NCPA Dance Festival 2016
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Prelude
During the solidified midnight of lost souls, memorial monologues are filled with a train of empty thoughts. While slowly drifting away into an unknown world, the dignified are prepared for darkness and the solemn shadows gradually disappear. This lonely rotation opens another prelude of life.
Footsteps (Composed by Rene Aubrey)
Cruising like spirits, brisk footsteps in the empty darkness fly on the margins of dreams and rotate transparently. Vivid and dramatic body language fills the tranquil space with fleeting, sparkling shooting stars. There is no chance to stop the footsteps of the soul. Every beautiful style is born underfoot. The dreamlike melody evokes a green rhyme flowing between landscapes in outer space.
Dance 02 (Composed by Wim Moertansi)
In a two-person world, the lingering and selection of love move in cycles. There is no end to doubt about eternal love. Passion is possessed by youth forever. Lost love in the moonlight is full of helpless innocence. While true love disintegrates, the two-person space appears lonely but beautiful.
Red Wine (Composed by Rene Aubrey)
The other half of a woman belongs to loneliness. In a room for one person, vaulting foam of liquid wine renders the air a passionate red. Playing in the hazy feeling of getting drunk, most people are free and unfettered with helpless relaxation and a rascally expression, making for a cozy lifestyle. Good wine is prepared for lonely women, but the real feeling of getting drunk, like the characteristics of wine, is submerged between being asleep and awake after drinking.
Sixi (Composed by Rene Aubrey)
With regard to the women of the past in the days of wives and concubines, the humble status of kneeling all the time could not be changed and life was boring every day, with endless contending in gossip and the weird expression of feelings constantly being conveyed to behind-the-scenes governors. Such yielding surrender is superficial, while the heart cannot be captured. Maybe what is finally ended is only a form, while the invisible chains are always tied up in the bodies and minds of women.
Tango On the Sea (Composed by Osterloh Piazzolla)
To unscramble the essence of Thunderstorm, a silent language penetrates the sensitive heart in ripples. Extremely individual deduction can spark from passionate tango dance steps. The chains of true love can lock a woman's heart struggling in an emotional vortex, and even souls stepping out of their tombs stare nervously. Such a lifelike human picture scroll is depicted with visual shock, brightly portraying the relationship between the flesh and the spirit through profound body language.
——Intermission——
Half Dream (Composed by HE Zhanhao and CHEN Gang)
With half the hope in life and red annotations, dance is buried deep in the soul. Each movement and rhythm interprets the other half of emotional value with superb conceptions. A classic dance is born from classic music. Each detail of the dance is worthy of being thoroughly savored by the spirit. The graceful dancing postures are like a cool breeze blowing through the grass, a painful but beautiful explosion like the rebirth of the phoenix. The emotional journey is a course, and chains are prepared for true love. Maybe by sacrificing the other half, one can attain true Nirvana.
Island (Composed by Rene Aubrey)
In a place with a quiet mind, one could sleepwalk on the island's sandy beach sprinkled with moonlight. Seabirds dance with the fish. Elements of freedom are slowly released in transparent darkness. Beauty is soundlessly extending and incubating. The primary colors of life are rendered with exposed thoughts as much as possible. With the beauty of the unity of nature and man, every wonderful vision is triggered by inspiration. The realm of the island revives the yearning of all holy and pure souls, allowing people to be perfectly sublimated.
The Red and the Black (Composed by Jay Charles)
The tension of the bones is stretched freely and easily in a contest between a traditional double-breasted black jacket and a red silk hand fan, and between the red and the black along with the rhythmic melody and sense of beauty. Accurately stepping on the destined beats, one would find that life is wonderful everywhere just like the connotations of the red and the black, in which the black means steady and composed and the red means passionate and untrammeled.
Memorial Monologue (Composed by John Williams)
Time flies. Maybe you once had something and lost it when you found it hard to part. Emotions are roaming and searching lost memories purposelessly and boundlessly. You can only express your emotions to yourself. Lonely thoughts fill the surrounding world. In this very moment, less is more. Only a sleepless soul can perceive this carefully and experience the aftertaste.
Color Sense (Composed by John Straus)
The world of colors is full of living elements. A beautiful feeling is continual in gorgeous colors. The lively rhythm can compose spring scenery with graceful dance postures. Youth is extremely colorful with unlimited vitality released from passionate limbs. Life is born from colors and the soul is eternal in colors.
The famous dance artist JIN Xing has unconventional ideas. In 1978, she joined the Qianjin Song and Dance Troupe of the Shenyang Military Region. In 1984, she graduated from the Department of Dance of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts with an excellent academic performance. She won first prize in the first period of the Chinese Dance 'Taoli Cup' (junior group) and the 'Especially Excellent Performer Award of the Second Term' in the Nationwide Dance Competition. In 1988, she was the first dancer from the Chinese Mainland to win the full scholarship issued by the Asian Cultural Foundation of America and American Dance Festival to further study modern dance in the USA. In 1991, her representative work Half Dream won the Best Choreographer Award at the American Dance Festival, and she was employed by an Italian television station as its permanent choreographer. After studying abroad in the USA and Europe for six years, she went to Belgium and was employed by the Royal Dance Academy.
In 1996, she cooperated with the Beijing Ministry of Culture to set up the Beijing Modern Dance Company. In 1998, her representative work The Red and the Black won the Wenhua Award issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China. In 1999, she set up the Shanghai-based Jin Xing Dance Theatre. In 2000, she moved her troupe to Shanghai. In 2006, she successfully established the International Modern Dance Festival entitled 'Dance in Shanghai', a modern dance festival held by a non-governmental organization.
JIN Xing’s achievements in the art of dance are recognized by art circles and the general public at home and abroad. In November 2006, she was named Honorary Doctor of Dance by the Dartington College of Arts, Plymouth University. From 2008 to 2009, she was evaluated as a Cultural Leader of Shanghai by the Shanghai Municipal Government. In 2012, as the second Chinese prize winner, she had the honor of winning 'Literature and Arts Knight' issued by the French Ministry of Culture. On July 1st, 2014, she had the honor of winning an Honorary Doctoral Degree Of Dance Arts issued by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Established in 1999, the Shanghai-based Jin Xing Dance Theatre is the first privately operated modern dance troupe in China. Led by Art Director and dancer JIN Xing, the dance troupe has developed into the hard core of modern Chinese dance.
Since 2002, the footprints of the Jin Xing Dance Theatre have spread over many countries and regions in Asia, Europe and North America. It has also participated in performances at many famous art festivals and dance festivals around the world, including dance festivals in the UK and Switzerland, the Venice Arts Biennial in Italy, Salzburg Arts Festival in Austria, 2008 Zaragoza World Expo in Spain, Macau Arts Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Australia Adelaide Arts Festival, and arts festivals in Germany, USA, France and other countries.
The Jin Xing Dance Theatre's repertoire includes Shanghai Tango (2000), Carmina Burana (2000), From East to West (2002), Fascinating Shanghai (2005), The Farthest and the Nearest (2006), Made in China: Sweet Dreams in the Garden (2007), Chinese Communication (2009), Trinity (2013) and Different Loneliness (2014).
The dance troupe consists of 17 excellent dancers from all over the country. Its preeminent ideological level and art taste, and its artistic style integrating the characteristics of western culture and traditional Chinese culture, have enabled the Shanghai-based Jin Xing Dance Theatre to attain decisive importance as one of China's finest modern dance troupes.
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.