Preface by Ningwang
As the Spring Festival approaches, the feeling of reunion becomes more and more intense. As an important event for Ningbo to welcome the Lunar New Year, the 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, a "New Year's Eve dinner" shared by Ningbo people all over the world, is about to begin. This is a splendid "cultural feast", and it is also a grand event that conveys Ningbo's strength, development confidence, and civilized love, unites and inspires the people of Ningbo around the world to build Ningbo and go global with a more high-spirited attitude. From now on, Ningbo Client has specially planned a series of reports on the "2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala" to decipher the exciting stories behind the scenes for the audience.
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The highly anticipated 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala will be held on February 2 at the Ningbo International Conference Center on the banks of Dongqian Lake.
This year's Ningbo Spring Festival Gala is themed "Spring fills the city with love in the port", with "culture" as the context, "emotion" as the flesh and blood, and "development" as the bones. In the fusion of tradition and youth, enthusiasm and warmth, Ningbo is highlighted. The elegance of the city of Olympic champions and the city of Asian Games showcases the "youth all the way" of Ningbo's literary and artistic achievements, and highlights the fashionable vitality and enterprising spirit of a modern coastal metropolis.
2023 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, data map. Currently, all the work of
has entered the final sprint stage. On the 24th, reporters visited the rehearsal site for the first day of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala and talked with the creative team to "spoiler" the audience in advance.
"Youth all the way" presenting Ningbo's literary and artistic achievements
"This is a gathering for the children of Ningbo around the world! The party will share Ningbo events and family happy events over the past year, tell the story of Ningbo and show the spirit of Ningbo with every audience in front of the screen , spend the New Year together in Ningbo." Zou Jianhong, general director of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, said in an interview.
What are the highlights and new breakthroughs in this year’s Ningbo Spring Festival Gala? Based on the strong New Year flavor and Ningbo flavor,
will present a "New Year's Eve Dinner" full of "culture + technology" to the audience this year.
reporters learned from the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala Organizing Committee that this year’s Spring Festival Gala has once again made innovative breakthroughs in the application of technology, making the stage presentation more vivid, more immersive, and more modern.
For example, the symphony music and painting "Light of Hemudu" program will present forests, plains, rivers, oceans and other scenes of the lives of Ningbo ancestors seven thousand years ago, leading the audience to travel through time and space and feel the charm of ancient civilization; the creative dance "Danqing Yin" 》 adopts the concept of human-screen interaction. The dancing sleeves of the dancers are seamlessly connected with the LED screen, presenting the artistic beauty of the combination of reality and reality, shining with the brilliance of Ningbo’s cultural context.
As one of the highlights of this year's Spring Festival Gala, the program "Youth Along the Road" will review Ningbo's brilliant cultural achievements since the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the "88th Strategy", linking together "The Classic Wife", "Ten Miles of Red Makeup", " Mulan ", etc. Highlights of Ningbo's national award-winning plays are used to arouse the cultural pride and identity of Ningbo people.
row show, photo provided by Ningbo Performing Arts Group.
"About 90% of the programs in our party are local originals, integrating Ningbo's characteristic culture and humanistic elements into the program. In terms of the cast, extras account for nearly half of the entire party, which not only makes the audience more There is a sense of participation, which also makes the program more down-to-earth and close to people's lives." Executive Director Yan Xiaoping revealed that many outstanding Ningbo singers, musicals, and opera actors will also appear.
For example, the opening song and dance will present cultural elements with unique Ningbo regional characteristics such as Fenghua Bulong and Zhenhai Nine Dragon Pearls, creating a colorful "Ten Dragons celebrating the New Year" scene and offering blessings for the Year of the Dragon to the people of the city. At the same time, there are also programs such as New Year greetings in local accents and blessing songs adapted from horse lantern tunes, sending beautiful New Year greetings to the people of Ningbo around the world.
row show, photo provided by Ningbo Performing Arts Group.
"One is the fairy flower of Langyuan, the other is the flawless jade..." As the familiar melody from the 1987 version of the TV series "A Dream of Red Mansions " sounded in the ears, the reporter saw at the rehearsal site the actors of the symphonic opera "A Dream of Red Mansions" A tense battle is taking place.
On stage, the actors adjusted their positions according to the beat and carefully practiced every movement; off the stage, the program team "picked out" the details over and over again and polished the program repeatedly.
The rehearsal scene of "Dream in the Red Chamber", photo provided by Ningbo Performing Arts Group.
"We have been trying to break the circle. The program "Dream Back to the Red Mansion" integrates symphony and opera, and adds modern dance elements, breaking the stylized performance method of traditional opera. We hope that more young people will love our tradition Culture." Wang Qi, the program director, said that in order to present the best performance to the audience, seven or eight drafts have been revised from the conception of the program to now.
The Ningbo Spring Festival Gala stage realized "naked-eye 3D" for the first time
At the rehearsal site, the reporter was the first to experience the splendor and shock of the stage -
Under the interplay of lights and scenery, the main stage was like a "Ningbo" that was ready to go. "Giant Ship" creates a heroic atmosphere of sailing away and riding the wind and waves. The
main stage creates an immersive audio-visual space for the audience through the perfect integration of technology and traditional culture.
According to reports, the main stage of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala is jointly created by a multi-layer annular main screen, a color screen, a ground screen, a set shape, "naked-eye 3D" production technology, and real-time projection technology. The visual images on the color screen and set carry the spirit of a modern coastal metropolis. The scene and the characteristics of the Jiangnan water town make history and modernity intertwined on the same stage. This is also the first time in the history of Ningbo Spring Festival Gala that "naked-eye 3D" production technology has been applied. In addition to the beautiful stage design,
will also expand the original single performance area into three independent performance areas this year to meet more diverse program needs. At the same time, a 14-meter-deep and 20-meter-wide floor screen was added, which greatly enriched the visual experience of the audience on site and in front of the screen. For example, in the opening dance, the floor screen will show a gorgeous picture that echoes the flowers in the hands of the dancers.
"This not only demonstrates Ningbo's core strength as a technological innovation city, but also reflects the achievements of a modern coastal metropolis in building a digital Zhejiang and a high-level innovative city." said the relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Spring Festival Gala Organizing Committee.
2023 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, data map.
It is reported that the creative team of the Spring Festival Gala will also conduct multiple rehearsals and polishing, striving to deliver a brilliant and surprising year-end feast to global audiences. At that time, the party will be broadcast live to the world simultaneously through Ningbo TV Station and new media platforms at the city and county levels.
"This year's Ningbo Spring Festival Gala will closely follow the pulse of the times, Chinese charm, and Ningbo temperament. With a warm, progressive, fashionable and artistic Spring Festival Gala, it will provide a high-quality cultural feast for all Ningbo people and artistically present Ningbo's exploration of the new Chinese modernization. path, a touching story of building a modern civilized city sample of the Chinese nation, and demonstrating Ningbo's urban style and spirit of 'openness, fashion, pioneering and innovative'." said the relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee.
(Source: China Ningbo Net)
