《Macau 2049》
Macau 2049 is directed by Zhang Yimou together with Pansy Ho, crossover musician Wu Tong, internationally renowned choreographer Sang Jiga, renowned sound master Jin Shaogang, lighting designer Ren Dongsheng, stage visual image director Dominic Faraway, underwater director of photography Bernard Prentice, and other 20 of the world's top artistic and technical team, forming a total A total of 582 members of the luxury behind-the-scenes lineup. It took 237 days of meticulous preparation and 2,838 hours of craftsmanship to bring this masterpiece to life.
From the beginning to the end of its creation, Macau 2049 tells a grand story - how to perfectly integrate the 5,000 years of Chinese culture with the accelerated development of future technology, and how to build a harmonious symbiosis between the future and history, science and technology, and art in a city that carries the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures. In the process of creation, director Zhang Yimou keenly captured the unique flavor of the city of Macau: it is rich in history and culture, but also carries the modern atmosphere of rapid development. It is in this unique culture that “Macau 2049” was born. It is not only a visual feast, but also an exploration and re-creation of cultural depth.
One of the biggest highlights of Macau 2049 is undoubtedly its artistic reconstruction of China's intangible cultural heritage. The performance boldly adopts high-tech means such as remote-controlled programmed robotic arms, artificial intelligence images, bionic flying machines, etc. Through the eight chapters of Sacred Drums - Shadow, Hue Mai - Misty, Miao Song - Ethereal, Forks - Masks, Rice-planting Songs - CNC, Yi Sound - Ocean, American Lion - Radiance, Singing Books - Origin, the performance creatively presents eight types of non-heritage such as Northwest Flower Children, Mongolian Hue Mai, Miao Ancient Songs, Peking Opera, and Northern Rice-planting Songs, etc., with the support of cutting-edge science and technology. The program is organized in eight chapters, which are reconstructed with the support of cutting-edge technology.
The combination of the precise movements of the remotely programmed robotic arm and the traditional dance, the seamless switching of AI image technology and the interaction with the traditional opera made the audience feel as if they had entered a time and space tunnel without boundaries. On this stage, technology and culture are not only elements that exist side by side, they are intertwined and permeate each other. The non-heritage culture is given a brand new life in this performance, while modern technology enables these ancient arts to flow freely between the virtual and the real by means of intelligent interaction, digital programming, bionic technology, etc., stimulating the audience's infinite imagination.
Fantastic light and shadow will be the millennium culture and the future of time and space communion and integration, which uses CKC a variety of lamps and lanterns for the stage to add color, so that the tradition and the future, culture and science and technology in the stage intertwined dance, the formation of the cultural dialogue across time and space.
V20 (dual display full-featured moving head 1400) with high brightness + high display finger dual-mode flexible switching to give the stage a dynamic luster. The hula of the Mongolian steppe, the rhythm of the Shaanxi storytelling, the melodious singing of the Yi ethnic group, the charm of Beijing opera, the mighty posture of the waking lions, and even the incessant dancing power of the drummers, all of which are perfectly reproduced under the high-quality light and color effects of the V20 to create a new outlook on the characters and interpret the new outlook of non-heritage, and to create an extremely immersive audio-visual experience.
The Proxima X (laser oscillating beam 300) has an extremely narrow beam of 1.1° that is straight and sharp, and even when refracted by a CNC mirror, the beam remains penetrating and uncompromising. The excellent CMY color mixing system outputs dazzling colors, adding modern light to the historical non-heritage culture and presenting a cultural feast that impacts the senses.
The soft curtain of light is rendered from all around the stage, pure and soft, CYC X (canopy light) as footlights, multiple dimming modes and curves output uniform light, natural and unobtrusive shaping of the performance atmosphere, realizing the wonderful fusion of traditional culture and advanced technology.
Macau 2049 is a cultural exploration and an artistic revolution. It not only demonstrates the profound heritage of traditional Chinese culture, but also uses technology as a medium to show the world the perfect combination of Chinese culture and modern technology. The show is a brand new cultural experience, which shows us the infinite possibilities of future art and gives us a deep sense of the unique value of traditional culture in modern society.