Qingdao "Dreaming of the Sea" Immersive Sailing Epic Musical
Taking Qingdao as its stage, this experience connects prehistoric, Qin-Han dynasty, and modern-day maritime stories. Through the dynamic experience of the maritime theater and panoramic imagery, it decodes the genetic code of 5,000 years of maritime civil
Chasing Dreams in the Blue Sea
- Panoramic Ocean Visual Effects: The performance utilizes a 270-degree panoramic image wrap, with the front gauze screen and horseshoe screen as the main elements, ground projection simulating sea waves, ear screens for auxiliary effects, and dynamic seats, creating an immersive nautical visual experience as if being in the vast ocean and riding the waves.
- Shocking Surround Sound: The maritime theater is the first to adopt Trusound panoramic sound technology, precisely positioning sound images. Sounds such as sea rainstorms and giant鲲swimming around surround the audience in all directions, creating a fully immersive “on-the-spot” experience.
- Integration of Diverse Arts: The show integrates various art forms such as drama, musicals, and stage plays. When presenting the nautical story, it uses musicals as the core, and leverages the plot advancement and performance tension of dramas to immerse the audience.
- Novel Mechanical Devices: Multi-degree-of-freedom dynamic seats accurately simulate nautical turbulence, combined with flexibly moving shift vehicle platforms carrying realistic large ships moving between the stage and backstage, jointly creating a shocking stage ocean landscape and bringing a novel experience.
- In-depth Cultural Exploration: Deeply explores cultural connotations. The creative team traveled to cultural sites such as Sanlihe and Lang琊Tai, sorting out clues from historical records and expert research. Based on Qingdao’s marine culture and China’s maritime history, the story uses characters from three eras to connect the 5,000-year history of Chinese people’s marine exploration.
What to expect
China's First Large-Scale Immersive Maritime Epic Musical "Sailing Dreams" Premieres with a Bang
- "Sailing Dreams" is produced by Qingdao Tourism Group, with Jin Tiemu, a famous CCTV director, as the general director.
- Closely centered on the core theme of "navigation," the musical tells three trans-temporal navigation stories. Prehistoric teenager Bei represents the primitive tribe's instinctive yearning for the sea; Xu Fu, the navigator of the Qin Dynasty, carries the maritime sentiments of the eternal emperor; and Qi Kunpeng, a professional sailing racer, symbolizes the life ideals of contemporary youth. Three maritime dream chasers from different eras string together China's five thousand years of navigation history, reproducing the magnificent epic of mankind's continuous exploration of the ocean and fearless embrace of the sea.
- This wonderful performance combining reality and fiction takes Qingdao's marine culture and China's maritime history as its main line, innovatively integrating "navigation" into the visual, atmosphere, and performance methods. Relying on the high-quality hardware of the "Sea Theater," it integrates landscape, culture, and tourism, using wrap-around panoramic images to create an all-visual marine scene, and dynamic seats to bring an ultimate immersive nautical experience, vividly demonstrating Qingdao's active and enterprising nautical dream-chasing story, and reinterpreting the unique charm of China's five-thousand-year nautical epic.
The backdrop is a huge image of the setting sun's afterglow on the sea, with a massive whale leaping out of the water, its form agile and strong. In the distance are islands radiating a mysterious light. Lighting and special effects create a mysterious an
The stage presents a seaside scene at dusk, with waves surging in the background. An ancient, rustic wooden boat is quietly docked, its tattered sails telling tales of voyages.
The backdrop is a vast starry sky, with Earth and numerous planets suspended, and blue lines resembling flowing energy. Below, undulating mountains display a blend of blue and yellow hues. The stage utilizes cutting-edge lighting and special effects to cr
The stage utilizes light and shadow effects to create scenes of ancient tribal life, as if transporting the audience back to prehistoric times to experience the simplicity and mystery of that era.
The performers are agile, gazing or busying themselves as if dealing with the turbulent sea. This is complemented by a vast ocean backdrop constructed with a 270-degree immersive wrap-around image, panoramic surround sound creating a realistic sound field
Night view of the Qingdao Sea Theater
Deep blue light and shadows intertwine, with a massive, lifelike transparent whale model overhead, adorned with jellyfish, creating a mysterious deep-sea atmosphere.
Historical scenes are vividly recreated with lighting effects, bringing a time-traveling viewing experience.
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There will be an amazing rap performance before entry. Please arrive 40 minutes early to go through ticket verification and enter.
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