Station B New Year's Eve "Only This Green" surprises netizens The difficulty of "green waist" interprets heavy mountains and mountains

Station B new year ushered in the third year, "2021 the most beautiful night" bilibili evening party for the first time and space viewing experience, the past and the present, tradition and modernity, through the time and space of the "dialogue" let many netizens "break the defense". Looking back at this New Year's Eve feast, many people are deeply impressed by the display of traditional culture, when "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" "moves", the dance drama "Only This Green" fragment is enough to surprise the audience.

The "customized version" "Only This Green" recreates the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty

The dance poetry drama "Only This Green" jointly produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group and the Palace Museum put the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" on the stage, depicting this immortal masterpiece with a beautiful posture, showing the scenery of mountains and rivers on the stage, and it has been difficult to find a ticket since its premiere. Previously, the main creator also brought "Only This Green" to CCTV's "National Treasures Exhibition Season". The B station New Year's Eve party presented a "customized version" of "only this green", in order to bring the aesthetic experience of "no shrinkage" to the selection, choreographers Zhou Liya and Han Zhen also re-set the dancers' fixed points.

Set against the backdrop of one of China's top ten famous paintings, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", this drama tells the story of a Forbidden City researcher (exhibition person) who traveled through time and space to the time when Xi Meng was about to finish the manuscript a thousand years ago, and followed the outline of the chapter of "exhibition volume, asking seals, singing silk, searching for stones, learning pens, quenching ink, and entering paintings" and entering his painting world. With the heart of this "genius teenager" with only a few numbers recorded, he has become famous for a painting in the history of Chinese painting, explored the accident and inevitability of "a thousand miles of rivers and mountains", and understood the emotional connection between national treasure cultural relics and modern people.

Speaking of the creation process of this dance drama, the choreographer said, "This process is very difficult, because there are few materials, and I once wanted to give up, and then I found a lot of books and materials, and also found non-hereditary heirs." This 18-year-old genius understands the rivers, which we as artists can empathize with, and we must work hard to do the best. We use a poetic way of expression, not only for "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", but also for the Chinese 5,000 years of civilization, and we would like to pay tribute to China's excellent traditional culture, creators and inheritors with this play. ”

The stage design and stage scheduling of "Only This Green" are very complicated, using the ground turntable and the mechanical action of the aerial arc to create a stage effect of "the sky spins up to 3 circles, the ground turns to 4 circles, and the up and down left and right can be moved". According to choreographers Han Zhen and Zhou Liya, the design of concentric circles is part of the stage machinery and part of the stage installation, but because it is on tour, it is difficult to move such a large stage as a whole, so first for the New Year's Eve stage, the long half-curved drapery is turned into a piece of silk paper, which is used as a long silk with an ochre background, as if painting on long silk. The soul "green" in the painting of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a very beautiful thing how to depict the mountains, rivers, sun and moon on the stage of the New Year's Eve party.

Dancer Meng Qingyang said that "green" is very "freehand"

In "Only This Green", the role of "Green Green" is too beautiful, the hair is high, wearing a long green dress, simple, delicate, elegant, is the white moonlight of the exhibition people and even the whole audience, the action is retracted, breathing and tuna, the classical beauty of oriental women is fully revealed.

Wang Zhongxu, the show's cultural consultant and research librarian of the Palace Museum's Calligraphy and Painting Department, said that once when taking photos of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", he was surprised to find that the green pigments emitted a jewel-like glow in the dim light. This inspired the creators of the dance drama. "This color is so beautiful. By setting up the character of Qinglu, we let her shine like a jewel and lead the exhibition person into the spiritual world of Xi Meng. In the view of choreographer Han Zhen, "she is also the aesthetic refinement of the whole play." We designed a series of modeling actions such as 'waiting', 'looking at the moon', 'falling clouds', 'contemplation', 'solo step', 'dangerous peak', 'lying stone' and so on, with the restrained tone of Song Dynasty paintings, and the action was elegant; but the green was not static, and she completed the connection between time and space with a brilliant body, representing the philosophy we hope to give the whole play a more vast and grand space-time dimension. ”

Young dancer Meng Qingyang is the actor of this symbolic role "Green". On the stage of the 2021 Spring Festival Gala, a song "Jasmine" not only brought the audience into the beauty of Jiangnan, But Meng Qingyang took the lead dance and danced the soft and moving beauty of Jiangnan women. She graduated from beijing dance academy and worked for China Oriental Performing Arts Group. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala as the lead dancer of "Silk Road Neon Dress" and "Earth SpringLight". On the stage of the first season of Hunan Satellite TV's "Dance Storm", she won praise from the audience and judges for her classical dance "Unitary Chicken Out of the Morning".

Meng Qingyang said that the New Year's Eve chose the "green women's skirt" dance segment in the dance drama to show the imagery depicting the mountain stone. "Just like the color charm of the Thousand Mile River Map, this character is also freehand, different from some of my previous works." 'Green' is a soul in this play, a symbolic character, achieving millennia. Just like waiting for a thousand years of dignity, calmness and coldness, it is a state of having hills in the heart and mountains and rivers in the eyes. ”

Interpreting this role, the expression of "green waist" is amazing. This ultimate lower back action, through the coordination and cooperation of multiple parts of the body such as legs and waist, presents a stage effect in which the upper body remains stable, straight, and almost parallel to the ground. A 15-second "green waist" display video on the Internet has now exceeded one million likes, and even triggered a large number of professional dancers and enthusiasts to imitate the boom. Do you dare to try? Meng Qingyang taught the essentials of movement, saying, "The green waist is the geometric state of the body, like a mountain stone, and the core strength is at the waist." The right foot is in front, the left foot is in the back, the whole person is like a mountain stone, a majestic mountain, with the consciousness of the back of the head to go down, the waist slowly backwards..."

The costumes of "Only This Green" faithfully trace the characteristics and styles of the Aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. White silk, indigo seal carving... A variety of charming and elegant Chinese classical colors make people wander in the Aesthetics of the Song Dynasty and the traditional Chinese meaning with distinct fluidity and rich cultural atmosphere.

Text/Zhang Nan

Source/Yangtze Evening News