Acrobatic dance drama "Hua Butterfly"
■ Reporter Xuanjing
From Chinese New Year's Eve Night to Lantern Festival, a number of outstanding domestic original literary and artistic works will meet with global audiences at the "Happy Spring Festival Pujiang Art Fair". His works cover music, dance, acrobatic dramas, documentaries, exhibitions and other forms, and for the first time, through six languages such as Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Western, he presents a cloud art feast to people from all walks of life at home and abroad, so that friends who love Chinese culture can resonate with the beauty of China.
It is reported that under the guidance of the Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, the online performance project of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and undertaken by the China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center, was officially launched on January 31. In the strong Chinese New Year flavor, the online performing arts project will display China's original stage art in an all-round and multi-angle manner, so that people at home and abroad can further feel the appeal and affinity of Chinese culture.
Good drama even "year", happy Spring Festival to connect the world
"Happy Spring Festival" is an important cultural exchange activity between the mainland and many countries around the world to spend the Chinese New Year, share Chinese culture and build a harmonious world. With the in-depth development of the "Happy Spring Festival" activities, people from different countries and different nationalities are increasingly joining the team to welcome the "Chinese New Year". Whether it is the landmark landscape draped in "Chinese red", or the Spring Festival temple fair and square parade that are loved by overseas people, they have become beautiful scenery with unique traditional Chinese cultural charm.
Affected by the global COVID-19 epidemic, a series of rich and diverse "cultural feasts" during the Spring Festival in the past two years have taken to the cloud and online, and with their unique presentation methods, "gather people's hearts and warm people's hearts". As the first launch of the "Happy Spring Festival, Pujiang Art Fair" Online Performing Arts Project Brand of China Shanghai International Arts Festival, relying on the rich performing arts resources and content of China Shanghai International Arts Festival, it will be newly launched in the upcoming Lunar Year of the Tiger. Digital means create a richer cloud display platform, provide global audiences with an audiovisual feast with Chinese characteristics, and share the fruitful results of China's cultural development. With the strong support and promotion of embassies and consulates abroad and overseas partners, Pujiang Art Fair will be presented in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Western and other multilingual versions, providing a wonderful and unforgettable cultural feast for friends around the world who love Chinese culture.
The new meaning spans the "year", and the beauty of China blooms in the clouds
When the midnight bell rings in the Year of the Tiger, the "lovers of artists" around the world will wander together in the "Happy Spring Festival, Pujiang Art Fair" online performance project of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
The symbiosis of traditional Chinese culture and modern aesthetics, and the interpretation of classics with the help of digital aesthetics, are the unique features of online performing arts projects. The project brings together the acrobatic dance drama "Hua Butterfly", which tells the Chinese story with "ballet on the shoulder"; the dance drama "White Snake And Human Apocalypse", which frames ancient legends in the future time and space; and the dance drama "Bo Ya Absolute String", which interprets "Zhiyin" from a modern perspective. The acrobatic dance drama "Hua Butterfly" takes the classic love of "Liang Zhu" as the story baseline, combines the philosophical thought of Zhuang Zhouhua Butterfly, and uses the image of "Butterfly" to interpret the meaning of life and love. The whole play uses a variety of artistic languages such as acrobatics, dance and drama to reshape the classics with modern techniques. There are as many as 32 acrobatic tricks, among which the use of "ballet on the shoulder" is the finishing touch, allowing the audience to experience the unique artistic effect of "butterfly love, just to stay on your shoulder for a moment".
The works on display vividly reflect the vitality and vitality of this artistic soil in China. Young violinist Lin Ruifeng interprets classics with bowstrings, the creativity of the young folk musicians of the ZideQin Society using traditional Chinese instruments, and the dancing of dancers and young students at home and abroad in the "Dance Limit" activity of the art festival will be presented online during the Spring Festival.
Colorful Chinese art and Shanghai culture will also be transmitted to the world through the cloud platform. Among them, the Shanghai epic "Shanghai Odyssey Bund Story", which is jointly produced by Chinese and German artists and presented in the form of folk music, as well as the exhibition and broadcast guide of Haipai architecture and "Haipai Hundred Works brilliant intangible cultural heritage", will show the global netizens Shanghai's urban heritage that runs through China and the West.
Source: Wen Wei Po