On Oct. 25, the large stage play Silk Road • The Youth created and rehearsed in Dalian Art College was put on in Shenyang Shengjing Grand Theatre, shocking the provincial capital. The audiences thought that this play had both family-country feelings, historical and cultural connotation and youth atmosphere of a new era. They even couldn't believe that such a play celebrating the successful holding of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was completed independently by a young art college from planning, creation, exhibition and performance. This play displayed the pursuit of Dalian Art College concentrating the excellence to the stage and the trait of rooting the education in the practice, and performed the new legend in the development history of the private higher learning institutions.
This play presented the spiritual essence of "One Belt, One Road" great initiative in the form of artistic performance from the perspective of the youth by using the man-screen interaction, scene performance, multi-layer alternation and other rich stage performance forms and capturing the cultural and artistic energetic elements of the different regions, different countries and different nations. This play presented the history, ideal and future in the field of view of the young people, displayed their momentum and energy, inherited the faith of "One Belt, One Road", and advocated that the young students shall have high aspirations, come down to earth, and devote to the great cause of the "One Belt, One Road" construction.
Wang Xianjun who was the president of Dalian Art College served as the chief planner, director and writer of the large stage play Silk Road • The Youth. Ruan Zhenming who was the national first class writer, college professor and young teacher did the actual writing. The composer Gao Dalin made the composition, college experts and professors took the lead, all professional backbone teachers participated in it, and all college students were the performance subject. It is a large stage play integrating music, dance, drama, literature, multimedia, clothing, costume, character shape and other forms of artistic presentation.
The speed of Dalian Art College was amazing, and the spirit of craftsmanship of Dalian Art College was admirable. In just a few months, after repeated discussions and modifications, the creative team weighed every single word or phrase of the text, changed the music tone, considered the every gesture and motion of the performance and adjusted every frame and every stroke of the background. All participants got involved in the creation and rehearsal. On Sep. 20, after the debut in Dalian, the creative team of the play further improved the ideological level, artistry and expressive force of the works according to the guidance opinions given by the foreign and domestic field experts. Gao Dalin, the art director of the college said that: "A slight move in one part may affect the situation as a whole. For example, there are two big changes and countless small changes of the score. If one part changes, the music score of all parts will be adjusted, thus causing the heavy workload, so that the performance will be more compact and concise in Shenyang".
When the changes of the works encountered the biggest difficulty, the president Wang Xianjun went all out together with all personnel under the pressure of works and physical exhaustion. At this time, all Dalian Art College personnel firmly believed that Silk Road • The Youth would become a butterfly and fly in the garden of flowers of the domestic and foreign literature and art, and would be reborn and sublimated continuously after being tempered by pain, shocking the world. This is the spirit of nirvana of phoenix of Dalian Art College.
The performance of Silk Road • The Youth in Shengjing ended, but it would keep on moving with the idea of staying true to the mission of Dalian Art College. Dalian Art College would walk into a new era and go forward towards the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation with the new development goals as the guide.