Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, October 27 (Wang Hua, Liu Jinjin) The media meeting of the large-scale contemporary dance drama "Dragon Boat" was held on the 27th. This is the first mainland drama to feature dragon boat culture.
The play is scheduled to be staged globally in December.
The play creatively transforms the dragon boat culture of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, telling the story of young people in the new era of helping each other in the same boat and winning glory for the country.
"Dragon Boat" has its premiere at the Shunde Performing Arts Center in August this year, the second round of performances at the Guangzhou Friendship Theater in September, and a global performance at the Guangzhou Grand Theater from December 8th to 9th.
Following the great success of the dance drama "Wake Up Lion", the Guangzhou Song and Dance Theater launched the creation of "Dragon Boat". In the past three years, the main creative staff went to Guangzhou Chebei, Panyu, Foshan Shunde and other places to collect and visit dozens of times. Dragon Boat Museum, Dragon Boat Association, Dragon Boat Training Base, non-genetic inheritors, etc., explore the dragon boat mark.
In April 2021, the dance drama "Dragon Boat" enters a closed production line for more than 6 months.
The actors train with the professional dragon boat players, starting from learning the consistent movements of holding the oars, holding the oars, entering the water, and paddling, to neatly and uniformly competing with the champion team, absorbing the spiritual nutrients of the dragon boat players who dare to challenge and break through.
On stage presentation, "Dragon Boat" tried to construct a harmonious and unified aesthetic system.
The music style has strong local characteristics of Lingnan, focusing on the contemporary use of Guangdong traditional music melody, such as adding piano and strings as an orchestrator to perform the famous Cantonese song "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon".
In the stage design, try not to show a specific image, but to create a scene through the combination of media in different spaces and multimedia videos.
The dragon boat race, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, has evolved from a traditional Chinese folk event into an international sporting event and cultural event.
At present, there are more than 50 million dragon boat enthusiasts worldwide, and dragon boat sports are carried out in more than 100 countries.
In 2010, the Guangzhou Asian Games dragon boat became an official event for the first time; in August 2021, the Chinese dragon boat was included in the Tokyo Olympic arena as a display event.
The Lingnan spirit of "dare to be the first in the world" is also vividly reflected in the dragon boat movement. Through the dance drama "Dragon Boat", Chinese traditional culture, especially Lingnan culture, can be better displayed to the outside world.
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