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The Southeast University Art Troupe will present special theatrical performance entitled, Wind · Sound · Resonance · Harmony for the Four-nation performance. Chinese music pays attention to the neutralization, simplicity, appropriateness, connotation and spiritual tranquility of the artistic expressions, and it pursues the ideal and spiritual realm of "law of nature" and "coexistence of human and nature". Wind · Sound · Resonance · Harmony means through the harmonious and moving music, we can feel the 5,000 years of Chinese music and musical styles, which reflect the long history of the Chinese nation with a unique spiritual world and human culture.
May melodious music breeze wonderful harmonies to all of us. So, please stay tuned!The troupe members will offer the audience not only the heavenly music of the east with traditional Chinese musical instruments, but also beautiful Chinese dances. The program includes Slender Waist, Plum Blossom Melody, Eulogy of Lotus, Mongolian Bowl Dance, Prelude to Water Melody, Poems for the Spring Rain, the Moon and Foxes, Bringing in the Wine, Rainbow Robe Melody, the Conqueror Unarms, Malan Girls and Wind · Sound · Resonance · Harmony and so on. Eulogy of Lotus shows the quality of Lotus which grows in mud, yet never contaminates with it. Poems for the Spring Rain shows the unique appeal of Chinese classical dance by the rhythm of long sleeves. And the music also presents its graceful posture and elegant fragrance. Plum Blossom Melody is a piece of music eulogizing plum to express the noble character, ambition and kindness of a gentleman. Prelude to Water Melody adds the Chinese Martial Arts. With passionate music, vigorous and charming Kong-fu, it’s a perfect fusion of literature, music and martial arts. And Wind · Sound · Resonance · Harmony is a suite of Chinese folk songs selected from various regions in China. And these Chinese folk songs with different pentatonics will be presented in turn. Finally, the show will end with Grand Harmony which carries the significance of unity, harmony, balance and order with the hope that the world to come will be stable, harmonious, peaceful and united with all peoples happy, healthy and contented.
About The Southeast University Art Troupe
It was September 2011 that Southeast University jointly built the Confucius institute with the Minsk National Language University in Belarus. And in September 2015, Southeast University Students’ Art Troupe is invited by Confucius institutes of Minsk National Language University, Belarusian State University, Vilnius University, Latvijas University and Tallinn University to go for a performance of Chinese traditional culture.
Founded in 1902, Southeast University is one of the earliest established modern universities in China. It is also one of the universities of Project 211 and Program 985 that is financed by the central government to build as a world-class university. The university is located at the center of the ancient capital city of Nanjing, a sacred place for education since the Ming Dynasty. At present, Southeast University has 4 campuses, covering a total area of 427 hectares and with over 29000 full-time students, of whom about 13000 are postgraduates, and 2500 full-time faculties. Southeast University has become a comprehensive research university of high reputation comprised of various schools and departments of science, engineering, art, medicine, social sciences, law, economics, management, languages, humanities, etc., with engineering as its backbones.
Southeast University is committed to the cultivation of high-level innovative talents with all-round development, and attaches great importance to the cultural and art education, in order to cultivate students' temperament and elevate the realm of life through aesthetic education. The university has 120 student organizations, and the Art Troupe is one of them which was established in the 1980s, and now has more than 600 members from various schools of the university. This visiting troupe represents the outcomes of the university’s art education, and enjoys a high reputation among domestic universities. The Art Troupe has participated many annual art events like Arts Festival, concerts, dance performances, drama night and so on with its excellent performances.
Conductor: Hong Haijun
Art Director: Hong Haijun,Zhao Huan, Cao Feifei,Huang Jian,
Composer: Xu Zhibin,Chen Cai,
Host: Chen Zhuoyue
Erhu: Chung-hu: Zhu Lina, Chen Nan
Pipa, Zhong-ruan: Zeng Dan, Cheng Xinying
Guzheng: Mou Xinxi
Bamboo Flute: Wang Haoqi
Sheng: Xu Gaofeng
Dance: Zhou Ziqian, Jing Dian, Mei Ziwei, Xu Shuwei, Chen Zhuoyue, Chen Hanlu
Chorus: Li Zongze, Shao Chenxi, Tao Xinyi, Xu Xiaowen, Huangying
Martial Arts: Tan Echuan