During last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" made its overseas debut and was invited to perform 4 consecutive times at the Esplanade in Singapore. This year, Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" went to London, England for its second

2024-08-29 18:03:03 entertainment 7754℃

During last year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Shenzhen’s original dance drama “Wing Chun” made its overseas debut and was invited to perform 4 consecutive performances at the Esplanade in Singapore. This year, Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" went to London, England for its second "overseas" performance. It will perform 12 times at Sadler's Wells Theater in London from August 30 to September 7, local time. Let us follow "Wing Chun" again to experience the richness of Shenzhen's literary and artistic masterpieces, and participate in an artistic feast of cultural exchanges and mutual learning!

If you are in London at this moment, you can see the performance preview posters of the Shenzhen original dance drama "Wing Chun" on the streets, subways and other places in London. Among them, London's shopping mecca and Westfield Shopping Center continue to place posters on large screens in the squares to warm up for the upcoming performance of the dance drama "Wing Chun" in the UK. On social media, overseas Chinese and overseas students in London have expressed their concern and expectations for "Wing Chun". Some netizens posted tickets and expressed their anticipation for the "Wing Chun" London appointment.

It is reported that the "Wing Chun" cast and crew that set off on August 28 is the "third batch", and the first and second batch of "Wing Chun" cast and crew have arrived in London. At around 5 a.m. on August 28, Beijing time, the third cast and crew of the dance drama "Wing Chun" departed from Shenzhen and are expected to arrive at London Heathrow Airport at 6 p.m. local time on the 28th in the UK.

Chang Hongji, chief dancer of Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater and "Master Ye", said: "We hope that more overseas audiences and overseas Chinese will experience the youthful works presented by Youthful Shenzhen's youth groups. We hope that through our passionate dance presentation, we will stir up the youthful China overseas." Art trend."

Regarding his feelings about "going overseas" for the second time, Chang Hongji previously said in an interview: ""Wing Chun" tells a Chinese story, and its "going overseas" can spread our Chinese stories overseas. Traditional culture. In addition, I think the presentation form of dance drama is also conducive to cross-cultural communication. Although foreign audiences cannot understand our language, they can understand our body movements and feel what we express through body language. Emotion. I hope that in future tours, foreign audiences can feel the spirit of Chinese martial arts and the profoundness of China’s excellent traditional culture through our performances.”

Feng Haoran, a young actor from Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater, mentioned that as a communicator of culture, This time, we will use "Wing Chun" to better tell the story of Shenzhen and spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture on the world stage. This is also the biggest challenge for myself and the team.

Wang Yuanlin, a young dancer from the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater, said that no matter whether she is facing the warm applause from the audience or encountering problems during dancing, she hopes to stay awake so that she can perform better. Wang Yuanlin said: "I hope British audiences will like this work that combines martial arts and dance." She told reporters that "Wing Chun" uses the story structure of a dual-line narrative and the artistic expression of a dance drama to facilitate cross-cultural communication. She believes that overseas Through the language of dance, the audience can feel the profoundness of the spirit of Chinese martial arts and the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

"We will bring a different understanding of Chinese culture to overseas audiences in a full state." said Wang Ali, tour manager of the dance drama "Wing Chun". According to reports, in order to allow everyone to adapt to the local environment faster, the team also made detailed strategies for the European tour schedule, local climate and surrounding environment before departure, and made a manual for everyone.

Not only that, she also mentioned that this year the team also customized uniform costumes, which not only represents the image of the "Wing Chun" cast and crew, but also allows overseas friends to feel the different style of "Wing Chun". It is reported that "Wing Chun" will perform 12 times in the UK this time, and the total number of performances will be refreshed to 202, marking the first time that "Wing Chun" will reach the 200-performance milestone overseas.

The Sadler's Wells Theater for this "Wing Chun" performance is located in the famous "West End of London" and is a well-known theater with a history of more than 300 years. August and September are the "Performance Season" in London's West End. "Wing Chun" presented by a collective of young dancers from the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater with an average age of only 26 years old will "compete" with dozens of stage plays from all over the world. , opened "a door" in the international performing arts market and international communication, showing the beauty of Oriental dance and Chinese heroic spirit to the world.

The dance drama "Wing Chun" tells a story about Chinese Kung Fu, as well as a story about the inheritance, innovation, peace and tolerance of Chinese culture. The "light" in the play is a link between two times and spaces, symbolizing the inheritance of traditional culture and the spirit of the times. The dance drama uses a unique perspective to show the story of the "Wing Chun" crew who share the dream of mountains and seas outside the play and the story of Ip Man going to Hong Kong to work hard in the play. The two lines are intertwined and present the national intangible cultural heritage "Wing Chun" at the same time. "Xiangyunsha" integrates national-level intangible cultural heritage and Lingnan folk culture innovations in the play, bringing the resonance of the two eras at the same frequency. Using "dance" to perform "martial arts", the integration of dance and martial arts is a highlight of the dance drama "Wing Chun", and it is also a major difficulty faced by the actors. In the play, the martial arts moves from the five major kung fu schools - Wing Chun, Mantis Boxing, Bagua Zhang, Bajiquan and Tai Chi - are combined with the dance characteristics of classical dance and modern dance. These fighting scenes are deeply loved by the audience.