Guangdong Song and Dance Theater has released its first concept poster for the 2024 new dance drama "Man Lives Among the Flowers", which also kicks off the countdown to the show's performance. It is reported that the newly created dance drama "Man Lives Among Flowers" is another ingenious work of the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater after launching a series of high-quality dance dramas in recent years. It is expected to premiere with the audience in the first half of the year.
The dance drama "Human Living Among Flowers" depicts the story between an ordinary mother and son: when the son waded through the river of his mother's memory and re-acquainted himself with the people around him, he realized that he had never regarded his mother as a human being. to see and understand as an individual. Through this dance drama, the audience can follow the prosperity and decline of flowers, understand the experience and yearning of a mother, and relive her delicate and rich life scenery and spiritual world. "Flower", as a symbol of life and a medium of emotion, will add a magnificent and fantastic romantic color to this work that expresses real life, making "Human Living Among Flowers" not only a picture of the life of ordinary people's homes, but also a A spiritual picture of long-term love and cherishment.
The dance drama "Man Lives Among Flowers" specially invites Fei Bo, a national first-level choreographer and chief choreographer of the National Ballet of China, to serve as the chief director, and Wen Fangyi, a young teacher at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University and a doctor of arts, to serve as the screenwriter. It also brings together people from all fields of the domestic stage Outstanding artists: composer Qin Hongyu, stage designer Qin Liyun, lighting designer Ren Dongsheng, costume designer Li Kun, styling designer Jia Lei, video designer Yang Qian Studio, executive choreographers Zhang Zhenxin, Wang Le, Wang Xuesong, Sun Ran, literary consultant Chen Jianzhong, etc., striving to Create a stage work that not only has the background of life, but also is full of poetry and majestic imagination.
The history of Guangzhou people planting, admiring and loving flowers dates back to the Western Han Dynasty, more than 2,000 years ago. As a prestigious flower city, flowers are not only a cultural gene flowing in the blood of Lingnan people, but also a way of life. aesthetic approach. This time, the Guangdong Song and Dance Drama Theater focuses on the background of the "Flower City", by describing the love journey of a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease and her son from indifference, collision to reconciliation while fighting against forgetfulness. Through a large number of displays of secular customs with Lingnan elements, the relationship between people and the "city" and the connection between life and "flowers" are laid out. The experiences of Alzheimer's patients and their relatives are exactly what the creators are thinking about when facing this social problem. Using artistic imagination, mobilizing all stage means, using a combination of reality and unreality to present the fireworks in the arcade flower shop and the fantasy in dreams and fantasy.
art consultant Chairman Feng Shuangbai mentioned, "This work can make people feel the deep love between mother and child, and also feel that 'flower' is the most romantic, freest and warmest soul in the city of Guangzhou." As a root of the Bay Another original work that deeply cultivates the cultural soil of Guangzhou and deeply cultivates the urban characteristics of Guangzhou. Xiong Jian, director of the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater, said: "I just want to create a different form on the dance drama stage: to give full play to the great lyricism of dance and dance drama, It is poetic, and at the same time, it is permeated with the temperament of Lingnan local culture, making it a unique and meaningful work."
The original dance drama "Human Living Among Flowers", which uses flowers as a bond and is based on love, was selected into the Guangdong Province Projects funded by special funds to support high-quality literary and artistic works (literary and artistic talents). The combination of reality and fantasy will bring the audience a beautiful, smart and touching spiritual journey.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Yang Wenjie
editor/Cui Wei
