Guangzhou, January 11 news (reporter Guan Wenqing) Recently, three large-scale contemporary dance dramas produced by Guangzhou, "To That Time" and "Wake up the Lion", and large-scale original ballet "Banner" won the "Excellent Repertoire" Award of the 13th National Dance Exhibition, and the original ballet group dance "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" won the 13th National Dance Exhibition outstanding program.
As a realistic theme dance drama supported by the "Stage Art Creation Project Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", the dance drama "To That Time" shined in the form of online performance at the 13th National Dance Exhibition, presenting a wonderful dance art feast. The whole dance drama pursues a refined, pure and advanced aesthetic temperament, and constitutes a multi-change and multi-level visual space through the light and shadow effects of multimedia and lighting, full of modernity, science and technology and sense of the future.
Dance drama "Wake Up Lion" is the first national dance drama with the theme of "Wake Up Lion", the drama was first performed in 2018, the popularity of "Wake Up Lion" in 2021 has not decreased, and it has toured more than 30 cities across the country for 3 years. In order to further expand the art exchange and performance activities, "Wake Up Lion" has made a new attempt and exploration in the operation and expansion. Guangzhou Song and Dance Theatre joined hands with MGM Macau to create "Awakening the Lion mgm", strengthen cultural exchanges in the Bay Area, give full play to the advantages of Guangzhou and Macao, and jointly disseminate the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The large-scale original ballet "Banner" is one of the key projects of Guangzhou's literary and artistic masterpiece creation in 2021. Based on the Guangzhou Uprising of 1927, the play integrates revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism, expresses hot revolutionary feelings with the dance vocabulary of ballet, gives history a new artistic imagination, and conveys the yearning for the future. The play not only presents the revolutionary historical facts, the smoke of war, and the storms of the times, but also starts from the warm feelings of mother and child, war friendship, husband and wife, etc., focuses on the sorrows and joys of the revolutionary martyrs in the war, and shows the national spirit and deep and thick feelings of home and country of the sons and daughters of China who are not afraid of strong enemies and dare to fight; not only has a strong spirit of innovation and unique style, but also shows Guangzhou's profound red cultural heritage and patriotic spirit.