Bai Dabenqu is a kind of folk rap art in Dali Bai area of Yunnan Province. It matured in Ming Dynasty and gradually lost its original stage because of a single artistic style. "Yuanyang Lu" combines the non-mate-rial cultural heritage of the Bai nationality Dabenqu with modern drama, body drama and modern puppet drama, and carries out experimental innovations in the text and performance style of the original repertoire. The Bai Dabenqu has been changed from "telling stories by rap" to "performing stories by singing and dancing" without stages. lt is expected that the Bai Dabenqu will cross the language gap by artistic means so as to realize the cultural transformation that adapts to history and retains its own characteristics in the new era. Yang YunyiYang Yunyi, the producer, director, scriptwriter and the protagonist of the drama "The Mandarin Ducks". Graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy as a full-time Master of Arts. Member of the Shanghai Recitation Association. During the studying in the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she won the "First-Class Scholarship" for many times and was awarded the "Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Theatre Academy". In 2012, she won the national scholarship. In 2017, she won the "Gold Award" in the dubbing group of the Nanjing Xiaqing region "Xiaqing Cup" Recitation Competition. She always adheres to the combination of theory and practice, and has ever taught performances and lines in many universities in Shanghai with good literary accomplishment and professionalism. She participated in many stage plays in Shanghai, and the representing works are as follows: The Flower is Scheduled, Old-fashioned Comedy, The Memories of the Bats, The Wild Swan, The Phantom of the Castle, Youth Inn, The Last Moment, The Comedy of the Mouse, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Court Truth and so on. The works of poetry recitation are as follows: The Dream of Emigrants The Chinese Dream in the large-scale literary evening 2017 the Night of the Emigrants, and My Song in the large-scale recital concert YouthChina.
The work is based on The Old Man and the Sea, one of the most famous novel of E. M. Hemingway. The suppositive way and the realistic style used by it shapes the collision and fusion between Chinese culture and the Western. Its stylization, virtuality, minimalism and form sense are the basic principles that have formed the work. What performs in the stage is a recreation of the work with the elements of traditional Chinese theatrical art. The combination of traditional impressionism and modern realism in the field of drama shortens the mental distance between stage and audience and also creates a special experience in both real life and art performance for the audience. Ma XiaoAt the age of 9, MA Xiao started practicing Peking Opera and specialized in male martial arts roles. He has performed kabuki drama New Three Kingdom in Japan for 300 performances over the span of three years. At 19, he attended the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts majoring in Drama. After graduation, he became an instructor at the academy and directed an experimental Peking Opera version of "Romeo and Juliet" and devised performance of Russian poet Konstantin Simonovs "Wait For Me". In the past 10 years, Ma has developed his own artistic style through acting, directing, script-writing, and continuously researching new ways to fuse traditional Chinese Opera with drama. At the same time, under the mentorship of Zhang Jiasheng, Ma studied audio language. He published several articles from his research and brought Chinese opera, drama and speech programs to local primary and secondary schools.
The libretto of this work has been adapted from The Painted Skin, a short story by the Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling. Its strange plot and strong moral message have made it a classic. Our version seeks to interpret Pus story from a modern perspective, adding new layers by fleshing out the characters inner worlds and exploring the moral message of the story, which raises eternal themes of desire, temptation, sacrifice, and free choice. Both the music and libretto embody Chinese elements, and the stage action integrates physical movement with singing in a profound way. On these two foundations we hope to bring about an innovation in the form of classical Western opera and give this classic tale a new life on stage. Wang ShiruOur main area of research is the integration of elements from physical theatre into opera, providing an impetus for vocal expression and challenging the limitations of rigid singing. The aim is to achieve a more engaging and deep expression on stage through the amalgamation of the body and the voice. Additionally, we seek to introduce elements from Chinese art forms such as traditional Kun opera, striving to help international audiences understand Chinese culture and developing a particularly Chinese style of operatic performance.
All of us might open a "jar" in our life.A desolate wilderness, there are three human called Large, Medium and Small playing with a jar and each had his own metaphor for it.Then, a scholar began to join the team, followed Large, Medium and Small together to play, explore and study... What is it in this jar? Is it a treasure? A steamed bun? Or...?It might be difficult for audiences to understand this play because there will be a series of absurd lines from time to time. For instance, like the character who will open the jar in the play, what seems to be doing is quite reasonable, but in fact it is meaningless and a bit ridiculous action. It used prophecies to awaken what people might have been through. In addition, the style of the play will be the same as zhangs interpretation of the script, with a "most rustic, clumsy, and silly" attitude to show the script that a hint of the expression.
This production of the National Theatre in Sibiu is an abridgement after Oedipus in Colonos and Oedipus King by Sophocles and surprises by the force of its almost cinematographic vision which of the directors montage which combines the real with the imaginary, developing a poetry of heartbreaking details. „Oedipus is one of the most beautiful texts of dramatic literature. As noted before, I returned to the Greek tragedy after many years, which was an occasion to practice again my appetite to create the same images with which I had not worked for a long time, the director declared, during the rehearsals in Sibiu.
Original programs will be performed by outstanding young magicians from Shanghai,Hong Kong,and Macao respectively,which are exciting and full of adventure.Moreover,magic of hand-colors,spiritual magic,interactive magic,magic on a large scale are also included in the programs,presenting illusion and reality,and bringing visual feast to the audience in Shanghai. Mysterious and unknown shows are coming soon.
The play is inspired by a true story that took place in North Carolina in 2014. This drama is for Michael Morones, Grayson Burce and all the boys and girls who, like them, have been abused and bullied without anyone around them doing anything to avoid the tragedies. ‘The Pony is one of those plays one would never miss. It reveals the agony thousands of young victims in the world have suffered, provoking peoples thought on freedom, fear and protection. It reflects how adults turn a blind eye to bullying among minors in our society. In ‘the Pony, the author and the director help the audience remove the bandage on their eyes to face the reality.
The play Struggle tells a story about three generations looking for, waiting and watching. The performance takes one and a half hours. Wang Wan shan and gai hua was the sweethearts lover, but they were separated from the change because of the relocation. They met each other and missed because of coincidence. Finally,gai hua married other man .Many years later, Wang Wan shan meet gai huas daughter. The fate revolved around him. He was involved in emotional conflicts with Liu Bao er. Their is a question here, is there have true love between each other or only because her mother. They waiting for love or for exile? Many years later, Liu Baoers son, Wang Si hui, felt the imprints and shackles of his fathers ancestors when they encountered love choices again in their adulthood. The blood of the family continues through the transmission of genes, and each generation has a faint interest in the choice of truth love. In order to break through the emotions passed on by the previous generation, everyone has made a self-denying effort to earn a reincarnation.
Zhong Yang was the professor of School of Life Sciences in Fudan University, tutor of Ph.D. and cadre sent to support Tibet. He was unfortunately passed away by car accident in September, 2017. During his lifetime, he collected more than 40 million seeds of thousands of kinds of plants, establishing botanical gene base in China. As an educator, he has trained several Doctors of Botany in Tibet. The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC posthumously honored him as Model of the Times in March 2018. CPC posthumously memorized Zhong Yang as Nationwide Outstanding member of CPC in June 2018.
(...)You have passed through the world and you have given shape to the world through your deeds. Look into the world, into the shape of the world.(...)Groans and curses will pursue you, chase after you.You are as powerful as God, who bears the world on his shoulder. The Harvest refers to the rituals accompanying harvest and the cycle of husbandry, nature and human life, conceptualised ethnographically (inspired, among others, by Oskar Kolbergs studies and Zofia Kossaks Polish Year), as well as anthropologically and philosophically. The narrative axis of the show is delineated by the trope of the return of Odysseus, based on Homers classic epic and Stanisław Wyspiańskis The Return of Odysseus.
‘The honesty of emotions, the intense movements, the superb performance and the professionally-trained dancers. A Hong Kong AudienceWhen the truth in words is no longer decipherable, then perhaps, the most naked truth lies in the symbols of physical movements.Chater Road is a three-lane road in Central, Hong Kong, named after Sir Paul Chater. It begins at its intersection with Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road Central in the west, and ends at Murray Road in the east.
Most Things havent worked out, in the last episode of youth. Just like a force squeezes you put from the party of teenage, I rolled down the window and shout: NO REGRET TO MY YOUTH!
The concept of art theatre, which features theatrical elements, has been formed by taking music as the core and combining it with the ideas of multimedia vision and installation art. Eight works are presented as an attempt to explore from different dimensions and spiritual temperament the "modern Western interpretation of the traditional Eastern spirit". Music, media, installation and other artistic techniques play a leading role in the works: the enthusiastic Xinjiang-style meets the deep restrained Blues with the help of the traditional chamber music, dancers dance freely in the New Age style for the string quartet, the dialogue between the modern a cappella and the traditional morin khuur constitutes a wonderful polyphony, and the beats in the music transcend the boundary of races. Following the concept of the post-theatre, From East to West has attached equal importance to the music and other elements of the theater. Unlike the music or theatrical theater, it makes elements such as painting, performing, music, dance and drama different roles on the stage, generating a new tension in the same space as time goes by. This is also what is peculiar to a crossover art theater.
Ramesh Meyyappan is an internationally renowned visual theatre artist, whose last major work Butterfly was a huge hit at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Off-Kilter is a dark, comedic, highly physical production, incorporating illusions and masterful, non-verbal storytelling.Joe Kilter has his own daily ituals-some even call it obsessive. But then a sudden change in his routine turns his world askew: Joe Kilter goes Off-Kilter. Feeling increasingly isolated, his life feels impossible, until he is forced to exist in darkness.Off-Kilterexplores mental wellbeing, identity, feeling a little bit different from everyone else, and not quite being yourself.
Jiulian, with her iconic lotus feet, was a women living under the yoke of patriarchal rules. However, Jiulian never stopped her fighting against the social conventions, and loved bravely following her inner calls. Born like a reed in a ruthless fire, Jiulian was doomed to be devoured by all the social chains upon her. Loving and beloved, but discriminated and unrecognized, she finally fell into her ultimate destiny. This piece of work combines Jiulians life story with elements of Chinese Folk Dance to present a womans fate in a traditional society through modern dancing arts.
Cocoon–Metamorphosis I Am The Silk Road used modern composition method, western musical instruments, electronic music samples, Jazz, Chinese folk music, religions music, ancient court music and local opera elements. It seeks true harmony and connection of the eastern and western music by taking elements of Chinese philosophy and arts into a contemporary context that reflects Wangs cross-cultural life experience.This piece is composed for a chamber formation that includes violin, contra bass, electronics, shakuhachi, bass trombone, saxophone and percussion, to create delicate textures that express both a yearning for home and the restless urge to travel and discover the new.Cocoon–Metamorphosis I Am The Silk Road traces Wangs personal journey from her musical beginnings in the traditions of the guzheng through to her involvement with the avant-garde scene in London and Australia.
The program is the result of the collective creation of outstanding young actors of Yunnan Provincial Theatre Company and the young backbone teachers of Yunnan Arts University in the training process of "Yunnan Provincial Youth Drama Senior Talents Physical Drama Training International Workshop" instructed by the Canadian Smith Gilmore Troupe. Four of the performances were selected.
In the vast depths of the ocean, an uncommon voice joins the singing of the other whales. Ordinary whales sing at a frequency of 15-40 Hz, but this special whale sings at 52 Hz.What does this mean?It means that other whales can never hear its voice, and so it sings an unrequited song. This dream is not the dream of one girl, but of all girls: each of us faces the world alone. But when this dream becomes an eternal nightmare, or perhaps when the girl willingly confuses the dreamworld and reality, at this time, she becomes the lonely whale, transformed into a holy warrior, who dedicates herself to realizing her destiny.This play is not so much a reflection on the relationship between parents and the millennials, but rather is an expression of the challenges that the younger generation will face as future parents.
The"Merry-go-round"tells four stories about love, each lasting about 15 minutes. "1-45" tells of the memories of one youth and one girl on the bus; "19:56" initiates a bedtime love discussion; "Goodbye my dancer" looks for a lifesaver Among thousands of people; and"Marry Go round"sends ones ex-girlfriend a way for the last time. Love has always been like a Merry-go-round in a playground. Some people are sitting on and off, and some are watching at the side. Someone sitting and laughing, Someone is dizzy, Someone looking forward and someone giving up. Is love a fairy tale or nothingness?
At Zixu county, there is a scholar named Hesheng who obsessed with painting ghosts and foxes. After he hears that Taoist priest Wang have once met a fox 30 years before, he comes to the Wangs Taoist temple to find out. It was just when Hubugui, a fox disguised herself as a girl came to the temple, who wants to catch the heartbreaker Wang for her aunt. While when the talented man meet the pretty girl, they fall in love with each other. At the same time, Bai Wuxia, the daughter of prime minister, who admires Hesheng and disguised herself as a fox comes to the temple. Between human and fox, there are two legendary stories have been traced.