Wind your way through Millennium Park in an interactive telling of the ancient Chinese love story of Qi Xi--The Story of Niulang and Zhinu, the Cowherd and the Weaver Fairy--complete with a lion dance, opera singers, drummers, martial artists and a lantern parade. The performers traveled from Cloud Gate to the Crown Fountain to Wrigley Square and back. Adapted by Julie Tiao Ma for the Chinese Fine Arts Society, and part of Chinese Cultural Week in Chicago.
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above.
A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.
I love this view of the bean. It looks like a giant drop of water.
A proud local artist
Thank you to all who came and supported the 2010 production of Qi Xi! Our 2010 production was a great success. A special thank you to choreographer Ms. Jin Qiu Yue for her tremendous dedication, passion and attention to detail, as well as all of the performing groups: All Star Kung Fu, Championship Martial Arts, Cheng Da Percussion Ensemble, Chicago Chinese Cultural Center Lion Dancers, Little Star Dance Troupe, Music Institute of Chicago and Skyland Chinese Opera and the musicians troupe led by Alexander Li and Brent Roman. Thank you to the Chicago Tribune, NBC-5 and Timeout Chicago for their great coverage of the event.
Visit the organizer website at http://chinesefinearts.org/
Lion Dance by "Chicago Chinese Cultural Center"
Contact information: pcls928@yahoo.com
People are anxious to take pictures with the lions.
Before the performance
Jay Pritzker Pavilion is the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States.
Frank Gehry, winner of the National Medal of Art, applied his signature style to this revolutionary outdoor concert venue. The Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people.
This state-of-the-art sound system, the first of its kind in the country, was designed to mimic the acoustics of an indoor concert hall by distributing enhanced sound equally over both the fixed seats and the lawn.
The event begins here with a colorful procession of lion dancers, musicians, ribbon dancers, and all other performers who move between sites throughout the park between acts.
Millennium Park was simply a perfect backdrop for this story. The story opens at Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, representing the Heavenly Court. At the northern end of the Park, Wrigley Square fountain basin serves as the sacred pond where the cowherd and weaver princess meet while the two Towers of the Crown Fountain at the southern end of the park dramatically enhance the separation of the two lovers. The final scene takes place back at the Cloud Gate, again representing the Heavenly Court.
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above.
A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.
I love this view of the bean. It looks like a giant drop of water.
A proud local artist
Thank you to all who came and supported the 2010 production of Qi Xi! Our 2010 production was a great success. A special thank you to choreographer Ms. Jin Qiu Yue for her tremendous dedication, passion and attention to detail, as well as all of the performing groups: All Star Kung Fu, Championship Martial Arts, Cheng Da Percussion Ensemble, Chicago Chinese Cultural Center Lion Dancers, Little Star Dance Troupe, Music Institute of Chicago and Skyland Chinese Opera and the musicians troupe led by Alexander Li and Brent Roman. Thank you to the Chicago Tribune, NBC-5 and Timeout Chicago for their great coverage of the event.
Visit the organizer website at http://chinesefinearts.org/
Lion Dance by "Chicago Chinese Cultural Center"
Contact information: pcls928@yahoo.com
People are anxious to take pictures with the lions.
Before the performance
Jay Pritzker Pavilion is the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States.
Frank Gehry, winner of the National Medal of Art, applied his signature style to this revolutionary outdoor concert venue. The Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people.
This state-of-the-art sound system, the first of its kind in the country, was designed to mimic the acoustics of an indoor concert hall by distributing enhanced sound equally over both the fixed seats and the lawn.
The event begins here with a colorful procession of lion dancers, musicians, ribbon dancers, and all other performers who move between sites throughout the park between acts.
Millennium Park was simply a perfect backdrop for this story. The story opens at Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, representing the Heavenly Court. At the northern end of the Park, Wrigley Square fountain basin serves as the sacred pond where the cowherd and weaver princess meet while the two Towers of the Crown Fountain at the southern end of the park dramatically enhance the separation of the two lovers. The final scene takes place back at the Cloud Gate, again representing the Heavenly Court.
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