FINE Technology Powers the Grand Premiere of the Dance Drama "Great Waves, A Thousand Sails"
From January 5th to 7th, the dance drama "Great Waves, A Thousand Sails" premiered magnificently at the Blue Sea Silk Road Grand Theatre. Guided and supported by the Publicity Department of the CPC Beihai Municipal Committee and the Municipal Tourism, Culture and Sports Bureau, and created and performed by the Municipal Literary and Art Exchange Center, the production has been successfully selected as a project funded by the National Arts Fund. It represents a significant achievement in Beihai's efforts to delve into its historical and cultural resources and create high-quality urban artistic works.
The creation process of this dance drama was meticulous and dedicated, assembling an outstanding creative team including director Wang Yabin and composer Lü Liang. After over a year of careful refinement, every aspect from script and choreography to music and stage design was meticulously honed. Based on the history of Daliang Port in Hepu, "Great Waves, A Thousand Sails" artistically recreates the magnificent journey of the ancient Hepu people who built the port with their flesh and blood, opening the Maritime Silk Road. It interprets the spirit of the people of Beihai thriving by the sea and courageously riding the tides. The core story revolves around the fate of two generations of craftsmen, father and son Lü. During the Western Han Dynasty, to open the Maritime Silk Road, Lü Zheng was tasked with building a port and city in Daliang Village. His son, Lü Jun, participated in the construction under his father's leadership. Suddenly struck by a typhoon, the port was destroyed. Lü Zheng sacrificed himself to protect the port and save the people, while Lü Jun was swept away by the waves to Weizhou Island and rescued by a fisherwoman named Shanhu. Relying on each other, Lü Jun's hope was rekindled, and he became determined to fulfill his father's legacy. He returned to Daliang, led the people to overcome countless difficulties, and finally built Daliang Port. The port stood tall, merchant ships from myriad nations gathered, and the Silk Road prospered. The drama portrays both the bustling scene of port construction and the perilous moment of the typhoon's onslaught, while also depicting the spiritual relay and emotional bond between father and son, infusing warmth into the grand history of pioneering the Silk Road.
As the grand picture of the dance drama "Great Waves, A Thousand Sails" unfolds on stage, it relies on precise and creative lighting narratives behind the scenes. FINE Technology contributes professional lighting equipment to help shape this epic journey through millennia.
The **FINE 608 BATTEN LED Moving Bar Effect Light** flexibly adapts to the dual demands of grandiosity and subtlety: when depicting epic scenes of a thousand ships racing and tens of thousands building the port, its wide **5° to 50° zoom range** and high light output of over **6000 lumens** can instantly create a uniform, full, and powerful wash of light, recreating the majestic momentum of the labor site. Furthermore, the built-in **100 color macros and 47 effect macros** provide endless possibilities for simulating complex and changing environments and emotions.
Faced with a dance drama containing multiple chapters—"Decision, Peril, Rebirth, Success"—and intense emotional fluctuations, lighting changes must achieve millisecond-level synchronization with dance rhythm, musical emotion, and plot twists. This is precisely the core value of the **TEKMAND III Lighting Console**. Equipped with powerful processing capabilities, and when connected to the **TEKMAND DPU 16P**, it can handle over **65,000 parameters in real-time**. This ensures that in chaotic scenes like the "typhoon onslaught," the lights can flash fiercely and cut rapidly like a violent storm; while during the tender moments between Lü Jun and Shanhu, they can transform into soft, gradient, and delicate rendering.
