Source Title: Endeavouring for a new journey of literature and art to help “see Beijing in a big drama” – Retrospect and Prospect of the 6th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival
In the summer capital, the vegetation is lush, the pomegranate flowers are like fire, and a blueprint for condensing the capital’s forge ahead and drawing the development of the next five years is slowly unfolding.
Doing a good job in the big article on the development of the capital’s culture has become the driving force and guidance for the capital’s literary and art soldiers to move forward bravely. As the epidemic prevention and control situation continues to improve, major theatrical performance venues in Beijing are ushering in the resumption of work and performances, and the performances of Beijing Tianqiao Art Center have also ushered in a return boom. The boundless scene is temporary, anchoring the new development of the capital, and forging ahead in a new journey of literature and art. Beijing Tianqiao Art Center, as a star in the capital’s performing arts territory, will do a good job in the construction of Beijing’s national cultural center, assist in the creation of the new business card of “see Beijing in a big drama”, and contribute to the high-quality development of the capital’s literature and art.
Continue to write wonderful, “Spring” repertoire returns to the stage
At the beginning of 2022, the 6th Tianqiao·Chinese Spring Art Festival has started various intensive preparations. According to the original plan, there will be 22 excellent stage works and nearly 100 wonderful performances to meet the audience; many literary and artistic celebrities will join in; a variety of member activities, theme forums, and public space activities are also in full swing at the same time.
However, the sudden epidemic made all preparations press the pause button. Now, with the resumption of work and performances, most of the selected plays and activities of the festival are expected to return in the second half of the year. Tianqiao Art Center will strictly implement the epidemic prevention policy, consolidate the responsibility of epidemic prevention, and strive to create a reassuring, safe and healthy viewing environment for the audience, and ensure that the performances and various cultural and artistic activities are carried out in an orderly manner.
The highly anticipated musicals “The Orphan of Zhao” and “Born to Be a Couple” and other newly created high-level musicals in recent years have been rescheduled; “, etc. are also being staged in the near future; although the annual assessment subject “Dancing to Spring” brought by the China Opera and Dance Theatre failed to dance in the spring, it has been scheduled for September, and the seasons have changed, but it is equally exciting. Although these plays failed to meet the audience in the originally agreed schedule, but good plays are not afraid to wait, and the wonderful will be continued.
Stills of the musical “The Orphan of Zhao”
Stills of the musical “Born A Couple”
Stills of the drama “Mixed, Zeluo or Salad”
Stills of the play “William and Me”
The stills are provided by the various producers
Gather masterpieces and build a “drama” array in the second half of the year
In the second half of the year, in addition to the postponed repertoire, Tianqiao Art Center will also be based on the function of the capital’s cultural center, lead the drive of cultural consumption, focus on domestic high-quality original productions, and bring audiences covering musicals, dramas, operas, dances, children’s plays, etc. Category of high-quality repertoire.
The musical “I’m Waiting for You at the End of Time” is adapted from Zheng Zhi’s novel of the same name. It invites young actors such as Lin Yanjun, a new generation of popular actors, and Aladdin, a member of the voice into the heart. The musical version is worth looking forward to its debut on the stage; Russian musicals The Chinese version of “Anna Karenina” will premiere at the Tianqiao Art Center in the second half of the year, interpreting Tolstoy’s immortal love tragedy in Chinese, which can be called the “Lifetime Series” in the hearts of thousands of audiences; The Chinese version of “The Count of Monte Cristo”, which is the producer for the first time, will also strike strongly in the second half of the year. This “Chinese and foreign contest” will become one of the audience’s expectations.
Drama camp, focusing on originality, Lai Shengchuan’s ancient and modern spy war theater collage password “Yao Yaodongba” will be staged again, starring Ni Nixuan has been out of the drama stage for a long time, looking forward to reuniting with the audience; the poetic realism drama “Skin” is adapted from the phenomenon-level fiction of the same name A collection of essays, asking and answering the answers that 300 million displaced people most want to know. These high-quality plays will be presented one after another in the second half of the year, activating the energy pool of domestic original plays.
Dance, ballet and other performance types are also full of surprises. The “Beautiful Crying” dance drama “Only Green” will be exhibited again at the Tianqiao Art Center, bringing the audience a magnificent artistic experience; the Sanbao musical selection concert “The End of the World” can be described as Gather classics and illuminate the end of the world with music; the fantastic journey of “Detective Ai Xiaopo” can’t wait to start an adventure with the children. The colorful and good dramas are staged one after another, jointly building a “drama” array in the second half of the year to meet the audience’s all-round and multi-level viewing needs.
Stills of the dance drama “Only Green”
Innovative ideas to adapt to the new situation and new ecology
As the only art complex on the South Central Axis, in the second half of the year, the Tianqiao Art Center will achieve a comprehensive upgrade in the construction of public art space and popular art education, and actively promote the application of the Central Axis to the World Heritage List. The series of activities of “2022 Central Axis • Night Bridge Open Day” will be officially launched in August. Through public performances, forum lectures, cultural visits, public art exhibitions, cultural markets, and reading promotion activities, it will show the backbone of the ancient capital of Beijing. With the style of the century-old flyover, the ancient central axis glows with new brilliance.
“Weekend Art Gathering” is a public art education brand created by Tianqiao Art Center. In the second half of the year, there will be drama and performance workshops, Yin.Yue series theme concerts, celebrity lectures, theater tours and summer music. The drama camp will also focus on the planning and dissemination of online content, including the music gift “Orff Children’s Music Online Workshop” for children, “Reading the South Central Axis-Tianqiao Culture Talk” focusing on the central axis culture, and Listen to the “world famous songs and their stories” on the other side of the world on this side of the cloud.
Although work and performances have resumed, under the objective situation of normalizing epidemic prevention and control, art institutions need to actively innovate their ideas and expand their horizons to adapt to the new situation and new ecology and better serve the public. Online content and services such as Cloud Theater, Art+, membership system, etc., connect online and offline, and expand traditional offline performances to cyberspace. Online live broadcasts, online screenings, online guided tours, direct connections to artists, and the flexible extension of online membership services have all created a new relationship of viewing performances, and have also met the diverse and multi-dimensional viewing needs of audiences to a certain extent.
The future is promising, the journey is long, and the power of art allows us to go through many obstacles and run towards each other. The vitality and energy of the Spring of Art have been accumulated. The experience here is waiting, but also energy. In order to meet the audience better, it is also an excellent time for the repertoire to be polished and sublimated.
Mission leads the direction, goal gathers strength. The capital, Beijing, has embarked on a brand-new starting point for a new journey, sounding the clarion call of the times to strive to compose the chapter of building a modern socialist country in Beijing. Beijing Tianqiao Art Center will continue to adhere to the concept of “Beijing’s Tianqiao, the world‘s stage, and the public’s art space”, practice the sincerity of the original mission, the firmness of ideals and beliefs, and the heaviness of the mission, and help the capital’s high-quality literary and artistic development.