Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen) On January 14, the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Arts Festival Art Forum and Performance Promotion Conference "Art to the Future" opened at the Beijing Intermediate Theater. Li Jinsheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China International Culture Group Co., Ltd., attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
This year's art forum and performance promotion conference lasted from January 14 to January 16, the forum part set up three sub-themes of "theater development to the future", "art education to the future" and "performance market to the future", in a three-day period, through keynote speeches and summit dialogues, more than 40 top artists and scholars were invited as guests to carry out more than 10 keynote speeches and 6 summit forum dialogues on the relationship between theater positioning and artistic creation, art aesthetic education, cross-border new performances and other topics. In the performance promotion meeting, performance institutions from all over the world are invited to perform and promote the project on the spot, and for the projects that have reached the intention of cooperation, the on-site signing ceremony is held on the last day of the forum and the performance promotion meeting. In the evening after the forum and the performance promotion meeting, the Middle Theater arranged a repertoire for everyone, including the Sino-French cooperative children's puppet play "Mirror Flower Edge" brought by QFun Theater, and the experimental drama "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit" brought by dramatist Liu Xiaoyi.
Tian Qinxin. Photo: Guo Xingfu
At the art forum, Tian Qinxin, president of the National Theatre of China, Rimas Tuminas, artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater in Russia (online), Lai Shengchuan, a Chinese dramatist, and Ye Jintian, interpreter of "New Orientalist Aesthetics", attended the forum and delivered keynote speeches on the theme of "The Integration of Artistic Creation and Theater Positioning". As an art creator and a manager of a theater group, how to grasp the future of art? Tian Qinxin shared the three themes of "Shouzheng Innovation, Telling The Story of China", "Science and Technology Empowers the Creation of New Formats in the Industry", and "Beauty and Coexistence, Seeking Common Development and Cooperation".
Rimas Tuminas, artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater in Russia, mentions online the creator of the Vakhtangov Theater, his own teacher Vakhtangov. Tuminas believes that it was Vakhtangov who promoted the further development of the theater and his personal development, while defining the concept of "drama is a festival", as long as people are alive, believe and love theater, they must be able to live in the festival, if the festival does not exist, open a way to prove its existence, festivals are created by people.
Lai Shengchuan. Photo: Guo Xingfu
Chinese dramatist Lai Shengchuan revolved around the question "What kind of drama do we need in this world?" "The theme was shared. Lai Shengchuan hopes that while drama is moving in the direction of science and technology, science and technology must break through from the inside first, move toward transformation, and move towards ceremony. In his view, the most precious thing is that on and off the stage, the creator and the audience are in the theater together, breathing together, brainstorming, exploring life, the universe; people's suffering can be alleviated in the theater. Finally, Yip Kam Tim, the interpreter of "New Orientalist Aesthetics", shared the creative ideas and aesthetic concepts of his new stage work "Love in the City" directed by him.
Tim Ye. Photo: Guo Xingfu
The summit forum held in the afternoon invited representatives and scholars from state-owned theaters, private theaters and local theaters in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to conduct two dialogues on the theme of "How Urban Culture Integrates with Theater Positioning" and "How the Theater Industry Responds to the Rapidly Developing External World". It is reported that on the morning of January 15, the art forum invited the famous music aesthetician Zhou Haihong, the deputy director of the full-time committee of the Ministry of Education Liu Yanshen, the creative director of the Chickenshed Theatre in the United Kingdom, David Carey Dave Carey (online), and yu Hai, president of the Chinese Music Association Wind Music Society, to deliver keynote speeches on art education. The afternoon summit forum invited practitioners and thinkers who are deeply involved in drama education in the frontline to conduct two dialogues around the theme of "What are we all doing for children and drama" and the theme of "How to promote the establishment of China's aesthetic education system under the background of double subtraction". On the morning of January 16, the art forum invited representatives of theater operations and repertoire producers to deliver keynote speeches on the theme of "Diversified and New Performance Forms". The afternoon summit forum invited industry experts and young theater workers to conduct two dialogues around the theme of "How the Characteristic Theater Festival Helps Drama 'Break the Circle'" and the theme of "Closing Salon - Returning to the Original Intention of Drama and Imagining the Future of Drama".
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen
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