From August 21st to 23rd, the 2024 Beijing International Performing Arts Expo was held jointly by the Beijing Performing Arts Group, the Performing Arts Working Committee of the China Cultural Management Association, and the Beijing Performance and Entertainment Industry Association. Performing arts industry practitioners from nine countries including the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Serbia, as well as 27 performing arts groups and 84 Chinese and foreign performing arts institutions across the country gathered in Beijing to discuss and jointly build high-quality development of the performing arts. .
Scene of the 2024 Beijing International Performing Arts Expo
“Art connects generations, countries, cultures and nations.” Péter Fekete, former Minister of Culture of Hungary and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Budapest International Circus Art Festival, Hungary, was at the opening ceremony He said that the convening of this expo will promote the integration and mutual assistance of world art and jointly create greater value.
This expo integrates exhibition display, negotiation and docking, promotion road show, cooperation and exchange. The exhibition takes the National Stadium as the main body, with a 3,000 square meter exhibition hall and supporting communication and negotiation area, 3 theme booths, 21 special exhibitions, and more than 100 exhibitors participating.
3 forums invite more than 30 experts, scholars, and practitioners in the performing arts industry to join in and talk about the latest achievements and experiences in the development of the performing arts industry. The main forum takes "Cultural thinking and practical insights in the construction process of the two major goals of creating a "Performing City" and "Watching Beijing with Great Theater" as the theme, creating a high-end reception room, analyzing the development trend of the performing arts industry, and focusing on "Care and Observation—— "The docking and linking of contemporary art education and performing arts" as the theme, to discuss the new pattern and new ideas of contemporary art education. The two sub-forums were themed respectively "China's Stage Art - New Perspectives on China's Stage in the New Era" and "The G Era of Conversion between Drama IP and Film and Television IP". They brought together leading figures in the domestic cultural and art circles to focus on the development of stage art expression techniques. Innovation initiatives and creative exploration of literary and artistic content concepts explore new paths for the development of culture and art.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Beijing International Performing Arts Expo
The six "Beauty and Beauty" roadshow promotion activities for Chinese and foreign high-quality plays attracted nearly 40 high-quality performing arts projects at home and abroad. In the musical theater promotion section, musicals such as "Famous", "Up", "Six Queens", "Around the World in 80 Days", "The King and I", etc. were all unveiled, and the exchanges and collisions and interactions between Chinese and foreign plays were Learning and Integration This Beijing International Performing Arts Expo brings more diverse artistic perspectives and more possibilities for cultural exchanges.
Zhao Jiachen, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Beijing Performing Arts Group, said in his opening speech that the purpose of holding the Beijing International Performing Arts Expo is to build a display platform, a communication platform, and a cooperation platform to discuss and jointly build high-quality development of the performing arts, and to provide services to build the performing arts. It is of great significance to give full play to the radiating and leading role of the Beijing National Cultural Center and promote the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries. With the help of the expo platform, Beijing Performing Arts Group has released a strategic plan for high-quality dramas from 2024 to 2025. It will make every effort to create a high-quality dance drama "The Protagonist", a dance drama aided by Xinjiang "Kunlun Ballad", the drama "Himalayas" (tentative title) and the children's drama " "Dark Eyes on the Plateau" and other four key works worth looking forward to.
As a major event of the expo, the first annual meeting of the National Performing Arts Group Cooperation Alliance was held during the event. According to reports, the alliance has absorbed 24 national performing arts groups as member units in the first batch. Beijing Performing Arts Group is the chairman unit of the alliance. Zhao Jiachen, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the Beijing Performing Arts Group, serves as chairman of the alliance. The alliance will hold an annual meeting every year to summarize the exchange work. Convene a working meeting, hold special special events, and carry out project cooperation promotion.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Beijing International Performing Arts Expo
In addition, Beijing Performing Arts Group also signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Beijing Institute of Graphic Arts, Tianjin Northern Performing Arts Group, and Hebei Performing Arts Group at the expo; Beijing Jingyan Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Media and Broadcasting Performing Arts (Group) Co., Ltd. signed a project cooperation agreement; China Acrobatic Troupe Co., Ltd. and National Stadium Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement on high-quality international circus projects, opening up broader possibilities for future cooperation between the two parties.
Song Guanlin, vice chairman of the China Cultural Management Association, chairman of the Performing Arts Working Committee, and director of the National Arts Foundation, said that the successful holding of the 2024 Beijing International Performing Arts Expo has given Beijing a performing arts cooperation and exchange platform and link that connects the country and radiates internationally. Watching the March of Beijing in a big show has laid a solid foundation for building a city of performing arts, weaved a link between Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges, and is a solid fulcrum for shaping a new cultural image of Beijing in the new era. (Reporter Li Wenjian)
Source: Guangming.com
