Impression Lijiang Theatre
Open-air amphitheater staging a mountainside spectacle of horses, dancers, and weather at extreme altitude.
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This guide to Impression Lijiang Theatre near Lijiang follows the open-air amphitheater built inside Blue Moon Valley at over three thousand meters, staged by directors Zhang Yimou, Wang Chaoge and Fan Yue after more than a year solving one stubborn problem: how to stage sprinting horses and leaping dancers in air this thin. You'll hear why they skipped professional performers and drew roughly five hundred cast members from villages around Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, joined by more than a hundred horses on sandstone dyed the red of the local clay. There is no curtain and no roof, just the mountain itself as backdrop, with weather working on performers and audience alike.
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