"Today is a happy day! For Renyi, it is really a big event for the whole theater! This is not a simple graduation ceremony, but a beginning of hope. I hope everyone can become outstanding successors of Beijing Renyi in the future "On the morning of April 17, at the graduation ceremony of Beijing People's Art Performance Training Class 2022, President Feng Yuanzheng expressed joy and expectation when he spoke. After a year of hard study and performance reporting, seven students, Liu Wenyi, Du Zijun, Gong Yuquan, Song Jianlin, Du Botao, Liu Chen and Zhou Qingyun, happily received their completion certificates from the hospital leaders, head teachers and teachers. For them, they are one step closer to truly becoming actors in Beijing People's Art Theatre.
According to reports, the Beijing People's Art Performance Student Training Class is a new model that is innovative based on the needs of practical development based on the original "group leadership class" and the talent training form of joint classes with universities. Select from professional performing talents, and use a teaching system with humanistic characteristics to select and train talents. The first session was successfully held in 2019. In 2022, Beijing People's Arts will summarize its superior experience, continue to explore, and launch the second training class for performance students. The teaching team is composed of directors and performing artists within the Academy of Humanities and famous artists in the field of culture and art outside the academy. Through the combination of classroom and practice, young actors who can "get in touch" with the Arts and Humanities are cultivated.
During the year, Beijing People's Art School not only sent a teaching team to provide full teaching guidance, but also teachers such as Pu Cunxin, Yang Lixin, Feng Yuanzheng, Gong Lijun, and Wang Gang taught the students, allowing the students to quickly understand the artistic style and artistic inheritance of Beijing People's Art School. At the same time, there are also related courses such as opera, folk art, dance, performance theory, drama appreciation, etc., allowing students to learn by analogy, broaden their horizons from different art forms, absorb energy, and enhance their comprehensive abilities. This class also offers ideological and political courses for the first time to help students better understand how to become a qualified literary and art worker. Compared with the previous class, a major innovation of this class is to train and train at the same time, allowing students to participate in intensive performances in the theater. Classes during the day and practice on stage at night. Students have achieved rapid growth through full-load learning and practice in "three classes a day".
"From actors with certain performance experience to actors suitable for the human art stage, they have gone through a process from breaking to rebuilding. Now many teachers see their stage performance and feel that they have made a 'qualitative' leap." Tang Ye, the head teacher of the student class, said that after the just-concluded performance of "Hotel Anecdotes", the students' performance allowed teachers and the audience to see the results of their training over the past year. Not only have their abilities been improved, but their tacit understanding and integrity on stage also reflect the "one vegetable" spirit of Beijing People's Art Theatre. "We will ask everyone to write an artistic summary, not only input, but also strive to output. In this process, they can watch, think, analyze, and then perform." Tang Ye said that during this year, students also participated in In the theater's various public welfare activities, it volunteers for the audience and participates in community activities to make them more cohesive. "We see enthusiasm and light from them."
"It is not easy to stand on the stage of human art. It requires hard work. You have chosen an extraordinary road, which is very hard and tiring. It was difficult, but you didn’t back down and persisted until today, so you succeeded.” As the teacher of the student class, actor Gong Lijun praised the students for their “perseverance, courage, and courage” and said sincerely, “How to become a good actor? It is a topic that we have to face throughout our lives." She shared her feelings and experiences with the students, "We must love it and work hard unremittingly; we must learn and constantly hone our acting skills; we must pay attention to the entire society and draw inspiration and inspiration from life. Nutrition, enrich the connotation of performance; be humble, have awe and a spirit of cooperation; maintain the original intention, adhere to dreams and beliefs.” Actor Wang Gang also told the students to “be a person first, then act, maintain passion, maintain dreams, and be in human art.” The light shines on the stage.”Pu Cunxin, Yang Lixin, Li Weijian, Wei Chunrong and other teachers inside and outside the school also sent blessings through video, "I hope they can keep the light in their eyes and the fire in their hearts no matter where they go in the future."
Dean Feng Yuanzheng said, In the next few years, Beijing People's Art Institute will continue to try new talent training paths and continue to build a platform for young artistic talents. "We are eclectic in cultivating young actors. We must discover the strengths of young people and give them opportunities." He said that Beijing People's Art Talent Training has its own unique system and long-term planning. In recent years, through With the cultivation, more and more young people are standing in the middle of the stage, and they are also getting more and more recognition from the audience. "This student class has once again gained valuable talent training experience. We will summarize and apply it to the future construction of the talent team, continue to make innovative attempts, and reserve more strength for the future of Renyi through various measures."
Photography: Li Chunguang
