Presenter: Gansu Dance Drama & Opera Ensemble
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts – Theatre
Dates: July 29 – August 02, 2009 19:30
Price: VIP 480 380 280 180 80 RMB
Programme Introduction
“The Rain of Flowers along the Silk Road” has 6 acts, the set of which is in Tang Dynasty of ancient China. The story takes the world famous Silk Road and the murals of Dunhuang as materials, sings the praise of the glorious images of Yingniang and her father, painter Master Zhang, describe their happiness, sadness and the their pure friendship with a Persian businessman, Enus. The play highly praises the deep friendship between Chinese people and foreign peoples, depicts a wise and open dynasty and the frequent international exchanges in the fields of economy and culture. It also weaves a piece of great friendship of song through the ancient, beautiful, innovative and unique style of dance. Since 1979 the group has been to no less than 20 countries and districts, such as North Korea, France, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Russia, Latvia and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan etc, and performed in the world-renowned theatre, Scala Grand Theater of Italy, “The Rain of Flowers along the Silk Road” won the praise of “the Best Dance Play of Asian”. On the performance of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the play was awarded the “the best creativity awarding” and “the greatest performance awarding” by the State Culture Ministry. In 1994, the play won the “Golden Elephant Award” in the 20th Century Classic Chorus Works Activity, and so becomes the oriental “Swan Lake”. So far more than 3,100,000 people have seen the chorus, which is recorded as the “the Greatest Chorus of China” by World Guinness Headquarters of Shanghai in October 2004. In January 2005, she also received the praise of “the Best Program of China Guinness Records, 2005″ which was held by CCTV, Shanghai Oriental Television and the World Guinness Headquarters of Shanghai jointly.
Gansu Dance Drama & Opera Ensemble
Gansu Dance Drama & Opera Ensemble, one of the key art performing groups of the State Culture Ministry of China, formerly Gansu Chorus and Dance Ensemble, Gansu Dance Drama and Opera Ensemble, was established in 1960. The business sectors are made up of the Dance Company (Group One, Group Two and Group Three), the Orchestra (Symphony and the National Orchestra, and Vocal Opera Ensemble), Stage Working Department, Costume Design Studio, Music Studio, Video-audio Studio and Art Studio. The service department is composed of a restaurant, a small supermarket, a typing copy workshop etc. In the area of art education, we’ve set up a Children’s Art Training Center with the name ‘the Rain of Flowers along the Silk Road’”and have jointly founded a Dance Training School with the Northwest Normal University. The professional and technical staff, with an average age of 22 years old, is intelligent and creative. The experts in the Art Creation Research Office are all famous for their theoretical and practical experience in their fields, especially in national literary theoretical research and art creation. In addition, there are more than 30 famous in-and-out experts working with the academy, including outstanding provincial experts, excellent directors, composers, actors, actresses, etc.
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(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)
