On November 4th, Shanghai Performing Arts World ushered in another new new performing arts space - the small theater located on the fifth floor of the Shanghai Grand Theatre "New Box Performing Arts New Space". As the "testing ground" for the construction of the wisdom theater of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the new box performing arts new space has a number of domestic first attempts in the fields of acoustic effects, boom system, motion capture technology, etc., and the first resident performance "Rock Nine Shi Du" concert tailored for this purpose is about to be staged, showing a performance with avant-garde choreography and immersive sound effects.
The small theater before the renovation was a black box theater that staged "small and beautiful" theatrical works. After more than a year of transformation, it has returned to the public eye as a "new box new space for performing arts", supporting multiple program types such as stage plays, music, high-definition screenings, and talk shows.
The new box performing arts new space has a performance area of more than 140 square meters, with a maximum of 258 seats in the audience seats, 36 hanging poles and 190 speakers on the stage. It is the first small theater in China equipped with a "four-dimensional holographic sound" sound system, which can adapt to the sound field requirements of different types of performances. The new box performing arts new space is also equipped with the "standardized grille transport track" for the first time in the domestic small theater, in the words of stage technology expert Yu Jian, "anywhere you can hang lights and speakers, lift, move and rotate, there is no dead end, where you want to put it." "New box performing arts new space another black technology "real-time motion capture keying module", can record the stage performance in real time, actors do not have to wear additional instruments to obtain fine images, the saved performance content can lay a solid foundation for subsequent multiple rounds of re-enactment.
The Shanghai Grand Theatre is the first international high-grade comprehensive theater built in China in 1998. At the 2018 World Theatre Operation and Development Forum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre and art institutions at home and abroad signed the Shanghai Declaration, "all parties will integrate cutting-edge technology and continue to explore art forms under the new model" is one of the contents, and the construction plan of the Grand Theatre Smart Theater begins with this. In the plan, the ticketing system, the gate system of personnel entry and exit management, etc. are steadily advancing, and the upgrading and transformation of the small theater assumes the role of building a "testing ground" for smart theaters.
The interior of the new box performing arts space retains a black and gray tone, echoing the positioning of the "black box". The distribution of five color blocks in the theater walkway brings about the division of space use. From the entrance of Shanghai Grand Theatre C1, take the elevator to the fifth floor, as if you come to the fashionable punch card, lemon yellow, rose powder, fluorescent orange, deep sea blue, dirty powder... Irregular lines and patches of color are staggered.
Behind the scenes of the theater that the audience cannot see, the backstage area removes the ceiling, which not only facilitates the transportation of the stage set, but also broadens the rest area of the performers, making it a separate working area, which is different from the theater coliseum and the Buick Middle Theater.
On November 4th, the Shanghai Grand Theatre's new box of performing arts new space audiovisual will usher in the first audience to unlock the secrets of the stage. A "theater charm" entrance sound journey is the first to grab people, and the fragment of the Mr's condensed version of the Kunqu opera "Six Memories of Floating Life" is also real and illusory. The combination of mr technology (mixed reality holographic sound) and real-time motion capture technology makes the possibilities for theater performances unlimited. Violinist Wang Zhijiong leads the "Times Trio" and brings part of the "Dvořák Trio terzetto", allowing the audience to experience the immersive feeling of holographic electronic sound masks. Young musical theater actors Wu Junpeng and Zhang Qindan sang the fragment of "Aida", realizing "the sound moves with people", breaking through the traditional "mirror frame" viewing mode and blurring the boundaries between the stage and the audience.
On the same day, new box performing arts new space released the first resident performance plan "new box musical gala", launched by the Shanghai Grand Theatre Creation Center will become a professional platform for discovering new voices and cultivating new works in the future, using the performing arts resources accumulated over the years to provide a stage for newcomers and provide an experimental field for new works.
The first performance of "new box musical gala" will be unveiled from November 19 to 21, with Zhang Qindan, Wu Junpeng, Ye Jiawen, Du Yayi and Yin Zhibo and other selected musical theater new voices, singing "Yoshiya Rental", "Almost Normal", "Rock Age", "Wanshi Superstar" and other musical theater hits. In the future, the new box performing arts space will also be transformed into script recitation, new drama fragment display, and singing performance workshop to provide a platform for new performance incubation.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu
Source: Author: Zhuge Yi