The jade rabbit bids farewell to the old year, and the golden dragon celebrates the new year. As the pace of the New Year is getting closer and closer, the 2024 Spring Festival series of cultural and entertainment consumption activities of "Fuman Beijing Spring Celebration Shenzhou" will be officially unveiled. During the Spring Festival, the city carefully planned and organized nearly 10,000 cultural activities of various kinds, focusing on ten topics with high social attention, strong mass participation, strong traditional New Year's flavor and new art forms, such as boutique performances, museum theme tours, key business districts, New Year's customs activities in various districts, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cultural activities, Beijing outings and micro-vacations, ice and snow cultural activities, boutique cultural and creative products, film and television boutiques, and temple fairs and gardens.
In the first phase of the "Boutique Performances" theme, more than 150 theaters and new performing arts spaces provided more than 300 high-quality and diversified theatrical performances, nearly 2,000 performances, covering opera, drama, dance, first meeting, children's drama, acrobatics and other artistic categories. It can be said that the repertoire of performances is wonderful, the famous artists are on stage, and the performing arts space is rich and diverse. Among them, the drama "Under the Red Flag", the acrobatic show "Gold Medal Acrobatics in the New Year", the Peking Opera "Red-Maned Horse", the Irish tap dance "The Soul of Dance" and many other high-quality performances are all exciting.
The drama "Under the Red Flag".
Group: Beijing People's Art Theatre.
Venue: Capitol Theatre.
Time: January 19-February 13 (closed every Monday, 9-10)
Highlights: The play is not only a Chinese New Year performance but also a performance for the 125th anniversary of Mr. Lao She's birth, Beijing Renyi hopes to experience a historical picture, customs and customs of old Beijing with the audience in the theater, and spend a Spring Festival full of "Beijing flavor" together. The work narrates from the first perspective of Mr. Lao She, depicting the life style of Beijing before and after his birth and in the late Qing Dynasty, and telling the fate of the nation a hundred years ago in the form of group portraits. In the second creation, directors Feng Yuanzheng and Yan Rui respected the spiritual core of the original work and gave the work a more modern interpretation.
The song and dance drama "The Cat God in the Forbidden City".
Groups: China Children's Art Theatre, Palace Museum.
Venue: China Children's Theatre.
Time: February 3, 12-17.
What to watch: A kitten named "Bao'er" in the Forbidden City has returned to the former Forbidden City through hundreds of years because of his deep attachment to his human companions, and has become a kitten named "Little Thing". At this time, the Forbidden City had become the Palace Museum. Through a series of stories that happened in the Forbidden City, the "little things" not only found the home of their hearts, but also became the real "four-clawed guards" and became the guardians of the Forbidden City. The play is adapted from the picture book of the same name created by Feng Li, the director of Chinese children's art, and tells the charming and timeless fairy tales about friendship and companionship, memory and history, life and eternity through the perspective of cats.
Irish tap dance "The Spirit of Dance".
Production: David King.
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts.
When: February 11-16.
What to watch: "The Spirit of Dance" is based on Irish tap dancing and blends with dance styles from around the world. Originating in Ireland and full of raw energy, tap dance has become one of the most exciting dance performances, taking you on a journey through the world of dance with the same dynamic rhythms as Scotland, flamenco, Latin, salsa, hip-hop, hip-hop, tech-music, cancan and American tap. In "The Spirit of Dance", the dancers tap their toes like an exciting express train, and the performance is uniform and excites the audience.
Acrobatic show "Gold Medal Acrobatics in the New Year".
Group: China Acrobatic Troupe.
Venue: Poly Theatre, Beijing.
When: February 10-12.
Highlights: The fourth year of the acrobatic "national team" will accompany you to celebrate the New Year at the Poly Theater. The ace programs with countless acclaimed performances are vividly and brilliantly, and strive to make the audience feel the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation advancing with the times and bringing forth the new. This Chinese New Year acrobatic show brings together 12 carefully selected Chinese acrobatic troupes that have won awards at home and abroad to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Granada flamenco "Carmen".
Group: Granada Flamenco Troupe, Spain.
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts.
When: February 5-7.
Highlights: As one of the world's three major flamenco dance companies, the classic large-scale dance drama "Carmen" of the Granada Flamenco Company in Spain can be called the highest level of Spanish flamenco. The whole play seamlessly expresses the complex and unpredictable character and strong contradiction of "Carmen" from the aspects of dance vocabulary, original singing accompaniment, and character building.
Children's drama "Kaku Big Project - Wishing Dragon Ball".
Group: China Puppet Art Theater.
Venue: Kaku Theater, Chinese Puppet Theater.
When: February 14, 15, 24, 25.
Highlights: The play takes the dragon culture, an important symbol in traditional Chinese culture, as the theme, and innovatively integrates the traditional cultural elements of the Chinese nation such as the national intangible cultural heritage "dragon dance", calligraphy, and opera into the performance, and puts the traditional culture into a new expression on the stage of children's drama, awakening the audience's resonance, and giving the Year of the Dragon a new breath with childlike fun.
Kunqu opera "Autumn in the Han Palace".
Group: Northern Kunqu Opera Theater.
Venue: Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre.
When: February 24.
Highlights: The play is based on the story of "Zhaojun Leaving the Fortress", starting from historical and contemporary perspectives, focusing on the tragic story of the emperor and the people after the end of the Hundred Years War of the Han-Hungarian confrontation. While retaining the literary essence of Yuan Miscellaneous Opera, the play strengthens the lyrical characteristics of Kunqu Opera's "Northern and Southern Opera", and vividly conveys the feelings of home, country and history.
Ballet "Cinderella".
Group: **Ballet Company.
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts.
When: February 2-4.
Highlights: Directed by the internationally renowned choreographer Ben Stevenson, it creatively integrates comical and satirical elements such as prom clowns and "female characters", and the collision of classical and comedy enriches the dramatic tension.
Dance poetry drama "Only This Green".
Group: China Oriental Performing Arts Group.
Venue: Tianqiao Performing Arts Center.
When: February 2-4.
Highlights: With "Poetry and Drama" as the genre and chapters such as "Scroll Exhibition, Seal Questioning, Silk Singing, Stone Searching, Brush Practice, Ink Quenching, and Painting" as the outline, the audience will follow the perspective of a modern Palace Museum researcher, the scroller, and wander in the legendary traditional Chinese aesthetics.
Chaoran Chinese Music" The 4th Beijing New Year ** Meeting.
Ensemble: Beijing Chinese Orchestra.
Venue: Beijing ** Hall.
When: February 15.
Highlights: **Starting from the three sections of "national style", "national music" and "national tide", with the gene of national tradition, with the pace of fashion trend, a new chapter of the new nation** will be played. Use the "national tide" to ignite the new trend of the nation, use the "national music" to inherit the new genes of the nation, and use the "national style" to lead the new hope of the nation.
National Rhyme Huayin" Peking Opera Masters New Year Concert.
Group: Peking Opera Company, Beijing.
Venue: Zhongshan Park ** Hall.
When: February 10.
Highlights: The performance kicked off with the Peking Opera song "Spring Festival Song", carefully selected popular singing segments such as "Suo Lin Bag" and "Mu Guiying in Charge" for the audience, fully demonstrating the unique artistic charm of each genre and presenting a gorgeous and colorful national quintessence ceremony for the audience.
Peking Opera "Red-Maned Horse".
Group: Peking Opera Company, Beijing.
Venue: Jixiang Grand Theater, Chang'an Grand Theater.
Time: 19:30, February 10 (Jixiang Theater); 19:30 on February 12 (Chang'an Grand Theater).
Highlights: "The Red-Maned Horse" is a traditional Peking Opera opera, which is a well-run and popular repertoire, and is one of the most popular repertoire of traditional festivals. The scene on the third day of the Lunar New Year starred Du Zhenjie and Zhang Huifang.