The valley rain is moist and the spring is warm and revived.
Initiated by the Shanghai Grand Theatre, YOUNG Theatre and Shanghai West Bund Grand Theatre, the "Great West YOUNG Gathering" will release the first linkage activity of the three theaters, and on the occasion of the 27th World Book Day on April 23, a "Literary Group Buying Online" called "Reading Is Not Lonely, There Is Drama and Spring".
The three theaters incarnated as the "head of the troupe" of literary and artistic food, invited more than ten Chinese and foreign artists to serve as the "joint leader", and met with the audience in front of the screen from 10:00 a.m. onwards, bringing a continuous 12-hour relay live broadcast of literature and art.
Live Streaming Platform:
Audiences can watch free live broadcasts (such as Sina Weibo, WeChat video number, Douyin, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu and other platforms) through the social official accounts of the three "group leaders" Shanghai Grand Theatre, YOUNG Theatre and Shanghai West Bund Theatre.
Group Purchase List:
In the "group purchase list", there are not only the British Royal Ballet "Winter Story", the experimental crazy theater company "Hamlet on the Street" synchronic walking theater, "Hamlet: from the global to the world" and other programs, as well as Chen Liyi, Dominic Dromgoole , Xie Junhao, Ma Liang, Xiaohe, Zhu Hongxuan and other Chinese and foreign artists will become "joint leaders" to open this "literary group buying online" for the audience.
The Great West YOUNG gathering site creates a "shared" art ecology in a special period
The Great West YOUNG Gathering is a public cultural and artistic exchange gathering place initiated by shanghai grand theatre, YOUNG theater and Shanghai west bund grand theatre, focusing on the performing arts industry. The YOUNG Theater in Yangpu, which will open this year, and the Shanghai West Bund Grand Theatre, which will open in 2023 in Xuhui Binjiang, are both operated and managed by the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
"Gathering", taking the homophony of "theater", it gathers the advantages of the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT YOUNG Theater and the Shanghai West Bund Grand Theatre, and is not limited to the traditional venue concept, but intends to create a convergence field that loves performing arts and the stage scene.
The Ōnishi YOUNG Gathering will break through the shackles of time and space, advocate spontaneous, innovative and integrated art communication life through the planning of online and offline art seasons, and create a diverse, inclusive, linkage and sharing, and vibrant performing arts ecosystem.
"Group purchase" and "group leader" are the hot words in Shanghai this spring, through the "reading place is not lonely, there is a spring in the drama" of the literary and art group purchase online, "Great West YOUNG Gathering" this move is not only a special period, for the further exploration of the online performance model, but also by the whole people to fight the epidemic, resource sharing moves touched and enlightened, to bring artistic comfort and theater care to the present.
In the early stage of planning, the three theaters gave full play to their brand advantages and issued invitations to the circle of artists, and finally a spring seasonal cultural experience feast was successfully "opened".
Open this 12-hour package, from which you can enjoy the drama, read the classics, and spend World Book Day together, this package covers different types of activities such as online performance broadcasting, behind-the-scenes visits, interactive reading, art lectures, music connections, etc., which can be described as wonderful.
In the name of Shakespeare, explore new possibilities for classic works in multiple forms
As the most familiar Western playwright on the Chinese stage, Shakespeare has had an extremely important influence on the formation and development of modern Chinese theater, and April 23 is also Shakespeare's anniversary. As early as 400 years after Shakespeare's death in 2016, the Shanghai Grand Theatre has planned the "Fall in Love with Shakespeare" art season throughout the year, in addition to shakespeare series performances, but also launched a large number of art education, public experience and interactive activities.
In the activity of "Reading Is Not Lonely, There Is Drama and Spring", the "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" will continue the performance broadcast, art education, public interaction and other links, and will also lead the audience to fully appreciate the eternal charm of this drama giant's works beyond time, space and region from the dual perspectives of classic interpretation and contemporary interpretation.
Dominique DeRomgul, the Chinese director of the stage play Frankenstein and former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, planned a two-year global tour of Hamlet in 197 countries on the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 2014.
The tour was fraught with difficulties, challenging wars, viruses, and cultural differences, and was later codified as "Hamlet Globe To Globe with Shakespeare Around the World." The "Great West YOUNG Gathering" invited director Dominique DeRomgul to explore in depth how this drama, written in the 16th century, touched the hearts of people in different countries and regions around the world, and how it affected and changed the world of theater.
Bai Shangwu, a young director of "Xiao NianQing", and the Experimental Fanatical Theater Troupe were invited to bring a contemporary theatrical work adapted from the classic text, Hamlet on the Street. At that time, the actors will walk along Songjiazhuang Avenue in Beijing's Fengtai District, narrating the interpretation, and working with the audience in Shanghai to complete this synchronic walking drama online and offline.
In addition, the audience also had the opportunity to connect with director Chen Yiyi to observe the real-time rehearsal process of the happy twist version of "The Merchant of Venice" for the first time, and chat with Director Chen about shakespeare and his exposition and understanding of his works.
The art class of the Shanghai Grand Theatre will bring gold medal lecturer Han Bin to share "See the Literal: Verdi and Shakespeare", analyzing the musical life of composers and the Shakespeare elements in Verdi's opera works.
The internationally renowned new generation choreographer Christopher Wilden's romantic shakespeare "Winter's Tale", tailored for the Royal Ballet, is called a masterpiece of modern narrative ballet and will be rebroadcast as one of the time-limited returns of the Shanghai Grand Theatre's "Tour Station Zero".
"Reading" is not lonely, and the "head of the literary and art group" opens online interactive companionship
On the "World Book Day" ushered in in this special period, the "Onishi YOUNG Gathering" still hopes for reading, on a kind of community-style sharing, in a prudent, optimistic and firm way, while responding to external crises, and reconciling with internal anxiety. To this end, the "Reading Place is Not Lonely, There Is a Drama and a Spring" activity specially launched the "Drama People and You Reading Together" unit to create a new companion reading experience for the audience.
Chinese Hong Kong drama and film and television actor Xie Junhao will share an excerpt from the novella "Opposite" by Liu Yihuan, the grandmaster of hong Kong's new literary generation, in Cantonese.
As Liu Yihuan's most cinematic work, "Opposite Upside Down" is full of dramatic tension, showing the interweaving of memories and expectations through narrative two-line parallelism, which has become the source of inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's film "Fancy Years".
Zhu Hongxuan, founder of Peking University Nine, will read excerpts from the biography of female Justice Ruth Bud Ginsburg, "Moments of Dissent", and interact with the audience online.
Referring to the reasons for choosing this book, Zhu Hongxuan said: "If we often feel discouraged in real life, then the difficulties she has faced will only be a hundred times greater; if we are worried about our lack of ability, then she has set us an example of continuous effort: Ginsburg, who cannot be taken away by the god of death, she fought until the age of 87." ”
Zhai Song, the actor of the Chinese version of the musical "Brothers Karamazov", will bring excerpts from the novel "Brothers Karamazov" by the literary giant Dostoevsky, and the reading will be carried out in the form of interactive lianmai, and Zhai Song and the audience who successfully signed up will play the roles together;
Visual artist Ma Liang will also bring excerpts from the biographical collection "Undercover on Earth".
Folk musician Xiaohe and independent animation and filmmaker Ma Weijia will launch a unique "Pushing the Window to See the Mountains and Seas" Twin Cities Connection Chanting Concert in their homes in Beijing and Shanghai, pushing the windows to make music, that is, seeing the mountains and the sea, hoping to soothe the hearts of the listeners with music.
The new generation of musical theater actor Shi Bowie will bring "from sound to body" voice decompression training, share the scientific vocal secrets of musical theater actors, and lead the audience to relieve the emotional pressure of isolation at home in the process of practice;
Zhang Qindan, a young musical theater actor who has appeared on stage in the NewBox musical theater new sound unit and is also well known to the audience in the musical "Human Disqualification", will bring a small home exercise class to experience the fun of home sports with a period of aerobic dance exercises that promote heart and lung vitality.