In late spring and early summer, in the coming May, the Beijing Performing Arts Group’s 10th May Performance Season will arrive as scheduled. From May 1st to 31st, more than 30 plays and over 100 performances invite the audience to the theater to participate in the tenth "Spring Festival". Among them, during the May Day holiday, many high-quality dramas and original premieres of the performance season will be launched first, bringing together dance dramas, dramas, children's dramas, puppet shows and other art categories, kicking off the May performance market in Beijing.
Based on the national treasure cultural relic "Five Stars Out of the East Benefiting China" brocade armband as the theme, the treasure dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", which won the "Five One Project" Award and the "Wenhua Award", will be on stage again, from May 3rd to 5th at Beijing Poly Theater performed three consecutive performances to kick off a new round of national tour. The repertoire's reputation has been well received by nearly 100 audiences. The multiple out-of-circle dance numbers such as "Splendid", "Call of the Ancients" and "Bazaar Rhapsody", as well as the traditional cultural elements that can be seen everywhere in the details, will once again bring a visual feast to the audience. Feel the national style aesthetics of "Hua Liu is the top class". The play will also be performed at the Tianjin Grand Theater from May 30 to 31.
Adapted from the famous picture book writer Tatsuya Miyanishi's picture book of the same name, the long-lived children's drama "You Look Delicious", which has been performed for more than 1,200 times for 16 years, is produced and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, a subsidiary of Beijing Performing Arts Group, and will be released in May The performance started warmly at the National Culture Palace Grand Theater from the 1st to the 2nd. This children's drama with a Damai rating of 9.0 appeared on the stage of CCTV Children's Spring Festival Gala in 2012, and has brought love and touching to countless parent-child families during its 16 years of performance. Subverting the stereotyped and cold image of dinosaurs, in the name of "love", it takes the audience into the fairy tale world of the Cretaceous.
The large-scale documentary epic puppet show "The Elephants Are Coming" launched by the China Puppet Art Theater under the Beijing Performing Arts Group is based on the hot news event of "the Asian elephants in Yunnan Province move north and return to the south". It will be held on May 5. The Chinese Puppet Theater Kaku Theater performs. The unique documentary presentation method and the shocking 1:1 giant elephant elephant vividly depict the interesting and touching stories of the "short-nosed family" composed of 15 elephants in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve during their migration. The play has appeared on the CCTV stage three times - "Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Gala", "Avenue of Stars" and "Poetry and Painting of China", which will take the audience into a "unparalleled journey" of elephant herd migration.
In addition, Beijing Children's Art's new drama "Guijie" will premiere at Nanluo Theater from May 3rd to 5th. The play is based on "Guijie", a famous nightlife spot for Internet celebrities in Beijing, as the creative background. It uses a cross-narrative presentation method that spans 18 years. It is based on the real experiences of the main creative team and collectively created four touching stories: Aboriginals and Northern Drifters, Marriage With love, lovers and brothers, dreams and reality... the audience can find themselves and regain themselves in the true profiles of ordinary life in the play, and once again draw strength from the simple and ordinary warmth.
The immersive folk art drama "Memory of Nancheng - "Old Door God"" by Beijing Folk Art Troupe, a subsidiary of Beijing Performing Arts Group, will be played at the Pigment Hall in Beijing Hutongs from May 3 to 5. The story starts with the "Old Door God", the gatekeeper of the guild hall, and 8 characters with distinctive personalities perform 9 kinds of folk art forms, including cow bone number, Lai Bao, foreign films, single string, drum, cross talk, and allegro, through performances full of Beijing flavor. "Reviving" the urban fireworks of old Beijing Nancheng for the audience, the interaction between the antique architecture of the hall and the performances close at hand will bring the audience an immersive and unique viewing experience.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Guo Jia
editor/Qiao Ying