China News Service, Beijing, February 16th (Reporter Xu Jing) On the 15th, the 2023 national tour of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" kicked off in Beijing.
The play will start its first tour in Beijing on February 17, then go to Urumqi and Hotan in Xinjiang to perform, and will continue to tour in many places across the country.
The concept and theme of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" come from the brocade armguards of the Han Dynasty "Five Stars Out of the East benefit China", a national first-class cultural relic.
In October 1995, members of the China-Japan Niya Ruins Academic Investigation Team found a piece of brocade from the Shu region of the Han Dynasty in an ancient tomb at the Niya Ruins in Minfeng County, Hotan Prefecture. "Five stars out of the east benefit China".
On the 15th, the 2023 national tour of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" was launched in Beijing. The picture shows the launching ceremony.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yi Haifei
Based on the precious creative resource of brocade armguards, the play tells the story of the border guards of the Han Dynasty who lived between the ancient city of Jingjue, Jiante, the son of the leader of the Northerners, and Chunjun, the daughter of the leader of the Jingjue. The story of acquaintance to deep recognition and the formation of a deep friendship interprets the theme of people of all ethnic groups "embracing each other tightly like pomegranate seeds" and forming a community of the Chinese nation.
The reporter learned from the Beijing Performing Arts Group that since its premiere in Beijing in June 2021, the show has performed more than 30 times across the country.
In 2022, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" won the 16th "Five One Project" Award for Spiritual Civilization Construction and the 17th China Culture and Art Government Award Wenhua Award.
In 2023, the show will appear in the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Rabbit at China Central Radio and Television, and spark heated discussions on social media.
The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" will start the first stop of this year's national tour in Beijing from February 17th to 19th, and then go to Urumqi, Xinjiang, and the Hetian area where cultural relics are produced, and will continue to tour in many places across the country.
At the event, a figure developed based on the image of the dancer in the "Splendid" dance segment in the play was released.
According to reports, the design of the figure is based on Chinese dough figurines and inspired by traditional Chinese grotto statues. It will be available for sale in the middle of this year.
On the 15th, the 2023 national tour of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" was launched in Beijing. The picture shows the release of the figure of the play.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yi Haifei
Dong Ning, the producer of the play, said that the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" tells Chinese stories with profound cultural heritage and brand-new spiritual temperament.
With the opening of the national tour, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", the cultural IP "Splendid Departure", will travel across the country with the mission and responsibility of inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" was produced by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, co-produced by Beijing Performing Arts Group, the Beijing Aid to Xinjiang Hetian Headquarters, and the Propaganda Department of Hetian Committee, Beijing Opera and Dance Theater, Xinjiang Xinyu Song and Dance Troupe co-star.
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