Aranya Jinshanling is a two-hour drive from Beijing. It is a place of stunning scenery surrounded by nature with the Great Wall towering nearby, yet it is also a luxury villa area.
There, you will come across a stone structure out of nowhere. This is the Aranya Jinshanling Concert Hall, a famous hall that is now a center for art in China.
It was a great honor to be invited to perform on such an honorable stage, which is a stage that every artist in China wants to stand on. I continued to discuss what kind of performance I should give, and finally flew out to Beijing.
It was more of an ikebana show than an ikebana performance.
I was very nervous, not wanting to disappoint the many Chinese people who had made the effort to buy tickets to come to the show.
First of all, I have put together three videos of the 90-minute show and uploaded them to YouTube, so please have a look.
I think you can get the feel of the atmosphere much better than with photos.
We’ve also received a lot of photos.
There are so many that it’s impossible to post them all, but I’ll post some photos and give you more details in my next blog post.
