Author: Xia Weijia (Associate Professor, Department of Classical Chinese Dance, Beijing Dance Academy)
In recent years, there have been too many moments that have been moved and amazed by Chinese dance. From the circle of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" at the beginning of the year, to the posture and beauty of "Underwater Roselle", and then to the drama dance variety show "Dance Millennium" created by Henan Satellite TV and Station B, the historical picture of 5,000 years has been unfolded in one go: "Xianghe Song" The daughter of the Han family is inspired and stirred, and the song and dance posture pass through the millennium; the flower rain under the "Silk Road Flower Rain" on the Silk Road expresses the deep love between father and daughter; a song "Will Enter the Wine" Li Du and the two are passionately waving, and those poems interpreted by the body reach the atrium; and "Zhao Orphan" Cheng Bao's great righteousness of the homeland, the loyalty and righteousness shown in "Guan Gong", the freedom and helplessness shown in "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest"; as well as the Tang poems and Song Ci, Qin Brick HanWa, Zhaojun Out of the Plug, and the Ceremony of Zhen, the Silk Road, the Wei and Jin Wind Bones, the Boyazi Period...
"Dance Millennium" comprehensively and meticulously shows the beauty of classical Chinese dance with a section of beautiful dance, and excavates the history and culture outside of dance. It was evaluated by netizens as "dancing for a thousand years, dancing all the time is amazing, and everywhere mentions Chinese culture!" "The ultimate pursuit of the stage presentation by the main creative team, the dedication and determination of the dancers to the art, and the perfect state of mind when facing the new creations, have jointly achieved the huazhang of "Dance Millennium".
Stills and information pictures of "Dancing Millennium"
1. Awaken cultural genes to dance out cultural self-confidence
Whether it is the innovative development of Chinese classical dance or the program creation of "Dance Millennium", it is closely focused on traditional culture. From "Dance Millennium", the audience saw the beauty of Chinese classical dance, saw the long history of China, saw the brilliant splendor of China's excellent traditional culture, and saw the Chinese high cultural self-confidence. As a Chinese classical dance education expert who has long been engaged in classical dance performance, teaching and creation, and as the chairman of the Henan Provincial Dancers Association, Han Jin frankly said: "The circle of "Dance Millennium" is not an accidental phenomenon, it is inseparable from the 'Lotus Cup' classical dance competition and the 'Dance History Hidden in National Treasures' and a series of cultural and artistic activities promoted by the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, the China Dance Association and the Henan Dance Association in recent years. ”
At the same time, Han Jin said that the Central Plains is the birthplace of Chinese civilization and Chinese civilization, the cradle of the Chinese nation, and the circle of "Dancing Millennium" is strongly related to this fertile cultural land. "Heluo culture, Yangshao culture, Xia Shang Zhou culture; oracle bones, Jiahu bone flute, bronze ... Henan, which has a deep cultural heritage, can give birth to such an excellent program as "Dance Millennium". ”
Chinese classical dance must be in the inheritance of roots and inheritance of culture, find the inherited genes and carriers, absorb the essence in traditional culture, and tell the depth of history, cultural self-confidence and national pride with the flexible jumping of Chinese dancers in the new era.
Zhang Xiaolong, the recommended dancer, etiquette director and behind-the-scenes planner of "Dance Millennium", said that the original intention of the creation of "Dance Millennium" is to pay attention to the fashion expression and aesthetic expression of traditional culture, and lead the current young people into traditional culture. "Cultural self-confidence is not a slogan, but a real cultural self-confidence from the inside out, young people are more and more fond of our traditional culture, they are eager for traditional cultural works with aesthetic height." "Dance Millennium" uses dance methods and lens vocabulary to express dance, so that dance can glow with the brilliance of the new era. ”
2. Innovative expression methods activate cultural vitality
"Dance Millennium" creatively takes the plot as the scripture, takes the dance as the weft, threads the needle and leads, and crosses vertically and horizontally, drawing a magnificent picture of Chinese dance. The program creates a high-level, innovative and refined audio-visual feast, guiding the audience to enter the treasure of China's excellent traditional culture and feeling the charm of China's excellent traditional culture through time and space.
"'Dance Millennium' is actually a perfect fusion of inheritance and dissemination, the program expresses traditional culture in an appropriate creative language, spreads it with excellent media, and awakens the love of traditional culture in our genes and roots." Han Jin said that the intervention of Henan Satellite TV as a new communication medium has an activating significance for classical dance. "In the past, the main channels of our communication were in the stage theater, but Henan Satellite TV activated the dance itself in another way, and the innovation of expression directly broadened the audience group."
Han Jin also frankly said that this cross-border, integrated, and isomorphic model not only activates the inherent cultural genes of the Chinese people, but more importantly, further highlights the national soul, praises the national spirit, highlights the national integrity, inspires the feelings of the Chinese people, encourages the morale of the Chinese people in a specific period, awakens the return and yearning of the Chinese people for traditional culture, and stimulates the passion and vision of the Chinese people for real life.
To strengthen cultural self-confidence, we must carry forward the excellent traditional culture, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture under the conditions of the new era. "Dancing Millennium" is the successful practice of the creators to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture in combination with the new conditions of the times, to keep the integrity and innovation, and to innovate and innovate.
3. Tell Chinese stories well and dance for the people
"Dancing Millennium" is a contemporary interpretation of a Chinese historical story, giving it the meaning of the times with innovative expression. The small self in "The Orphan of Zhao" is the big me; the contemporary guardian in "The Illusory King Kong", the craftsman spirit in "The Three Colors of the Great River", the thought of the homeland in "The Qin King's Point Soldier"...
"Reflecting the times is the mission of literary and art workers. The classic literary and artistic works of any era are the portrayal of the social life and spirit of that era, and all have the imprint and characteristics of that era. Literature and art of any era can only make a deafening voice if they are in solidarity with the country and the nation. Zhang Xiaolong said that the times have given literary and art workers great creative opportunities. Resonating with the times, recording this era and praising this era is the mission of literary and art workers, "to create more works that share the same fate with the times, and in the process of creation, they really go deep into life, take root in the masses, truly explore, use the best way to tell Chinese stories, and regard creation as an artistic mission and a historical mission. ”
Han Jin analyzed that classical dance comes from ancient times and acts today, it travels through ancient and modern times. This kind of plot + variety show shows the creators' thinking and practice around "how to carry forward traditional culture and tell Chinese stories well". "Although it is a variety show, "Dance Millennium" is telling Chinese stories in a new form, with specific scenes and historical backgrounds. This is a high-quality communication for Chinese classical dance. "As Chinese literary and art workers, how to carry out contemporary transformation of traditional culture and realize its contemporary value; how traditional culture serves contemporary people and serves today's social needs; how to do a good job in the high-quality inheritance and high-quality dissemination of traditional culture has always been the subject of our research."
4. Highlight the style of the times and dance for the times
"If what is not enough is said, it is long to say; it is not enough to sigh; it is insufficient to sigh, so I do not know the dance of the hand and the foot." The ancients described the function of dance in this way. But dance is not only a way to express emotions, but also beauty, understanding, life, inheritance, portrayal of the times, and resonance of the national spirit. Chinese culture and Chinese spirit are the fertile soil in which socialism with Chinese characteristics is rooted. Chinese classical dance must be based on the present, serve the times, inspire the future, creatively transform and innovate the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and excavate, refine and pass on the cultural essence with national spirit and contemporary value with the art form of dance.
"If you look at 'King Kong in the Phantom World', it shows a contemporary 'King Kong spirit' and 'guardian spirit', soldiers, medical workers, and even every ordinary person who bravely comes out is 'King Kong'. From this level it realizes the contemporary transformation and era value of classical dance. The relevance of this dance has completely surpassed that of the dance itself. Han Jin said that he hopes that "dance" can become a light that refracts traditional culture and illuminates the life path of contemporary people. "Classical Chinese dance is not only a product of an era, but also a historical necessity. It is a 'new' classical dance that contemporary people rearrange, restore and create according to the traditional Chinese classical cultural spirit and traditional classical cultural heritage, and integrates the aesthetic tastes and thinking concepts of contemporary people, therefore, it has a strong sense of the times, is a contemporary continuation of the chinese national cultural spirit, and is a contemporary construction of traditional dance style. ”
Zhang Xiaolong also said that the national spirit, national integrity, landscape and humanities, harmonious symbiosis, the unity of nature and man, and the forgetting of things and me are the eternal spiritual values in traditional Chinese culture, highlighting the style of the times, dancing for the people, and dancing for the times is the mission of dancers, and it is also the lifelong responsibility of literary and art workers.
Through the corner of "Dancing Millennium", we can see that China's excellent traditional culture still has endless high-quality content waiting to be discovered, and classical art is no longer a static memory in the annals of history and murals, nor is it the "background color" of popular culture, but a big protagonist on the stage. The traffic code out of the circle dances at the fingertips of traditional culture and shines in the long river of Chinese civilization of five thousand years.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-01-19 16 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily