Shanghai Happy Horse Puppet Theater Activity Center Shanghai Happy Horse Puppet Theater Activity Center is associated by Professional Puppet Acting Team; Professional Children Theater Team; Children Educational Team; is one of the best puppet theater group in Shanghai. Hobby Horse Puppet Theater is dedicated into inheriting and developing Chinese traditional puppetry culture; as well as running a program called "Youth Puppetry Training Organization " which is going to develop more of the Youths members to understand and develop the puppetry art. In recent years, Happy Horse produced over one hundred public performances in Shanghai and performed in over fifty schools. Happy Horse has also been showed up in some local TV Channel such as Shang Hai Oriental Local TV Channel on the program called Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, Guang Dong Local TV Channel Puppet Movement and etc. Come Across In Childhood is a story about love and growth. In the story, there are two papermen fall in love with each other. From the first encounter and acquaintance then being brave for pursuing love and end up as a sweet love, just like everyone else having their first love. It presents the pure love belong to everyone. Come across in Childhood is not as same as the traditional puppet show, it is a new element puppet show by creativities, using the abandon paper to create paperman to present the shyness, movement and love emotions and so on. Even though this is a dumb show without dialogue in the story with, it is full of romantic love.
A smooth collision between popular music and opera was adapted from "The Story of Liaozhai-Laoshan Taoist". Based on the principle of opera borrowing, it integrates contemporary music, replaces "singing, reading", and replaces new programs created by contemporary body methods. "Do, Hit ". One person, one song, one scene, one scene. A contemporary quest for immortality began.There are many reasons for the selection of the Taoist priests of Lushan. The most important point in the script is its main idea: "You cant get it without hard work."According to the analysis of characters and the inspiration of classic movies, the concept of unicorns was obtained, and in the characteristics of their lyrics and lines, interesting passages that can be used as accompaniment BEAT were sampled.
Fluorescent stick dance originated from WOTA art, and has developed from the act of responding to help to develop into a unique art form with ornamental. Fluorescent rod dance performance, more choice of contemporary pop songs, with the melody of the song, lyrics using fluorescent rod performance, is a different from traditional dance, a special form of performance, innovative, ornamental. The dance performance of the fluorescent stick dance is very hot and inspiring. Smooth movements, the performance process at the same time pay attention to teamwork, a good display of the positive and youthful spirit of contemporary youth.
LION DANCE – Performing Traditional Dance in a Modern WayFrom martial arts to dance, a new perspective to contemporary dance Traditional lion dance incorporates such elements of Chinese culture as kung fu, feng shui formations, acting masks, traditional costumes, dance and drama. From a modern perspective, lion dance, which appeared earlier than the concept of contemporary art, is definitely its prototype.LION DANCE marries traditional skills with contemporary dance concepts, redefining and paying tribute to the lion dance culture in a form of public art. This also reflects the elasticity of combining contemporary dance and art with traditional skills, in line with the trend of international contemporary art.The cross-disciplinary team work their magic on new, unique elements that evolved from traditional folk art, creating a contemporary Hong Kong-style lion dance that is an exciting martial arts-dance crossover:◆ They use the techniques of personification and objectification typical of lion dance to add a contemporary touch to the characters. Young choreographers, lion dance performers and tricking athletes demonstrate difficult stunts, such as human pyramid and plum blossom piles. The theatrical setting effectively shows the essence of traditional lion dance moves. ◆ The gong-and-drum sequences of traditional Chinese music and lion dance are rearranged in a contemporary way, with the addition of electronica, interactive audio-visual installation and live music. Together they bring audiences into a reimagination of lion dance and lion dance theatre from a contemporary perspective, taking them on an oscillation between traditional and experimental music.◆ The southern-style Chinese lion dance, which showcases colourful and fierce appearances, takes reference from masks of Cantonese Opera. The dance is led by a ‘Big-headed Buddhawith a fan in hand who performs interesting and surprising feats. The site-specific choreography of lion dance fully utilises the space surrounding the audience, enthralling them with lion dance moves such as preparing for action, emergence from the cave, cross the mountains, pluck the greens, jump on piles and hike up the terrace. Contemporary choreography and performing skills bring lion dance theatre into the modern context, blurring the boundary between the traditional and the contemporary, and broadening the imagination of lion dance culture.
The last king of Shu Liu Shan has been called a lame duck for thousands of years for the allusion of Indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty. This famous perished king was on the throne for more than 40 years and even more remarkable, Liu Shan was the only perished king in the long history of China who received a peaceful end, called Duke of An Le.When Zhuge Zhan and his son rushed to Mianzhu to fight to the death with more than 70 thousand soldiers, Liu Shan was still in Chengdu. What was he thinking? And what was he doing? At this critical moment of survival of the country, how would he face his father, ministers, people and families?
"Their musicianship is exemplary, from the tastily acoustic to the percussive and inventive, this is a real balm for the soul stuff; and theyve got the kind of vocalist who really knows how to hold your attention, too. Bravo" - The Crack Magazine. Dansi bring the live show that has dominated British music festivals and venues for the last year to Shanghai. Performing all original songs penned by the band this is set to be a very special Chinese debut concert for Dansi.
The journey is like a journey of life. We climb a mountain but we see another mountain in the distance. We go on and repeat infinitely. We looked forward and saw an endless distance.
Shanghai Theater Academy Musical Center was founded in 2012 by Prof. Wang Luoyong, a famous Chinese performing artist, reputed as First Chinese Personality in Broadway, an expert of One Thousand Talent Program in China, Shanghai "Oriental Scholar" and professor of drama teaching at the University of Wisconsin-milwaukee, the USA.The major of(Musical)Musical Center Performances(Musical)follows the teaching concept of "promoting skills by famous dramas " and "Learning from doing, uses classic Broadway musicals and famous Chinese and foreign dramas as the main teaching materials, and integrates research, teaching and production with an aim to cultivate people to be both morally and technically sound modern musical talents.Currently, there are totally 114 undergraduates, including graduated students enrolled in 2012, and the at-school students enrolled in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In addition,there are two graduated MFA students and two graduating MFA students. The classic Broadway dramas used currently for teaching and performance include Miss Saigon, Rent, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Modern Millie, Spring Awakening, Touch, Picture Day, Grand Hotel, I Do, I Do, West Side Story, 42nd Street, and Hair.
Everyone is separated from each other by barriers. Indifference and loneliness slowly become our cells. They reproduce in our bodies.In modern society, people are buried with instability, closed despair, isolated communication barriers, people and caged animals. Therefore, time is just a symbol, a symbol that is fading away. In the noisy, complicated and crazy modern cities, people squirm like a colony of worker ants every hour of the day.The pursuit of material is also eroded by material and eventually alienated by matter.《Lost Time Turning Around》This is the story of a park bench, a ridiculous bloody struggle to monopolize the bench.A person who wants to use suicide to save others, and another person who kills himself because he hates himself.The monologue monologue, the loneliness of existence, the morbid absurdity, and the ridiculous weep... On the grassland, fencing off spectators and actors in the zoo is a better way to convey the sharp drama of "survival pain".《Lost Time Turning Around》This is an absurd drama, the story contains a lot of metaphors, it can let us look directly at the pain, worthy of careful taste. It is hoped that the audience can think through it of the precious lost in the survival of modern people, not afraid of the truth of life, let time turn.
"Qi", as an experimental dance drama, is made up of artists from the Act and Dance majors, presenting the external of "Qi" and the spirit of "Qi"; and using the core technology of the BODY ARCHITECT training method: the micro body 25 moving points to develop the body, form body language cipher, body building space, and Space forms dialogue and interaction.What is the body? What is the essence of dance? What is the language of the future? This has always been the source of my creative enthusiasm and the chance of every step. As a dancer, an artist, the relationship between the body and the spirit, I have been concerned and actively practice the theme in recent years. What is the meaning of our choice to be "human"? What is the composition and possibility of "man"? And so on, these thoughts inspire me to start the imagination, conception and creation of this work, try to find a spontaneous internal structure of the interaction between the body and the space, and we will start from the unknown improvisation, establish or find order from it.
The Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble endeavors to preserve, inherit and develop Chinese music culture in Hong Kong. The concert Voices of Hong Kong will show the audience the succession and development of traditional and modern Chinese chamber music in Hong Kong.The programme includes works of Cantonese Music virtuosi, they are Thunder in the Droughtby Yan Laolie, In Celebration of Good Times by Yau Hok-chau, Autumn Moon over a Placid Lakeby Lui Man-shing, Rain Lashing on the Plantain by Ho Lau-tong, an ancient tune Meditations in the Boudoir, and other works of Hong Kong famous composers, they are Koel on Mount Parker by Clarence Mak, Lotus Pond Balladeby Sierra Tse, By The Nan Lian Garden by Chan Wing-wah, and The Joy of Tea-pickingby Lo Leung-fai.The concert is an epitome resembling the evolution of Hong Kong from a small fishing village to one of the worlds best known metropolitan cities nowadays and it also demonstrates Hong Kong-specific cultural characteristic combined with tradition and modernity.Acknowledgement: Supported by Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative RegionDirector/ Speaker: Pak Tak-wan ChristopherDirector: Chan Chiu-yinCoordinator: Shek Yuk WuStage Manager: Lee Yau Chung JonesAdministrator & Stage Assistant: Leung Chung YanPerformers:Chan Kai-him(Erhu/ Gaohu)Tse Kim-fei(Zhonghu/ Yehu/ Percussion)Kwok Ka-ying(Yangqin)Wong Ling-yan*(Pipa/ Qinqin)Chan Sze-tung(Zhongruan/ Daruan)Chow Lai-kuen(Zheng)Ho Siu-cheong(Dizi/ Xiao)Kwok Shing-cho(Sheng)Co-concertmaster
We are break the boundaries and combine the form of dance theatre to walk out of the classroom and leave the stage. We show our persistence and thinking of environmental protection with the most original artistic intention in the outdoors. Use your body to feel the flow of air, and use your soul to speak of our desire for mother earth. We call on everyone to attach importance to the environment and protect the environment. with him, With me,and with you…Dance Institute, Xinghai Conservatory of MusicTan Hongtao, associate professor, Dance Institute / Head of Director DepartmentYu Wandong, associate professor, Dance Institute / Deputy Director of Dance Institute
"Yongshun, 37, a poor, no only no skill, childless, old age in the home, but his wife America laguna, and injustice. No thought report, decided to accept their bags, besides prostitution, as a eunuch. But this creature, the destruction, the eunuch, became emperor, that day to wash the body, in addition to hair, shave beard, repaired. Dragon robe to add body, alone. But this palace deep courtyard, alone a person, a bird in the cage, is at the mercy, not taste. One day, giving instruction, save one, named Dan baby, different people, Dan baby true words like straws, yearning. Can this feral yongshun, always in the dark, eyes clean ear, rare humble coward. He killed Dan baby, also killed Dan baby."Drama styleDirector : Sun HaochengPlaywright:Hong Qianyun
Story outline: On Christmas Eve, a poor brother and his sister leaned on the window, envious of the life of the rich people living opposite. Of a sudden, an ugly old woman calling herself as “fairy” broke in, conjuring light, bread, cat and souls of other things. The old woman asked them to go together to find the song bird to cure the girl’s disease longing for “happiness”. After travelling through time and space, they found that the song bird was just at home.Original Script by Maeterlinck'sProducer:Han Yongsheng, Song Lei, Liu AixiangPublish: Han Tingting, Hu GenfuOverall Arrangement:Cheng HaidongMarketing: He QiongniContact :Lu NaArt Director: Mi ZenDirector: Meng Zhenyu