Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) June 12, 2024 is the 72nd anniversary of the founding of Beijing People's Art Institute. On this day, Beijing People's Art has carefully planned a full-day commemorative event with high-quality content and co-creation with the audience. , the event started at 10:30 am and ended at 10:30 pm. With the theme of "Youth People's Art", Beijing People's Art combines offline activities with online live broadcasts. The 12-hour non-stop commemorative event shares the festival of drama with the audience and celebrates People's Art together.
's full-day event is divided into six major sections, including exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, live performances, classic broadcasts and other content, showing Renyi's 72-year artistic achievements in rich and diverse forms. Beijing People's Art hopes that on days like these, it will repay the audience's continued support with full sincerity, show its inheritance of the People's Art spirit with a tribute to classics, and welcome the future of People's Art with the courage of continuous exploration and innovation.
event site. Photography: Li Chunguang
This time, Beijing People's Art Center takes "Youth People's Art" as the theme of its 72nd anniversary, leading the audience to look back on the past and take stock of the generations of artists who have devoted their blood and youth to the development of the theater since the establishment of the Beijing People's Art Center. The power of youth and the genes of innovation and creation have always accompanied the development of Beijing People's Art and continue to this day.
This commemorative event is divided into six major sections: "Classic People's Art", "Innovative People's Art", "'Jingcai' People's Art", "Youth People's Art", "Great Beauty People's Art" and "Da Drama People's Art". The event started with a collective introduction by the leadership team of the Beijing People's Art Institute to the audience, comprehensively demonstrating the spirit of hard work and development of Beijing People's Art Institute, inheriting innovative artistic creation concepts, and striving to achieve development goals.
's two offline activities attracted thousands of viewers to sign up through recruitment. In the morning, an audience sharing session of "Classics and Youth" was held at the Capital Theater. All members of the 85-level student class of Beijing People's Arts and the newly graduated 2022 performance student training class attended. Feng Yuanzheng, Wu Gang, Ding Zhicheng, Yue Xiuqing, Gao Dongping, Wang Gang, Artists from two generations including Meng Xiu, Liu Xiaorong, Liu Chen, Zhou Qingyun, Liu Wenyi, Du Zijun, Song Jianlin, Gong Yuquan and Du Botao gathered on the stage. While sharing with the audience, all the students of Class 85 reviewed their unforgettable youth and stories of growing up with Beijing People's Art Theatre. The class of 2002 students expressed their current feelings with youthful appearance and full enthusiasm. The time-space dialogue between two generations of artists on the stage demonstrates Beijing People's Arts' long-standing cultivation of young talents and inheritance of stage culture, and allows the audience to see the youth and growth of artists from generation to generation on the stage.
"Classics and Youth" audience sharing session. Photography: Li Chunguang
In recent years, Beijing People’s Arts has continued to promote the construction of a talent team through a series of measures. Through the artistic assessment of young actors and other methods, a platform has been built for young talents, and many young actors have stood out in the assessment. A batch of plays were incubated after passing the assessment and met with the audience on the stage, enriching the Beijing People's Art Theater's reserve of plays. The performance of "We Are Young" Beijing People's Art Young Actors' Outstanding Assessment Works, staged at the Beijing International Drama Center Cao Yu Theater that afternoon, was a concentrated display of this achievement. A large number of outstanding work clips from the Beijing People's Art Young Actor Assessment in recent years, such as "Home", "Good Night, Mom", "The Sorrow of Comedy", "White Deer Plain", "I", "The Orphan of Zhao" and "Hamlet", etc., made their debut to the audience. There are excerpts from plays that are familiar to the audience, as well as original and innovative works. Guests such as Wang Gang, Yue Xiuqing, Gong Lijun, Wu Shanshan, and Tang Ye made on-site comments. In their comments on the works, the judges gave pertinent opinions and gave creative guidance to the young people, allowing the audience to see the inheritance and innovation of Beijing People's Art. . In the
commemorative activities, the online screening of classic plays is an important part. Two classic dramas, one Chinese and one foreign, met with the audience one after another. In 2022, the high-definition live video of "Ruan Lingyu" recorded through 4K technology will be screened for a limited time to the audience for the first time. This work uses poetic language, a moving stage, and wonderful performances by powerful actors such as Xu Fan, Pu Cunxin, Sun Xing, Miao Chi, and Li Zhen to stage a dream life of a legendary actress for the audience.That night, Wu Gang gave a live tour of "Mutiny", taking the audience into the creation and arrangement process of this classic work, and reviewing the enduring stage classic through the creative process of two generations. Later, "Mutiny" starring Zhu Xu, Yam Baoxian, Xiu Zongdi and other artists in 1988 was broadcast to the audience for a limited time, recreating the stage shock of the classic work.
At the same time, Chinese and foreign works of different styles were also presented to the audience offline. The historical drama "Zhang Juzheng" written by Xiong Zhaozheng and directed by Feng Yuanzheng and Yan Rui at the Capital Theater once again met with the audience, "The First Son" at the Experimental Theater, and the People's Art Theater "A Long Journey into the Night" was staged at the same time, allowing the audience to experience the charm of drama in the theater. In order to lead the audience to watch the "big show" from behind the scenes to in front of the stage, before the performance of "Zhang Juzheng" that night, the audience and the host followed the live footage and "walked" to the Capital Theater stage to share with the creators the creative details in front of and behind the scenes.
’s series of activities with the theme of youth exploration will bring the audience to see the current innovative measures of Renyi. In the "Drama Salon" opened at the People's Art Experimental Theater, Beijing People's Art Director Feng Yuanzheng and drama critic Xu Jian launched an experimental discussion in the field of People's Art Small Theater, from the birth of Chinese small theater drama in People's Art to the present day. Renyi plays in the small theater field, showing its courage to explore and innovate. During the dialogue, the two parties discussed Beijing People's Art Theater's repertoire exploration and talent cultivation, and demonstrated the current creative aspect of Beijing People's Art Theater. Two currently performing plays - "The First Son" and "Long Journey into the Night" feature films meet the audience online. The creators of the two works have gone from understanding and elaboration of the works to the mental journey of character creation, as well as some rehearsals. The unforgettable stories in the film allow the audience to see the hard work of the creator behind the birth of a work.
drama salon scene. Photography: Li Chunguang
Five young actors, Zhang Yezi, Wei Jiacheng, Lu Lu, Wu Yuchenning, and Zhao Zhengtian, took the audience into the Capital Theater, Beijing People's Art Experimental Theater, Beijing International Drama Center Cao Yu Theater, and Beijing International Drama Center in the form of a theater walk. ·Five theaters, Renyi Small Theater and Juyin Theater. Experience the different theater positioning and the new business format of Beijing People's Art Theater in five old and new theaters. Three young stage art workers, Xia Tengzi, Dong Rou, and Sun Lulu, took the audience to a "cloud tour" of the Beijing People's Art and Dance Exhibition through a "guide", showing the creative achievements of the stage art creative talents in learning and practice and the achievements of Beijing People's Art. Creative power.
's 12-hour online live broadcast will start at 10:30 am and end at 10:30 pm on June 12. The entire event will be broadcast live on the official Beijing People's Art platform, and will be broadcast simultaneously on the online video platform by more than 20 partner media. In addition to the live broadcast of colorful activities, there are also a series of special promotional videos exclusively broadcast, fully displaying the stage charm and creative accumulation of Beijing People's Art Theatre. This online live broadcast event, from form to content, not only provides the audience with rich performance content as always, but also hopes to give the audience a sense of "presence" and participation.
editor, Xu Meilin
proofreader, Yang Li
