Cover news reporter Xun Chao
On December 17th and 18th, the Chinese Opera and Dance Theater's dance drama "Confucius" was staged at the Sichuan Grand Theatre. Based on Confucius's life experience, the dance drama consists of six chapters and shows the life of Confucius, whose artistic ideal is "perfection and perfection". On the afternoon of the 18th, the dance drama "Confucius" opened the audience to visit the class, and 30 spectators entered the theater to understand the actors' preparations before the start of the performance.
It is understood that the large-scale historical dance drama "Confucius" is about 90 minutes long, telling the life course of Confucius traveling around the world with the heart of saving the world and saving the people, showing Confucius's participation in politics and advice, traveling around the countries, desperate food, string songs and youlan, returning to Lu in his later years, revising the "Book of Poetry", writing "Spring and Autumn", and making ceremonies and music. Since its premiere in 2013, the play has been a hot "blockbuster" play in the dance world.
It is worth mentioning that the general director of the play, Kong Dexin, is the 77th generation descendant of Confucius, and he once said, "Creating this drama is not a task for me, but an emotion for the family." Talking about the original intention of the creation, he said in an interview with the media: "The play places Confucius in the environment of the times, the country and nature, expresses Confucius's joys and sorrows with body language, presents Confucius's inner and emotional world with rich musical melodies and stage images, shows Confucius's Confucian thought, personality charm, spiritual characteristics, wisdom and light, and transmits traditional Chinese culture." ”
Since its premiere, the dance drama "Confucius" has been asked about the changes in the past eight years, and Liu Bin, assistant to the head of the dance troupe of the China Opera and Dance Theater, said frankly: "Looking back at the first version of Confucius now, there are indeed many places that can be improved and refined. In the past 8 years, the troupe has continuously revised, polished and polished "Confucius", continuously improved the previous ideas, and added our latest understanding and interpretation, including the continuous adjustment and improvement of dance, dance and music, all in order to make "Confucius" a classic work that can be handed down. ”
Liu Bin also revealed that every time they go to a place, dancers will carry out basic skills training: "One day without practicing themselves knows, and three days without practicing the audience knows." In addition to the daily basic training, the actors will also adjust according to the status of the scene to ensure the performance effect of the dance troupe. ”
Unlike movies and TV series, there are uncertainties in every stage performance. In this regard, Liu Bin said: "Although more than 400 performances, the actors will still be nervous, unpredictable what will happen, the music will change, and the run-in between dancers and band teachers is not easy." The band members popularized the music knowledge to the dancers, and the dancers gave feedback to the band members on the dance knowledge, and they ran in over and over again, practicing ten hours a day to have the current performance effect. ”