Forum hosted to promote theater exchange between China and Greece

The Dialogue for City Temperature, a forum centered on theater in China and Greece, took place on Nov 10 in Beijing's Ju Yin Theater.

The forum was guided by the information office of Beijing municipality and the embassy of China in the Hellenic Republic, and hosted by the Beijing Performance and Arts Group.

More than 20 government officials and theater experts from both China and Greece attended the forum in person or via video conference.

The forum included keynote speeches given by theater experts and two panel discussions on the exchange between Chinese traditional opera and the Greek theater, and the new ways to promote Chinese traditional opera in an international context.

Zhao Jiachen, chairman of the board of Beijing Performance and Arts Group, said that the group has been devoted to promoting international exchange in the performing arts field by bringing Chinese traditional opera works to theater festivals around the world.

The group's New Drama magazine has also been publishing translated scripts by master playwrights as well as introducing the trends and theories of global theater.

"In the future, our group will continue to promote theater exchanges between China and other countries wholeheartedly, and present more high-standard theatrical works with Chinese cultural elements," Zhao says.