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.