The 19th Lecture of Meeting Intellectuals in the Spring Hills Lecture Series

Information:

Theme: Just Do Whatever Makes You Happy --Theatre Management and Drama Production Sharing

Lecturer: Ding Man

Time: 12th.March.2020(Thu.) 20:00-21:30

Live Platform: Zoom ( ID 648-029-017)

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Guest:

Ding Man is an experienced theater manager and a drama creator who has been Middle Theater director and responsible for the theater performance program planning, artistic films exhibitions planning and theater managing. In 2016, in collaboration with the Belgian director Jeroen Versteele, he produced the Chinese version of the contemporary Dutch drama "poison", which premiered in the middle theater on December 29, 2016. In 2017, cooperated with Swiss director Elias Perrig to produce the Chinese version of the contemporary British drama "breathing", which won the 2017 Shanghai drama award for "best small theater drama of the year". In the same year, he introduced “White Rabbit and Red Rabbti”to China. This special “drama game” created under specific rules gave audience unique enjoyment and interactivity, delivering them special artistic experience, and stood out from the ordinary drama market. Including actors, hosts, and artists from other fields, people from all walks were invited to take parts in the “drama game” and now it has carried out 7 rounds of performances. He planned and held the first Middle Theater Technology and Art Festival. Under the structure of “technology x art”, through 3 foreign dramas and 3 local produced dramas, he initiated the discussion about how to express the science ethic in the drama and how to apply new technology into the drama performance. The second festival was held from 15th Sep. 2019 to 20th Sep. 2019. This festival focused on how technology like social media and monitoring get involved our life. Also, the festival reflected and doubted the relationship between human and the relationship between individuals and society.

About The Middle Theater:

The Middle Theater is located in the middle art park of Xingshikou Road, Haidian District. It is the first private theater in the west of Beijing. With an area of 2,724 square meters, it has been reconstructed based on the structure of the old factory building. The interior of the theater has been designed with professional acoustics and lighting. It has a 442-seat medium-sized theater, a 105-seat projection space, a rehearsal hall, and an open multifunctional hall which can be used for performances in a variety of arts such as small theater plays, mini operas, concerts and so on.

The Intermediate Theatre is committed to providing a comfortable, open, and diversified artistic communication space with an international perspective for audiences and artists. Since the formal establishment of the Intermediate Theater in 2013, it has gradually become one of the most influential theaters in the west of Beijing, and has received more and more attention and recognition from various media. In 2015, it was nominated by the Beijing News and was awarded the "Drama of the Year Voted the second most popular theater in Beijing "; in 2016 was nominated by" Triplex Life Weekly "as" Best Theater of the Year in Beijing ".

Meeting Intellectuals in the Spring Hills：“Meeting Intellectuals in the Spring Hills” is one of the University's lecture series where the University will invite social elites in such fields as culture and arts to share with our students in form of salon or lecture to promote a discussion of thought-provoking issues or soul-searching experiences. During the lectures, everyone will have a chance to listen and respond on their world views, their aspirations, and intellectual taste in life.