National Center for the Performing Arts British Multimedia Animation Ballet Music Theater "The Nutcracker and Me" January 2024 19:30 on the 5th 14:30, 19:30 on the 6th 10:30 and 14:30 on the 7th National Center for the Performing Arts·Small Theater Recommended viewing age: 3+ (family fun) ©nigel norrington British piano The multimedia animated ballet musical theater "The Nutcracker and Me" presented by artist Alexandra Drescu and ballet dancer Imogen Ashe will be the first to start this "Winter Fairy Tale Journey". On stage, Alexandra sits at the piano while ballet dancers dance behind a transparent veil. A digital animation made of 35,000 exquisite hand-drawn pictures is projected on the gauze screen, bringing this wonderful fairy tale to life. These animations seem to jump out of the screen as the music and dancers interact, integrating with the world of the pianist and ballet dancer, making the audience feel as if they are also in the fairy tale world of "The Nutcracker". ©nigel norrington Alexandra also had an interesting interaction with the elves flying and jumping on her keys. The interactive performance between people and virtual reality was unpredictable and complemented each other. Famous songs such as "Dance of the Candy Fairy", "Arabic Dance", "Chinese Dance", "Pas de Deux" and "Waltz of the Flowers" also run through it, creating a lifelike fantasy world that will make you even begin to believe in the existence of the Candy Fairy! Shanghai Children's Art Theater Multimedia Installation Drama "Small Table Lamp Lua" January 19, 2024 19:30 January 20 14:30, 19:30 January 21, 10 :30, 14:30 National Center for the Performing Arts·Little Theater Recommended viewing age: 7+ "Little Desk Lamp Lua" tells a story about light and shadow.In a shadowless city, everyone is afraid of the dark. People always turn on the lights and use various methods to live in the light, so the shadows have to hide here and there. Until one day, a curious little desk lamp lua wanted to see what was hidden in the darkness. After mustering up the courage to turn off the lights, Lua encountered a little shadow that she had never seen before, which made her feel scared and curious and wanted to touch. The two children tentatively approached each other. China Puppet Art Theater large-scale children's drama "Children of the Country" January 24-25, 2024 19:30 National Center for the Performing Arts·Drama Theater Recommended viewing age: 3 + "Children of the Country" is produced by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee A large-scale children's stage play jointly produced by the United Front Work Department, the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Beijing Performing Arts Group, created by the China Puppet Art Theater and jointly performed with the China Acrobatic Troupe and the Beijing Acrobatic School. This play vividly depicts the simple and true love of the "People's Model" Du Guima from the perspective of a child, truly interprets the historical legend of "Three Thousand Orphans Entering Inner Mongolia", and shows the deep friendship of compatriots of all ethnic groups who love each other and help each other. The story between Duguima and the country’s children conveys four intertwined themes: national hymn, national hymn, maternal love hymn, and labor hymn, showing that the people of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia sincerely appreciate the party’s kindness, listen to the party’s words, and follow the party The glorious tradition highlights the overall theme of "building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation". Children's drama "The Fisherman and the Goldfish" January 26, 2024 19:30 January 27 10:30, 14:30, 19:30 National Center for the Performing Arts·Little Theater Recommended viewing age: 3+ blue sea, Large and small wooden houses and palaces made of light and shadow, from the upper reaches of the field to the big fish below the field... The children's drama "The Fisherman and the Goldfish" cleverly combines visual installations and other artistic methods, from hand-painting, modeling, modeling to setting, it is purely handmade It creates a visual world that is both real and illusory, and allows the audience to embark on a magical journey full of magical colors through an immersive viewing experience. "The Fisherman and the Goldfish" reshapes Pushkin's classic fairy tale in the form of a Broadway-style musical, presenting a new level of interest. It is not only a story education for children, but also a humanistic baptism for parents. Little One·Big Vision Fantasy Storytelling Theater "The Lion King" February 1-5, 2024 19:30 National Center for the Performing Arts·Small Theater Recommended viewing age: 4+ In the thousand-year-old city, a little fairy broke into a From then on, the child's life intersects with the time and space of reality and fantasy... This is his playmate when he is happy and his support when he is confused. The wild boy and his fairy friends travel together, get to know each other, and experience the passing years on the journey of growth. However, this little fairy is a bit unusual, it is a strange "lion"! Baizhifang Taishi, as a national intangible cultural heritage, has a history of more than 260 years in Beijing.As an authentic Beijing lion dance, different from the gorgeousness of the southern lion, the Baizhifang Taishi lion dance has a lifelike shape, accurate expressions, mighty and ferocious, both physical and spiritual, and a combination of ruggedness and delicacy. The fusion of intangible cultural heritage lion dance and contemporary art opens up children's infinite imagination and weaves a story that has been soaked in time into a fantasy world of harmonious movement and silence, interlaced light and shadow. Innocence and imagination, inheritance and watchfulness are all concentrated in this hour of "storytelling". Open this gift of time and let the little lion take us to see a different world! China Children's Art Theater "Canned Man" February 13-15, 2024 14:30, 19:30 National Center for the Performing Arts·Small Theater Recommended viewing age: 3+ "Canned Man" is a Chinese children's art The third Zheng Yuanjie fairy tale produced by the theater, Pipilu and Lu Xixi continue the style in "Red Sofa Music City" and "Rubik's Cube Mansion". Their funny actions and humorous dialogues often make children laugh. , and what attracts them most is the magical and changeable can man. During the performance, the canned man hid in the refrigerator, jumped on the bed, and hid in the closet. His position changed rapidly, which was confusing and aroused great interest among the children, and even many parents were very interested. curious. Jiangsu Provincial Puppet Theater Large Stage Puppet Show "Legend of Nezha" February 24, 2024 14:30, 19:30 February 25 14:30 National Congress Theater · Theater Recommended viewing age: 3+ With wind and rain, lightning and thunder, the protection of the cultural relic Panlongzhu is underway... Time travel, Nezha's birth is different. The puppet show "The Legend of Nezha" is adapted from the traditional story of Nezha Haohai. It cleverly uses sound, light, electricity and holographic projection technology to build the stage and create an immersive legendary world. The troupe is well-known at home and abroad for its performance style of "hardness and softness, delicate and expressive" and its artistic characteristics of "not a real person, but better than a real person". The performance brought this time incorporates Yangzhou stick puppets, human puppets, iron branch puppets, etc., and displays the time travel, Nezha's uniqueness in the world, and the little hero full of justice in front of the audience, which is breathtaking. China Children's Art Theater "Pippi Longstocking" March 1, 2024 19:30 March 2 14:30, 19:30 March 3, 14:30 National Center for the Performing Arts Theater Recommended viewing age: 3 + "Pippi Longstocking" is a dazzling pearl in the world's fairy tale treasure house. This play describes a strange and interesting, free-spirited, innocent and cute little girl Pippi Longstocking. She has red hair, pigtails sticking up to both sides, a face covered with freckles, and a big mouth. One of the long socks on her feet is brown and the other is black. Her shoes are exactly twice as big as her feet. She is so strong that she can easily lift a horse and a cow over her head, subdue strong thieves and robbers, and subdue a stubborn bull and a man-eating shark. She had an inexhaustible supply of gold coins, which she often used to buy candies and toys for the children. She is very kind, warm and considerate towards others.She is joking, adventurous, and comes up with many wonderful ideas, creating miracles one after another... She lives in a small town with the monkey Mr. Wilson, and believes that her father has made Hottentot Island. Chief. Together with two neighbor children, Tommy and Anika, they experienced warm and interesting stories such as going to the circus, attending tea parties, joking with the police, meeting their father again, etc. Beijing Art Center Beijing Acrobatic Troupe, Xiao Dotian· Big Vision co-produces the physical stunt story theater "Four Seasons" January 27, 2024 14:30 January 28 10:30, 14:30 Beijing Art Center·Small Theater Recommended viewing Acting age: 4+ The physical stunt story theater "Four Seasons" jointly produced by Beijing Acrobatic Troupe and Little Point·Big Vision explores the knowledge about time from ancient myths, and integrates interesting stories and stage forms in the play. In the process of telling the story, myths and solar terms and customs are reproduced. In the play, unique skills such as silk hanging, hoop hoops, contortion, rolling straw hats, and hand skills are combined with modern dance vocabulary and integrated into the protagonist's adventurous journey. While using many difficult high-altitude skills, they also use a series of body language such as rotation and pendulum to capture and trace the abstract concept of time, so that children can "see" time and perceive time. Lili Space Creative Parent-child Concert "Knocking on Happy" February 16, 2024 10:30, 14:30 February 17 10:30 Beijing Art Center·Small Theater Recommended viewing age: 4+ The three are active in Percussionists at home and abroad, who have won awards and are constantly invited by various media, use professionalism and childlike innocence to string together a passionate, humorous and humorous music party! Percussion, jazz, symphony? This is a very interesting concert... Using drumsticks as trumpets, the three musicians invite the audience, large and small, to take a ride on the "Knocking Happy" helicopter to start a musical journey that may be lively, beautiful, funny, or dreamy. . Tom toms, hand discs, cajons, vibraphones, Chinese bass drums, small cymbals, tambourines, even tables, newspapers...these instruments that we are familiar with or not will be the protagonists of this musical journey. In the hands of the "Knock Level" musicians, the theater has been transformed into a big sound playground. I hope that all friends, big and small, can have fun playing music here!
