On the evening of July 26, China Oriental Performing Arts Group's dance drama "Only I Qingbai" held a premiere press conference at the Drum Tower, the northernmost part of Beijing's central axis, announcing that the play will be staged at Poly Theater from August 16th to 18th. China Oriental Performing Arts Group said that it will use the dance rhyme that has passed through the millennium and intertwined with blue and white to add color to the success of Beijing's central axis as a World Heritage Site.
The dance drama "Only I am Qingbai" is jointly produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group, Jingdezhen Tao Cultural Tourism Group, and People's Daily Online Co., Ltd., Luo Bin, Secretary of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, serves as the screenwriter, Yi Jie serves as the chief director and choreographer, and Lu Liang, the composer of "Only This Green", serves as the composer. The play was unveiled at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of this year with a colorful dance segment, and this time it is about to be officially staged, the artistic director of the play, Guo Lei, vice chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, introduced that the dance drama "Only I Qingbai" uses the instrument type as a clue to connect the chapter structure, portraying the typical characters of the Qingbai porcelain craftsmen in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and transforming the porcelain-making action into a dance action vocabulary, forming a contemporary intertextuality with the creative group "Jingpiao" in Jingdezhen today. The story is set in the late Northern Song Dynasty, when porcelain craftsmen from the north moved south. A young man went south to study art and settled in Jingdezhen. He has experienced the changes in the porcelain industry at a historical turning point, and has personally experienced the inheritance and development of porcelain craftsmanship. The kiln fire has been burning for thousands of years, endlessly, and the porcelain has been kneaded into the vicissitudes of history, burned the traces of the years, and condensed the joys and sorrows of the world.
At sunset, an excerpt from the dance drama "Only I am Qingbai" "Quicksand" was performed live in the Drum Tower. Under the city wall of the drum tower, the dancers hold the sand and dance, showing the image of the flow of the season, this dance section also uses a minimalist dance vocabulary to express the pure and true background color of the ceramic blank state, and under the background of the red wall of the drum tower, a "environmental dance" of the unity of nature and man is completed.
It is reported that the dance drama "Only I Qingbai" is starring Zhu Jinhui, Sheng Haozhe, Sui Xiaolong, Xu Jiayu and other young dancers, and will officially meet the audience at the Poly Theater from August 16th to 18th.
Following "Only I Qingbai", the musical "Da Jiangdong Go" will premiere at the Poly Theater from August 23rd to 25th, and the dance poetry drama "Why Meet" will be staged at the Central Opera House from August 29th to 30th, with 2 theaters and 3 new plays in 1 month, and China Oriental Performing Arts Group will create the "Oriental Premiere Month" in August.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
Editor/Qiao Ying