With both oriental core and international aesthetics, works such as "Only Green" have repeatedly appeared on the international stage to showcase Chinese cultural heritage.

China News Service, Beijing, November 7 (Reporter Ying Ni) From the Green Exhibition at Lincoln Center in New York to the upcoming Dongpo Poetry and Dance in Singapore, from the award-winning flying music in Daegu, South Korea, to the love of Mazu spread across the five continents in the cloud, a number of excellent dramas rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture are using art as a link to convey the profound heritage of Chinese culture to the world.

The dance poetry drama "Only Green", as a golden business card for Chinese culture to go overseas, continues to bloom the unique charm of oriental aesthetics on the international stage. In September this year, the 2026 National Arts Fund-funded project and the Beijing Culture and Arts Fund-funded project in 2025, the dance-poetry drama "Only Green" went to the United States three times and New York twice, once again bringing the Northern Song Dynasty's famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" to the stage across the ocean.

Since its premiere in 2021, "Only Green" has completed a thousand performances and won honors such as the Mandarin Award. It has not only led the box office of domestic dance dramas for a long time, but has also continued to go global, with its performances in many countries and regions such as Singapore, Turkey, Russia, and Canada. Every time it is staged overseas, "Only Green" revitalizes a thousand-year-old national treasure from a contemporary perspective, conveying the Chinese people's mountain and river aesthetics and craftsmanship.

Also rooted in Chinese cultural context, the modern dance poetry drama "Poetry of Dongpo" created by director and artist Shen Wei continues to expand its international communication territory. The repertoire extracts the broad-minded spirit from Su Dongpo's poems, and integrates traditional elements such as poetry, calligraphy, painting, seal cutting, opera, and Tai Chi in the aesthetic style of contemporary theater to complete the contemporary expression of traditional culture with the internationally popular artistic language of modern dance. The play has been performed at the Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, USA, attracting more than 15,000 overseas audiences. From December 4th to 5th this year, "Poetry of Dongpo" will have its Singapore premiere at the Esplanade Theater in Singapore, bringing the poetry of Dongpo thousands of years ago to the land of Southeast Asia.

"Poetry of Dongpo" uses dance to translate poetry, while the musical "Flying Sky" uses song and music to translate into painting. The play uses the Dunhuang Grottoes murals as its source of inspiration, telling the story of the "traveler"'s persistence in trekking across the desert to protect Dunhuang culture, and turning the flying image of the thousand-year-old murals into a moving narrative on the stage. In 2024, "Flying" went to South Korea to perform at the invitation of the 18th Daegu International Musical Festival, South Korea, and won the "Grand Prize", the highest award at the musical festival.

"Only This Green", "Poetry of Dongpo" and "Flying Sky" went on field tours to overseas theaters, while the dance drama "Mazu" explored the path of cultural connection in the digital cloud. As a new stage work based on Mazu culture, the play focuses on the life of Lin Mo, a fisherman girl who "establishes morality, does good deeds, and loves love", and interprets the sentiments of Chinese marine culture to be kind. On October 31, the dance drama "Mazu" had its world premiere using an innovative model of "offline performance + theater broadcast + cloud live broadcast", allowing audiences from different countries to understand the spirit of great love originating from China, and expanding new channels for the dissemination of traditional culture to the outside world.

The relevant person in charge of China Oriental Performing Arts Group said that the overseas dissemination of traditional cultural repertoire requires not only polishing high-quality content with an oriental core and international aesthetics, but also diversified offline theater tours and digital cloud dissemination. China Oriental Performing Arts Group will use art as a medium to tell Chinese stories well, help traditional culture go abroad, and take on new life in dialogue and exchanges between different civilizations.