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Introduction to the dance drama Dream of the Red Chamber

The dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" is adapted from "Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four great classical Chinese novels. The whole drama consists of a prologue and four scenes in two acts, with the main line of emotional entanglements of Bao, Dai, and Hairpin, and a combination of solo dances, pairs, trios, quintuplets, and group dances, etc., which focuses on the scenes of Bao Dai's first meeting, Liu Laowai's entry into the garden, the Begonia Poetry Society, Daiyu's burial of the flower, the wedding shock, and the reunion of Bao Dai, and creates the stage atmosphere of a sorrowful, lingering, and sorrowful, group of flowers competing for beauty, and parting of death. It creates a stage mood of sobbing, sentimental, group of flowers fighting for beauty, and parting of life and death. The dances are both independent and intertwined, and the whole play is an integrated whole.

The 90-minute performance combines traditional Chinese dance with elements of Western ballet and modern dance to create a lively, exciting, and poignant stage mood. The unique musical composition, the clever cooperation between Western music and folk music, the timely interludes of Yueju chants, the spirit of the bright, very rich in the color of the illusion of the stage art space, so that the "Dancing Red Mansion" charisma increased dramatically. While letting the audience enjoy the dance feast, they also realized the essence of Chinese culture.

The play has been performed dozens of times at home and abroad, and has conquered countless audiences with its unique conception, strong visual impact and gorgeous stage modeling, and has won the first prize of the Dance Drama Group in the Fourth National Opera, Dance Drama and Musical Theatre Outstanding Drama Exhibition, the first prize of the Chinese Opera, Dance Drama and Musical Theatre Exhibition of 2006, the "Most Audience Favorite Play" of the Eighth China Arts Festival of 2007 and the "Most Audience Favorite Play" of the Eighth China Arts Festival of 2007. It also won the first prize in the 2006 China Opera Dance Drama and Musical Theater Exhibition, and the "Most Audience Favorite Drama Award" and "Wenhua Drama Award" in the Eighth China Arts Festival in 2007.