From March 22nd to 23rd, the dance theater "Seeing", planned and launched by Inner Mongolia Hohhot Cultural Tourism Investment Group and co-directed by China Opera and Dance Theater young dancer Tang Shiyi and young director Zheng Zihao, was performed at the New Tsinghua Academy of Tsinghua University . This performance has been upgraded with live symphony accompaniment, and is conducted by the playâs composer and pianist Xue Tingzhe. The physical vinyl record of his original large-scale musical work of the same name for the show was also released simultaneously by Universal Music China and Heyo Music on the 22nd.
Stills of "As Seen"
Tang Shi Yiwu Season 2 - Dance Theater "As Seen" is a key play created by the Hohhot Cultural Tourism Investment Group. The play is based on the openness and tolerance of the grassland city Hohhot, breaks the limitations of regional culture, and uses a broad vision, unique vision, and profound thoughts as its original intention to explore a new creative realm of modern and contemporary dance and create a cultural brand with an international perspective. Another practice.
"As Seen" is not positioned as a dance drama, but as a dance theater. It is divided into three chapters: "Dwelling Poetically", "Life Moving Forward" and "Looking Back in Time", but there is no linear narrative, and the characters in each chapter do not even have clear names. The play innovates the form of dance expression, adopts modern and fashionable dance elements and poetic dance creation techniques, and presents the various life styles and touching moments of the current world to the audience in a contemporary way of physical expression.
Stills of "As Seen"
"This montage-style stage presentation connects what is seen and thought in life, giving the audience unlimited imagination, so that everyone can capture the epitome of life in the work and gain touching moments. ." Tang Shiyi said, "The three chapters are derived from our feelings, discussions, and thoughts about some things. The first chapter is about the feelings of people and nature, combined with local elements in Inner Mongolia, the vast and distant mountains there, and the 'Three Phases of Life' Wild geese, horses, and wolves are anthropomorphized. The second chapter is based on the present. In the crowd, we keep falling, getting up, and forging ahead. Everyone has a different life and character status, and everyone has a mirror in their hands. The props of the material, such as a bag, an umbrella or a book, point out their identity and the brightest part of the person. When we face the objects in our hands alone, what kind of thinking can we get? This chapter shows people's inner thoughts , feelings and thoughts about other things, and the state of moving forward after thinking. The third chapter expresses that in the course of thousands of years, our existence is only a moment, but we still have an eternal spiritual existence."
Stills of "As Seen", Tang Shiyi
Dance Theater of the same name's original music album "As Seen" is based on the logical line of theatrical creation. Composer Xue Tingzhe said that this music creation is very different from previous album creations. "Compared with the wild and unrestrained nature of album creation, the music of theater works needs to be created with a limited musical theme and must conform to the director's ideas. At the same time, the music of theater works is an artistic product created by a collective." This kind of music The creative form is no stranger to composer Xue Tingzhe. Since 2021, he has been invited to serve as the music director and composer of the China Opera and Dance Theater's business assessment exhibition work "Dance on Spring". He has become accustomed to working with a limited musical theme and creation. background to explore and create the endless possibilities of music.
Xue Tingzhe
Dance Theater "Seeing" is a relatively abstract conceptual expression. In terms of music, composer Xue Tingzhe tried his best to give the dance drama a concrete sense of picture and rich imagination space. "For example, in the first act, the 'Three Phases of Creatures' depicted by the music express the three animals of Inner Mongolia," Xue Tingzhe said. "We hope that the audience will have a strong emotional resonance with the musical expression. The content and form of the dance theater is It's a bit abstract, but the music can convey a very concrete sense of picture and emotional mobilization to the audience." The
album was recorded by the fame's macedonian symphonic orchestra and first-line soloists at home and abroad.In his music creation, Xue Tingzhe paid more attention to integrating the characteristics of ethnic music such as Mongolian Chang Tune into an international listening experience. He comprehensively used instruments such as symphony, percussion, and morinouqin to focus on showing the inner feelings of the characters and create melodies that reflected Eastern philosophy.
The vinyl design of "As Seen" highly restores many elements of dance theater. The cover adopts a mirror design, which fits the poetic and choreographic expression expressed in "As Seen". In addition, many Easter egg designs from dance dramas were also borrowed: including the double-sided ice screen and cotton on the main stage. Cotton is a very important prop in "As Seen", so every piece of vinyl will come with a cotton seed card.
"Rujian" vinyl album configuration
