Jiangsu Performing Arts Group, established in 2001, is the biggest comprehensive performing art group in China, consisting of 11 affiliates, a stage center, a performing arts college, three theatres, six wholly owned companies, four holding companies, five joint stock companies, with 18 winners of the Chinese drama award the "Plum Blossom Prize", 21 Individual Prizes winners of the "Wen Hua Award", and 27 artists who enjoy special government allowances. The group has won "The Top 30 of Chinese Cultural Enterprises" for 3 years, the "Outstanding Chinese Cultural Export Enterprise Award" for 3 times, and the title of the "Outstanding Enterprise during National Cultural System Reformation". At present, the group is playing a leading role in the "System Innovation", the "Idea Innovation", the "Mechanism Innovation" and the "Management Innovation" of Chinese Cultural System Reformation.
Directly Affiliated Performing Groups
It covers many art styles, such as opera, pantomime, folk music, symphony, vaudeville, Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Wuxi Opera, Yangzhou Opera, modern drama, Suzhou-dialect Storytelling and Ballad Singing, and puppet show. The group owns three theatres, the Zijin Grand Theatre, People's Theatre and Jiang Nan Theatre. Its subsidiary companies like Jiangsu Performing Company and Jiangsu Cultural Audio & Visual Publishing House, engage in production, research and teaching of art, performance marketing, development and operation of art, publishing and distribution of audio-visual products, artistic design, costume and light and sound equipment. In addition, the group also undertakes large-scale entertainment activities for the public.
List
Peking Opera House of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Kunqu Opera House of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Song and Dance Theater of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Modern Drama Theater of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Wuxi Opera House of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Yangzhou Opera House of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Symphony Orchestra of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Chinese Traditional Orchestra of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Suzhou-dialect Storytelling and Ballad Singing Group of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Puppet Performing Group of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Feiyang Band of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group Dance and Art Design Centre of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group
Works
The group has created and accumulated a classical repertoire for stage performance, such as the Peking Opera The Rickshaw Boy by Lao She, the Kunqu Opera Peony Pavilion, What A Beautiful Jasmine, a grant-scale song and dance show, Yangzhou dialect opera Wang Zhaojun, Wuxi dialect opera Pearl Pagoda, modern drama Rainbow of the Century and Suzhou ballad Recollecting Jiangnan in the Ancient Tune of Tang and Song Dynasties with the singing of ancient poems. These are all ranked at the top of many national-level prizes. The Rickshaw Boy has won almost all kinds of prizes in Chinese opera competitions.
Achievements
Jiangsu Performing Arts Group has successfully hosted or undertake provincial and national large-scale song and dance shows, such as the 1st China Culture Industry Frorum, song and dance show for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 8th Sports Meeting of Chinese Middle School Students, song and dance show for the opening ceremony of the 6th National Paralympics, Into the Pyramid - an Exhibition of Ancient Egypt Treasure, Symphony from Heaven - an arts performance for the World Cultural Heritage site, Nanjing Ming Dynasty Mausoleum.
