China News Service, Beijing, January 31 (Reporter Ying Ni) The "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" which lasted for more than three months recently concluded successfully in Beijing. This performance season is the "Beijing Dance Cultural Brand" launched by Beijing Dance Academy at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. A total of 47 performances and 90 performances were staged in six well-known theaters in Beijing, with a total audience of more than 40,000.
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The "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" gathers the artistic power of Beijing Dance Academy and integrates the resources of domestic high-quality performance institutions to create an all-round, multi-level, and wide-coverage creative performance platform, including the "Northern Dance Performance Series" and "Taoli Cup Performance Series" A total of more than a thousand teachers and students participated in the seven sections of the "Young Dancers Performance Series", "Teaching Achievements Performance Series", "Graduation Season Performance Series", "Invited Play Performance Series" and "Special Activity Series", which fully demonstrated the college's artistic practice in recent years. achievements at the educational level.
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This performance season comprehensively covers outstanding works created and performed by young dancers, undergraduates, middle schools, graduates, and examination colleges of Beijing Dance Academy, covering Chinese classical dance, Chinese folk dance, ballet, international standard dance, musicals, modern Dance, hip-hop and other professional categories of works. At the same time, the Art Practice Center and the School of Humanities work together to launch the "Beijing Dance Drama Review" dance review brand during the performance season, opening up the industry-university-research-review chain, jointly researching and disseminating cutting-edge art information and representative artistic viewpoints, and encouraging more people to participate. Let more audiences watch, understand and comment on dramas, and let academic research and literary criticism promote the high-quality development of stage art creation.
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In addition to arranging a large number of performances in the school theater, 14 works have also performed more than 30 commercial performances in well-known theaters in Beijing. It is the first large-scale and multi-dimensional external display of the achievements of artistic creation practice in recent years by Beijing Dance Academy; invitation The famous dancer Shan Chong, composer Kang Zhuqing, ballet prince Malakhov, famous Broadway director Zhuoyi and other professional artists have joined in to create and rehearse with teachers and students, and the teaching is mutually beneficial; in addition, Beijing Dance Academy will also have the performance rights of some repertoires Granted free of charge to Tibet, Qinghai and other literary and art institutions to enhance the long-term vitality of artistic works.
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In this year’s performance season, students from all majors of Beijing Dance Academy participated. Students majoring in performance practice get all-round practical training in their performance, choreography, design and other professional abilities; students majoring in theory are deeply involved in the entire process of performance production and management, completing various specific tasks. The Art Practice Center also invites students from relevant majors to serve as "performing anchors" to create a "cloud theater" to break the barriers between physical theaters and expand the influence and communication scope of performances.
Batu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Dance Academy, said that the "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" is a key step in promoting the construction of the "Chinese Dance Works Research and Creation Center" and is also an important step in implementing the academy's "learning, research, creation and performance" integrated dance talent cultivation. The important path is to base ourselves on the land of Beijing, focus on the development of the capital, create a performance season brand featuring dance through resource coordination, pooling wisdom, and striving for excellence, promote the creation of the cultural business card of "Watch Beijing in a Big Show", and help Beijing become the "Performing City" , Construction of National Cultural Center. (over)