Cover News Reporter Luo Shiqian It’s another year at the Daliangshan Theater Festival. On November 12, the famous performing artist Pu Cunxin, known as the "old opera master", appeared at the 6th Daliangshan Theater Festival in Xichang, Sichuan. As one of the founders, Pu Cunxin

Cover News Reporter Luo Shiqian

It’s another year of Daliangshan Theater Festival. On November 12, the famous performing artist Pu Cunxin, known as the "old opera master", appeared at the 6th Daliangshan Theater Festival in Xichang, Sichuan.

As one of the founders, Pu Cunxin has witnessed the growth of the Daliangshan Theater Festival in the past six years. The theme of this year’s Daliangshan Theater Festival is “Drama Connects the World”. How can theater be a link between the world? What are the characteristics of good dramatic works? Pu Cunxin told the cover news reporter his views.

On November 12, Pu Cunxin was interviewed.

As the first initiator and artistic director of the Daliangshan Theater Festival, Pu Cunxin has different feelings about each Daliangshan Theater Festival. In his view, the theater festival has many highlights and features every year. “In fact, it is different every year, and the repertoire is different every day. The same thing is that it is held every year after the beginning of winter in . Artists from all over the world come to Liangshan to share a A grand event of drama. ”

How can drama become a link connecting the world in different languages ​​and cultural backgrounds? "For example, at this year's drama festival, we used the play "Star Return" produced by a foreign director as the opening performance. He presented his impression of Liangshan through language, songs, dance and other dramatic forms. This is also a kind of connection. " Pu Cunxin gave an example.

The opening ceremony of the 6th Daliangshan Theater Festival

"Star Return" is the first work jointly commissioned by the International Theater Association, Chinese Dramatists Association , Shanghai Theater Academy and Liangshan Cultural Tourism Group. The play is directed by Samoan artist Remy Bonifaso. Through in-depth exploration of the ancient Yi literature "Book of Origins" and Bimo's spiritual singing, it presents traditional singing, life rituals, farming dances, and Bimo's classic texts. , the enthusiastic dance steps of the Torch Festival and other contemporary expressions of traditional culture, show the Yi people’s profound cultural heritage and unique humanistic thoughts to a global audience.

Stills from the opening drama "Star Return" of the 6th Daliangshan Theater Festival

At this year's drama festival, famous foreign drama figures can also be seen everywhere. On November 11, at a drama dialogue event, a number of drama masters from home and abroad discussed the importance of drama in the inclusive coexistence, exchange and mutual learning of different civilizations in the process of modernization of human society under the theme of "Drama Connects the World" and function.

On November 10, at the China-Arab Drama Exchange Project—Traditional Art Exhibition of China and Arab Countries, 13 outstanding artists from China, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria and other countries performed live interactions and music performances. In various ways, it showed the charm of traditional art and drama in my country and Arab countries to the audience.

Jordanian artists perform local dances at the China-Arab drama exchange project.

"Whether they are theater people or audiences at home and abroad, they all gathered here because of the Daliangshan Theater Festival. It has formed a theater home in the west of our motherland." Previously, Pu Cunxin said that the Daliangshan Theater Festival has Its unique tolerance and openness release the root value of drama to the performing arts, advocate the socialization of drama creation and the popularization of drama appreciation, and express the artistry, naturalness, sociality, nationality and internationality of drama.

In recent years, Chinese literary and artistic works have frequently experienced a "fever to go overseas". For example, the poverty alleviation-themed TV series "Mountains and Seas" was broadcast in more than 50 countries and regions, the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" attracted overseas film companies to remake it, and the TV series "Where the Wind Goes" was rated on mainstream overseas drama professional rating websites Earning high scores, the animated film "Chang'an 30,000 Miles" attracted many overseas netizens to spontaneously help promote the film... From movies to TV series, from animation to mini-series, more and more literary and artistic works have achieved word-of-mouth and market success overseas. Double harvest.

As a senior literary and art worker, Pu Cunxin has played "Li Bai" in more than 300 dramas since 1991. Regarding this " craze for going overseas", he believes that high-quality works that "do not go overseas" can also be "confident". He said that good drama works should not only be talented and educational, but also have artistic aesthetics and achieve a high degree of integration of thought and art.

In Pu Cunxin’s view, cultural confidence is reflected in lifestyle. Previously, when addressing the issue of "cultural self-confidence", he said frankly: "Life self-confidence is cultural self-confidence, and live authentically, because life gives everyone rights. The same goes for culture. You must always stick to your most authentic things. For example, we must believe in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. "

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