On January 27, the more than three-month "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" came to a successful conclusion. This performance season is the "Beijing Dance Cultural Brand" launched by Beijing Dance Academy at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. A total of 47 performances and 90 performances have been staged in six well-known and core theaters in Beijing, with a total audience of more than 40,000. Related news The content has received over 4,000 views on the entire Internet, arousing enthusiastic response and widespread attention from all walks of life.
Batu, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Beijing Dance Academy, said that the "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" is a key step in promoting the construction of the "Chinese Dance Works Research and Creation Center" and is also an opportunity to implement the academy's "learning, research, creation and performance" integrated dance high-precision artistic talents. The important path for training is to be based on the land of Beijing, focus on the development of the capital, create a performance season brand featuring dance through resource coordination, pooling wisdom, and striving for excellence, promote the creation of the cultural business card of "Watch Beijing in a Big Show", and help Beijing become the "Performing City" ”, National Cultural Center Construction.
In this year’s performance season, all professional students of Beijing Dance Academy participated. For students majoring in performance practice at the academy, the performance season provides a valuable display platform, and professional abilities such as performance, choreography, and design are fully improved. Practical training; for theoretical major students in the college, they are deeply involved in the entire process of performance production and management, completing specific tasks such as project planning, publicity and promotion, budget declaration, venue docking, and on-site execution.
It is worth mentioning that the Art Practice Center invites students from relevant majors to serve as "performing anchors" to show the style of Beijing Dance students and create a "cloud theater" to break the distinction between physical theaters and allow more friends who love dance to watch the show together. Appreciate it together to expand the influence and spread of the performance. The
performance season comprehensively covers outstanding works created and performed by teachers and students of Beijing Dance Academy, including undergraduates, high schools affiliated to the Middle School, postgraduates, and examination colleges. It also covers Chinese classical dance, Chinese folk dance, ballet, international standard dance, musicals, modern Dance, hip-hop and other professional categories of works. At the same time, the Art Practice Center and the School of Humanities worked together to launch the "Beijing Dance Drama Review" dance review brand during the performance season, opening up the industry-university-research-review chain, jointly researching and disseminating cutting-edge art information and representative artistic viewpoints, and encouraging more people to participate. Let more audiences watch, understand and comment on dramas, and let academic research and literary criticism promote the high-quality development of stage art creation. In this performance season,
not only arranged a large number of performances in the on-campus theater of Beijing Dance Academy, but also had 14 works perform more than 30 commercial performances in five well-known and core theaters in Beijing. It is the first large-scale and multi-faceted performance of Beijing Dance Academy. Dimension, focusing on externally displaying the achievements of artistic creation practice in recent years, it also provides teachers, students and artistic works in the school with more opportunities to accept social inspection and understand the market operation mechanism. In addition, Beijing Dance Academy has also turned its attention to the outstanding works of other high-quality theater groups and colleges in the society. This exhibition season has specially invited outstanding dance works such as Liaoba Ballet and Zheng Jie Studio to perform at the school for exchanges and performances. For multi-faceted cooperation and exchange, we have also invited famous dancer Shan Chong, composer Kang Zhuqing, ballet prince Malakhov, famous Broadway director Zhuo Yi and other professional artists to join us, to co-create and rehearse with teachers and students, to work together and learn from each other. , to effectively improve the level of work creation and performance, and also have a profound impact on students' artistic and moral cultivation. In addition, the Beijing Dance Academy has granted the performance rights of some repertoires to Tibet, Qinghai and other literary and art institutions free of charge to enhance the long-term vitality of artistic works.
The more than 30 commercial performances of the "2023 Beijing Dance Performance Season" fully reflect the people-friendly nature. In order to allow more audiences to enter the theater, we have set up a variety of people-friendly ticket prices around various topics and festivals, such as "Taoli Yiyi·The 13th "Taoli Cup" Invitational Exhibition of Excellent Works" specially provides a 30% discount on all tickets over 380 yuan, and "Dancing for the People - Dancing Classics" offers a large number of 99 yuan discount tickets, etc.In addition, the original dance drama "Sing a Folk Song for the Party", the original classical dance drama "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", Beijing Dance Academy's collection of modern and contemporary dance works "Burning" and other works have become popular at the box office. It sold out within a short period of time and received widespread attention from the market and many praises from the audience. The on-campus performances of the
performance season fully reflect the inclusive nature. They are all public welfare performances. They not only allow school students to enter the theater, but also conduct ticket grabbing activities for the society. At the same time, master workshops, creative performance sharing sessions and other activities are set up to let People who love dance can have the opportunity to come into contact with the art of dance.
specifically mentioned that this performance season actively explores the cooperation model of social performances and boldly practices it. Nearly 30 off-campus performances have generated a return of box office, which provides a good circulation mechanism for the brand building of the performance season and future artistic practice and creation.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting