How good can a variety show that combines traditional culture and dance look? "Dance Millennium", co-produced by Station B and Henan Satellite TV, provides an excellent paradigm. The China Dancers Association and Bilibili recently jointly launched an academic seminar to discuss the spiritual inheritance behind the program "Breaking the Circle".
Jointly produced by Station B and Henan Satellite TV, "Dance Millennium" deeply combines traditional dance with drama variety shows, travels through the four most representative cultural booms in Chinese history, and finds the most beautiful music and dance in ancient and modern times. The program was performed by China's top dance companies such as Beijing Dance Academy and China Opera and Dance Theatre, and achieved high ratings of 8.7 and 9.9 in Douban and B stations respectively. The program did not adopt the traditional dance PK competition, but used the story plus 24 dances, creating a new type of cultural drama dance variety show model, using different directors' diversified creative styles to combat aesthetic fatigue, and even borrowing different film and television styles such as Wong Kar-wai films, the old version of "Journey to the West" and even science fiction.
Jiang Xiaowei, producer and director of Station B's "Dance Millennium", said that in the past year, the number of viewers of Station B's national style videos has reached 136 million, of which more than 80% are 18 to 24 years old, "Traditional culture is the core of this program, we have been thinking about how to make a program that young users like in the field of traditional culture themes." "The creator believes that it is most appropriate to use dance as an incision in traditional culture, because whether it is costumes, etiquette or even five thousand years of Chinese stories, the content of traditional culture is precipitated in the works by dancers." It is a pity that these works have not entered the homes of ordinary people. Jiang Xiaowei said.
Wu Yan, associate professor of the School of Humanities of Beijing Dance Academy, also said that the first six chapters of "Dance Millennium" include three types of classical dances, namely body rhyme, Han and Tang Dynasties and Dunhuang, which inherit the aesthetic styles in different eras and cultural types in China, and vividly show the changes of Chinese civilization over the past five thousand years. For the inheritance of tradition, it is the important cultural support of Chinese classical dance. Ji Fangfang, an associate researcher at the Institute of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the "breaking of the circle" of "Dancing Millennium" should be understood under the trend of today's media integration. The users who watched "Dance Millennium" on Station B participated in real time through the bullet screen, building an interesting cultural media ecology.