Ballet "New Year" Stills Central Ballet troupe Photo provided by
China News Service, Beijing, September 17 (Reporter Ying Ni) On the evening of the 16th, the Central Ballet troupe's ballet "New Year" kicked off in Tianqiao Theater with its wonderful performance. In the next three months, Baba will present wonderful ballet performances with different styles to audiences across the country, spend the romantic and warm autumn days together, enjoy the joy of harvest and the fruits of art.
China Ba chief starring Qiu Yunting appeared in the ballet "New Year" with "Crane Leading Dance". Photo provided by the Central Ballet Troupe
, which was premiered in 2010, creatively gave the well-known "Nutcracker" music to the romantic and beautiful Chinese charm. The elements of the twelve zodiac signs and traditional customs are perfectly integrated into the dance drama under the wonderful ideas of the directors. The wonderful dance segments such as crane dance, porcelain dance, silk dance, fan dance, , kite dance, candied haws dance, gyroscope dance, gold ingot dance, firecracker dance and other wonderful dance segments telling the traditional stories in the profound Chinese culture. Every time it is performed, it can inspire friends and older people to explore Chinese traditional culture, learn music and dance. At the same time, the play was widely welcomed and highly praised by international audiences when touring around the world. In 2018, it set a record of 11 consecutive performances at the Seine Musical Theater in Paris, France, and was praised by the audience as "the favorite and most Chinese-style version."
This round of "New Year" performance is the first show of the young actors in the Zhongba in the play. The team won the enthusiastic cheers and affirmation of the audience with their youthful, beautiful, lively and lively high-level interpretation. The main actors of China Baba, Fang Mengying and Chen Zhuming, lead the male and female protagonists "Da Yuanyuan" and "Nutcracker", and outstanding young actors Li Mengfei and Shen Mengfan play "Xiao Yuanyuan" and "Tuantuan". What surprised the audience was particularly that the chief star Qiu Yunting of Zhongba, with the wonderful performance of "Crane Leading Dance" and "Porcelain Dance", congratulated the young dancers of Zhongba to director Zhang Yi , while also showing the extraordinary strength of Zhongba's chief. Under the leadership of music director Zhang Yi, the China Ba Symphony Orchestra presented a gorgeous, magnificent, clear and smooth musical interpretation.
Stills of the ballet "New Year" Photo provided by Central Ballet Troupe
As the famous conductor Zhang Yi served as the music director of Zhongba for 20 years, the musical interpretation of "New Year" on the 15th is also full of highlights. Starting from the light finishing of the string music, Zhang Yi's "Bajiao" under the stick shows excellent overall tone and precise control of the work's atmosphere shaping ability. In the first act "Nutcracker" transformed into the "General" and the "Nian" beast, copper tube and percussion create a strong dramatic tension, and the subsequent chorus of children introduces the audience's thoughts into a dream world full of colorful thoughts like the sound of nature. The music in the second act of the dance drama can be called a "collection of famous songs", leaving huge space for interpretation for conductors and orchestra performers. The loud solos of the trumpet in "fan dance", the ethereal chanting of strings in "silk dance", the fresh piccolo in "candy haws dance", and the fantasy harp in "Porcelain dance" and "nutcracker, Tuantuan big double dance ". The "Bajiao" led by Director Zhang Yi shows a high degree of tacit understanding and outstanding overall strength.
Zhongba troupe leader and artistic director Feng Ying said: "The New Year's work tells the story of our China. In the performance full of childlike fun, it embodies the good wishes of our Chinese nation. It is a ballet that is suitable for all ages and young. It is undoubtedly more suitable for the youngest team of actors in Zhongba to interpret this work. Zhongba has been constantly exploring along the road of successful creation model pioneered by "Red Detachment of Women", and uses Western dance vocabulary to show the best culture and civilization of the Chinese nation to the world."
Zhongba music director and conductor Zhang Yi, Central Ballet Troupe, photo provided by
It is reported that the ballet "New Year's Eve" will continue to be performed until September 18."Autumn Festival - Zhongba Autumn Performance Season" will perform major dramas such as "Swan Lake", "Dunhuang", "Red Detachment of Women", " Century ", "Don Quixote", " Onegin " and other places in Beijing, Zhuhai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou . In addition, the China Ba Symphony Orchestra will hold a series of concerts at the National Grand Theater and will bring the symphony to nature, and hold a "Forest Concert" in Xishan Forest Park. (End)
