9 Scrolls Fire the Imagination
By admin on 2015-01-14

Kungfu Revelations：9 Scrolls, a performance widely recognized as Kungfu’s highest artistic achievement, has now started a tour performance around China and is likely to spark another wave of craziness in this mysterious yet eloquent tradition.

Kungfu Revelations is made up of nine scrolls of poetry that unravel one by one before the audience: Purity, Sutra, Diligence, Spirit, Listening, Shape, Serenity, Devotion, and Paradise.

The show's nine acts celebrate the nine virtues of cleanliness, diligence, discipline, stability, respect for the realm, wisdom, tolerance, flexibility and self-esteem, which are all expected of any self-respecting monk. Its theme is the quest to purify the soul through the pursuit of harmony, love, peace and freedom.

The performance, directed by China's leading choreographer Liu Zhen, also is a dazzling combination of martial arts and dance. It is a model of artistic harmony, blending elements of Kungfu and dance, such as ballet, with perfection.

On the stage, artists playing young monks kick, punch and wield their weapons with unnerving speed, power and agility. The stunning effects of this visual feast can be attributed to its innovative choreography and action-timed music that punctuates it with fearsome thuds as the combatants slam each other to the ground.

More to the point, it uses a poetic and dramatic form of Kungfu to interpret and portray the very soul of Chinese culture, art, and philosophy. It stimulates the meditative minds of the audience as they are swept away into a world of imagination.

Kungfu Revelations: 9 Scrolls is China's first indigenous style of stage play. The show allows the audiences of the world, burdened by the anxiety of a modern life, to attain a new sense of the vigor and essence of life.

Kungfu Revelations: 9 Scrolls sets new standards in the world of the performing arts. It is acclaimed as the most pure and successful artistic expression of Kungfu since it first stepped onto the stage in China in 2008.