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Passion, Creativity and Vitality: 2015 Golden Autumn Art Festival

The Golden Autumn Art Festival, held in every autumn, has become a brand event at WHU. The Festival mainly consists of a series of activities across the campus, including Dress Performance Contest, Scene Play Contest, Dance Contest, Chorus Contest, Debating Contest and Original Work Contest, with every school and departments involved. Established in 1987, the festival provided a platform for students to fully demonstrate their talent.

The Dress Performance Contest

The Dress Performance Contest is one of the most popular one as students design their own thematic dress. School of Journalism and Communication, with their peculiar feature—“water” won the first prize this year.

Three major colour—yellow, blue and purple,added mysterious and ancient factors to the stage. Magical luster of water and light interwove under the night sky.

 “Water”, the purest and most silent element in nature, now, incarnated itself a living light twinkling in the dark, which also echoed their theme “Flowing Light”.

The designer said when their team decided the theme, he thought it was impossible. But as they determined, they eventually made it. It was a challenge of creativity and beauty.

Themed under “colour”, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering showed everyone what was real colour. Abstract and simple patterns were just the most direct way of expression.

“Touch” exists everywhere. The unique way of using gloves by School of Electrical Engineering was a creative idea.

An evident chemical formula on the screen radiated their identity as students from School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Glittery colours were just like different colours of chemical substances.

The Scene Play Contest

Everyone can enjoy the scene play and see it live as it is in the open. Fully prepared and designed, the scene play always reveals eternal creeds and principles, causing profound contemplations on life.

Clan Revert was a play acted by students from School of Philosophy. It told a story of getting home—falling leaves returning to the roots. It was presented by two colours—black and red, which are the colours of Chinese traditional sacrificial ceremony clothes. Acted with red ribbons symbolizing a series of Chinese daily life as tillage, harvest and sedan chair, this play aroused people’s attention to clan culture and roots. The story simply tells us no matter where you were, your clan was your roots, which could never be erased. 

When the actress saw the familiar scenes in China Town, she felt sad but helpless.

“Grandpa disappeared for some time. When he came back, he brought a genealogy. After sliding my finger across thousands of names that I knew or I didn’t know, I found my name. At that moment, it was as if I had found my life.”

A picture behind the scenes.

 “We screamed all the way back to our dormitory after judges’ comments,because they understood those we wanted to speak out, those metaphors;because my story, our story, moved every one.We won, not for the order, not for the scene play itself, not for what we did, but for it was a masterpiece.Maybe I will never write or perform a play as this one, but I have fulfilled.” A student from the creative team of School of Philosophy said, after they won the third place.

The Department of Art won the first prize. Their play was a story of an engineering soldier. It was the winter in 1980. Two engineering soldiers were stuck in the collapsed tunnel. In panic, the elder soldier calmed and consoled the younger one by telling him the stories in army. When it collapsed again, the elder devoted his life to save his partner, which interpreted his sacrifice to friendship. Their sincere sentiment moved the audiences definitely.

The elder soldier was telling army stories to the younger one.

The Dance Contest

This year 19 schools participated in the contest and The School of Journalism and Communication won the first prize with the performance Auspicious Tree. The second and third were The Soldiers and the Gun by Economics and the Management School and the Cavalrymen by School of Electrical Engineering.

Students from School of Journalism and Communication added new elements, especially the role of female in their show in which male symbolized “tree”, while female symbolized “peacock”.

Males were half-naked, showing their muscles as a representative of power, life, and vitality. The Auspicious Tree was full of Dai nationality style which was splendid and fantastic, conveying the wish for life.

The Soldiers and the Guns performed by the Economics and the Management School combined the graceful postures of women and the magnificent momentum of men.

The Chorus Contest

The Chorus Contest this year brought a multi-cultural enjoyment. Every school had their own features. It not only exposed audiences in an ear feast but also regaled everyone’s eyes.

Students from School of Civil Engineering and School of Marxism wore the Uighur costume and sang the song of Uygur ethnic group Alamukhan.

Students from International School of Software proved what elegance was. They sang Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again, as if described a picture of Cambridge.

A combination of Black and Red always produced a feeling of epic grand bearing. College of Foreign Languages and Literature just illustrated what was the soul of chorus—echoing between singer and singer, singers and audiences.

Chorus was composed of singers, but conductor, piano accompanist and judges all played important roles.

 

 

 

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