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Daan Elementary School (2021 CyberFair Project ID 8584)
Taiwan,
Taipei City
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 13 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: National Taiwan College of Performing Arts in Neihu District of Taipei City is the only 12-year school of traditional opera in Taiwan. Currently, there are six departments: Peking opera, folk arts, Taiwanese opera, Hakka opera, traditional opera music and theatre art. It is the school to cultivate the talents of traditional opera. In the school, there are museum of drama relics, internship and performance theatre and “Taiwan Peking and Kunqu Opera Troupe” and “Taiwanese variety show troupe” to promote traditional opera arts. Taiwan Peking and Kunqu Opera Troupe has been founded for 15 years and made efforts to pass on traditional opera. It is remarkable in terms of drama performance, art promotion and international exchange. With the professional guidance of Director Chen and the actors’ efforts in Taiwan Peking and Kunqu Opera Troupe, they will certainly continue promoting traditional opera and operating for art and culture of Kunqu Opera in Taiwan.
Project Description: Watching traditional opera is many people’s childhood memory in early times. It was the family time between parents and children. When there were local temple fair to worship gods, the performances of traditional operas were indispensable. However, the prosperity did not continue and the main reason is in that nowadays, leisure activities vary and the public are significantly more interested in movies, TV, concerts, stage plays and online media and it severely affects the development of traditional opera. Since art of traditional opera encounters the crisis, the insiders are aware of the problems. After constant reform and attempts in the past decades, they thoroughly improved traditional opera in terms of performance, music, scripts, costumes, props, stages, marketing and promotion. Production and performance of traditional opera were refined to catch up with fashion and the public’s interests.