Litchi News The magnificent and atmospheric stage effect changes instantaneously, the historical past scenes of the swinging intestines are staged one after another, in the dazzling presentation of sound and light, in the passionate chorus of a thousand people, an epic performance reviewing the party's centennial course is ready to start. On June 29, Jiangsu Province celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with a large-scale singing and singing performance "Always Follow the Party", which will be held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. At present, the rehearsal has come to an end, and the entire cast and crew are putting the final polishing of the performance.
Rehearsal screen
The reporter met with Li Chunyan, the general director of the performance (the Political Work Support Office of the Political Work Department of the Eastern Theater Army and a state-level screenwriter) and Niu Zhenping, director of the Stage Art Center of the Jiangsu Provincial Performing Arts Group and head of the party stage, and they had just experienced an all-night "brainstorming" -- to discuss and adjust the plan according to the effect of the first joint row. Until the interview, the two only saw the stitches and needles rested for two or three hours, but they did not show fatigue, and they were still excited to reveal the details of the performance for everyone.
Director Li Chunyan at the rehearsal scene
Four Chapters: A Hundred Years Since the Founding of the Party
Li Chunyan said: "Jiangsu Province celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, a large-scale singing performance "Always Follow the Party" shows the major moments in the history of the party in the past century in the form of singing, which has achieved a great breakthrough compared with previous performances, which not only embodies the characteristics of mass singing, but also has the epic presentation of large-scale singing evenings with variety shows. ”
The song is the "protagonist" of the whole performance. The 29 songs are arranged by organic art and integrated into the four chapters of the performance, corresponding to the four periods of the new democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and construction period, the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
According to director Li Chunyan, most of these songs are familiar to everyone and have a distinct mark of the times, which can make the audience instantly "return" to a certain era as soon as they listen to it, such as hearing "Song of the Seven Sons" will think of the return of Macao, and hearing "The Story of Spring" will recall the reform and opening up. But the creative team didn't want to stop there, "If you can't use a main line to connect these songs, for the audience, they just heard that song, lack of real feelings." 」 Li Dao said. Therefore, the arrangement, stage design, stage scheduling, etc. work together to rearrange and create classic songs, and then connect the songs to form units according to the theme design, promoting the extension of songs from a single sound expression to a situational expression, giving them new vitality.
More than 3,600 actors shared the stage to present gifts
The actor is the interpreter of the song, so the actor is also the guarantee of the smooth presentation of the performance effect. In order to highlight the mass nature of "the people support the party and always follow the party", there are nearly 2800 students in school (from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing University of Physical Education, Nanjing Academy of Arts, Nanjing Xiaozhuang College, Jiangsu Police College, Jiangsu Second Normal College, Jiangsu Maritime Vocational and Technical College, Jiangsu Provincial Drama School, Nanjing Art Primary School 9 Schools, of which 2700 are college students), participating in choruses, handheld screens, dances, scene performances, etc., with a total of more than 3600 performing teams.
Rehearsing 7 days a week, rehearsing for 3 hours a day from Monday to Saturday, and rehearsing all day on Sunday, these students began rehearsing in school chapters from April 15, and successively entered the Olympic Sports Center joint rehearsal around June 10, and have been insisting for more than 2 months. During this period, students have to learn to sing all the songs while juggling schoolwork and rehearsals. "The students worked together to overcome all kinds of difficulties, which made our creative team very impressed!" Li Chunyan said. The rehearsal site has become a vivid classroom for young students' four-history education, and the process of participating in the performance is the process of party history education. By participating in the performance, the young students walked into the major events of the party's history, incarnated as heroes in the party's history, and echoed the heroes across time and space with their loud singing voices and upright postures.
"Black Technology" blessing presents a magnificent stage
On the stage covering an area of 4500 square meters, a huge group of actors needs to accurately and quickly change the formation and transfer according to the program setting, and the reporter found at the rehearsal scene that this seemingly difficult task is carried out in an orderly manner. Such orderliness, in addition to the need for the actors to be well-trained, is also inseparable from the careful design of the stage.
According to Niu Zhenping, the head of stage art, "There are twenty or thirty sets of design drafts for the basic stage alone. Because the infrastructure has to carry more than 3,000 actors and meet the rapid change of nearly a thousand people, we use various means: such as lifting the platform, or using the visual dislocation method to complete the transition through screen opening and closing. In addition, in order to facilitate the transfer of actors, we also opened up a number of passages under the stage, through the backstage dressing room and rest area, so that the actors can quickly enter and exit the stage. ”
In order to present a more magnificent effect in line with the theme of the performance, the blessing of the stage "black technology" became a highlight of the performance. The small ball matrix composed of 1200 groups of CNC kinetic energy balls is suspended above the stage, sometimes becoming the party emblem, sometimes becoming the regional flag of the Macao Special Administrative Region, and sometimes becoming the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; 400 groups of specially customized remote control handheld LED screens are controlled by 400 student actors, constantly changing the water of the Yellow River, the city wall and other patterns. Li Chunyan said: "The small ball matrix cooperates with the chapter summary to form specific three-dimensional logos such as the party emblem, and the handheld LED screen will move laterally or vertically on the stage, resulting in spatial and environmental transformations. ”
Sphere matrix
It is understood that the use of 1200 sets of movable balls is the largest application of the sphere matrix so far, and the picture it has formed is unprecedented. The use of 400 groups of handheld LED screens is also the first time it has been used in stage performances. "Handheld LED screens used to be used in squares, with large volumes, rendering an atmosphere through aerial photography. In this performance, we let the handheld LED screen and the actor form a kind of human screen interaction, and combine the composition of the handheld LED screen with the stage performance to produce a magnificent scene, I believe there will be unexpected presentation. Niu Zhenping said.
Now that the official performance has entered the countdown, and all the mysteries about the performance will be fully revealed, how will this history of the centenary struggle of the founding of the party be presented? Jiangsu Satellite TV, Litchi News, and My Su Network will be broadcast simultaneously at 21:15 on June 30, so stay tuned!
Reporter/Wang Ye Video/Xie Ziqiang Zhang Yunhe Editing/Song Mengzhen