On April 20, 2022, the first "Dance Rhyme And Auspicious Dance Performance Season" launch conference planned and created by the Auspicious Grand Theatre was held at the Jixiang Grand Theatre, which also marked the official opening of the first "Dance Rhyme and Auspicious Dance Performance Season".
The combination of strong and powerful, a total of a thousand years of painting
Dance is the language hidden in the soul, often interconnected with the warmest feelings of human beings. As Wen Yiduo said in "Speaking Dance": "Dance is the most direct, most substantive, most intense, sharpest, simplest and most sufficient expression of the mood of life." "When excellent original dance dramas are closely linked to traditional culture, when top independent dancers and dance teams enter the theater, an unknown and wonderful experience has already arrived.
The dance performance season specially invited mr. Zhao Liang, a contemporary dance artist, as the special artistic director, and invited Zhao Liang, Yang Hailong, Gao Yanjinzi and Wang Yabin, four well-known dance artists at home and abroad, to bring their four prestigious dance drama works. The luxurious performance lineup, the timeless and intriguing four dance dramas, not only domestic and international awards, each of which is immersed in the epitome of Chinese culture.
From May 13th to 15th, Zhao Liang Studio will bring the "Magic Tea Mystery Sutra" of "Entering Zen with Tea, Great Vulgarity, And Complete with Color, Sound and Fragrance", and the middle gap of Mr. Zhao Liang's Oriental Spiritual Desire Trilogy. The repertoire was inspired by a cultural relic unearthed at Fufeng Famen Temple, a world-class set of royal tea sets by Emperor Li Yan of the Tang Dynasty. The performance takes "tea" as the cause and "dance" as the guide, and cuts from the perspective and clues of the national treasure to embark on a Zen-like dream journey. This play has been supported by the National Arts Fund in 2015, performed nearly 100 times, and has repeatedly represented Chinese modern dance to visit for cultural exchange performances, and has been well received and sought after everywhere it goes. This work integrates traditional Chinese culture with Western modern art techniques, pushing the depth and philosophical speculation of Oriental aesthetics to a new height.
From May 20th to 21st, Yang Hailong Studio will bring the dance drama "Journey to the West". The play is adapted from the story of "three dozen white bone essences" in the famous book "Journey to the West", and the word "姽婳" alludes to the seemingly non-existent form of "heart demon". The work is not committed to restoring the storyline of the original work, but takes the "sand monk" with the least ink as the visual entry point, focuses on the "internal contradictions" and "psychological logic" of the characters, gradually enters from the perspective of "outsiders", starts from the obvious "fruit", peels back the cocoon layer by layer to find the original "cause", and leads the audience to explore the deepest human nature.
From May 27th to 28th, Gao Yanjinzi, Artistic Director of Beijing Modern Dance Company, will present the dance drama "Three More Rains and Wishes", which was invited to perform as the opening ceremony of the 2006 Venice Biennial. The dance drama is the creator's understanding and expression of "reincarnation": because the "wish" has not been fulfilled, it is impossible to really leave. The work attempts to express the contradictions and conflicts between inner ideals and the external world through the most common "flowers, birds, fish, insects, and grasses" in life, hoping to explore the truth of the soul in the rebirth again and again. It is worth mentioning that the choreography and performance method of the work adopt the Western theatrical structure and the new dance body application technology, but the work chooses the blue, red, black, white and yellow of the five elements in the color setting, the "patch" of the Dan horn in the opera on the makeup, the "relying on the flag" in Chinese opera on the costume, and the "dusting" on the props and the opera performance... The collision of Chinese and Western cultures has made the tension of dance drama appear.
From June 2nd to 3rd, Wang Yabin, artistic director of Yabin Dance Film Studio, will bring the film and television adaptation work "Qingyi" to meet the audience, the dance drama "Qingyi" adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Bi Feiyu, in the form of modern dance and classical dance integration of dance drama into the audience's vision, since the premiere, continuous praise, deeply loved by the audience, so far more than 100 performances. "Qingyi" tells the dream life of Peking Opera actor Xiao Yanqiu, and describes the touching story of Qingyi Xiaoyanqiu's obsession with the art of opera and her pursuit of a lifetime. Abin Dance Studio and international creative forces interpret the ups and downs of female artists with minimalist stage style, full of character emotions and moving dance body language.
Dedicate yourself to a feast
This dance performance season not only has a distinct theme of national style, but also a very prominent personalized color. Each dancer fully demonstrates his personality and innovation on the basis of inheriting Chinese culture, so that the audience can fully appreciate the innovative beauty of various dances while watching the performance.
Pass on the spirit for culture and establish a realm for dance. In addition to cultural content innovation, this dance performance season has also innovated in space. As a professional opera performance front, the auspicious grand theater has an extraordinary spark of unique architectural characteristics, cultural background, compact theater space and modern dance performance. In order to more perfectly present the stage performance and stage effect, and be closer to the emotional communication with the audience, the four dance dramas have been rearranged in combination with the new space of the theater, so that the beautiful dance vocabulary, the unique dancers in the industry and the classical beauty of the theater are perfectly integrated, which is very ornamental at the same time, and fully shows the characteristics of the auspicious theater "small and fine" and "elegant and beautiful".
In addition to press conferences and nine public performances, from mid-May to early June, the first "Dance Rhymes and Auspicious Dance Performance Season" will also invite dance, architecture and other industry experts to open a cross-border forum on "Dance, Urban Renewal and Culture". In addition, the auspicious grand theater will also successively launch the performance guide, class visit, signing party, master lecture and other peripheral activities of the four top dancers zhao liang, Wang Yabin, Gao Yanjinzi and Yang Hailong in the form of "benefiting the people", with the intention of building this project into a cultural innovation brand with dance as the foundation, breaking through the inherent model of the theater, recreating the new trend of performing arts, cultivating new cultural formats, increasing new consumption methods, and releasing new consumption momentum.
Work hard and tell the story of China well
China's excellent traditional culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation and the spiritual pillar for the Chinese nation to maintain its vitality. China's dance culture is a wonderful artistic treasure of the Chinese nation, and what is better than dance is the cultural self-confidence hidden behind it, and cultural self-confidence is a more basic, deeper and more lasting force in the development of a nation. Shouzheng innovation is the constant pursuit of the auspicious grand theater. As a "theater in the sky" with both traditional and modern styles, the auspicious grand theater has a distinct spiritual core. On the one hand, we should strive to build a high-end performance platform for opera art and make it an important inheritance and dissemination base for excellent traditional culture; on the other hand, we should actively build a flexible and efficient market-oriented operation mechanism, adhere to "traditional culture, modern expression", attract young audiences, and cultivate theaters to become a new landmark of Internet celebrity punch cards and cultural tourism. Relying on the historical and cultural background of Wangfujing Golden Street and the Centennial Theater, this dance rhyme and auspicious dance performance season will create a new brand of dance performance that combines traditional culture and contemporary art, inject high-quality cultural content into the Wangfujing area, and strive to make it an annual dance culture feast in Wangfujing area and even Dongcheng District.
As the first theater in Beijing's inner city, the Auspicious Grand Theater not only has the courage and courage to make drastic changes, but also has an international vision with a global perspective. The leading dancers of this dance performance season are well-known at home and abroad, not only have many performance experiences in other countries in the world, but also have international award winners. The four dance dramas are also "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The Visual Design of the Tea Mystery sutra has a strong international creative lineup, and the dance drama "Three More Rains and Wishes", which was invited to the opening of the Venice Biennale, is also prestigious.
In order to effectively make use of the geographical advantages of the "International Exchange Service Window", in the future, the Auspicious Grand Theatre will uphold the spirit of "traditional culture, modern expression", explore "Chinese characteristics, international vision", and explore valuable experience with the first "Dance Rhyme • Auspicious Dance Performance Season", and the next few seasons of the performance season will strive to attract more outstanding dancers at home and abroad to join and strengthen international cultural exchanges and cooperation. In the prosperous world, shoulder the heavy responsibility. The auspicious grand theater is willing to walk with the new era, tell Chinese stories well, and help the brilliant Chinese culture shine on the world stage. (Li Zhijun)
Source: Guangming Network