Chinanews.com, Beijing, November 21 (Reporter Ying Ni) As an important force in Beijing's performing arts landscape, Beijing Tianqiao Art Center has ushered in the seventh anniversary of its opening and operation. The celebration started with the sound of the gong.
Some brand event posters.
Photo courtesy of Tianqiao Art Center
On November 20, 2015, Beijing Tianqiao Art Center, a cultural and artistic complex with both classical and modern flavors on the south central axis of the capital, officially opened.
Over the past seven years, Tianqiao Art Center has been committed to accelerating the development of innovative cultural formats and building a new pattern of cultural industry integration.
Establish the operating characteristics of focusing on musical theater, drama, dance drama, opera, children's drama, concert and other performance forms simultaneously, to stimulate the inner vitality of performing arts, so as to meet the increasingly diverse spiritual and cultural needs of the public.
So far, it has performed 1,157 excellent plays in more than 30 countries and regions, 4,503 performances, received 2.69 million audiences, and accumulated more than 3,000 members.
Tianqiao Art Center has successively created Chinese Spring Art Festival, New Year Performance Season, Rhyme·Beijing, Tianqiao Musical Performance Season, Lao She Drama Festival, Centennial Fenghuayao Chuxin and other brand art festivals that are popular with the public.
At the same time, it actively helped Beijing’s Central Axis to apply for World Heritage Sites. Through the opening of theaters, it launched a variety of themed open activities such as the Poetic Life Festival, Jiuqi Opera and Drum Tianqiao City, Weekend Gatherings, and Central Axis · Night Bridge, integrating cultural activities and arts. Create a high-quality public cultural service system in the form of cultural creation, education and training, and art exhibitions.
Some posters of well-known dramas.
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On the occasion of the seventh anniversary, a series of celebration activities with the theme of "Live up to the 7 dramas and enjoy the future" kicked off.
"Fifteen Days in Two Capitals", "Wan Shui Facing East", "GOODBYE", "Yao Yao Dong Ba", "Anna Karenina", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Shakespeare Alone", "Only This Green" and other stage masterpieces, The "drama sharing" matrix for the 7th anniversary was built, and at the same time, 7 major special events and 7 zero-distance live broadcasts were launched, leading the audience to go deep into the front and back of the stage to meet the multi-level and personalized viewing needs.
A series of art promotion activities on the South Central Axis Night Bridge were also launched at the same time, meeting the public in the form of online live broadcast, 32 colorful cultural activities for the benefit of the people, including online public performances, cloud travel exhibitions, online fairs, online Live broadcasts, online forums, etc., use the "South Central Axis" cultural landmark to continue the historical context and spread contemporary values.
In addition, art training focuses on the cultivation of talents in the industry. The 4th Musical Theater Professional Talent Training Class is themed "Looking Back at the Origin - The Road to Industrialization of Chinese Musical Theater". It brings together domestic and foreign first-line tutor teams to help create original musical content creation.
Establish a youth musical theater troupe, and build a multi-disciplinary training system for musical theater troupes and musical theater education with an international perspective by building three major courses: stage experience, professional courses, and comprehensive literacy.
Art popularization focuses on audience expansion and public welfare brand building. Over the past five years, "Weekend Art Gathering" has been deeply cultivating the 3+X innovation model, constantly presenting high-quality literary and artistic content, fulfilling the social responsibility of the theater, and striving to build the preferred activity brand for citizens' artistic life.
A series of art promotion activities on the South Central Axis Night Bridge.
Photo courtesy of Tianqiao Art Center
According to the relevant person in charge, after the seventh anniversary, Tianqiao Art Center will also base itself on the brand positioning of "watching musicals to Tianqiao".
Taking the Chinese version of the musical "Phantom of the Opera", "Almost Normal", "My Bucket List", "The Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty", "In the Distance", "Sanxingdui" and "The Hidden Corner" as the main body, it integrates the dramas "The Protagonist", "White Deer Plain" and " The Ordinary World, The Dream, and the dance dramas "Five Stars Out of the East", "Spartacus" and other masterpieces jointly build an all-round "drama" to enjoy the future" artistic feast.
At the same time, relying on the cultural core bearing advantages of Xicheng District, the first "Beijing Skybridge World Stage - International Cultural Exchange Forum" will be organized to facilitate cultural exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.
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