The most beautiful melody is always played in the magnificent chapter of the times.
Today is the second anniversary of the establishment of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group. In 2019, under the forward-looking planning and decisive decision-making of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the full promotion and support of the Publicity Department of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group was formally established, which also opened a new page for the development of the cultural undertakings of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone.
In the past two years, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group has been hitting the water in the tide of culture in which hundreds of boats are competing for the current, striving to drive on the new development road of reforming the old and the old, concentrating on building a comprehensive large-scale state-owned performing arts group that integrates performance, creation, stage art, theater management, cultural inheritance, and public services, actively exploring the "special zone plan" and "Zhuhai answer" for the reform and development of state-owned literary and art academies and troupes, achieving initial results and entering the "fast lane" of high-quality development.
From roots in the native,
Promote Zhuhai's historical and cultural resources
Works, boutiques
To benefit the people,
Let the masses share the feast of public culture;
From the centenary of the founding of the Party,
Strive to explore literary and artistic masterpieces
The road to innovation that serves major milestones of the times
To promote excellent works "going out",
Launch a modern international special economic zone
"New Business Card of Culture"...
One by one
A magnificent picture of the vigorous development of literary and artistic undertakings,
Spread out on the hot soil of the SPECIAL ZONE,
Accelerate construction for Zhuhai
Regional Cultural Arts Center,
Strive to build a "City of Art"
Provide solid support.
From "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to stepping into the "fast lane" of development
Accelerate towards the goal of building a first-class performing arts group in China
"Literature and art are the clarion call for the advancement of the times, which can best represent the style of an era and the most able to lead the atmosphere of an era." Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to literary and artistic work and made a series of major decisions and deployments, which have pointed out the direction for deepening the reform of the state-owned literary and art academy and troupe system.
Since 2018, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have vigorously promoted the structural reform of the supply side in the cultural field, clearly proposed to further strengthen the cultural industry, do fine literary and artistic creation, do public cultural services, continuously accelerate the pace of building a culturally strong city, and strive to cultivate a unique cultural ecology and urban spirit, and provide richer spiritual food for the broad masses of the people.
Rooted in Zhuhai's profound cultural background and the reform and innovation genes of the special zone, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group has undertaken the important responsibility of prospering and developing socialist literature and art since its establishment, undertaken the glorious task of telling the story of Zhuhai well and spreading the voice of the Bay Area, and undertaken the important mission of being the first to try for the reform of the national cultural system.
It was a heart-pounding departure and a journey through thick and thin. In the past two years, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group has deeply implemented the decision-making and deployment of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, adhered to the promotion of cultural system reform, aimed at building a first-class performing arts group in China, benchmarked the experience and practices of domestic benchmark literary and art academies, and realized the phased transformation from "laying the foundation, setting rules, and establishing beams and pillars" to "strong creation, brand building, and efficiency".
Top-level design, layout of the plot ——
In view of the characteristics of the art industry and the laws of the industry, a streamlined and efficient internal organization is set up, and each academy and group shares resources such as administrative office, artistic creation, stage equipment, and comprehensive support. The Group Art Committee was established, and Zou Jianhong, a cultural master of the Central Propaganda Department and an outstanding talent of the "Four Batches", was appointed as the artistic director, He Zhanhao, a famous music composer and composer of "Liang Zhu", Wang Xiaoying, Xing Shimiao, Liao Xianghong, Li Bonan, a famous director, Zhu Hai, a famous TV literary and art planner, Meng Weidong, a famous composer, Wan Shanhong, a famous singer, Zhou Zhengping, a famous stage lighting engineer, Wang Huiran, a famous national musician, and other well-known domestic art experts served as art consultants. The Art Repertoire Seminar is oriented to the creation and production of major plays of the Group.
"In deepening the reform to revitalize resources and gather advantages, we will move towards the goal of building a first-class performing arts group in China and explore a new way to prosper Zhuhai's cultural market." Zou Jianhong, artistic director of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group, said.
Nesting and attracting phoenixes, cohesion——
Relying on the "Zhuhai Talents Program" and Zhuhai Municipality's Measures for the Introduction of High-level Talents in the Field of Propaganda, Culture and Ideology, a group of high-level literary and artistic talents and heads of professional academies and groups were quickly gathered. Nationwide recruitment, guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, Wuhan, Xi'an, Jinan and other places, layer by layer selection, for the four subordinate academies and groups to gather a group of professional artistic talents. In more than a year, with high standards and high quality, we have completed the establishment and actor allocation of the Zhuhai National Orchestra, Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe, Zhuhai Repertory Theatre and Zhuhai Stage Management Company, completed the reform of The Zhuhai Cantonese Opera Troupe and the full competition for posts. At present, the group has a total of 233 people, basically forming a large number of people, a full range of categories, high level, heavy work of the art of the professional team.
"Choosing Zhuhai is to make a career. Zhuhai's literary and artistic development potential is huge, and I am full of confidence in this! Zhang Tianyu, who was hired as the head of the Zhuhai National Orchestra and former head of the Air Politics Cultural and Labor Troupe, said.
Reform and innovation, dare to try ——
Drawing on the experience of reform and development of domestic literary and art academies and troupes, boldly innovate the operation and management mode of literary and art academies and troupes. Introduce talents with career identity and "one person, one policy" policy, include outstanding artistic talents into the second type system of public welfare for identity protection, and fully stimulate endogenous power with enterprise management. According to the development law of different art types, the management of "one group and one policy" is adopted. Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe, Zhuhai Repertory Theatre, Zhuhai Theatre Management Company and Zhuhai Stage Management Company are led by market-oriented operation, and the Zhuhai National Orchestra and the Municipal Cantonese Opera Troupe take inheritance and protection as the goal, fully excavate the resources of Guangdong music and Zhuhai folk music, and innovate and promote traditional culture and intangible cultural heritage. Constantly enrich and improve the talent training system, for outstanding young actors to build a set of full display of art, encourage competition, more work, more work, better remuneration management mechanism.
At the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe under Zhuhai Performing Arts Group made a brilliant appearance and participated in many programs such as "Running Youth". "I can come to Zhuhai to chase my dreams, and I can also go on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with my friends, and my youth is different and wonderful!" Yin Yina, a 21-year-old dancer from Zhuhai Performing Arts Group, said.
Stills from "Running Youth"▽
Not only the top-level design of "looking up at the stars", but also the deep ploughing of "down-to-earth", in the pursuit of innovation, change, talent, pushing repertoire, creating fine products, breaking into the market on the road, the original intention to guide the way forward, the footsteps are more and more determined ——
The drama "Dragon Tengling Lingyang" presents the first anniversary of the official opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and toured to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, and will carry out a tour of ten places in China next month; immersive poetry drama "In Pursuit of Su Zhaozheng", children's drama "Ocean Story", "Museum Adventure", immersive drama "Yang Zaian" and other works to show the original strength of the repertoire; Zhuhai National Orchestra brought the 2020 Zhuhai New Year Concert, He Zhanhao's classic work special concert "Hero Tears", concert "Music from Dawan", 2021 Zhuhai New Year Concert, "Sing Mountain Songs to the Party" Red Classic National Symphony Concert, etc.; Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe brings "Report to the Motherland" Zhuhai City Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China Literary and Art Evening, Music and Dance Poem "Memory zhuhai - Azure Love", "Beautiful Yellow Poplar Shanya Doumen" theme party, song and dance poem "The Story of Zhuhai" and other works; Zhuhai Cantonese Opera Troupe rearranges a series of folded plays and classic plays, creating and performing modern Cantonese opera "Southern Cantonese Dawn"...
"The high-quality repertoire of various theaters and troupes has blossomed in an all-round way, the speed of creation is fast, and the quality of the repertoire is high, which truly reflects the speed of the special zone, the efficiency of the special zone, and the spirit of the special zone!" Zhuhai Performing Arts Group art consultant and famous composer He Zhanhao said.
Stills from "Music from Big Bay"
Counting the achievements and achievements of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group in the past two years, the group participated in the 14th Guangdong Provincial Arts Festival for the first time, and the original drama "Dragon Tengling Yang" won the first prize, the concert "Music from Dawan" won the second prize, and also won the excellent performance award, the excellent music creation award and other awards. In 2021, the Group's drama "Dragon Tengling Lingyang" won the Fifth Zhuhai Literature and Art "Fisher Girl Award", and the concert "Music from Dawan" won the Fifth Zhuhai Literature and Art "Fisher Girl Nomination Award".
From "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to further advancing towards the "deep water area", taking party building as the guide, taking performance as the central link, taking reform as the main line, and taking talent as the guarantee, it has opened up a new world for the prosperity of Zhuhai literature and art!
Stills of "Dragon Rising Lingyang"
Rooted in red fertile soil, sing the melody of the times
Stir up the positive energy of cohesion in shouzheng innovation
"Since I joined the revolution, I have long put life and death aside." In the middle of summer in July, an immersive drama "Yang Zai'an" was staged in the Beishan Yang Clan Ancestral Hall in Beishan Village, Nanping. Lofty revolutionary ideals, touching and profound mental journeys, and feelings of home and country that are full of vigor and intestines make people feel as if they are in the scene of a hundred years ago, reviewing the magnificent course of struggle of our party and throwing themselves into the "era of awakening" that rose up to fight.
The play by Zhuhai Performing Arts Group Zou Jianhong as the artistic director, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group young screenwriter Yin Qinghua created, Zhuhai Repertory Theatre Director, national first-class actor Xu Jingwei directed, Zhuhai Repertory Theatre young actor Ren Guanyu and other performances, in the Yang Clan Ancestral Hall has performed more than 30 times, not only in the majority of party members and cadres in the response is enthusiastic, but also broke the main theme of the drama spread of the "dimensional wall", welcomed by many young audiences, "This is already my 'three brushes'! "Young "fan", Mr. Dai said.
Stills of "Yang Zai'an"
In the first century, the wind and rain are both up and down, and the wind and peng are moving. 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, on the great journey of revolution, construction, reform, and forging ahead into a new era, the people of Zhuhai have braved the blue strands of the road, cut through thorns and thorns, overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and composed a magnificent epic poem of magnificent mountains and rivers. Looking back at this year, a high-spirited red main melody galloped north and south of the river, and it was even more stirred on the coast of the South China Sea.
A hundred years of glory and original intention, hard work and mission. Zhuhai Performing Arts Group carried out a full-form, all-regional red gift performance, focusing on the proposition of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Party, the Group showed the achievements in the fields of accumulation of high-quality projects and the cultivation of original strength, and successively launched the immersive drama "Yang Zai'an", the immersive poetry drama "Tracing Su Zhaozheng", the red classic national symphony concert "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party", the original Cantonese opera "Breaking Dawn in Southern Guangdong", etc., and the drama "Dragon Tengling Lingyang" was invited to participate in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Guangdong Province. It not only innovated the ways and methods of disseminating party history propaganda and education, but also contributed literary and artistic strength to the more "lively" and "fire" of party history study and education in Zhuhai, and wrote down affectionate blessings for the centennial birthday of the Communist Party of China.
Stills of "In Pursuit of Su Zhaozheng"
Stills of "Breaking Dawn in Southern Guangdong"
A literary and artistic work is a fiery fire; a performance that benefits the people is a warm greeting. In the past two years, the literary and artistic workers of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group have kept in mind the entrustment, given full play to the demonstration and leading role of state-owned cultural enterprises, and actively carried out cultural activities to benefit the people and enjoy the people. In the second half of last year, the theaters and troupes accumulated nearly 120 performances to benefit the people, and more than 230,000 online and offline performances; since the beginning of this year, 6 performances of cultural and artistic activities to celebrate May Day International Labor Day have been held, and nearly 30 activities such as "red performances entering the campus" have been held. Taking the opportunity to comprehensively promote the "micro-facts of people's livelihood", we went to the "Five Towns and One Street" in Doumen to carry out in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's "July 1st" important speech to benefit the people, and held the closing performance of the Hengqin New Homeland Community Theater Literary and Art Evening, so that the people can enjoy a high-level and high-quality "art feast" at their doorstep.
Huimin performance ▽
Seize the opportunity of the times to build a cultural highland
Strive to Explore the "Special Zone Plan" for the Reform of State-Owned Literary and Art Academies and Troupes
The blue waves of the ocean are endless, and the pearl river estuary is turbulent.
In March this year, the Opinions of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government on Supporting Zhuhai to Build a Socialist Modernization International Special Economic Zone with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era was issued. This is a major event and happy event of epoch-making significance in the history of the development of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone.
In September this year, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone" was released. Using the strength of the whole city to support and cooperate with the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone is Zhuhai's unshirkable political responsibility and unyielding historical mission in the new journey.
The trend of the times is mighty, and only the tide can stand at the head of the tide forever. The landing of the national strategy, the opportunity of "four districts superimposed", the magnificent era, and the journey of inspiring people to forge ahead call on Zhuhai literary and art workers to create more exquisite works with feelings, temperature and profound meaning, guide Zhuhai Performing Arts Group to plan the development blueprint with a broader vision, a larger pattern and higher standards, and play a more magnificent and surging "March of the Times"!
In the golden autumn, Zhuhai's literary and artistic undertakings ushered in another "highlight moment". On September 30 this year, the first Zhuhai Arts Festival officially kicked off, in the one-month art time, there are music, dance, drama, opera, opera, acrobatics and other art forms, a total of 14 stage performances 18 boutique stage performances to entertain the audience. The classic drama "Four Generations Together" of the National Drama Theatre, the famous cheng Pai drama "Suolin Capsule" created by the National Peking Theatre of China, and the long-lasting large-scale national opera "Honghu Red Guards" performed for more than 3,000 performances... Famous artists performed on the same stage, the cultures of the north and south collided passionately, and a group of the country's top literary and art academies gathered in Zhuhai with high-quality works. Since then, the people of Zhuhai have had an art festival in their own true sense!
The fusion of music and dance, the reflection of stillness and movement, the link between ancient and modern... At the opening ceremony of this year's arts festival, a local original literary and artistic masterpiece song and dance poem "The Story of Zhuhai" received countless cheers and applause. In order to let the audience have an immersive experience, in terms of stage design, the song and dance poem uses multimedia holographic projection technology to break the limitations of visual space through screens, ice screens, LED screens, etc., and create a sense of dreaminess and perspective on the stage.
"Zhuhai is a fertile land for literary and artistic creation, and holding an art festival in a city with profound artistic heritage and humanistic qualities like Zhuhai can be described as a combination of pearls and a brilliant picture." Through various cultural and performance activities, people can maximize their understanding of zhuhai, and thus enhance the reputation and influence of Zhuhai culture and art at home and abroad. Zou Jianhong, one of the main creators of "The Story of Zhuhai" and artistic director of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group, said.
Stills of "The Story of Zhuhai"
Starting again, a more magnificent journey has begun, and more wonderful "spring stories" are being sung!
According to the work deployment of "creation in Beijing, production in Zhuhai, and market in the whole country", 2021 will become the first year for Zhuhai Performing Arts Group to start a national tour. In May, the Zhuhai Song and Dance Troupe organized the song and dance "Hi Youth" to tour To Huizhou, Fuzhou and Nanning, and the social response was enthusiastic; from July to August, it organized the children's drama "Finding Nemo" and "Museum Adventure" to 20 cities across the country for 20 tours; in September, it launched the "Fenghua Chinese Music Dedicated to the Party" National Music Cantonese Music Star Rookie Concert toured in Dongguan and Huizhou; in November, it launched the national tour of "Dragon Tengling Lingyang"; at the end of this year, the "Cuckoo and golden lotus" tour of Macao and Guangzhou was launched, and the Cantonese opera "Cantonese opera" was launched. Southern Guangdong Dawn" Guangzhou Tour.
A number of fine works with the spirit of the times, Chinese style, Lingnan characteristics, and Zhuhai wind bones are also poised to be launched, including the opera "Tangjiawan Overseas Chinese Batch (tentative name)", the dance drama "Water Bride", the drama "Rong Hong", the drama "Su Manshu", the Cantonese opera "Tang Disheng (tentative name)", and the works commissioned by the Folk Orchestra.
As a tribute to the 22nd anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the establishment of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone, carefully planned and created by the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee, strongly supported and guided by the Propaganda Department of the Macao Central Liaison Office and the Bauhinia Culture Group, the zhuhai National Orchestra's original large-scale national symphony suite "Cuckoo and Golden Lotus" will be premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on the evening of October 29, which is also the first time that Zhuhai's stage art works have appeared in the national art hall.
"Rhododendron and Golden Lotus" vividly shows the unique geographical features of Zhuhai and Macao, and comprehensively tells the vivid story of the people of Zhuhai and Macao who have the same roots and the same lineage in culture, and under the guidance of the "one country, two systems" principle and in the process of comprehensively promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, they are interdependent and integrated. The main creative team of the work specially invited Zhu Hai, a famous curator and writer, the core creator of major national literary and artistic performances such as "The Great Journey", a large-scale situation epic celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, to compose lyrics; Meng Weidong, a famous composer, vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, composer of famous songs such as "The Same Song" and "Sleepless Tonight"; and Li Fubin, conductor, composing professor and head of the Department of Chinese Music of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, composed music. Zhuhai National Orchestra will also invite a number of Macao players to join the orchestra to share the deep feelings of Zhuhai and Macao, and join hands with the Beijing Philharmonic Male Vocal Choir and the Choir of the Central Conservatory of Music to perform together, with a performance lineup of more than 200 people.
In terms of deepening cultural exchanges between Zhuhai and Macao, Zhuhai Performing Arts Group will also organize training in vocal music, song and dance, Cantonese opera, drama and other artistic disciplines for Macao art associations, organize the group's various academies and macao art groups to carry out exchange performances at the grass-roots level of the two places from time to time, jointly create stage art works, hold joint special performances between the two places, and strive to use two to three years to build the Zhuhai-Macao "cultural affinity" brand, and show the new achievements and new practices of Zhuhai-Macao cultural cooperation and exchanges under the background of "one country, two systems".
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"Zhuhai Performing Arts Group was born at the right time, with a long way to go and a long way to go." Chen Wei'an, deputy secretary of the party committee and general manager of Zhuhai Performing Arts Group, said that it will firmly grasp the east wind of the construction of a modern internationalized special economic zone, strive to explore the "Zhuhai model" and "special zone plan" for the reform of state-owned literary and art academies and troupes, create more outstanding cultural and artistic works that reflect Zhuhai's traditional culture and contemporary style, strive to build a first-class and nationally influential bay area literary and art academy group in the province as soon as possible, and contribute a strong literary and artistic force to strengthening the construction of a culturally strong city, jointly building a humanistic bay area, and building a regional cultural highland.
Text/Zhuhai release Zhong Xia Zhang Yingzhu
Photo / Zhuhai release Zhu Xi Zhong Fan Shen Yang Li Jianshu Cheng Lin Zeng Yao
Some of the pictures are from Zhuhai Performing Arts Group
Editor-in-Charge/Blue Dragon
Editor/Tan Weijiang