Zhang Dongxin is a director of large-scale cultural and artistic events, stage plays and evening parties, and a national-level director of China Eastern Performing Arts Group.
He has served as the director of many international and domestic large-scale cultural and artistic activities and evening parties, such as: as the closing ceremony of the 18th Asian Games 2018 (Jakarta) Hangzhou flag receiving ceremony performance "Hangzhou time" general director; the ninth BRICS meeting in Xiamen in 2017, the special cultural and artistic performance of the evening party "Sail for the future". media, such as: "Tower of Memory", "Sail of the White Clouds",
"Tower of Building Dreams" and so on.
Chinese Name: Zhang Dongxin
Foreign Name: DongxinZhang
Nationality: People's Republic of China
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Place of Birth: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Date of Birth: October 1962
Occupation: Director/Programmer
Graduate School: Beijing Academy of Dance
Occupation: Beijing Dance Academy Graduate School：Beijing Dance Academy
Major Achievements：Honored with the Capital Labor Medal in 2008
Honored with the title of Advanced Individual by the Ministry of Culture
Representative Works：Executive Director of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in 2014; Executive Director of the Opening Ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010 ; 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
Personal Experience
The Road to Dance
The 1970s, when China had not yet resumed the college entrance examination, Zhang Dongxin to face the junior high school or high school graduates have to be decentralized to the countryside, due to his family's great love of culture and the arts and his parents on the then-thin and frail him in the body to be more worried about the chapter of the Dongxin final Chose to go to the music test, but the teacher found that his body is very good, he conducted a simple test, found that the proportion of his body and soft openness and other basic physical conditions of the dance are very good, 14-year-old Zhang Dongxin enrolled in Urumqi School of the Arts Dance Department. After entering the school, with good talent and hard work and study, for the dance Zhang Dongxin from unfamiliar to love to obsession. After graduating from the art school, Zhang Dongxin was assigned to the Xinjiang Urumqi Cultural Troupe (now the predecessor of the Urumqi Children's Art Theater) as a dancer, and his stage career began. Starting from group dancers, he gradually became a leading dancer and soloist, and his performance skills matured day by day.
Zhang Dongxin has participated in the creation and performance of many programs and roles during his ten years as a dancer, especially in 1987, when he participated in the choreography of the large-scale modern folk dance drama Ma Wuge and Ga Doumei and acted as the male lead, which has brought him great rewards in both creation and performance. During his time as an actor, he had already begun to create choreography, and had been selected by the troupe to participate in the province's dance choreography training courses for a number of times. His creation from mass amateur dance to professional dance, from participation in cooperative creation to independent creation, from childish to mature.
Directing career
In order to pursue a higher level of art, more in-depth training in the art of choreography, Zhang Dongxin was admitted to the Choreography Department of the Beijing Dance Academy in 1990, during which he systematically and comprehensively accepted the theory of choreography and a variety of choreography techniques of rigorous training, as well as training in a number of auxiliary courses.
After graduating with honors from the Beijing Dance Academy in 1993, Zhang Dongxin was assigned to Xiamen Little Egret Folk Dance Company. During his work, he created a number of dance programs and directed various types of evening parties, won a number of awards, and foreign artists and co-created programs, organizing performances on the same stage, but also participated in the CCTV and the national large-scale celebration of the evening's creation, choreography.
But Zhang Dongxin was not limited by the achievements in front of him, he continued to higher levels across, he began to learn dance and music outside of all other aspects of the relevant knowledge, such as choreography, technology, the development of new means of expression, etc., hoping to be able to operate in the future a comprehensive comprehensive large-scale activities, and will be more innovative and infectious. So far, in this has not been a short years from the art, Zhang Dongxin experienced the art of sharpening, from a young man in the beginning of the opening of a mixed monument to grow into a mature, excellent director of the national level, to participate in a number of large-scale international events and served as the second Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in 2014 opening and closing ceremonies Executive General Director, the 10th National Ethnic Minority Traditional Games opening and closing ceremonies of 2015 ------ General Director, 2010 16th Guangzhou Asian Games Opening Ceremony "Set Sail" Executive General Director, 2009 Fifth East Asian Games (Hong Kong) Opening Ceremony Executive General Director, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremony Director Team Member - Closing Ceremony Executive Deputy General Director, 2011 Flying Songs of the Earth -2011-13th Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival and the Eighth China In 2011, he was the chief director of the opening party of the 13th Nanning International Folk Song Festival and the 8th China-ASEAN Expo, the chief director of the 2007 Spring Festival TV Party of the Ministry of Culture, the chief director of the planning of the "Hello Spring", the chief director of the 2006 Great Hall of the People "Lantern Festival Gala of the Central Government Leaders and Intellectuals, Literary and Artistic Sectors", and the chief director of the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. He is also the dance director of the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and the dance director of the Lantern Festival Gala.
Early Experience
Graduated from the Department of Choreography and Direction of Beijing Dance Academy in 1993, and served as the Artistic Director of Xiamen Little Egret Folk Dance Troupe
Served as a member of the judging committee of the Fourth National Dance Competition (Single, Double, and Triple) in 1999.
In 2003-2005, he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as an expert in the evaluation of the repertoire of the National Stage Art Excellence Project
In 2005, he was transferred to the Choreography Center of the China Oriental Song and Dance Troupe (the National Song and Dance Troupe)
Important works
Large-scale activities
Over the years he has been the creator, planner, and director of many of the country's large-scale celebrations and galas. celebration, evening party creation, planning, directing
2019 National New District Jingkai District Hi-tech Zone, the first employee health Games opening ceremony
2018 18th (Jakarta) Asian Games closing ceremony Hangzhou flag receiving ceremony performance "Hangzhou time" general director,
2017 Ninth BRICS leaders meeting in Xiamen special cultural performance "sail the future" evening party creator - executive director
2015 10th National Minority Traditional Sports Games opening and closing ceremonies ------ general director
2014 the second Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, opening and closing ceremonies ------ executive director
2010 sixteenth Guangzhou Asian Games Opening Ceremony "Set Sail" ------Executive General Director
2009 The Fifth East Asian Games (Hong Kong) Opening Ceremony ------Executive General Director
2008 Beijing Olympic Games Closing Ceremony -----Executive Deputy General Director.
2007 Opening Ceremony of the Sixth City Games of the People's Republic of China***and ----- Deputy General Director.
2006 World Youth Athletics Championships opening ceremony ----- executive director.
2005 Opening Ceremony of the 4th East Asian Games (Macau) ------ Executive Deputy General Director.
2003 The Seventh Traditional Minority Sports Games of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Opening Ceremony "Feng Ming Sai Shang" ------ Executive Deputy General Director.
2002 Heilongjiang Province, the tenth session of the opening ceremony of the Games large-scale cultural and sports performances "swan flying home" ------ executive general director.
In 2001 the opening ceremony of the 21st World University Games large square art performance "HELL-21" ------ dance director.
Large Evening Party
2017 Ninth BRICS Leaders' Meeting in Xiamen Special Cultural Performance "Sailing for the Future" Evening Party Executive General Director
2011 Flying Song of the Earth-2011-The 13th Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival and the Opening Party of the Eighth China-ASEAN Expo General Director
2009 large-scale poetic painting of style "Minnan Rhythm"
2008 the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the general director of the "Embroidered Zhuang Township".
2007 China - ASEAN Summit Commemorative Gala "Golden Wind Sending Landscape Love".
In 2007, he was the planner and chief director of "Hello Spring", the Spring Festival TV Party of the Ministry of Culture.
Chief Director of 2013 Beijing Light Countdown to Welcome the New Year. 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Dance Director of Lantern Festival Gala.
Executive Director of the 2004 China-ASEAN Expo Opening Ceremony Gala "Southeast Asian Style, Gathering in Nanning 2004".
Opera works
2012 large-scale metaphysical acrobatic song and dance show "Between the Mountains and the Waters" planning, general director
2013 large-scale Zhuang song and dance drama "Hundred Bird Clothes" general director
Literature and Tourism works
2019 China Taiyuan Qingxu Qingxu East Lake Happy Water Dream Garden Light and Shadow Water Scenic Show "Qingxu Huazhang" general planner - general director
p>2017 China Chengdu Jiang'an River Water Run Tianfu Water Scenic Light and Shadow Show "Golden Flower Reflecting the Moon" Master Planner - General Director.
2008 China Guangxi Autonomous Region 50th Anniversary Ceremony "The Beautiful Zhuangxiang" Creator - General Director.
Dance Works
Major Works
"Bird Boys" (duo dance), "The River Runs Through It" (group dance), "Wa Rituals" (group dance), "Cool Drops" (group dance), "Puppeteer" (men's solo dance), "Cloud Tracks of the Plateau" (group dance), "Tide of the Full Moon" (dance poem), "Deep in the Yard" (women's solo dance), "Dutar, Woman" ( Pair Dance), Peacock Flying (Pair Dance), Four-Color Skirt, Ballad of Shan Shui (Dance Drama, Dance Poem) Plagiarism (Group Dance), Born in the Clouds (Group Dance), Wind Blowing Past Leifeng Pagoda (Group Dance), and Reflections of Snowy Regions (Women's Solo)
Creative Works
Building the Tower of Dreams
The Tower of Dreams is the second piece in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Second Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in the second chapter "Building Dreams" in the wonderful program, the audience is very favorite program.
In the performance of "Tower of Building Dreams", 120 high-altitude stuntmen rolled, ran, inverted, and swooped in the air, instantly forming the shapes of "Flame of Youth", "Heart of Youth" and "Tower of Building Dreams". "and other shapes, and finally by the eight flying trapeze tower leaping, implying that young people to climb the peaks, building dreams. The 400 performers on the ground, on the other hand, work closely together to form waterfalls, stars in the sky, ten thousand horses running, whirlpools and other shapes, which are beautiful.
Reviews
The second chapter of the Opening Ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games, "Building Dreams," featured 500 "free factors" that changed their shapes in time with the music, which was a bit of a shock!
An irrefutable climax, the most exciting program of the whole show. All the performers were suspended by the wigwam, forming various shapes in the air! With the atmospheric shock of music and lighting, can not be described in words, if the Spring Festival Gala absolutely "audience favorite program"! ---- CCTV News
The Sail of the White Clouds
The Sail of the White Clouds is a huge and difficult program at the opening ceremony of the 2010 10th Guangzhou Asian Games.
More than 1,400 trainees from Henan Shaolin Tagou Wushu School operated 180 air waiyatt actors on the ground through wire ropes, who kept running back and forth, and the 180 air waiyatt actors changed different shapes with the background of the screen, and the beautiful images of hurdle races, see-saws, smiley faces, seagulls, eagles and other aesthetic images were also shown in front of the audience, visually giving a very strong The impact of the opening ceremony rehearsals so far the most applauded a program.
Review
The successful staging of the "Sail of White Clouds" aerial wigwam program at the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games held in Guangzhou left the world's audience in awe, not only of its scale but also of its difficulty, and set a precedent for the performance of China's plaza stage. ---Chinese Broadcasting Network
The Tower of Memory
The Tower of Memory was the biggest highlight of the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with 396 performers of the "Holy Flame" climbing up the "Tower of Memory" in a three-dimensional performance space for a variety of difficult movements of the human body behavior. A variety of difficult actions of human behavior performance, the whole "Tower of Memory" is transformed into a huge cluster of sacred fire, burning in people's hearts, never extinguished.
Evaluating this "Tower of Memory" also proves to the world that we not only have the ability to host the Olympics, but also have the ability to do the Olympics "unparalleled". ------- IOC President Jens Roeg
The Bird's Clothes
The Bird's Clothes is the 2014 National Art Fund's Stage Art Creation Grant Program.
The large-scale Zhuang opera "The Hundred Bird Clothes" is directed by Fried Ang Dynamic Heart as the general director, choreographer and playwright.
As a work aimed at exploring the development of a new form of contemporary ethnic song and dance drama, "The Hundred Bird Clothes" boldly innovates the form of traditional song and dance drama, using a two-line structural design, that is, allowing the plot to advance simultaneously in the two time-space constructed by epic dance and modern music, narrating the story with dance and expressing the emotions with songs, which constitutes the multiple aesthetic of the art form.
Review
The evening's performance was dedicated to the 45th World Gymnastics Championships, and the venue was packed to the rafters. The melodious melodies and beautiful dances presented the audience with an unparalleled audio-visual feast. --- People's Daily Online
Shanshui Interval
The large-scale metaphysical acrobatic song and dance show was planned by director Zhang Dongxin as the general director.
Metaphysical acrobatic song and dance show "between mountains and water" is 70 minutes long, with Guilin's colorful landscape and unique charm of minority cultures as the background to a tourist's experience, the Guilin "beautiful water, hole, stone beauty" and the fun of life into the ups and downs of the artistic performance, according to the mountains of the green, the water of the show, The play is presented in four chapters: Green Mountain, Beautiful Water, Strange Cave and Beautiful Stone. The play tells the story of an idyllic life in the poetry of the riverbank, under the Xiangshan Mountain, and shows the charming southern flavor and the harmony between people and nature in a multi-dimensional and all-round way.
Review
The launching ceremony and first performance of the large-scale metaphysical acrobatic song and dance show "Between the Mountains and the Waters", which combines ornamental and artistic features, was held at the Li River Theater in Guilin, Guangxi, and has become yet another tourism and cultural feast launched to Chinese and foreign tourists. ---- china-newswire.com
Booming Eight Jun Zan
(Thousands of Horse Head Flags)
1000 horse head qin players, thousands of people, a rhyme, ten thousand horses, sometimes magnificent, sometimes passionate and bold, eight men holding lasso poles rose up in the air, and with the music in the air on the hundreds of a cappella team sang a long time ago, "eight jun zan," sing the grassland's vastness, sing the Singing of the vastness of the grassland, singing of the strength of the shepherds. Thousands of people waving horse head flag square from all directions into the center of the stage, the scene suddenly converged into a sea of joy.
Review
The majestic performance of a thousand horse-head flags at the opening ceremony of the 10th National Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games left a deep impression. Actors dressed in yellow costumes, head tied with red ribbons, accompanied by the "eight steeds praise" from the arena in four directions respectively ran into the entrance, flags shaking as ten thousand horses galloping, people seem to be in the vast grassland. One thousand horse-head flags waved in the wind on the athletic field of Ordos Sports Center, which won countless applauses and applause at the scene. ----Xinhua.com
Spirit of art
Zhang Dongxin said, every creativity and every creation should stimulate all the passions, release them to the fullest, and find a form that can make them express their passions and emotions to the fullest, and then finally express them all. After the complete release of each creation, a higher platform will be built for his next work, on which the next time will have a higher transcendence. Zhang Dongxin feels that the greatest joy in his artistic endeavors is the excitement he feels when facing each challenge, and that this excitement supports him in his search for something new.
He feels that there is no secret to success, success is the need for continuous preparation of the ability to study hard at a young age, acquired research and thinking, maintain a calm state of mind, rational and serious approach to every job will be on this road all the way.
Chang Dongxin is still on the road of art and will continue to go on and on, he still has the ability, interest, and confidence and full of hope for the future.
Chang Dongxin is still on the road of art and will continue to do so.