Guangzhou Opera House 13 October 2024 - National Art Troupe Performance Season Dance Poetry Drama "Only This Green" - Dance Painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" | GoComGo.com

National Art Troupe Performance Season Dance Poetry Drama "Only This Green" - Dance Painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"

Guangzhou Opera House, Opera Hall, Guangzhou, China
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Sunday 13 October 2024
2:30 PM

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Important Info
Type: Show
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 14:30

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Overview

Recreate the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty on stage, connect thousands of years of stillness and movement, and open up an immersive "painting appreciation" experience for the audience!

Dance Poetry Drama: "Silence is Better than Sound"
As a poetic drama, the poetic drama has both strong poetic sentiment and dramatic plots and scenes. Its poetic nature and strong lyricism give readers a broad space for artistic re-creation. "Dance poetic drama" is a comprehensive stage presentation that uses dance as a vocabulary and the poetic expression of body language to create a realm of "silence is better than sound".
 
The dance-poetic drama "Only This Green" takes the form of "poetic drama" and consists of chapters such as "unrolling the scroll, asking about seals, singing silk, searching for stones, practicing calligraphy, tempering ink, and painting". The audience will follow the perspective of a modern Palace Museum researcher - the scroll unfolder - and wander in the legendary Chinese traditional aesthetics.
 
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains": "Unique among the Stars and Moon for Thousands of Years"
In the inscription of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains in the Yuan Dynasty, Pu Guang praised this painting: "It can stand alone for thousands of years, almost like a solitary moon among many stars." He believed that this was a painting of the moon surrounded by many stars in the green mountains and rivers, which was unprecedented and unparalleled. The enduring charm of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains painted by Xi Meng was due to the developed politics, economy, literature and art of the Northern Song Dynasty.
 
In the cultural atmosphere of the Northern Song Dynasty, the crafts of silk weaving, pen making, and ink making all reached their peak, and the azurite and malachite used for coloring were also mineral pigments with extremely high costs. With his exquisite techniques, Xi Meng expanded the new possibilities of blue-green coloring and pushed blue-green landscape painting to the pinnacle of its ultimate development.

Interweaving of time and space: National treasures and cultural relics resonate with the spirit of modern people
The dance-poetry drama "Only This Green" adopts a narrative structure of interlaced time and space. The plot takes place when the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is about to be exhibited in reality, and when the young painter Xi Meng was about to complete his manuscript a thousand years ago. The person who unfolds the scroll, due to his in-depth study of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", enters Xi Meng's heart and accompanies him through the precious time of painstakingly painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". He and this "genius boy" who is only recorded in a few numbers have a close relationship, and explore the accidental and inevitable "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is "unique for thousands of years", and understands the emotional connection between ancient cultural relics and modern people.

Venue Info

Guangzhou Opera House - Guangzhou
Location   No.1 Zhujiang West Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District

Guangzhou Opera House is a Chinese opera house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it opened on the 9th of May in 2010.

In April 2002 an international architectural competition attracted Coop Himmelb(l)au, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid – each producing detailed designs. In November 2002, Zaha Hadid's "double pebble" was announced the winner and the groundbreaking ceremony was held early in 2005.

The theatre has become the biggest performing centre in southern China and is one of the three biggest theatres in the nation alongside Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and Shanghai's Shanghai Grand Theatre. May 2010 saw American filmmaker Shahar Stroh direct the premiere production of the opera house: Puccini's opera Turandot which had in previous years been a controversial opera in China.

The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle."

Important Info
Type: Show
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 14:30
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