After work, you can experience an immersive drama with friends, watch a passionate concert on the weekend, and watch a wonderful dance drama with your family in your spare time. Since the beginning of this year, all kinds of performances have been splendid, and the performance market in many places across the country has ushered in a "good start". The rising popularity of dramas, dance dramas, music festivals, etc., and the vigorous development of new "small but beautiful" performing arts spaces, have fully released the potential of cultural consumption.
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The reporter learned from the China Performance Industry Association that in the first quarter of this year, there were 119,000 commercial performances (excluding performances in entertainment venues) across the country, with 38,869,900 spectators. The box office revenue was 10.8 billion yuan, an increase of 116.87% over the same period last year, and the national performance market got off to a good start, achieving a good start in the three dimensions of performances, box office, and number of spectators.
Recently, professional theaters have performed a variety of popular plays, and the enthusiasm for watching and spending has not diminished. The original drama "Spring Dawn at Su Causeway" is based on Song Yun aesthetics, integrating contemporary aesthetics to lead the audience into the spiritual world of Su Dongpo, and the dance drama also presents an obvious phenomenon of "getting together", with many original dance dramas such as "Dream of Red Mansions", "Li Bai", "Only This Green" and "Peacock" being staged.
Zhou Liya, chief choreographer of the dance poetry drama "Only This Green": The whole stage is like a scroll, and all the pictures are rotated, so it is actually a process of unfolding the scroll, allowing the audience to travel through the millennium in two hours.
In addition, small theaters and new performing arts spaces in many places across the country are deeply loved by young people, and through the linkage of various formats through performing arts, new scenes and new experiences are created, moisturizing things silently allows people to feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture, and adds new scenery to urban culture.
The folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" pays tribute to the classics from the perspective of youth
In the interview, the reporter found that the original dance works that combine traditional culture and modern stage art are deeply loved by the audience. At present, the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions", which has won the 13th "Lotus Award", is being performed in many places across the country. Since its premiere in 2021, it has toured more than 160 shows so far.
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The play uses stories such as Daiyu's entry into the house, Concubine Yuan's provincial relatives, Baochai's fluttering butterflies, Tanchun marrying, Baoyu losing jade and other stories to connect the original works of "Dream of Red Mansions", abandoning the conventional traditional narrative method around the love line of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, but focusing on portraying the group portraits of the young girls in Jinling, reflecting their joys and sorrows in the Grand View Garden.
The dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" has put a lot of effort into the details of stage art and costume design, with retro-style props and beautiful stage design, every time the frame is frozen, the stage picture is like a delicate ancient painting.
Costume design of the dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" Li Kun: Through cultural understanding, we refer to Sun Wen's picture books, as well as some elements of Beijing-Kunming opera, and add some of our own understanding and design.
On the basis of Chinese dance, the dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" adds opera elements such as cloud steps and water sleeves to show the aesthetics of classical Chinese dance. In the climax of the dance drama, the young creators added the expression of modern dance, which formed a huge contrast with the previous ten traditional chapters, bringing a shocking visual impact to the audience.
Liao Yi, producer of the dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions": Our version of the dance drama highlights the word "nation", that is, our traditional Chinese culture, which is presented in this dance drama, especially from the perspective of young artists, so it is more easily accepted by young audiences.
"Dance drama fever" highlights the vitality of Chinese culture
Since the beginning of this year, dance dramas have occupied half of the popular stage performances. How to adapt dance drama classics to pay equal attention to inheritance and innovation, and how young directors and dancers can take the lead?
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With the emergence of more and more "popular" dance dramas, "dance drama fever" has gradually become the norm in the performance industry. "Dream of Red Mansions" was full in the first half of the year, the tour of "Li Bai" received many praises, "Only This Green" and "Poetry Memories of Dongpo" successfully went to sea, and excellent works such as "Wing Chun" continued to emerge, demonstrating the vigorous vitality of China's excellent traditional culture in the new era.
Feng Shuangbai, Chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association: These dancers have a new creative concept, and they strive to achieve creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture.
Rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture but not bound by tradition, the creators of dance drama have realized the transformation of modernity through innovative expression, and have chosen to create art with a new generation of audiences that are closer to the cognitive characteristics of today's young people. Most of the popular models in "Dance Drama Fever" are based on the theme of excellent traditional Chinese culture, but most of the groups watching and discussing are young people. Many young viewers even watched it for the second and third times, and while watching and appreciating, they would also exchange and discuss on social media platforms.
Feng Shuangbai, Chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association: There are several dancers who have their own traffic, and I think I am very happy that the art of dance drama has developed to such a state now. I think one of the most important things is to sink down and seriously figure out the laws of art, to really go deep into life, and to be able to jump out of it.
Editor in charge: Jia Hongwei