The annual assessment of the Central Ballet performers "Chasing Dreams" was staged at the Tianqiao Theater

New Beijing News (Reporter Liu Zhen) From May 11th to 12th, the annual "Dream Chasing - Actor Annual Examination" of the Central Ballet was staged at the Tianqiao Theater in Beijing. The actors showed their style on this stage, and the audience also witnessed the growth of the actors through wonderful performances.

As an international first-class art troupe, the Central Ballet has a strict and rigorous actor promotion system. The assessment is held once a year, and each assessment is a "major event" for any actor in the troupe in their career. Zhongba is the first troupe in China to publicly display the actor assessment. In 2012, under the initiative of Captain Feng Ying, a novel form of audience participation and interaction with the theme of "Chasing Dreams" was created, aiming to allow actors to build dreams and realize dreams on this platform, and open the door to the audience for everyone to witness this dream moment together. Since 2023, Zhongba has led the audience to watch the actors' "Chasing Dreams" in front of and behind the stage for the first time in the form of live broadcast.

During the two-day performance, the Zhongba interns who participated in the assessment showed the judges and the audience a number of wonderful programs with different styles, including elegant classical ballet, pioneering modern ballet, and unique Chinese ballet. Classic repertoires such as "Swan Lake", "Pirates", "Dancers", "Gobelia", "Red Detachment of Women", and modern works such as "Distant Voices", "Boundaries" and "Sacrifice" entertained the audience. The actors moved the judges with their heartfelt interpretations and also had a sincere exchange with the audience. Not only that, the chief star of Zhongba Qiu Yunting, the main actors Li Wentao and Guan Chong Zheng, solo dancers Li Yiyi, Ning Long, Chang Sinuo and other powerful actors joined, but also added color to this "Dream Chasing".

At the same time, in order to satisfy the desire of more audiences who could not come to the scene to have a deeper understanding of ballet art, during the afternoon performance on the 12th, the troupe also synchronized the live broadcast of some programs in the live stream of the official Douyin account in real time. In the live stream, Captain Feng Ying interacted cordially with the majority of netizens, and staged the "Strength Pet Powder" session again, arranging the performance of Qiu Yunting and Li Wentao's "Giselle" duet as a surprise Easter egg in the live stream. More than 800,000 netizens watched the live broadcast, and the online and offline performances and live broadcasts were synchronized, which also allowed more audiences to enjoy the spiritual pleasure brought by ballet art.

After the successful conclusion of the "Dream Chasing" assessment, Feng Ying took to the stage to encourage the actors, saying, "The two-day" Dream Chasing "allowed every leader and judge of our troupe to see your performance, which made our eyes shine. I hope you will cherish the opportunity to display, continue to standardize and polish one move at a time, and improve your skills step by step to bring more surprises to the audience. Of course, I would also like to thank the'old actors' who performed on the same stage with you today for presenting this wonderful performance to the audience!"