La Fura Dels Baus's video: Opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing - La Fura dels Baus

The opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games of Nanjing 2014 will be marked by La Fura dels Baus, through the collaboration of the director Pep Gatell and a team of the company that has moved to the chinese city. The opening ceremony will be on the 16th of August and will present a colorful version of ‘China Dream’ through various artistic and cultural elements, accorting to artistic director Chen Weiyi. The result, therefore, is a very personal representation of the Chinese dream originally inspired by a walk that the direction of the ceremony did to the Purple Mountain Observatory. The opening ceremony of Nanjing in 2014 will be a macroperformance with technological elements and virtuals of the latest generation that will transform the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center into a real fantasy. The direction claims that the purpose is that, through the ceremony, everyone perceives the passion and energy that characterizes youth.