Dong Fei

Dong Fei

Dong Fei, born on May 4 in Hanbin District, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, is the third generation descendant of the Mei school. He holds a master's degree in drama of the Chinese Academy of Arts. He once worked in the National Peking opera academy of China and served as a Chinese culture volunteer of the Ministry of culture and tourism. He learned Chinese opera when he was young. In 2005, Li Yufang, a disciple of Mei Lanfang, learned from Kunqu artists Zhang Jiqing and Gu Weiying. He was the first person to revive Kunqu male Dan art in China.

In 2019, Dong Fei will become the double champion of CCTV's "Avenue of stars" weekly and monthly competitions.

His starring works include Bandong YUSHIRO's Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" of Sino Japanese cooperation, Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" of Royal granary hall, Kunqu Opera "lianxiangban" of Guan Jinpeng, and Beijing Opera "dengguanyouliugui". While studying the traditional performing arts, Dong Fei also tried cross-border cooperation and artistic creation in various fields, constantly expanding and studying the innovation space of contemporary traditional art, and performed in Japan, the United States, Singapore, Italy, New Zealand, Australia and other places for many times.

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Character relationship

Teacher: Li Yufang

Art experience

He studied in Ankang Middle School of Shaanxi Province from 1996 to 2002;

From 2002 to 2006, he studied in the Japanese Department of Beijing Second International Studies University with a Bachelor of Arts degree;

After graduation, he studied in the Graduate School of China Academy of Arts, majoring in drama and drama, focusing on the comparison of Chinese and Japanese drama and drama aesthetics;

On August 20, 2006, I learned from master Mei Lanfang, a disciple of Mei school and a famous teacher of Mei school, Li Yufang;

In September 2007, as a specially invited drama director, he participated in the ballet performance of Liang Zhu by Shu Junjun, the first-class director of the Central Ballet;

In September 2007, he entered the film "Mei Lanfang" crew and played the maid Chunlan in "yishuangma";

In October 2007, I studied Peony Pavilion with Kunqu Master Zhang Jiqing;

In November 2007, he formally participated in the rehearsal of Chinese and Japanese Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion;

On February 27, 2008, I went to Kyoto, Japan with Suzhou Kunju theater, and started a 25 day public performance in nanzuo theater. The performance was a great success!

In 2007, Japan's national treasure Kabuki master, Sakamoto YUSHIRO, visited China. This drama master, who is known as the "miracle" of Kabuki by the Japanese, devotes himself to Kunqu Opera, an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese opera, and hopes to find a Chinese man to perform a section of "Peony Pavilion" with him. Young Dong Fei stands out in this performance.

At that time, Dong Fei was still a master of drama at the China Academy of Arts. After winning many candidate actors, he was arranged to receive nearly a year's Kunqu training in Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater. From March 6 to 26, 2008, "Peony Pavilion" continued to perform in Kyoto, Japan for nearly a month. 60000 tickets were sold out before the whole troupe went to Japan, setting the highest price for Chinese troupes to perform in Japan.

"Now people may be paying too much attention to the" male "and not too much attention to the" Dan. " In an interview with reporters, actor Dong Fei talked about the controversy about male Dan in the society. "It's the business that we should focus on," he said. It is quite abnormal for the society to pay attention to men. As far as my own artistic practice is concerned, I always hope that the audience can remember the role I created and forget my gender. "

In 2008, Dong Fei and Sakamoto YUSHIRO performed Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion".

In 2014, Dong Fei made his debut in New Zealand.

In 2015, he starred in dance drama "double down the mountain" with Qiu Jirong. In July of the same year, he participated in the "great love" charity party in Houston, USA.

In April 2017, Dong Fei performed the Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion of Yuanmingyuan Royal Garden edition.

In October 2020, he served as the image ambassador of the Silk Road youth dream collection.

Overseas performances

In February 2018, the Royal Garden version of Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" was invited to tour New Zealand to perform in the 10th anniversary performance of orchid garden in Dunedin, the special performance of Confucius Institute at Victoria University in Wellington, and the performance of Hamilton Garden Art Festival;

In March 2018, the Ministry of culture and tourism of China hosted the west coast tour of "charming China" by the Chinese Radio National Orchestra, which was performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle respectively;

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