From Chengdu to Xining, a fire of youth burned from the southwest to the northwest of China. On the evening of March 29-30, the new acrobatic theater "Youth Has Another Name" produced by the Hunan Provincial Performing Arts Group and created by the Hunan Provincial Acrobatic Art Theater was performed at the Qinghai Grand Theater in Xining. This is the show's 2024 national tour second stop.
Xining is the key to the West Sea and the throat of the sea. The urban area here is as high as 2,261 meters above sea level, with the Huangshui River running across it from west to east. The beautiful Qinghai Lake and the historic Kumbum Monastery make this place dazzling with stars, and "youth" has a different "height" here. Flying and leaping, acrobatic movements bring out youthful charm; wandering and traveling, innovative props show youthful style. "Youth Has Another Name" brings together countless local young students and art lovers in Xining in the theater, dedicating excitement to youth and making youth uniquely exciting!
On the evening of March 29, a sophomore girl from Zongzhai Middle School in Xining City, Qinghai Province, after watching the performance, said with excitement: "It was so exciting and passionate! Especially the two "unicycle" and "trampoline" This session left a deep impression on me!" At the same time, the young acrobats also brought back memories of her childhood, filling her with warm and moving emotions. In addition, there was another audience member who stayed next to the "Qing" drama poster for a long time after watching the drama and refused to leave. He said that the whole drama had a clear main story line, which was very cleverly connected with various acrobatic techniques and was very smooth. , no surprise at all.
"Youth Has Another Name" is a stage play that integrates acrobatics, dance, music and audio-visual arts. It is divided into "Come All Days", "Run, Use Dreams as Horses" and "The Brightest in the Night Sky" Star" and "We Are All Protagonists" in four acts. The whole play integrates new acrobatics and modern contemporary dance, plus the embedded use of music and video, vividly showing the growth process of each small and great life individual in the new era. Here, everyone can find their own memories of youth and feel the vitality of youth again.
"The play cleverly grasps the needs of mainstream discourse and the direction of the audience's interest, extremely explores the appeal of traditional acrobatic skills, and uses the strong, healthy, wonderful and beautiful body symbols of young men and women to focus on showing youthful style and youthful atmosphere..." Yue Kaihua, deputy dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Liberal Arts of Hunan Normal University, said this after watching the acrobatic drama. According to Liu Mengchen, screenwriter and chief director of "Youth Has Another Name", the performance form of the play is based on acrobatic language, refining, deconstructing, reorganizing and re-creating traditional acrobatic techniques, based on the needs of true expression, to achieve A dual fusion of modern acrobatic creations and documentary films. At the performance site, the audience can not only re-experience the enthusiastic atmosphere of youth, but also experience a unique artistic aesthetic in the blending of different art forms.
Since its premiere at the Hunan Grand Theater in October 2021, "Youth" has received widespread attention from the industry due to its highly condensed acrobatic art and innovative integration with music and dance art forms, and won the 15th Hunan Province Special Award for the "Five One Project" of Spiritual Civilization Construction, selected for the National Arts Fund's 2023 communication and promotion exchange funding project, a special invitation for the National Excellent Acrobatics Repertoire to be performed in Beijing, and a special acrobatic performance for the designated diplomatic envoy to China by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is reported that as the 2023 communication and promotion exchange funding project of the National Arts Fund, following the Chengdu and Xining stops, the "Youth" 2024 national tour will also visit Yinchuan, Xi'an and Chongqing, using its own unique art form and stage language to connect with the country The audience shares the vitality and splendor of youth.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Liu Ting
