On the evening of September 20th, the 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Acrobatic Arts Week came to a successful close at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (International Performance Report Hall).
The week-long event, which kicked off on September 17th, featured a series of activities. These included acrobatic program exchanges and competitions between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, a forum on the creation and higher education development of Chinese acrobatic arts, research on the high-quality development of acrobatics in the Greater Bay Area, a collection of creative ideas for acrobatic masterpieces and a "Acrobatics +" project roadshow, sharing sessions with Greater Bay Area acrobatic masters, high-quality acrobatics performances at the grassroots level and acrobatics flash mobs, a Greater Bay Area acrobatic art photography exhibition, and an acrobatics carnival. It was truly an international-level, high-standard, and high-caliber acrobatic extravaganza for the public.
Zhang Yanbin, member of the Party Group, member of the Presidium, and Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Bian Faji, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of the Chinese Acrobats Association; Tang Yanhai, Secretary of the Party Group and Resident Vice Chairman of the Chinese Acrobats Association; Wu Huaqin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Yan Liesong, full-time Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Acrobats Association; Chen Jinhai, Executive Deputy Minister of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department; Liang Yu, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Sun Xiaoyun, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Bao'an District Committee of the CPC Shenzhen; Huang Chaohua, full-time Vice Chairman of the Bao'an District Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Shenzhen, and other leaders and guests attended the event. Bian Faji, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of the Chinese Acrobats Association, announced the closing of the event.
The "3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Acrobatic Arts Week", as an important part of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Art Festival", was jointly hosted by the Chinese Acrobats Association, the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the People's Government of Bao'an District, Shenzhen. It serves as a professional exchange activity for the Greater Bay Area's acrobatic arts, showcasing the best acrobatic and artistic works in recent years on a top-tier platform, making it a national-level grand event for acrobatic arts.
The closing ceremony featured a high standard of program selection, ensuring that each participating team showcased their best skills. Every performance reflected the performers' peak condition and highest level, demonstrating the ultimate display of acrobatic technique and physical strength. It was quite a show!
With a total of over 400 cast and crew members and 600 performance participations, the event brought together top-notch programs, including domestic and international acrobatic gold award winners and acrobatic segments from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, characterized by its high level, high standard, and significant impact.
During the performance of challenging moves, the performers demonstrated remarkable stability. Not only was there not a single tremor in balancing their bodies, but they were also able to control their movements with ease. The entire performance showcased both the high demands of acrobatics on physical strength and flexibility, and the emotional impact, moving many audience members, including leaders and guests, to applaud enthusiastically.
The acrobatic performance "Chasing Dreams in the Sky - Pole Climbing" by the Jiangsu Hai'an Acrobatic Troupe was themed around China's aerospace industry, telling the story of humanity's continuous efforts and struggles to explore the mysteries of the universe, dreaming of soaring and dancing within it, and singing praises for humanity's great, unyielding spirit of exploration and its fearless spirit of challenging difficulties.
The Shenzhen Fuyong Acrobatic Troupe, a local Shenzhen group, presented the acrobatics show "Yan - Diabolo". This program is characterized by its high level, difficulty, novelty, uniqueness, and beauty. It interprets the fusion of Shenzhen's avant-garde fashion and traditional acrobatic skills, emphasizing both physical coordination and technical strength, bringing the audience a thrilling and novel experience that stimulates every nerve cell.
It is reported that in order to present the most exciting acrobatic programs to the audience in their original form, the Bao'an District Acrobats Association invited the most professional acrobatic directing teams from all over the country and put a lot of effort into preparing and coordinating the programs in advance, innovating the stage design and overall program connection, allowing the audience to appreciate the wonderful performances and feel the acrobats' hard work of "one minute on stage, ten years of practice off stage", making the entire project activity full of warmth and allowing the public to understand that acrobats are not a group of people with superpowers, but ordinary people who have gone through countless trainings, thereby further shortening the distance with the audience.
Sun Xiaoyun, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Bao'an District Committee of the CPC Shenzhen, said in his speech that this Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Acrobatic Arts Week is an important special event of the third Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Art Festival, carrying the mission and responsibility of acrobats in the Greater Bay Area, reflecting Bao'an's emphasis on the development of literary and artistic undertakings, and embodying the spirit of the times and Bao'an. By holding the Acrobatic Arts Week and integrating with the international community, we can allow high-quality acrobatic art to serve the people of the Greater Bay Area. This is a bridge and link for acrobats in the Greater Bay Area to comprehensively promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the cultural industry, cultivate the humanistic spirit of the Bay Area, and jointly create excellent literary and artistic works that reflect the characteristics of the Bay Area!
Liang Yu, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles, pointed out in his speech that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Acrobatic Arts Week takes acrobatics as a link and activities as an opportunity to promote the development of literary and artistic undertakings in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the construction of a humanistic Bay Area. It is hoped that the vast number of literary and artistic workers in the city will earnestly shoulder the new cultural mission of the new era, continue the spirit of the special zone, create more high-quality works with broad influence, innovation, and dissemination power, tell the Chinese story, the Greater Bay Area story, and the Shenzhen story, and strive to be pioneers of reform and opening-up culture, pioneers of cultural exchange and integration between China and foreign countries, and pioneers of cultural inheritance and innovation in the effort to create a new culture in the new era.
(Chen Chuansheng, Luo Yuwen)
