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Posted by Bobo on April 14, 2008
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Posted by Bobo on April 4, 2008
From Youtube, by NTDTV-
Audience Feedback on 2008 Chinese New Year Spectacular (11)
Audience Feedback on 2008 Chinese New Year Spectacular (12)
Audience Feedback on 2008 Chinese New Year Spectacular (13)
For the details for the show in Vancouver area in 2008, please check the About section of this site.
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Posted by Bobo on January 25, 2008
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Posted by Bobo on January 12, 2008
Click the city name below for more detail information of the biggest Chinese culture event– global tour show 2008 of Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular in your city.
North America
US:
Atlanta, GA
Atlantic City, NJ
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL Fri. Jan 25~Sat. Jan 26, 2008
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI Tue. Jan 22, 2008
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Greensboro, NC
Honolulu, HI
Las Vegas, NV Mon. Jan 21, 2008
Los Angeles, CA Fri. Jan 18~ Sun. Jan 20, 2008
Minneapolis, MN Thu. Jan 24, 2008
New York City: NTDTV Chinese New Year Splendor, Wed. Jan 30 ~ Sat. Feb.9, 2008
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix, AZ
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA Wed. Jan 23~ Sat. Jan 26, 2008
Schenectady, NY
Seattle, WA
St. Petersburg, FL
Canada:
Calgary,
Edmonton
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto, Fri. Jan 18~ Sun. Jan 20, 2008
Vancouver
Asia - Pacific
Japan: Nagoya Osaka Tokyo
Taiwan:Kaohsiung Taichung Tainan Taipei
Singapore:Singapore
Indonesia:Jakarta
Australia:
Europe
Germany:Berlin Duisburg Frankfurt Hamburg
Holland:Den Haag
United Kingdom:London
Belgium:Antwerpen
France:Paris
Austria:Vienna
Slovakia:Bratislava
Czech:Prague
Sweden:Linkoping Stockholm
Italy:Milan
- Source: http://www.bestchineseshows.com/
Related:
- 2008 Show Coming: Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular in Vancouver (video)
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Posted by Bobo on December 31, 2007
The global tour of the captivating Divine Performing Arts Spectacular will be back in Vancouver for the third time with a brand new 2008 show!
The Divine (Shen Yun) Performing Arts Spectacular uses the expression of Chinese classical dance to showcase the genuine traditional Chinese culture that encompasses pure truthfulness, pure compassion and pure beauty.
Based on ancient heroic myths and legends from the Chinese dynasties and also incorporating modern tales, the Spectacular charms all who see it. It brings Chinese arts to life in a gloriously colourful and exhilarating show.
The Spectacular will travel to more than 60 cities around the world, playing to a total live audience of an estimated 650,000. In Canada, as well as in Surrey the show will play in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.
Come to the Divine Performing Arts Spectacular and witness the renaissance of the true Chinese culture!
Location:
Bell Performing Arts Centre
6250 144th Street, Surrey B.C. V3X 1A1
Date & time:
April 27, 2008 (Sun.) 2 shows, at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m
April 28, 2008 (Mon.) 1 show, at 7:30 p.m
Tickets:
$48, $68, $88
Early bird discount: 20% off before Jan. 15, 2008
HotLine : (604) 454-1110
Order online:
https://ticket.ntdtv.com/vancouver/
Homepage for the show:
http://www.bestchineseshows.com/
Photo Gallery:
http://www.divineperformingarts.com/sy/multimedia
Video Highlights:
http://www.divineperformingarts.com/sy/node/273
Divine Performing Arts Company:
http://divineperformingarts.com/
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Posted by Bobo on January 3, 2007
By 24 HOURS NEWS SERVICES, Jan. 3, 2007-
It’s a snapshot of the millennia of artistic China, a global cross-cultural pageant of a concert that in the next three months will be seen by 100,000 people globally.
It is the Chinese New Year Spectacular, a highly-charged, vividly-coloured entertainment of dragons, drums, dance and costumes, plus vocals and instrumentalists. And, true to its multi-cultural mission, it also includes some ballet of the western variety.
In Vancouver for a second year, a matinee has been added to the one-day event at the 2,500-seat Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The aim of the show’s sponsor, New Tang Dynasty TV, is to expose society to traditional cultures, according to Patrick Dong, show coordinator and NTDTV executive director in Vancouver.
“It is a truly cross- cultural event suitable for all the family,” he added. Central to the show is the belief that China’s ancient culture was a gift from the heavens and so deserves its “land of the divine” accolade underscored by the themes of love, compassion and virtue in the triumph of good over evil.
The Chinese New Year Spectacular is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight with a 2 p.m. matinee and evening performance at 8.
Tickets, from $30, at 604-683-2202 and www.ticket.ntdtv.com/Vancouver.
( read from the 24 Hours Vancouver website )
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Posted by Bobo on January 2, 2007
CHINESE NEW YEAR SPECTACULAR
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Wednesday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
$30 - $80
604-628-0303 (Chinese)
604-628-1620 (English) or 604-280-4444 (Ticketmaster)
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According to the Chinese calendar it is the Year of the Pig coming up, which signifies good fortune, kindness, honesty and tolerance. And you may want to feast on the entertainment of the second annual Chinese New Year Spectacular when it comes to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for two shows Wednesday.
It sounds like the sort of extravaganza you’d normally see just a few blocks away at the Centre for Performing Arts in Vancouver: A celebration of what’s known as China’s golden age, the Tang Dynasty, a remarkable time in China’s 5,000-year history.
The three-century-long Tang, with present-day Xi’an as its then most populous city in the world, reached a high point of cosmopolitan culture and prosperity, largely the result of military exploits. From this show, purportedly based on the Tang, you can expect epic tales, dragons, drummers and beautiful dances from about 100 young performers in all, most of them overseas Chinese who live in New York. But it might be a good idea to try to see the Tang through a 21st-century filter.
In its four years of existence the show seems to have been a success, growing from appearances in five cities at its beginning to this year’s 28 cities across four continents, a run that will total 67 performances. (In Canada it goes to Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto after the Vancouver appearance.)
It’s put together in New York in a production by New Tang Dynasty Television, based in New York. It was ranked No. 7 in Billboard magazine’s top 10 shows in 2006, based on shows that ran last year at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. (… read more from Vancouver sun’s report )
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Posted by Bobo on December 13, 2006
The Meaning of Colors in Ancient China, NTDTV-
Chinese culture created a close and binding relationship between color and ceramics, murals, paintings, and poetry…even city planning. After the Ming Dynasty, only the Emperor’s relatives could have homes with red walls and yellow roof tiles. His subjects lived in houses with blue bricks and roof tiles. However, carved beams and columns used rich hues. Many buildings used black tiles and white walls.
In the Dun Huang Caves, dating back 1500 years, there are more than 10,000 mural fragments of various dynasties. Each dynasty used different color combinations. Murals of the Northern Wei Dynasty incorporated red and brown, supplemented by blue and black. Tang Dynasty murals featured yellow. Song Dynasty murals were dominated by blue and green.
Highly-skilled Chinese paintings express the artist’s idea through the ink’s thickness and thinness. The practice is described as “ink holds five colors” and “shinning brilliantly without the usage of bright colors.” “Ink holds five colors” refers to five ink shades—charred, thick, ash, thin and clear. In a painter’s eye, the color of water is clearly different in each season. In “Lin Quan Gao Zhi” (A Book about Paintings), Guo Xi wrote, “The color of water is green in spring, bluish green in summer, aqua in autumn, and black in winter.”
As recorded in “Selections of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty”, Emperor Xuan Zong praised Li Si Xun’s landscape paintings with their strong green and blue hues as “the best landscape paintings in the nation.” The ancient Chinese people were good at extracting colors from minerals and plants. This type of painting is often outlined with brilliant paints extracted from various minerals such as Shi Qing (azurite), Shi Lu (mineral green), Shi Huang (mineral yellow), Zhu Sha (cinnabar), Yan Zhi (cochineal), Qian Fen (lead powder), and Ni Jin (golden paint). With these advances in painting, the result became bright and rich.
Chinese poems and paintings share the same origin. The relationship is described as “a painting recites a poem and a poem draws a painting.” Poets could expertly describe color and poems often alluded to vibrant colors. Poet Cui Hu created wonderfully colorful scenes as shown in two lines from his poem, “Ti Du Cheng Nan Zhuang (“For the Southern Village in the Capital”). These lines express the beauty of colors for people to ponder for thousands of years:
Last year inside this court,
peach flowers reflect each other in red.
Poet Bai Juyi wrote in “Verse on River Mu,”
Paving in water is a streak of the setting sun,
turning red is the rustling river
A“silk radical” character attached to another Chinese character can describe different shades of the color of silk. According to “Shuo Wen Jie Zi” (Explaining Characters and Expressions), 24 characters describe colors of silk fabrics including red, green, purple, deep red (crimson), bright red, dark red (dark purple), light blue, orange red, white, and so on. From this, we can surmise the variety and richness of silk fabrics from the silk manufacturing industry in ancient China. During the Warring States Period, lacquerware decoration reached a highly skilled level. The state of Qi was especially well-known for its brightly colored silk products. Many of the silk goods unearthed from ancient tombs have maintained their original colors of brown, red, black, purple, and yellow.
Chinese pottery and lacquerware uses rich color even more extensively. The formulation of richly colored glazes infuses these pieces with a brilliant and lustrous appearance. From the renowned tri-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty (Tang San Cai) to five-colored glazed pottery, from the celadonware to white glazedware, from white and blue porcelain to ceramics with lustrous glazes, color plays a key role in the creation of pottery. Ancient Chinese pottery-making reached its zenith in colored and black pieces. Chinese lacquerware had exquisite patterns and dazzling color.
Ancient Chinese people understood that color feeds the spirit and expresses the depth of human experience. The 2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular celebrates color in all it intensity and richness through lighting, costumes and scenery and harkens back to the traditional meanings of color.
Celebrate color! Celebrate a spectacular Chinese New Year!
- For the Celebration in Vancouver, Canada, please check out this post:
Video: Chinese New Year Spectacular coming back to Vancouver
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Posted by Bobo on December 12, 2006
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Posted by Bobo on November 26, 2006
These years, The Chinese New Year Spectacular globe tour show become an important platform for people living outside China celebrating the Chinese New Year and appreciating Chinese traditional culture and arts, which featuring world-class performances of both Chinese and Western traditional artistry.
“The performance was absolutely stunning. The Chinese costumes wore by the dancers were gorgeous and the choreography is exceptional.” Said on Houston Chinatown Web site.
Have a look at the video then you will find out what does it mean.
For the year 2007, Vancouver is the first stop for the globe tour show, and it’s the 2nd year for the Spectacular to come back.
It’s an truly events not to be missed. The reason:
- Top 7th International Show, ranked byUS Billboard Magazine, in Feb. 2006
- Top theater, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, downtown, Vancouver
- Holiday time: 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm, Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
- Best price: start from $30.0 CAD
Chinese people believe their ancient culture was a gift from the heavens, so much so that traditional Chinese culture is often simply referred to as the culture of “the land of the divine.” The Lunar New Year, in particular, is a time of reflection and paying tribute to ones ancestors and to the heavens.
This is an great oppurtunity for you, the Vancouverites, to spend the Christmas/New Year holiday on, with your family/your friend/the one you love, to enjoy, to share, with all other people around the world.
Event: 2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular
Time: 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm ( two shows a day)
Date: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
VENUE: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
600 Block Hamilton St. (Hamilton @ Georgia Street)
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 2P1
PRICES & SEATING CHART
Regular: $30 $40 $50 $60(Sold out) $80 (Sold out) (plus $2 Theatre Facility Charge)
Group Tickets:
| Number of Tickets |
Discount |
| 6-10 | 10% off |
| 11 - 20 | 15% off |
| 21 - 50 |
20% off |
| 51 or more |
25% off |
HOW TO BUY TICKETS
Call Ticket Hotlines
604.280.4444 (Ticketmaster)
604.683.2202
604.628.1620 (English)
604.628.0303 (Chinese only)
Order Online
Ticketmaster
NTDTV Official Ticketing System
For details, please check: Chinese New Year Spectacular (Vancouver) official website
Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
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