Modern Express News (reporter Li Ming) Last weekend, the finale of the drama dance program "Dance Millennium" once again refreshed people's awareness and love for cultural programs. What does this show teach industry producers? Recently, the Chinese Dancers Association and Station B jointly launched the "How can traditional culture 'break the circle' through dance?" "Dance Millennium" Academic Seminar", revealing the traffic code behind the explosion of the program.
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 troupes such as Beijing Dance Academy and China Opera and Dance Theatre, and achieved high ratings of 8.7 and 9.9 on Douban and B stations respectively.
Among them, the fragment of the dance drama "Zhu Ziqing" brought by Yangzhou Song and Dance Theater restores the details of the father's slumped back in "Back Shadow", trembling and climbing up to the platform to buy oranges, and his hands are trembling, making countless netizens call out "breaking defense". On the night of the december 18 broadcast, the dance rushed to the hot search, and the topic of #Father crying the moment the orange fell from his hand was read 250 million times. Of course, this is just one of the many hot searches for "Dancing Millennium".
"Dance Millennium" provides a reference for the traditional dance breakthrough variety show. Dance is the most appropriate entry point for traditional culture, because whether it is costumes, etiquette or even the Chinese story of 5,000 years, the content of traditional culture is precipitated in the works of dancers. "It's a pity that these works didn't make it into the homes of ordinary people." Jiang Xiaowei, producer and general director of Station B's "Dance Millennium", said. Feng Zheng, deputy director of henan satellite TV innovation and research and development center, producer and general director of "Dance Millennium", also stressed, "We have three beliefs in this program - believe in the power of traditional Chinese culture, believe in the power of good stories, and believe in the power of dance itself. ”
"Dance Millennium" also makes an inspiring and innovative expression of traditional culture and contemporary aesthetics. 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.
In the view of Yan Zhenzhen, a teacher at the Humanities College of Beijing Dance Academy, this form enriches the presentation style of classical Chinese dance, embeds the highly perceptive art of dance into the narrative logic dominated by real emotions such as the plot story, and uses the lens to strengthen the emotional expression of the actors. However, there are also difficulties and trade-offs in these operations, and the use of lens language and embodied narrative to cut into the dance as a whole may detract from the aesthetic space of heavy works such as "Xianghe Song".
"Beauty is crying!" Lei Bo, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, observed that there are a large number of such expressions of strong emotional resonance in the barrage of "Dancing Millennium". The national style and national tide are not only a kind of superficial symbol boom, but also contain a lower spiritual surge.
"Ta Ge" attempts to reproduce the artistic conception of ancient liturgical music in the form of dance, and the guardian spirit expressed in "The Illusion of The King Kong", starting from Dayu Zhishui, has always been a very important core of Chinese civilization. Rembo believes that the "breaking of the circle" of "Dancing Millennium" shows that "modern China and ancient China are in the same vein in concepts, culture, home and country feelings, and even at the root of destiny." This constitutes the cultural spirit in our hearts that has been constantly stirred and constructed by the experience of 5,000 years of Chinese history. ”
These are all worth learning from other cultural programs, thus enriching the expression forms of traditional Chinese culture. In the upcoming 2022, what explosive cultural programs will be ushered in? Worth looking forward to.
(Source: "Dance Millennium" program official Weibo)