At the end of December 2024, the dance poetry drama "Only Green" will premiere in the United States. China Oriental Performing Arts Group will bring classic dramas (programs) to start a performance season covering San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and other important American citi

At the end of December 2024, the dance poetry drama "Only Green" will premiere in the United States. China Oriental Performing Arts Group will bring classic dramas (programs) to start a performance season covering San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and other important American cities, using art as a medium to deepen Sino-US cultural exchanges and cooperation.

The dance poetry drama "Only Green" is inspired by the famous Northern Song Dynasty painting "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains". The whole play uses dance body movements and stage vision to depict a magnificent picture of boundless mountains and rivers, and to build a time-space connection between ancient and modern times. Since its premiere at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing in August 2021, "Only Green" has quickly become a phenomenon-level cultural IP. The play has traveled to more than 70 cities in China and to countries such as Singapore, Turkey, and Russia. It has performed more than 640 times, and every venue is sold out. It is hard to get a ticket. It won the 17th Wenhua Award, the highest government award for culture and art in China, and the 2022 China Copyright Gold Award. It appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Tiger, reaching more than 8 billion viewers, triggering the "green craze" at home and abroad. In October 2024, the movie "Only Green" and the symphony concert "Only Green" will be released successively, using diverse art forms to jointly shape Chinese aesthetics.

The dance poetry drama "Only Green" is about to premiere in the United States. The introduction of China Oriental Performing Arts Group's classic dramas, programs and other comprehensive works into the United States not only marks another important appearance of Chinese literary and artistic works on the international stage, but also Build a cultural and artistic bridge for people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries. According to the production unit China Oriental Performing Arts Group, the New York station of the dance-poetry drama "Only Green" will officially go on sale on December 9, local time, and performances in San Diego, Los Angeles and other places will also go on sale one after another.

text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting

editor/Cui Wei