Beijing Children's Art "Beijing Nursery Rhymes": Voices for people's hearts, every life is worth being understood
From "Labyrinth","Red Kids" to "You Look Like Yummy" and "The Child Who Want to Fly", an original June 1st drama is launched every year-this has not only become the "Children's Day appointment" that Beijing Children's Art and Children have kept for 15 years, but also become the "habitual expectation" of children every June 1st. For the May performance season project of Beijing Performing Arts Group's "Dreams Come True", on the evening of June 1, the original drama "Beijing Nursery Rhymes" of Beijing Children's Art Group met with friends big and small as scheduled. This year's child audience is different from the past, and most of them are from school-age children. -This is because the play tells the story of a laughing and tearful story between a bully brother, a "jerk" sister and a grandma who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Some parents walked out of the theater with red eyes,"My grandma has the same disease as the grandma in the play. This play makes me miss my grandma very much." The young audience also wrote "Liu Daqian, you are so good" and the words "Grandma, I love you" on the message board.
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Voices for people's hearts, every life deserves to be understood and respected.
As a continuation of Beijing Children's Art Institute's "Realism Children's Drama Series","Beijing Nursery Rhymes" focuses on a young student who was tied to an adult chariot prematurely. Liu Harvard faced the sudden arrival of his grandma and his "scum" sister who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. His life and heart were confused. Finally, his grandma and grandson found the meaning of life through each other through a series of entanglements. It also became a warm story of the key to healing each other. Dong Ning, chairman of Beijing Children's Art Company, said when talking about why he paid attention to such a theme: "The reason why the audience resonates with is not only because of the touching plot, but also because this drama faces the current pain points-children's psychological changes and emotional loss in a highly competitive environment, middle-aged parents 'anxiety about life, and sick elderly people. Feeling powerless, etc.," learning bully "," education "," Alzheimer "-these social hot words all appear on the stage of this play." Beijing Nursery Rhythms "is not just a play, it also reflects the current people's emotional state of life. Paying attention to people's most practical and pyrotechnic lives and giving voice to people's hearts is not only the greatest spiritual care for children but also adults. This is also the best expression of Beijing Children's Art Group's work to speak and dare to pursue a solid and sincere spirit of 'looking up at the stars and facing life'."
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The performance of children's dramas with sincerity and sincerity is not low.
Beijing Children's Art has won many national awards for its realistic theme work "The Child Who Want to Fly". From artistic director Wu Yuzhong and director Wang Bingran to screenwriter Zhang Yunxian, actors Lu Hong, Jin Shan, etc., the main creative team of "Beijing Nursery Rhythms" comes from the original team of "The Child Who Want to Fly". In order to truly create powerful works, the creators not only thought about the subject matter for several years, but also integrated their relatives and every emotion in life into it. Wang Bingran, the director of the show, said,"The ultimate goal of children's drama is to hope that children will become adults, know how to take care of others, and have rich sympathy and empathy. This is an important symbol of children's adult and mental health." This time, the Beijing children's artists broke through the simplistic treatment of low children in their performances, showing more the true state of the characters, making the children seem to see their grandma and neighbors and classmates, thus greatly shortening the distance with the audience. The scene of grandma falling into a wheelchair made many children's parents unable to help but shed tears silently, and the parents 'performances used more "comic-style" performances, which also made the audience laugh frequently.
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The stage is cool and romantic
. Although it is a play with a realistic theme about Beijing, the stage design Zhang Wu and the lighting design Hu Yaohui of the play present a stage full of tension and romance to the audience. What made the children sigh repeatedly was not only the giant props of the stage, trophy walls and time roulette with a sense of spatial depth, but also the romantic starlight filled the scene while showing the meteor shower and the constellations slowly drawn with lights. The children were excited. Not only that, there is also an exhibition of Old Beijing's "Rabbit Man" in the lobby of the theater. The clay sculptures of different sizes allow parents and children to understand the interesting stories of the "Rabbit Man" culture in old Beijing while watching the drama."Rabbit Man Mountain" has become a "hot attraction" outside the theater.
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reported that in addition to the 2017 funded project "Beijing Nursery Rhymes" by the Beijing Culture and Art Foundation, during the June 1st period of Beijing Children's Art Festival,"Hello Future","Notes of the Drama Magic Concert", and the campus version of "Beijing Nursery Rhymes" and "You Look Like Delicious" were successively staged in Beijing's Urban area and suburbs, with 15 performances.
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About Beijing Performing Arts Group's "Dreams Come True" May Performance Season
Beijing Performing Arts Group's "Dreams Come True" May Performance Season is an original brand project created by the group to implement the spirit of a series of important speeches by national leaders, focus on the theme of the times, and base on the original strength of its state-owned academies. It has been successfully held for four years. The fifth "Dreams Come True" performance season will be held from April 13 to June 6, 2018. At that time, the nine major academies and troupes under the Beijing Performing Arts Group will open their doors one after another in eight days from April 16 to April 23 and hold "Public Open Days" activities, inviting people from all walks of life to enter the hinterland of art production and experience The unique artistic charm of the nine major academies and groups opens an "art door" for the people of Beijing.
About the Beijing Culture and Art Fund The Beijing Culture
and Art Fund is a public welfare fund initiated and established by the Beijing City Culture Bureau and the Beijing City Finance Bureau. It aims to prosper literary and artistic creation, promote cultural exchanges, and cultivate artistic talents. The establishment of the fund is an innovative practice for the Beijing City Cultural Bureau to implement the spirit of the important speeches made by national leaders at the symposium on literary and artistic work and the spirit of the important speeches made during two inspections of Beijing, based on the strategic positioning of the capital city as a national cultural center, innovating financial investment methods, stimulating social and cultural vitality, and promoting supply-side structural reform in the cultural field.
Based on public welfare, orientation, and enhanced demonstration, the Beijing Culture and Art Fund focuses on funding in three major areas: stage art creation, cultural communication and exchange, and artistic talent training. The fund accepts applications from the society, the funding process is supervised by the society, and the funding results are shared by the society, maximizing the enthusiasm of the society to participate in cultural construction, establishing an open, equal, open and transparent art funding system, and striving to form a cultural development pattern that is jointly built and shared by all people. Give full play to the demonstration and leading role of the National Cultural Center.
For more application information and funding process, you can log on to the official website of the Beijing City Bureau of Culture or follow the Weixin Official Accounts of the Beijing Culture and Art Fund for details.