On July 2nd and 3rd, Guizhou's large-scale national dance drama "Tian Chan Di Nuo" created by the Guizhou Provincial Song and Dance Theater will be performed at the Guangdong Provincial Friendship Theater, kicking off a city tour in the Greater Bay Area. It is reported that the dance drama will then be toured in Shenzhen, Huizhou, Foshan, Zhuhai, Macau and other Greater Bay Area cities.
The large-scale ethnic dance drama "Tian Chan Di Nuo" is the 2024 communication and exchange promotion funding project of the National Arts Fund. The play uses Guizhou's famous, ancient and long-lasting Nuo culture, as well as the Dong music culture, which is famous at home and abroad, as the main creative materials, and interprets a beautiful, moving and heart-stirring love story from the mountains and rivers.
The play tells the story: Tujia rural artist Cang is a young man who is obsessed with Nuo art and possesses skills. However, the scars on his face make him lonely and cowardly, and he is completely different in front of others on stage. Cicada, a beautiful and kind Dong girl, gradually opened Cang's heart with her passionate and persistent love. But fate did not favor them. After a conflict of love and hatred, the wind and snow covered everything, leaving a incomplete mask, telling the secrets about man and God, love and life, reality and illusion...
Large Nation The dance drama "Tian Chan Di Nuo" has been performed regularly since its premiere in 2009 and has been performed more than 200 times in total. It has won the China Wenhua Award for Outstanding Drama, the National Ethnic Minority Literature and Art Festival Gold Award for Drama, and the Chinese Dance Lotus Award for Dance Drama Silver Award; It is a masterpiece of creative and dynamic protection of the world's intangible cultural heritage, a "Grand View Garden" essence display of Guizhou's national culture and art, and a classic work with distinctive regional and national characteristics.
The 2024 upgraded version of the dance drama "Tian Chan Di Nuo" has invited the famous director Ding Wei to make in-depth modifications and improvements. He has repeatedly refined and refined the music, stage design, costumes, props, etc., so that the show exudes a unique artistic charm. The upgraded play structure is more refined, the clues are clearer, the content is richer, and the dramatic conflicts are more intense. In particular, the dance presentation has been completely redesigned, and the artistic presentation is younger and more fashionable.
The creative team introduced that the play has distinctive artistic characteristics. In terms of dance, the play embodies the combination of traditional classics and modern aesthetics: the organic combination of Nuo opera, opera, acrobatics and modern dance, and the organic combination of national folk literature and art with modern stage expressions.
In terms of music, the play embodies the combination of Chinese and Western elements: a perfect combination of Nuo opera singing, Dong folk songs, Western orchestral music, Chinese folk music and other musical elements. In terms of stage design, the play has high-tech presentations of real mountain and rural scenes: wind and rain bridges, drum towers, waterwheels, stilted buildings and other organic presentations of mountain and rural scenes.
Text | Reporter Huang Zhouhui
Pictures | Guizhou Provincial Song and Dance Theater provides
