The artistic spirit of Daliang Mountain is not "cold" if there is a play

  Pu Cunxin: Drama Festival is a new coordinate and is also a cultural tourism IP

  On a moonlit winter night, bright fireworks light up the night sky of Daliang Mountain-the 2021 Great Liangshan International Theatre Festival Drama Ceremony. On the evening of December 18th, it will be staged at the Ajaya Niu Theater in Torch Square, Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Although the annual Daliangshan International Drama Festival was postponed for one month due to the epidemic, it still stubbornly announced to the world that the world's only winter drama festival is back.

  During the ceremony, Peng Tao, Chairman of the International Theatre Critics Association IATC China Central Psychology, and Pu Cunxin, Chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association delivered speeches. The World Theatre Education Alliance and the UNESCO International Theatre Association sent congratulatory letters.

  With the theme of "Return and Gaze", the 3rd Daliangshan International Drama Festival is based on the seven major content fulcrums of drama performance, drama forum, drama incubation, drama education, drama life, drama creation, drama tourism, etc., and is advocating drama creation. At the same time as socialization and drama appreciation are popularized, it focuses on the traditional Chinese opera, red classics, and diverse ethnic elements to show the charm of the national trend.

  This drama festival celebrated the opening of the drama festival with chapters such as ritual chapter, inheritance chapter, fusion chapter and drama warm winter night.

The Inheritance chapter is based on the collective appearance and combination of the theater festival promoters such as Pu Cunxin, Li Ting, Wang Xiaoying, Zhao Miao and nearly 70 old artists in Liangshan, telling the story of Liangshan’s first drama in the past 70 years from the 1950s to the present "Song of Slaves", the first dance drama "Ode to the Slaves", the first musical "Cousin in a Red Dress", the first opera "Yi Hong", the first symphony concert and the dance "Happy promise" The scene review of the creation and performance of classic works such as "Su" and "Age Chase" interprets "Three Enters Zhongnanhai, Four Enters the Great Hall", "Ethnic Songs and Dances from the North to Yanbian and Liangshan from the South", "The Flower of Chinese National Art" and " "The drama takes place in Liangshan" and many other memorable artistic moments.

  The theatre festival is also a stage of integration.

In the past three years, from world street theater, modern performing arts to music performances, vaudeville, drama carnivals... all-encompassing, the unique humanistic charm of Daliang Mountain is integrating contemporary avant-garde performing arts and diverse folk culture into one space.

  In order to interpret this characteristic, the fusion chapter echoes the theme of "national tide" in the drama industry, combines the national dramas of the 14th inhabitants of Liangshan and traditional Chinese opera elements such as Sichuan Opera, Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera, Henan Opera, etc. At the same time, it integrates CCTV Spring Festival Gala and The autumn evening venue-the stage art technology of the Ajay Niu Real Scene Theater expresses the newly created sound and dance drama show, presenting the colorfulness of "Drama Shangri-La" in multiple dimensions.

  Pu Cunxin, chairman of the Chinese Theatre Association who has just participated in the "Cultural Congress", rushed to Daliang Mountain on the same day. In his opinion, the Daliangshan International Drama Festival, as a major cultural and tourism innovation project, demonstrates the continuous, new and fresh Chinese folk song. Cultural vitality.

"Daliang Mountain is a land with literary spirit. We must continue to express the artistic, natural, social, national and international aspects of drama here, linking the drama art communication between western and eastern China, and between the eastern and western parts of the world to create China. New coordinates for literature and art, new IP for western cultural tourism."

  He said that this year's drama festival will focus on traditional Chinese dramas and western national dramas to promote the expression of national trends, and read "Earth, My Mother" aloud, expressing the love of life with magnificent momentum.

  In the next half month, the invited repertoire will be staged intensively, and the performance of the drama festival will continue until New Year's Day.

  Text/Reporter Guo Jia