Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

Release time:Apr 16, 2024 21:09 PM

The first standard theater in Suzhou and Hebei, Shanghai Daning Theater, has opened for 12 years this year. Recently, the theater announced the launch of the end of 2023 performance season, bringing 8 works from 6 domestic and foreign theater troupes, including 5 Chinese or Shanghai premieres.

The end of 2023 performance season of Daning Theater focuses on "dancing and joking", focusing on dance and drama, with themes spanning between classical and contemporary. The performance season will kick off in early November and end on December 31st. With the transition between old and new, it will illuminate the city's night with the light of art and culture.


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

Introducing overseas masterpieces and exploring world classics

The Spanish dance troupe Murcia will bring the familiar dance play "Carmen" to the audience. The dance troupe was founded by Carmen Rubio and Marty Rubio, the famous "sisters flower" in the Spanish dance world. Both of them were star dancers in their youth.


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

The dance drama "Carmen" by the Spanish dance troupe Murcia

The French Noah Theatre Company's performances of the classic Moliere comedy "The Puppet" and Beckett's absurd classic "Waiting for Godot" will be presented to Shanghai audiences for the first time. Serge Neuer, the artistic director of the Nono Theatre Company, gained great fame in France for directing "Macbeth" in 1993. His directorial works combine postmodern installation art with traditional theatrical performance, with a strong visual impact. This version of "Waiting for Godot" was praised as "grasping the essence of Beckett.".


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

The French Nono Theatre Company's "The Puppet"

"Waiting for Godot" by the French Nono Theatre Company


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

One of the three major ethnic dance groups in Russia, the Russian State Godenko Dance Troupe, will bring "Joyful Siberia", presenting a Russian ethnic dance that is "even more brilliant than a rainbow". On the evening of December 31st, "Happy Siberia" will lead the audience to bid farewell to 2023 and usher in a brand new year in a warm atmosphere.

"Happy Siberia" by the Russian State Gordenko Dance Troupe


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

Pay attention to the power of originality and tell the story of China well

The National Art Fund project, adapted from Li Jieren's novel of the same name, and the original dance drama "The Little Ripples of the Dead Water" by Chongqing Ballet Troupe, aims to restore the essence of the novel and present authentic Sichuan flavor, adding Sichuan opera elements to the foundation of ballet creation.


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

Chongqing Ballet's Original Dance Drama "The Waves of Dead Water"

The new work "Notre Dame de Paris" by Liaoning Ballet will make its debut in Shanghai during the performance season. As the painstaking work of Liao Ba for four years, the neoclassical ballet "Notre Dame Cathedral" is led by renowned director Patrick de Barra. The composition, lighting, clothing, and other creative teams from both domestic and foreign forces are gathered, arranging and reorganizing familiar storylines in different time spaces. Ao Dingwen, the gold medalist of the International Ballet Competition, and the chief actors of Liaoning Ballet, Zhang Haidong, Wang Zhanfeng, and others will also present "Star GALA", which gathers classic ballet segments such as "Spartak" and "Swan Lake".


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

Liaoning Ballet's New Work "Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris"

Liaoning Ballet Star GALA


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling

The original dance drama "Chang'e" by the Shanghai Opera House reinterprets "Chang'e's journey to the moon" from a modern perspective. Through rich and diverse body language, dance beauty, lighting, multimedia, and sound interaction, it artistically expresses the themes of "the moon has its ups and downs" and "people have their joys and sorrows". Since its premiere, "Chang'e" has won praise for its extraordinary contemporary aesthetics and Shanghai style temperament. Dance scenes have been performed at the CCTV Mid Autumn Festival Gala, and its theme music has also been selected for the promotional video of the "Chang'e-5" lunar probe. After three years of polishing, "Chang'e" has returned with a new look, and the chief actors of the Shanghai Opera House, Tan Yimei and Song Yu, will collaborate to perform this legend that has been passed down for generations.

The original dance drama "Chang'e" by Shanghai Opera House


Daning Theater announces the end of 2023 performance season, featuring dance and storytelling
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