Recently, the reporter learned from the Zhengzhou Grand Theater that in response to the call of the Henan Cultural and Tourism Department and polishing the brand of "walking in Henan and understanding China", the Zhengzhou Grand Theater opened the year of the tiger and launched the "New Year Performance Season", and 28 45 wonderful plays played the New Year horn.
Historical Henan has a moving rhyme, and cultural Henan has a charming fragrance. The oracle bones of Yin Shang culture unveil the confusion of ancient memories; the Great Song Culture Qingming River Map shows the grandeur of the Song capital. Henan is a province of traditional cultural resources, and also the "root" and "soul" of Chinese culture. How to dig deep into the Henan elements in the performing arts industry, drive cultural tourism with performing arts, and create "I have love, its name zhongyuan" is related to the overall situation of "brand rejuvenation" of Zhengzhou Grand Theatre in 2022. In this context, the planning of the Chinese New Year performance season has been put on the agenda.
"A thousand years at a glance, cheers for the mountains and rivers of Yuzhou" - The planning idea of the New Year performance season is mainly based on the "Henan elements", focusing on the two major themes of inheritance and innovation, and the selection and scheduling of the repertoire cover a variety of artistic categories such as intangible shadow puppetry, Yu opera, dance drama, folk music, weekend children's theater, etc., bringing a refreshing viewing experience to the audience and showing a cultural feast with a very Central Plains flavor. The eight ancient capitals, the four items of Henan, Anyang in Zhengzhou, Luoyang in Kaifeng, and the culture of Shangluo stirred, and the fragrance of the poetry was rippled.
Interpretation of the Central Plains: Showing the elements of Henan and tasting brilliant China
In the program screening of the Spring Festival performance season, Zhengzhou Grand Theatre digs deep into the local culture, highlights the elements of the Central Plains, and prefers to cooperate with the local theater troupe in Henan, selects representative traditional performance projects in Henan, displays unique Henan elements, and promotes Henan cultural tourism resources.
The first public welfare performance "Inheriting Intangible Cultural Heritage - Lee's Shadow Puppet New Year Special" combined with the current winter Olympic hotspots, integrating traditional shadow puppet art into the elements of the Winter Olympics, driving more people to feel the charm of traditional culture. In addition, you can also catch a glimpse of the style of well-known classic stories such as "Wusong Fighting Tiger" and "Nezha Noisy Sea".
Solidly promote the Henan stage art boutique project, and the "Love Full of Joy Village" brought by the Henan Yu Theater Youth Group was selected for the Sixth National Ethnic Minority Literary and Art Performance and won the "Dream Realization Award Excellent Repertoire Award". The large-scale original dance drama "Water Moon Luoshen" created by Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater perfectly presents the image of the goddess of "Flying Like a Surprise, Graceful Like a Dragon", and interprets the cultural characteristics of the Central Plains in a beautiful way.
Cultural empowerment: the introduction of good dramas to create a living room for cultural exchanges
In order to meet the diversified cultural needs of citizens, accelerate the integration of culture and tourism, and plan to promote major projects. The New Year performance season of Zhengzhou Grand Theatre strengthens cooperation with domestic first-class performance groups, introduces cultural exchange plays with different themes such as dance dramas, musicals and dramas, and strives to build the Grand Theatre into a cultural exchange parlor.
Yang Liping's dance drama "Ten Faces Ambush" takes dance as the main tone, integrates the comprehensive artistic language of behavior, installation art, folk music and traditional drama, and shows the history of the Chu-Han rivalry that occurred in Henan more than 2,000 years ago. Tang Shiyi led the dance drama "Zhaojun" to tell a good story of Zhaojun "please reinsert it" to promote national harmony during the Han and Yuan Emperor periods, showing the great love of the Chinese nation and the feelings of home and country.
In addition, the drama "Liu Qing", which was created by the national first-class screenwriter and director, won the 16th Wenhua Award at the 12th China Arts Festival, and the Chinese version of the off-Broadway love musical "Uncle Long Legs" will also meet with you as scheduled.
The big "instrument" is majestic: ancient rhyme and modern sound, passing on traditional national culture
With the trend of the country, traditional culture and Chinese style have become symbol labels that are quite sought after by young people at present, and the national style and folk music integrates multiple styles with an inclusive attitude to create a fresh and unique national style scene.
Gu Yun Jinsheng Folk Music Festival, performance groups from different regions such as suzhou national orchestra and Hebei chinese orchestra, and national treasure master erhu master Jiang Jianhua and other performers will return to their hometown in Henan, and the scene will present unique ethnic instruments such as pipa, guqin and erhu.
Whether it is a performance group or a program arrangement, the ancient rhyme and modern sound folk music festival that runs through the traditional cultural elements throughout it conforms to the changing ideas of the times, uses the musical language of its own nation to tell Chinese stories, express the emotions of Chinese, and transmit Chinese national culture.
Edutainment: Weekend children's theater that teaches children bravery and love
The New Year performance season of Zhengzhou Grand Theatre specially launched the weekend children's theater, including "Candy House", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Nutcracker", "Little Red Riding Hood", etc., including 7 family parent-child children's dramas, to meet the children's various whims.
Children's drama is the best way to entertain and educate, is one of the important ways to cultivate children's artistic accomplishment, and is also a bridge for family parent-child interaction. Through a fairy tale of innocence and dreams, help children understand the truth, goodness and beauty, and subtly enhance children's imagination, creativity and problem-solving ability.
In order to let more citizens enter the theater to share the fruits of artistic development, Zhengzhou Grand Theatre launched a public welfare activity to benefit the people, the first shadow puppet performance is free for all citizens, the Yu opera "Love Full of Joy Village" is only 9 yuan at the minimum, the New Year dance drama "Water Moon Roselle" will also enjoy 20% off the ticket price for the benefit of the people, in addition, especially suitable for the whole family, the weekend children's theater 4 shows are all 50% off, welcome to everyone's arrival! (According to Henan News Broadcast)