The Spring Festival Gala is an indispensable and important link in the Spring Festival activities of the past years. The Musical Short Drama "Vientiane Rejuvenation" staged by the Guangdong Puppet Art Theater at this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala is unique and the form of expression is eye-catching. The program presents many warm and cute fragments left by Yunnan elephants on the way back to the north and south through artistic sublimation, painting a beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals.
"Vientiane Rejuvenation" presents the image of wild animals in a creative way in the form of puppets, making the animals' forms come alive and refreshing. These exquisite puppet performers came to the Guangdong Puppet Art Theater in the "Seven Courts and Eight Troupes" in Guangzhou.
In order to meet the theme of "Vientiane Rejuvenation", the Guangdong Puppet Art Theater remade the animal puppets in the drama "Eight and a Half Layers", which won the Wenhua Award Special Award, and made individual image adjustments according to the requirements of the director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and finally showed the wonderful Southern Cantonese puppet art to the people of the whole country.
△ Stills of the large children's fantasy puppet drama "Eight and a Half Layers"
As the protection unit of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project "Guangdong Puppet Show", the Guangdong Puppet Art Theater, the troupe has a history of 66 years. The puppet performances in the theater are delicate in emotion, both in shape and spirit, and the puppet production is exquisitely carved and vivid, which is very characteristic of Lingnan culture, which is unique in Chinese puppet art, and has been invited to carry out cultural exchange activities around the world for many years. With new technology and new technologies to bring new artistic expression and stage presentation, the technical level and artistic quality of the drama (festival) created are in a leading position in the national industry.
△ National non-hereditary heir Cui Keqin teacher "taught" actors puppet performance skills
Guangdong Puppet Art Theater has rehearsed nearly 400 puppet plays of various types so far, according to reports, the puppet drama "Furong Fairy" has cooperated with Hong Kong Great Wall Pictures Company to produce the first puppet art color film in China, and the puppet drama "Sun Wukong Three Notes Banana Fan" was selected by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the second World Puppet Festival held in Gallest, Romania and won the highest award; the puppet carving art treasures produced by the Puppet Theater have been given abroad as gifts for Chinese and foreign exchanges. It is also collected by many domestic and foreign museums such as the World Puppet Museum.
Excellent work of Guangdong Puppet Art Theater
In recent years, Guangdong Puppet Art Theater has successively created and arranged a number of outstanding works that meet the cultural needs of the people and enhance the spiritual strength of the people, such as the realistic theme song and dance puppet drama "Magical Journey" and the red theme puppet drama "You Xi", as well as the "Chinese Classic Story Series" with primary and secondary school texts as the theme, among which "Eight and a Half Layers" won the Special Award of the 13th Wenhua Award at the 9th China Arts Festival, "True and False Sun Wukong" won the Golden Lion Award, the Third National Puppet Shadow Puppet Competition Gold Award, and "Garbage Wars" won the "Guangling Cup" The National Puppet Shadow Drama Exhibition won the Best Repertoire Award, and "Nezha" won the Best Repertoire Award for the National Puppet Shadow Puppet Show. The puppet theater's artistic performances benefit the people in a fun and educational way, in the form of performance + interaction + explanation, to provide children with high-quality literary and artistic products, guide them to establish lofty ideals, cultivate a beautiful soul, inherit the Chinese context, and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
△ Send the drama into the campus performance
As a state-owned professional literary and art academy group serving young people and children, Guangdong Puppet Art Theater has carried out many artistic popularization and performances for the benefit of the people, such as "intangible cultural heritage into the campus", "sending drama into the community" and "weekend theater". Since 2004, for 18 consecutive years, it has jointly carried out the "Students' Art Education Popularization Program - "Close to the Art Garden, PuppeteerIng" series of activities with the Macao Education Bureau, and actively promoted the youth cultural exchange activities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
△ Guangdong Puppet Art Theatre carried out cultural exchange activities in Macao
The Southern Cantonese puppet show on the Spring Festival Gala, "Vientiane Rejuvenation" to celebrate the New Year. Guangdong Puppet Art Theater uses emotion and strength to tell Chinese stories, Guangdong stories, and Guangzhou stories with literature and art, carries forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, inherits the Chinese context, displays the spirit of Guangzhou in the new era with high-quality artistic works and all-round panoramas, continuously meets the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and makes positive efforts and contributions to promoting Guangzhou's literary and artistic undertakings to climb to a peak forever.
Source of material 丨Guangdong Puppet Art Theater Editor 丨 Chen Chen produced 丨 Guangzhou Municipal People's Government Information Office