China News Service, Ningbo, March 30. The dance drama "Eastern Port" created by Ningbo Performing Arts Group followed the 2024 national tour route and "stopped" at Ningbo Station on the evening of the 29th. It was performed by more than 500 port workers and their families. Gather at the performance.
Stills from the dance drama "Eastern Port". Photo courtesy of Ningbo Performing Arts Group
The curtain opened, and a beam of light focused on the center of the stage. As port workers, gantry crane drivers, and technical R&D engineers appeared one by one, the giant ship entered the port amidst the roar of the whistle. The super port that had stood for thousands of years was surging in the sound of the ocean tide. The power of youthful and passionate struggle.
On the stage, the time and space picture of the symbiosis between people and the port made the audience resonate with emotion. From the fiery labor and storm rescue operations of the port construction in the 1980s, to the magnificent scenes of modern technology research and development, giant ship berths, and crane operations, following the scenes on the stage, the audience seemed to have "experienced" the vicissitudes of the times. Using the capacity of a dance drama to condense the entire historical process of China's reform and opening up, "The Great Eastern Port" presents to the audience the process of Ningbo Zhoushan Port's transformation from a small local port into a world-famous Oriental Port. As the pioneer of China's reform and opening up, Zhejiang's spiritual code of leading the trend of reform and setting the trend of opening up for more than 40 years has been uniquely interpreted and interpreted in the play.
Stills from the dance drama "Eastern Port". Photo courtesy of Ningbo Performing Arts Group
Zhong Chengxiang, a librarian at the Central Research Institute of Literature and History and a literary critic, said that "Eastern Port" reflects contemporary industrial themes in the form of a dance drama that is popular with audiences, especially young audiences, and artistically interprets the creative and new exploration of the development and advancement of new productive forces. This is It is a new development of literature and art as portraits, biographies and morals of the times. At the same time, Ningbo holds high local cultural advantages and characteristics, allocates unique cultural resources with a high degree of cultural confidence and historical awareness, is based on the practice of local Chinese-style modernization, insists on following its own path, and adheres to the independence of national spiritual culture. Create the right way.
"For a port worker, the development of port digitalization must be an extremely profound proposition." Chen Qianyi from Ningbo Zhoushan Port Zhoushan Port Co., Ltd. came specially from Zhoushan to watch the performance. "The container terminal production is truly presented on the stage. The operating system is an important step in the development of our port, and it also witnesses our transformation into a smart port."
Stills from the dance drama "Eastern Port". Photo courtesy of Ningbo Performing Arts Group
""Port of the East" is not just a stage art work, but also an affectionate review of the development of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port and an affectionate tribute to the achievements of Chinese modernization, so we specially invited many port workers to watch the performance " Lin Hong, chairman of Ningbo Performing Arts Group, said that creating this work itself is also a self-challenge. It is a true reflection of Ningbo's humanistic spirit of "daring to be the first in the world" and is compatible with the port spirit conveyed in the play. of the core.
It is reported that "Oriental Dagang" will continue to tour Foshan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Beijing and other places to light up the "Light of Dagang" in the hearts of more people. (over)