Peninsula All-Media Reporter Huang Jingfei
"The production of "Searching for Dreams" traces back the maritime history behind the city of Qingdao and finds the temperament and soul of this city. This is the value of doing this drama." The highly anticipated domestic drama The first large-scale immersive maritime epic musical "Dream of the Sea" is about to ride the wind and waves to meet the audience. On February 5, at the Qingdao International Conference Center, Jin Tiemu, the chief director of the musical "Dream in the Sea", revealed in an interview with the media that the play will use a new artistic perspective and stage to present a full-view large-scale immersive experience unique to Qingdao. Cultural tourism performances.
hopes to reflect the temperament of the people of Qingdao
"Searching for Dreams" will show a positive and courageous sailing dream-themed story. Tan Peng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of Qingdao Tourism Group, revealed, "A performance that represents the culture and temperament of the city is very important for It is a very important content for a tourist city. Over the years, Qingdao has also made many attempts in tourism performance, hoping to launch a show that can reflect the temperament of Qingdao people and their spirit of exploration of the ocean, and explore and present Qingdao’s maritime history. Performance." Under the expectation of the majority of island city citizens and tourists for the in-depth integration of Qingdao culture and tourism, China's first large-scale immersive maritime epic musical "Dream of the Sea" came into being.
The musical has a strong lineup and is directed by Jin Tiemu, a famous director from CCTV and winner of national awards such as the Golden Rooster Award and the Golden Eagle Award. In an interview, Jin Tiemu said that as we all know, Qingdao is a modern tourist city with an international style, but it is also a historical and cultural city with a vast "navigation history". "Dream of the Sea" is based on Qingdao's marine culture and China The history of navigation is the main line, telling the magnificent epic story of the Chinese people's continuous exploration and conquest of the ocean for thousands of years. "In this sense, "Dream of the Sea" is a musical with themes of historical changes, maritime culture, and regional characteristics. Tourists from other places come to Qingdao not only to eat seafood and drink beer, but also to come here for immersive experiences. The maritime history of Qingdao."
will become a regular performance project in the future.
The performance will be presented at the Maritime Theater of the Olympic Sailing Center in the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Ocean Cultural Tourism Zone. The theater is surrounded by the sea on three sides, echoing the "Wind of May" sculpture. The appearance design adopts the concept of combining "spray" and "sail", and is constructed with an all-steel structure. The arc shape is graceful and fashionable, fully demonstrating the regional characteristics of Qingdao, the ocean city and the sailing capital. Jin Tiemu said that in terms of the presentation of effects, this performance form has no precedent in the country, and it also brings difficulties. Technology breaks through the limitations, allowing the audience to be immersed in a limited space, truly realizing a theater and enjoying immersion. A dynamic audio-visual experience, a performance that reproduces the epic of five thousand years of sailing and dreaming. This has also become the innovative highlight of this large-scale performance.
At present, cultural tourism and performing arts in tourist cities are in full swing. How to create popular products to attract audiences to achieve the circle-breaking effect and maximize their influence? Jin Tiemu believes that today’s audiences are increasingly demanding aesthetic standards of art, “We need to Tell good stories to the audience, create good characters, and move people with emotion." However, there are many cultural and tourism performances that are "flashy". "The technology is very advanced, but there is no connotation. We make the content solid and the stories, characters, and emotions solid."
leads the new trend of cultural tourism with innovative thinking , the nautical epic musical "Dream of the Sea" will premiere during the Spring Festival in 2024. In the next step, Qingdao Tourism Group will carefully polish it and use it as a regular performance project to gather surrounding businesses and make it a super IP with Qingdao’s regional characteristics, creating a new landmark for Qingdao’s tourism consumption and a new business card for urban tourism.
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