The new version of The Nutcracker: the Chinese version of the "Fairy Temple" (Fig)

Director of the scene to guide the drama director, dance choreographer Zhao for the audience to interpret the new version of the "Nutcracker" of the highlights of the National Grand Theater held a "different" "Nutcracker" arts and education activities on the scene show the dance segment Sina Entertainment News February 24 to 26th, the latest version of the Chinese National Ballet "Nutcracker" Will be staged at the Grand National Theatre.　　February 19, the National Grand Theater held a "different" "Nutcracker" art education activities, invited the drama director, choreographer Zhao for the audience to interpret the new version of the "Nutcracker" highlights, take viewers to visit the Chinese version of the "Fairy Temple Fair." From "Christmas Eve" to "New Year's Eve" debut in 1892, the classical ballet "Nutcracker" is the masterpiece of classical ballet choreographer Petepa and Ivanov, and is also one of the three classical ballet music created by the great Russian composer Tchaikovsky, which depicts the unique world in the children's perspective. Dance drama is full of pure and mysterious fairy tale color, with a strong musical characteristics of children.　　This is also a foreign ballet every year will play a Christmas. The Chinese version of the Nutcracker has not changed the basic frame of the original play, but it attaches great importance to the exploration of Western and Western.　　The dance will move the original Christmas background to China's New Year's Eve, depicting a western friend to a Chinese antique merchant's home, and gave the host's children round a "Nutcracker", which leads to a dream of adventure story. Last Christmas, Chingba will be the play as a "New Year ballet" launched, this time after the Lantern Festival again staged, also regarded as "occasional", from beginning to end full of thick "years taste."　　In particular, the National Grand Theater has a "green light" for the show, allowing children under 1.2 meters to buy tickets. Chinese elements are widely seen in the Chinese ballet to create the rehearsal version of the "Nutcracker" is a veritable "China version", not only the original from the Western Christmas Eve moved to China's New Year's Eve, while cranes, blue and white porcelain, kites, firecrackers, gyroscopes, window grilles, fans, silk, sugar,　　12 Zodiac and so on the most Chinese-style folk elements are also adapted into a ballet section moved on the stage, so that the audience as if into a lively and fun fairy tale "Temple", in the Tchaikovsky music of the backdrop, launched a colorful Chinese folk customs scroll. In the original, the Western folk house became the capital temple with rich Chinese characteristics, and the European living room of family gathering changed to the Hutong families in Beijing, and corresponding to the Spring Festival, the original play of the Rat King has become a folk legend of the "year" Beast, the child saw the Candy kingdom has become a very Chinese culture atmosphere of the porcelain kingdom, the actor put on the " Old Beijing Coat ", the actress put on the" blue and white porcelain dress. "　　The protagonist's circle in the dream has become a symbol of auspicious in Chinese culture, the crane Fairy. "The work is to give this world classic a clear mark on ' Made in China '," said Zhao, the director of the drama, the famous choreographer, "to let the Chinese audience understandSolve the World classics. The protagonist of the dance is a child, the child's fantasy space is unrestricted, as long as the plot is reasonable there is no problem. "Male dancers based on the sharp new version of the" Nutcracker "by well-known dance director Zhao as director of the Chinese National Ballet Feng and Beijing Contemporary Ballet art director Wang Yuanhua as choreographer, and the troupe boldly to enable the" Ballet Creative workshop "in the budding young choreographer Qi, Wangsi,　　Zhang and other young actors are part of the dance section choreography. In the day's activities, choreographer and actor Wangsi for the scene of the audience to show the play is quite characteristic of a "gyro dance", this dance section of the choreographer is just wangsi himself. The biggest feature of this dance is that the actor puts on his foot shoes, which is the first time in Chinese ballet. The motion law of the foot tip rotation is exactly the same as the shape of the gyro when it rotates, creating an interesting stage effect, so that the audience can see the new idea of the combination of Chinese and western.