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What's the play this week?
Bai Xianyong's youth version of "Peony Pavilion", the musical "Southern Tang Dynasty Lord", the modern dance work "Yuan · 22" ...
——Guangzhou——
Bai Xianyong's youth version of "Peony Pavilion" is the whole book
When: April 1 - April 3
Venue: Guangzhou Opera House
"Peony Pavilion" is Tang Xianzu's masterpiece, and it is also the most familiar Kunqu opera classic. The youth version of "Peony Pavilion" is the editor in Tang Xianzu's original work, completely inherit the original words, after careful combing, created a story with "dream love", "human ghost love" and "human love" as the core, selected 27 folds, divided into upper, middle and lower three books, the whole performance for 3 consecutive days, 3 hours a day, enough to make fans linger and indulge in the world of Kunqu beauty. As Mr. Bai Xianyong said: "Kunqu opera has no other, it has a 'beauty' word, rhetorical beauty, dance beauty, musical beauty, human beauty, this is a comprehensive art of beauty, is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the Ming and Qing dynasties." ”
Monday Star Theater × Hou Ying "Focus Unit" Original Modern Dance Work "Yuan · 22"
When: April 2
Venue: Guangzhou Opera House Experimental Theater
"Yuan 22" will take "the flow of creation" as the guide, break the limitations of the theater, connect the broader performance space, and create a space for feeling the present and thinking philosophy in the presentation of the integration from outdoor to the theater. Whether it is under the epidemic or in the laws of society, we use the wrapped softness to fight against the world in the outside world, steel bars, tall buildings, lengthy roads... The fragility of the soft flesh in the external environment comes from our curiosity and groping for the world, stretching hard in the process of crawling slowly like a snail, leaving traces on the earth. In "Yuan 22", Hou Ying breaks the past dance body movement, in the middle of the steel forest in Guangzhou's CBD, in the postmodern architecture of Zaha, telling the confrontation between the soft flesh and the cold and hard world, the inner depth of self-exploration, weaving a modern allegory where reality and illusion intersect, and using modern dance vocabulary to explore the philosophy of "inside" and "outside".
——Shenzhen——
Han Tang Dance Theater "Figurine III"
When: April 1
Venue: Shenzhen Binhai Art Center
"The past is exotic". The "Figurines" series of works is an imagination of "exotic lands". "Figurine III." is the third work in the series of choreographer Tian Xiang's "Figurines", which continues the imagery theme of ancient Chinese dance figurines, and is also a revisit of the body posture in history; at the same time, compared with the previous two works, the body of Figurine III is more present, future and imaginative. Each paragraph of "Figurine III." with ancient painting imagery as the main body is independently composed of different dance sections such as "Hairpin Flower", "Tang LeGong Tu", "Hu Costume Beauty Figure", "Squatting Dance I", "Saiwai", "Xing Yin Tu", "Nobleman Wearing Deep Clothes 1-2", "Little Tread Song" and so on.
Ye Bei's 2022 "Hear and Say Alone" concert
When: April 3
When the melody of "The Age of White Clothes Fluttering", "After the Rain in B Minor" and "The Age of Innocence" reverberates over the theater, when the harmonica sound of "Youth Without Regret" flows through the fingers of the old wolf and Ye Bei, when the roar of "Falling in Love with You on the Wandering Way" skips the ears of Xu Wei and Ye Bei, those about time, old friends, reunions, all the warmth, beauty, tranquility and easy-going on the way to youth and wandering will be presented on the spot and stay in the heart. "Xiaoye took the stage, I heard that it was written alone!" Give yourself a space to be alone, give your heart a reason to release, and let Ye Bei accompany you to freedom and beauty with music.
Musical "Southern Tang Dynasty Lord"
When: April 3 - April 4
Venue: Shenzhen Pingshan Grand Theatre
Li Yu has always been intertwined with dual identities, one is the king of the fallen country, and the other is the emperor of the ancient words. He has made many seemingly fragmented decisions in his life, and now, when we look back at the Southern Tang Dynasty where he is, how can we explore the complicated and difficult life that belongs to Li Yu? With this as the inspiration for creation, the musical "Southern Tang Dynasty Lord" was hatched and born. On the stage, "Li Yu" will be divided into two, interpreted by two characters. Is he an innocent child, or is he holding a killing blade? The king of the subjugated country, the emperor of the words, captures the most dramatic fragments of Li Yu's short life, reconstructs Li Yu's personality conflict with the dreamy and mysterious and delicate aesthetics of the national style, and shows a unique expression of self-identity.
British Cardboard House Theatre Witty Paper Puppet Drama "Paper Beauty"
Venue: Shenzhen Poly Theater
Paper walls, paper windows, paper furniture? Paper flooring, paper bulbs, paper greenery? Born in London and traveling the world, the dream-like cardboard house is really going to be in front of you! Minimalist style + extremely unsimple creativity! The white paper wall has black lines, outlining simple furniture, and the only few daily necessities are also made of the most ordinary white paper. Beneath the minimalist exterior lies a very explosive creative universe: imaginative elves creep into the house, unexpectedly breaking windows, opening drawers, flipping over the roof, and making the "guests" in the paper living room exclaim and open their brains!
Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Chen Yue