"Starry Sky", "The Girl with pearl earrings", "Lover", "The Elephant of No Elephant", "Fuchun Mountain Jutu"... Under the interpretation of 7 dancers led by Tan Yuanyuan, the famous paintings of the East and the West are coordinated with sound, color, light and shadow, and the audience seems to be in the painting...
This scene occurred at the Shanghai premiere of the 2021 Pudong Culture and Art Festival's fine repertoire and dance music theater "Tan Yuanyuan and Her Friends - Fantasy Night of the Art Museum". On the eve of the last performance, Tan Yuanyuan, who was called the "Queen of Ballet", revealed to the Shanghai media from his hometown: "The appreciation level of shanghai audiences is getting higher and higher. ”
Shanghai girl Tan Yuanyuan, the first Chinese principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet, has starred in many classic works such as "Swan Lake" and "Giselle", and has performed a variety of contemporary ballet works with different styles and themes. In "Art Museum Fantasy Night", Tan Yuanyuan is not only a dancer, but also an artistic director and co-choreographer. With the joint efforts of the main creative staff, the originally completely different dance and art have successfully broken the barrier between the two.
"Sometimes we choose our favorite paintings and choreograph the dances accordingly; sometimes we get the inspiration for the dance and then look for the corresponding paintings." Tan Yuanyuan said that each painting performed was personally selected by the dancers, and the artists gave a new artistic life to the famous paintings of the East and the West through the reinterpretation of dance and music. Among them, Tan Yuanyuan performed his own selection of "Carmen", "Swan Lake" and "I Am Crazy for Margaret", insisting on playing its classical ballet advantages.
The last painting of the performance, Van Gogh's "Starry Sky", was a common choice of many dancers. Director Zhou Ke said that the dancers participating in the performance are ballet, ethnic dance, modern dance, which are completely different from each other, but in "Starry Sky", everyone becomes a star in the starry sky, and everyone dances ballet at the same time, dances folk dance at the same time, and dances modern dance at the same time. "Everybody has abandoned the border." Zhou Ke said.
What moved the main creators even more was the enthusiasm of the audience. Tan Yuanyuan said that the audience down to five or six years old children, up to seventy or eighty years old grandfathers, grandmothers, are very happy to see, the audience age span is very large. Zhou Ke revealed that during the intermission of the performance, she saw many parents taking their children online to check the painting stories. Zhou Ke believes: "At this moment, art is truly connected with life. ”
It is reported that the performance of "Art Museum Fantasy Night" was originally only arranged for July 20 and 21, and the tickets were sold out in just a few days. To this end, the organizers will add a show on July 19, and also launched at a ticket price of 80 yuan for the benefit of the people. This is also the second art festival dance project after Yang Liping's dance drama "Ten Faces Ambush".
Why is dance so popular? Like Hu Shenyuan, the star of "Ten Faces Ambush", Tan Yuanyuan also crossed over to participate in "Dance Storm", and circled a large wave of new "fans". However, for these cross-border projects, Tan Yuanyuan still maintains his original intention: "Excellent dancers still have to speak with their works, and the top stage is still the performance scene." ”
Source: Pudong Release