Chinese Dance Drama - Railway Guerrilla

Published on Apr 3, 2013

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: May 29-30, 2013

Prices: 80, 120, 180, 300, 380, 430, 480, 580

Features: The dance drama Railway Guerrilla will stage in Opera House of NCPA on May 29th-30th, this show performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The dance drama Railway Guerrilla created by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the PLA General Political Department, is adapted from the revolutionary war novel with the same title. The novel has been widely spread among the readers and audiences in new China. It tells a legendary anti-Japanese armed heroism story in the area of Shandong Province during the War of Resistance against Japan. NCPA will embrace its premiere in order to commemorate the 65th victory anniversary of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance against Japan.

As the revolutionary war theme, the Railway Guerrilla has strong spirit of heroism and war scene atmosphere. These factors will be fully revealed and played in the creation, so that the image of the dance drama not only has distinctive characteristics of the military arts, but also has the thrilling special stage effects to achieve high integration of the profound ideological content, strong artistic style and full of recreation and appreciation.

The absorbing original story of Railway Guerrilla is widely known by the readers, and also conforms to the creation requirements of dance drama art: the characters have characteristics and styles of strong classical Chinese legend novel and drama characters with distinct personalities, clear profiles and rich emotions showing heroism of joys and sorrows, and are the rare hero images of a group of characters in dance drama creation. In this creation, the characters with great popularity in the original version will display in front of the audiences directly with more characteristics by dances. It seeks to present a grand and acute, mild and passionate, exciting and funny effect on the stage with magnificent daring and complicated inconstant wisdom.

The story of Railway Guerrilla took place in Shandong Province, a particular place for Chinese folk song and dance. Not only the popular folk tunes can provide the affecting character and the strong local lyric style for dance music; but also 'Guzi Yangko', 'Jiaozhou Yangko' and 'Haiyang Yangko' in Shandong region provide a wealth of action materials for characters in dance drama and dance image, thus a strong national style is established for dance drama creation.

Classic revolutionary dance drama Railway Guerrilla, will present fighting scenes, nervous process of 'climbing onto the speeding train', flourishing folk living images, quiet rural pastoral style, wide mountain and lake sceneries, and grand and acute panoramic images of war of resistance on stage. It integrates drama, music, dance, art, and clothing into the modern creative idea on stage, and combines the classical red theme and modern dance and art design concepts, as well as the most popular and most entertaining stage equipment and dance skills. It opens up wide art space to present high-quality dance drama for the audiences.

Tickets for Chinese Dance Drama - Railway Guerrilla are Available now!

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BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking From: Wednesday, Apr 03, 2013

Booking Until: Sunday, May 26, 2013

Show Time: May 29-30, 2013 / 7:30pm

Running Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

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