Inscription: 20 years old, youthful and vigorous. Open the floodgates of memory and look back at you at the age of 20, whether you are swimming in the ocean of knowledge to explore the infinite mysteries, or strolling through the beautiful campus to feel the smell of books? Are you immersed in the boundless happiness of love, or have you already begun to taste the hardships of life? However, when a beautiful love is forced to involve the love and hate of the family and country, and when the ambitious ideal encounters the darkness of reality, what choice will they make at the age of 20......
On the evening of May 17, the acrobatic drama "Yongding Mountains and Rivers" produced by the Beijing Acrobatic Troupe ushered in its first performance at Wansheng Theater. The heroes and heroines of the play, Hua Yongzhi and Fang Dingyu, like contemporary youth, are eager to revel in the beautiful campus with the fragrance of birds and imagine immersing themselves in the world of books with the fragrance of Hanmo. However, in the context of the Japanese army's full-scale war of aggression against China in 1937, they resolutely chose to protect the splendid mountains and rivers with their blazing youth, composing a magnificent and gorgeous song of youth. The reporter of "China Enterprise Daily" was invited to watch the first performance.
From a modern perspective, it arouses the patriotic style of contemporary youth
Yongding Gate, founded in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1553), means eternal stability, is one of the classic city gate buildings in Beijing, and is also the southernmost landmark building of the central axis. Yongdingmen, which is over 400 years old, is like a witness of time, witnessing the development of Beijing and China's prosperity and strength. Liu Mingqiu, the screenwriter of "Yongding Mountains and Rivers", said that the original intention of the creation of the play was to evoke the patriotic fashion, youth, love, career, and destiny of contemporary young people from a modern perspective...... When faced with a myriad of personal choices, where should we young people go? Looking back at history, it is the feelings of countless enthusiastic young people who have achieved the quiet years today, they have broken new ground in overcoming thorns and thorns, worked hard in the chopping waves, and devoted themselves to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the name of youth. And what kind of youth answer sheet will be written by our contemporary young people is worthy of our serious consideration.
The 360° rotating stage depicts the aesthetic paradigm of "new acrobatics".
"Yongding Mountains and Rivers" is a 2022 funded project of the Beijing Culture and Art Fund, the play draws on the essence of flyover acrobatic art, so that the flyover acrobatics such as middle flags, leather strips, soft steel wires, flying silks, straw hats, one-handed confrontations, etc., are staged in turn on a cool stage that can rotate 360°, or show the blood and strength of the Chinese youth demonstration, or exaggerate the tense atmosphere of the fierce confrontation between our army and the Japanese army, or interpret the lingering and beautiful love of the hero and heroine, or reproduce the heroic and indomitable spiritual strength of the Chinese people. Through the first-of-its-kind 360° rotating stage + side stage extension device, the narrative space of the stage is expanded, the aesthetic paradigm of "new acrobatics" is expressed, and an all-round immersive physical art experience is created for the audience.
The bright light of the south central axis shines on the flyover stage for the first time
The play uses cutting-edge and trendy stage art installations to create poetic and imagery movable stage scenes, turning the magnificent landscape of Beijing's south central axis into a shining pearl on the entire story line, showing the unparalleled brilliance of Beijing's central axis. At the same time, combined with the real scene on the central axis of Beijing, the whole play cleverly visualizes the traditional acrobatic props such as drill rings into a new design, and uses light and shadow to form a strong sense of visual impact, showing the "difficult, strange, unique and beautiful" of flyover acrobatics.
Three series of IP repertoire to build a blending aesthetic style
Founded in 1957 in Tianqiao, the sacred land of folk culture in Beijing, the Beijing Acrobatic Troupe is the inheritance and protection unit of the intangible cultural heritage project "Tianqiao Juggling", which continues the origin of modern acrobatics in New China - Tianqiao Acrobatics. In addition to creating the Beijing cultural IP repertoire "Yongding Mountains and Rivers", the Beijing Acrobatic Troupe combines fashion elements and traditional acrobatic arts, innovates the "Acrobatics+" model, and promotes the integration of traditional culture and modern civilization. In recent years, the Beijing Acrobatic Troupe has rejuvenated the unique new style of Chinese acrobatic art through the new acrobatic IP repertoire of Creation Myth "Fighting Water", "The Battle of Zhuolu", "Four Seasons" and "Earth", and explored the breakthrough road of acrobatic art in the new media era through the classic text adaptation of the IP repertoire "Spring Hope - Little Radish Head", jointly promoting the generation of a blending aesthetic style that is both traditional and modern. (Reporter Zhang Yan)