Originally, I didn't want to blog about my visit to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, but I saw an attack on the professional level of doctoral thesis of a famous university forwarded by Beijing alumni (the paper focuses on an American film director, with this link attached), and thought that if more friends could know about the current performing arts in the United States, it might also be a small window to broaden their cultural horizons.
Most of the donors of Lincoln Center are well-known figures in American financial circles. Among them, the Rockefeller family donated as much as $6,543.8 billion, and donated about $400 million to the society that built Lincoln Center. After the Lincoln Center was completed, in order to support the sustainable development of this creative and exploratory stage art, which is different from commercial performances, the U.S. government specially granted a number of tax breaks.
The main buildings of the center are the New York State Theatre, metropolitan opera and Avery Fisher Concert Hall. Among them, the New York State Theatre is the permanent performance place of the New York City Ballet; Metropolitan opera is home to American ballet and metropolitan opera. Avery Fisher Concert Hall is New York Philharmonic's performance venue. The center also holds an art festival every year, inviting the best dance, opera, drama, concert and other programs to perform here.
As can be seen from the picture, the theater in Lincoln Center is strictly controlled in terms of building volume and internal space, so that the total building price will not be too high. This is in sharp contrast with the large-scale theater buildings in China, which often have huge space. However, in the use of building materials, Lincoln Center uses a large number of precious natural stones, which are expensive.
The picture shows the cinema staff putting down the large crystal chandelier for cleaning. It is said that this chandelier is very expensive. As can be seen from the figure, the stairs and floor structures in the building are light, so it is necessary to consider meeting the function and controlling the cost.
Besides these three theaters, there are outdoor concert hall, new york Performing Arts Center and new york Library? Audio-visual library, cinema, and the world's top performing arts college: Juilliard College. Students from all over the world are very proud to get a seat in this college.
I heard from a friend in new york that the teaching of the college is mainly ballet, and there are also majors such as music and vocal music. With the rapid development of economy and performing arts in China, the college now has outstanding students from Chinese mainland. In addition, China singers have also performed in Alice? Tully hall performance. The center also has restaurants, sales departments, props production centers, hotels and other supporting service facilities.
Lincoln Center is not only a performance theater, but also an open public cultural space. Interested parties can make an appointment to visit online. I'm only in new york for six days, and there are too many projects to visit, so I can't make an appointment to visit. So I can only have a cursory look at the open space in the center, but it is very touching.
Because it also brings together the research, study and exchange, props and costume production and various performing arts documents related to the performing arts, we deeply feel that there are many places worth learning from by comparing the management status of performing arts venues in Shanghai and Beijing.
At present, many large performing arts venues have been built in big cities in China, which are not worse than Lincoln Art Center in terms of building volume, but there is still a big gap in functional development and management. Such as 1988 completed in Shanghai? Wanping Theatre was recently demolished, saying that it was renovated and rebuilt, and the waste was amazing! Look at this Lincoln Center, which was built in the1960s, just like a new building!
In the traditional classification of western culture and art, drama and music are far more important than movies? Noble? . So the cinema in Lincoln Center was placed next to the leisure dining area. The picture shows the ticket window and posters of the cinema affiliated to the center. Among the six new films of this season on the left, there is a video of Dunkirk released in Chinese mainland. ?
Caption: Groups of students learn about drama culture and performing arts activities under the guidance of Lincoln Center lecturers?
In the gallery of the Information Museum, original design manuscripts such as costumes, character modeling, makeup design and props used in important performing arts over the years are displayed. These exhibits vividly explain to people a truth: a successful performing art work cannot be separated from the wisdom and cooperation of the group.
Looking at the United Nations Headquarters building from today's perspective, I feel that its internal and architectural specifications are too simple. Especially after visiting Lincoln Center and new york Library, this feeling is particularly strong.
Postscript: I read the following article forwarded by an alumnus who works in Beijing and found it quite interesting. At present, China's film and television art has made many achievements, but there are also many problems. Such a professional paper is an example.