This article**: The people**.
Zhang Ping. People** 2024-02-21 Edition 05).
Recently, the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism of Zhejiang Province assessed and announced the list of the first batch of 40 "Urban Art Stages and New Performing Arts Spaces". A number of new performing arts spaces such as the "New Dragon Gate Inn Theater" will become a new choice for citizens to check in and enjoy all kinds of new and old arts, interactive performances, and themed activities at their doorstep.
What is a new space for performing arts? First of all, the new scene is new, and the new space can be a traditional opera theater, cultural center, and city square with new performing arts elements, or it can be a compatible space expanded by cultural and creative parks, scenic spots, restaurants, bookstores, etc. The second is a new way of presentation, through the introduction of classic IP, breaking the relationship between traditional theater and performance, emphasizing interactive participation, and using scientific and technological means to create a fresh performance experience. For example, the popular "New Dragon Gate Inn" combines Hong Kong films with the all-female class performance of Yue Opera, creating a new form of environmental drama performance. Evaluating and supporting such a new performing arts space will help mobilize the enthusiasm of innovative subjects and stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity.
The new space for performing arts can better promote the integration of art into people's daily life. An important indicator of spiritual enrichment is the accessibility of cultural life. The new small and even micro performing arts spaces embedded in the corners of the city can be reached by lifting your feet, which can meet the personalized cultural needs of citizens nearby. The more such new cultural spaces, the richer the cultural life of the masses.
The new space for performing arts reflects the new trend of the development of the cultural industry. In the "Catalogue for the Guidance of Industrial Structure Adjustment (2024 Edition)" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the performing arts industry and the development of cultural and creative products are listed in the encouraged category. Shanghai proposes to "upgrade and create a number of new performing arts spaces at the doorstep", and Beijing will "cultivate more new performing arts spaces" into the first work report. In recent years, all kinds of real-life stage dramas and theaters, script killings, and talk shows with a sense of science and technology have emerged, and personalized and customized cultural consumption has developed rapidly. Only by following the trend and having the courage to transform can we seize the opportunity and win more market space.
The new space for performing arts has opened up a new track for cultural tourism. In recent years, the development momentum of cultural and tourism integration has been rapid. On holidays, it has become the choice of many young people to watch talk shows across the city with three or five friends, grab a ticket for an Internet celebrity repertoire performance in a surrounding city, and have a travel experience in the scenic spot. By launching more innovative cultural products and integrating them with scenic spots, restaurants and other formats, cities can create new landmarks and new landscapes in the cultural consumption market.
To promote culture to benefit the people, we need not only some grand cultural projects, but also build more "small and fine" and "small and beautiful" new cultural spaces. We are glad to see more new cultural formats come to the fore and enrich the cultural life of the people.
Excerpted from "Zhejiang **", originally titled "New Space for Performing Arts, Shaping the New Texture of the City").