Tickets for the Shaanxi Song and Dance Theater's "Qin Baby" performance

Description

The Shaanxi Opera Intangible Cultural Heritage Special "Qin Baby" performance includes "Intangible Cultural Heritage Shadow Play" - "Qin腔" (Qin Opera) - "碗碗腔" (Wan Wan Qiang) - "Rod Puppets" - "华阴老腔" (Huayin Lao腔) - "Opera Skills," etc. The performance order is subject to the actual on-site arrangement. Shaanxi Qin Opera Intangible Cultural Heritage "Qin Baby" brings together national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritors, national first- and second-class performing artists, and many young opera inheritors from Shaanxi Province. With their superb skills and profound artistic accomplishments, they bring a high-level performance to the audience. It connects a series of intangible cultural heritages such as Qin Opera, Huayin Lao腔, Shadow Play, Wan Wan Qiang, Rod Puppets, and Opera Skills, demonstrating the charm of various traditional art forms. Taking Qin Opera as the core, it integrates a variety of local Shaanxi intangible cultural heritage elements, comprehensively displaying Shaanxi's local culture, folk customs, and tenacious spirit. It is a concentrated display of Shaanxi's intangible cultural heritage. In the 40-minute performance, through innovative choreography and performance forms, the ancient intangible cultural heritage is combined with modern stage performance techniques, with constant highlights, providing the audience with a visual and cultural feast. Qin Opera: A traditional opera genre in Northwest China with a long history, characterized by its high-pitched and passionate singing, wide and loud voice, divided into joyful and sorrowful tones. The performance is simple, bold, and unrestrained, with exaggeration, rich character roles, and diverse facial makeup colors and patterns. Huayin Lao腔: A traditional opera genre in Huayin area, Shaanxi Province, originating in the Qing Dynasty, and is known as the "national essence" of northern Shaanxi. Its singing is bold and激昂, with a strong appeal. The performance form is unique, usually performed by multiple people in coordination. The lead singer has a high-pitched voice, supplemented by chorus. The instruments include clappers, moon lute, and banhu, with a strong rhythm, which can create a magnificent momentum. Shadow Play: It originated in the Western Han Dynasty. It uses transparent shadow puppets to project onto a screen under the light, and tells stories by manipulating the shadow puppets. During the performance, the artist manipulates the shadow puppets and sings behind the scenes, accompanied by music. The shadow puppets are exquisitely made, with bright colors and vivid characters. Their movements are vividly presented on the screen through the artist's skillful manipulation. Wan Wan Qiang: Mainly popular in Shaanxi Province, it originated from the singing form of folk artists in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. When singing, young male, young female, and Qingyi roles combine real and falsetto voices. Most of the pronunciation uses real voice, and the trailing tone uses falsetto. Old male, Xusheng (bearded male), old female, and clown roles all use real voices. Rod Puppets: A traditional puppet show form, originating from Chinese folk art. It consists of a wooden head and a handle. The actor holds the handle of the rod puppet to control the puppet's movements and expressions for performance. Through superb skills, the artists make the puppets perform various vivid actions, such as walking, fighting, dancing, etc., as if giving the puppets life, often performing some traditional opera stories. Opera Skills: It includes many rich and diverse performance skills, such as face-changing, fire-breathing, sleeve-flicking, and spear-kicking. Face-changing can instantly change the character's facial makeup, showing different expressions and temperaments; fire-breathing is when the actor spits flames from his mouth, creating a shocking stage effect; sleeve-flicking expresses the character's emotions and mood changes through various graceful flicking movements; spear-kicking and other skills demonstrate the actor's superb physical coordination and martial arts skills, adding exciting and stimulating elements to the performance.