Soon after the CCTV 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala ended, "Moon City" Xichang will usher in another artistic event. On November 7, "Li Dong", the 2021 China Xichang Daliangshan International Drama Festival will arrive as scheduled, and nearly 50 wonderful plays from all over the country will be unveiled and concentrated, and a variety of international forums, theme activities, art markets, and extension spaces around drama will also come.
It is worth mentioning that three plays "Hamlet" will appear in the festival at the same time: the version directed by Pu Cunxin and jointly created by the Shanghai Theater Academy and the Tibet Autonomous Region Repertory Theatre, which integrates the teaching practice content and the personality of Tibetan actors; the version rehearsed by the Xi'an Drama Theatre, full of avant-garde elements, gives a certain new solution to Shakespeare's famous drama; the version brought by the Chao Drama Art Studio, created by the Chinese actors of the Riga Suzuki Tadashi Theatre in Japan, reflects the method system of training actors by the drama master.
In addition, the drama "Li Bai", "Leaning Tower of Pisa", Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain", experimental opera "Old People's Heart", national opera "Hear Soma", Daliangshan native song collection "Catch the Set", etc., will be staggered in 14 performance venues in the exhibition space such as fire space, wood space and water space, so that the diverse charm of "national tide" can be fully displayed.
As the only drama festival held in China in winter, the Daliangshan International Theatre Festival was co-sponsored by 25 Chinese and foreign artists and cultural scholars, including Pu Cunxin, Liao Changyong, Jidi Majia, Alai, Wang Xiaoying, Ayunga, etc., in Liangshan, Sichuan in 2019. "It's a pure theatre festival with unlimited prospects." The evaluation of Tobias Biankorn, Director-General of THE ITI of UNESCO International Theatre Association, speaks to the excellent foundation and bright future of the Liangshan International Theatre Festival.
The "national tide" has given a new life to Chinese culture
This year's drama festival focuses on the concept of "National Tide Drama Festival", like the two sessions in previous years, fully relying on the unique natural scenery, humanistic style and national customs of Liangshan Prefecture, emphasizing the attributes of "natural stage and natural appearance". During this year's drama festival, the children of Xu Zheng, Tao Hong, Mei Ting and many other well-known actors will bring a children's experimental drama "Mirror Flower Edge" with both childlike interest and depth.
Considering the needs of epidemic prevention and control, this year's theater festival will adopt a combination of online and offline methods to fully display the full picture and wonderful moments of the feast. The "Drama is Life_ Vajiva" drama video platform, which is specially created for dramatists, will also be fully launched during the theater festival, so that audiences who cannot attend the scene can "close contact" with various performances and various activities.
Pu Cunxin, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the China Dramatists Association, said that it is necessary to "use drama to let the world see Liangshan, and use drama to let the world see China." "Taking the drama festival as a platform to build an artistic highland, build a stage for artistic exchanges and collisions, and let the local national resources of Liangshan and even the excellent culture of the Chinese nation attract the attention of the world, which is one of the purposes of the drama festival held in Daliangshan."
At the beginning of the establishment of the Daliangshan International Drama Festival, it came with the mission of incubating the industrial chain. At this year's Drama Festival, a number of professional drama, film and television forums will be held, covering artistic creation, art education and industrial chain development. The World Lighting Engineer Conference, hosted by the Lighting Professional Committee of the China Stage Art Society, will land in Daliangshan for the first time, and the script copyright fair will also be held during the drama festival, and the copyright implementation copyright trading activities will be carried out through online and offline methods.
Create a new business card for the integration of culture and tourism
Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province and is the largest Yi nationality settlement in the country. Here the sun is abundant all year round, the fruits and vegetables are fresh and sweet, the rice noodles are spicy and refreshing, and the small barbecue is nourishing and oily... Not only that, Daliangshan also has rich and diverse cultural and tourism resources, such as Xichang Satellite Launch Base, Qionghai Wetland, Yanyuan Lugu Lake Mosuo Homestead, Zhaojue Valley Kede Alpine CloudLand, Huidong Laojunfeng Jinsha Valley, Mianning Yele Muyang Valley and so on. Ethnic cultural resources have unique charm, and multi-ethnic cultures such as Yi culture, Tibetan culture, and Mosuo customs shine together.
The wind of drama is awakening the seeds of humanity and nature in Liangshan to grow.
In 2019, the first Daliangshan International Drama Festival was successfully held. 42 works from China, the United States, Germany, France, Japan, Israel, Romania, Australia 8 countries ignited the Xichang warm winter tour, 12 days 335 various theatrical performances attracted more than 20,000 audiences to participate, Daliangshan "Chinese Drama City" business card has been sprinkled to the world.
In 2020, the second Daliangshan International Theatre Festival bucked the tide and became the only international theatre festival in the world to overcome the impact of the epidemic. 50 plays, 306 performances and 167 related activities have shown the world the artistic pattern and cultural tourism charm of Shanxi Chang in Liangshan. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 10 million tourists entered Liangshan during the drama festival, which effectively promoted the comprehensive recovery and development of the marketing of Liangshan and Xichang cultural tourism.
"The things carried by the Daliangshan International Drama Festival may be different from other domestic theater festivals," said Liu Kang, the operator of the theater festival, the party secretary and chairman of the Liangshan Cultural Tourism Group, saying that the festival is more for value cultivation, in order to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation and promote rural revitalization services, using drama to pull the entire industrial chain of Liangshan's cultural tourism industry, and ultimately serving the social development and people of Liangshan.
As a highlight of "drama tourism", this year's Daliangshan International Theatre Festival will unite Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities, Yunpan and the nine western provinces and regions of the North-South Silk Road to launch the activity of "a drama trip to the landscape and chase the sunshine", and launch a variety of travel modes that facilitate tourists, such as drama charter flights, drama trains, drama buses, and theater self-driving.
Not only "please come in", but also "go out", in addition to the dramas from Ningbo, Guangzhou and other places that are currently performing in Xichang, the plays incubated by the Daliangshan International Drama Festival will also be performed across ningbo, the Yangtze River Delta and other places, pulling the joint promotion of cities and regions on both sides, and effectively promoting the integration of culture and tourism. The Daliangshan International Theatre Festival not only explores the fusion of Eastern and Western theater cultures, but also takes the step of cultural exchanges in eastern and western China.
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Author: Tong Weijing
Editor: Xu Luming
Editor-in-Charge: Wang Yan
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