: innovation

On the stage of Beijing today, "innovation" has become a high-frequency word. The Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Beijing Opera House jointly launched the large-scale Peking Opera Symphony Suite "Beijing Grand Canal", which realizes the fusion and innovation of Chinese and Western cultures through the combination of typical vocal cavities and symphonies of different genres of Peking Opera. The dance poetry drama "Only This Green" funded by the Beijing Culture and Art Fund is based on the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" handed down by the Northern Song Dynasty court painter Wang Ximeng, recreating the elegant charm of the aesthetics of the Great Song Dynasty on the stage and making the cultural relics "alive". The Yanghua version of the drama "Like a Dream" has been meticulously polished and has become a classic in the performance market, and has been rearranged by the director and put on the stage again, becoming the "blockbuster" of the annual performance.

While traditional stage art is trying to innovate and break through, new performance forms such as immersive and interactive are also emerging. Happy Twist's immersive drama "Stealing Hearts Dinner" sets up interactive scenes according to the plot changes, and the audience consciously substitutes for the plot roles, which greatly enriches the viewing experience. Star Drama Village created an immersive performance "Painted Skin 2677", which began a new journey of "post-immersion". In addition, with the popularity of talk show variety shows on the Internet, offline talk show performances have also continued to grow and develop, performing about 4,000 times in more than 70 theaters, forming Sanlitun - a worker's body talk show performance agglomeration area.

Keyword five: cross-border

A number of performance institutions actively explore "performing arts +", integrate the development of other formats in a cross-border manner, and constantly explore the diversity of the integrated development of culture, commerce and tourism. Brand cross-border, the National Drama Theatre and Bosideng cooperated to hold the "China Down Jacket Global Leader" press conference, through the concept of "drama show", through the concept of "drama show", in the form of stage drama to interpret the brand's 45-year development history. Variety cross-border, the National Drama Theatre and CCTV cooperated to launch a large-scale cultural program "China in the Classics", in the form of "drama + film and television + cultural interview", integrating drama into television creation. iQIYI launched the variety show "Drama New Life", which presents the creative process in front of and behind the theater stage in a panoramic way in front of the audience in the form of a reality show. Catering crossover, Happy Twist established stage One music and drama bar, in the form of "drama + bar", breaking the traditional performance boundaries and bringing a new experience to the audience.