"Finding a position in urban development is a new issue facing theater in the new era." At the Fifth National Theater Conference held recently, Zhu Kening, president of the China Performance Industry Association, said that theaters cannot only meet the needs of being a city landmark, not only to meet the performances every night, but to broaden the development path in the context of urban cultural construction, to meet the growing cultural needs of the people, and at the same time to rely on urban economic development to find a greater space for theater development.
With the theme of "Post-epidemic and Post-epidemic - Theater Response at Different Stages", this National Theater Conference discussed the breakthrough and relief of the theater industry, recovery and loss reduction, new space and integrated development. After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the impact on the entire domestic performance industry is huge, and during the epidemic, many performance units are trying to reverse the breakthrough from both directions. The first is to break through the agglomeration of crowds to develop online. The first is the development of outdoor open-air performances through confined spaces, these attempts have achieved some results and explored some experience, but they still need to be explored more deeply.
Scholars at the meeting said that without stage performance art, the performance industry is a scaffolding and will be marginalized. The core of the theater is the stage, and whether it extends to the line or to the outdoors, it is impossible to replace the core position of the performing arts in the theater performance. The top priority of the "post-epidemic period" theater is to do more and do a good job in stage performance art projects, attract more consumers to enter the theater, and restart the circulation of the industrial chain.
Zhu Kening believes that the development of theater should be integrated into the overall cultural construction of the city, and integrated with the unique regional culture of the city, the culture of the urban masses, and the urban economy. In the long run, the integration of culture and technology, performing arts and technology is imperative, the integration of online and offline performances is also the trend of the situation, and development is still the main line of theater.
Another important topic of this year's theater conference is to comprehensively explain the "double norms" of the theater industry for the first time to the industry, and widely solicit opinions from the industry and conduct in-depth discussions in the industry, namely the "Theater Service Specifications" (Draft for Comments) and the "Performance Ticketing System Service and Technical Specifications". It is foreseeable that after the official release and implementation of these two professional documents, it will provide standardized and standardized support for the development of the theater industry to a higher level.
Stills source: Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, SAIC Shanghai Culture Square
Author: Tong Weijing
Editor: Wang Licheng