Qinghai Performance & Arts Group Kun Lun: Journey to the Heart

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“The boundless Mt. Kunlun, towering over the world, is so old that it has seen spring come and go heaps of times”. From the perspective of Mt. Kunlun, the dance drama Kun Lun: Journey to the Heart narrates the homecoming journey of LU Xun, a journalist born at the foot of Mt. Kunlun, and what happens thereafter. The drama eulogises generations of road maintenance workers dedicated to the Qinghai-Tibetan Highway, whose steadfast dedication ignites the Kunlun Spirit with contemporary brilliance, thus magnifying the timeless ode to the “Two Ways Spirit”. Rooted in Qinghai’s cultural soil, the production weaves local elements, emotions, and ethos into its narrative tapestry. Blending myth and reality through innovative staging, it creates a multifaceted dialogue between the stage space and the spiritual space, highlighting the spiritual value of the Kunlun culture in the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Meanwhile, the Kunlun spirit finds expression in a contemporary context. Centered on the theme of “devotion to duty”, the drama highlights the resilience and quiet sacrifices of Qinghai’s people, etching their commitment to safeguarding the nation’s pristine waters and skies into the annals of our era. The Kunlun spirit, the Qinghai spirit, the universal spirit and the human spirit, are fully showcased in the pilgrimage of perseverance, an epic of humanity’s unyielding dialogue with nature.

Creatives
Chief Directors/ Choreographers: KONG Dexin, GUO Haifeng
Playwright: LIU Chun
Composer: LYU Liang
Artistic Director: Sonam Darji
Set Designer: LI Ao
Lighting Designer: WANG Qi
Costume Designer: YANG Donglin
Hair Style Designer: WANG Yan

Video Projection Designer: HE Ziying

Props Designer: ZHAO Zunning

Synopsis

Set in the Qinghai-Tibet Highway construction, the dance drama tells a legendary story about three members of a family serving as highway maintenance workers to guard the lifeline in the tide of the times. In the 1980s, LU Xun, a young man living by the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, longs to be recognised by his father, LU Buping; but due to the reality of the situation, he altercates with his father and then leaves home to pursue his dream of being a journalist. His younger sister, LU Qing, chose to forgo university, following their father’s footsteps as a road maintenance worker, silently guarding the Qinghai-Tibet Highway.

A few years later, having undergone all kinds of setbacks, LU Xun becomes a trainee journalist. While on assignment, he unexpectedly returned to his hometown located at the foot of Mt. Kunlun , reuniting with LU Qing. Through her words, he learned of their father’s past - In 1954, their father LU Buping had helped build the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in Golmud under the leadership of General MU Shengzhong. After the completion of the construction, LU Buping, bearing in mind General MU Shengzhong’s great trust in him, resolutely chose to stay at the foot of Mt. Kunlun to guard the highway. But when Lu Xun learned his father had died in a rescue mission, he was overcome with remorse, and awakened to the weight of his own duty.

During the reunion, LU Xun witnesses the unspoken faith upheld by his sister and many other maintenance workers, as well as their devotion to the highway. Eventually, he decides to record the story of these ordinary heroes so that the “Two Ways” spirit should be passed down. At the foot of Mt. Kunlun, LU Xun, LU Qing and many other workers jointly draw up their unshakable faith. What they do is an expression of the “Two Ways” spirit, a belief popular in our time. That’s a patriotic feeling or firm faith transcending bloodlines and deeply rooted in the heart.

Presenter

Qinghai Performance & Arts Group
The Qinghai Performance & Arts Group is a solely state-owned enterprise founded in 2012 by the provincial government, now run by the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. The Group comprises six performing groups, including the Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe, Pingxian Opera Troupe, Beijing Opera Troupe, Acrobatic Troupe, Orchestra and Hua’er Art Troupe, as well as related functional departments and offices.

Since its founding, the Group has always kept its creation people-oriented. Based on excellent, distinctive local cultural resources, the Group continuously implements a high-quality development strategy. It has produced and staged many dramas and operas with local or ethnic features of Qinghai including dance dramas Thangka, Follow the Mother River and Kun Lun: Journey to the Heart, opera For the Honour of My Country, modern Peking operas Seven Months and Four Days, Life Like Summer Flowers and Roaring Flames in the Vast Sky, modern Pingxian operas Devotion to Jinyintan and Hand-Pulled Noodles Chef of Qinghai, Pingxian Hua’er opera Embroidering Hehuang, children’s drama Snow Lotus in Bloom, Hua’er song and dance drama Flowers Blooming in Four Seasons, children’s acrobatic drama Elf Squad, and songs Attachment to Qinghai and Welcome to Qinghai, etc. The Group has won the Golden Lion Award - the highest prize for acrobatics, the Excellent Opera Award at the China Opera Festival and China Peking Opera Art Festival, and more awards in other professional competitions, receiving praise from all walks of life. The Group also plays a positive role in publicising Qinghai and serving the masses.
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Box officeNorth Gate of NCPA, No. 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing, China

Tickets collection hours9:30-19:30 (CST) on performance day
9:30-18:00 (CST) for days without performance

Booking line+86 10 6655 0000

Booking hours9:30-18:00 (CST) Monday to Friday

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