On the evening of January 28, the highly acclaimed national treasure cultural relics theme dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" landed in Shanghai Cultural Square, kicking off the national tour. The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" focuses on the national first-class cultural relics "Five Stars Out of the East and China" excavated from the ruins of Xinjiang and Tian Niya on the ancient Silk Road, and vividly restores the historical and cultural features of the western region, that is, ancient Xinjiang, more than a thousand years ago.
The dance drama interprets the legendary story of the national first-class cultural relics
In October 1995, members of the Sino-Japanese Niya Site Academic Expedition team found a piece of brocade in an ancient tomb at the Niya Site in Minfeng County, Hotan District, with eight seal Characters on it: "Five Stars Out of the East and Li China", after thousands of years, the colors are still as bright as ever. The brocade is now a national first-class cultural relic.
Based on this incomparably precious creative resource, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" began from the archaeological site of Niya, archaeologists found that after the "five stars out of the East and BenefitIng China" brocade armband, they entered the time and space tunnel in the wind and sand to unfold the story behind this brocade for the audience: As a Han Dynasty soldier in front of shubian, he received the "five-star out of the East" armband given by the Emperor Tianzi of the Great Han Dynasty, he guarded the land of the western region all his life, and the people of all ethnic groups formed a community of common destiny of the Chinese nation, looking up at the five stars shining, and their hearts to the east.
In addition to the climax of the storyline, a major feature of the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" is that it collects a variety of dance vocabulary - the night feast "lantern dance" full of Western colors can find the shadow of the national dance, the "bundy" dance section of the people of all ethnic groups dancing together, and it seems to be a mixture of street dance and tap dance, the sleeves are bent and waist down belongs to the category of classical dance, as well as the handsome man "bath dance", the monk "square dance", the masses "eat melon dance", etc., so rich and interesting dance creation makes the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" Becoming a different kind of main theme work also subverts the audience's traditional cognition of national theme dance dramas.
The creative process is no less than an archaeology that goes deep into the desert
In order to best present such an extremely precious creative resource as the national first-class cultural relics "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefit China" Brocade Arm Guard, Beijing Performing Arts Group selected the most active creative personnel in the industry, with outstanding creative ability and recognized by all parties when forming the main creative team of the play, and the pattern of each costume has a place, and each plot design can withstand professional scrutiny.
Looking back on the past of creation, Dong Ning, deputy general manager of Beijing Performing Arts Group, said: "The feeling of the creation of the 'Five Stars' work, the process of which is as difficult for us, is no less difficult than an archaeology that goes deep into the desert, although the conditions are difficult, but the surprise it finally brings to us is enough to match the excitement and satisfaction of the deep soul when archaeology has gained." The reason why the work of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" is "difficult" is to make such a precious cultural relic with extremely scarce reference materials become a solid artistic presentation, and at the same time convey its historical connotation, cultural connotation and spiritual connotation, on the stage, let the cultural relics "live" and use dance to "tell" stories.
In order to tell this story well, the main creative team personally went to Hetian in Xinjiang to collect wind, stood in the hinterland of the desert to feel the most authentic emotional link brought by this arm guard, and at the same time extracted the artistic vocabulary from the archaeological history of the Hotan area, local folk customs, ethnic costumes, national music, etc., to understand the musical forms of ethnic minorities and the local artistic expressions with distinct national characteristics, accumulating precious materials for creation, and clarifying the artistic direction and characteristics of creation.
Chief choreographer Wang Ye adopted an unconventional conception and arrangement in the creation, he said: "The collision and integration of cultures in this work is mainly expressed through the integration between people and people, the characteristics of this drama are not heavy, eloquent, using humor, humor, and relaxed performance, suddenly entering another rhythm in a very smooth narrative, such a performance method, so that the audience has many novel feelings." ”
Script creation is the source of this dance drama work, screenwriter Xu Rui said: "The script of "Five Stars out of the East" has been changed 12 drafts, which is the embodiment of the spirit of excellence in the entire dance drama creation and rehearsal process, and this creation is like a historical call, a historical test, which can be said to be the most affectionate gaze on the Chinese community of destiny. ”
It is worth mentioning that the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" has a total of 9 Xinjiang actors involved, at the beginning of the establishment of the repertoire, they came to Beijing from Xinjiang Hetian to participate in the rehearsal of the repertoire, rehearsed with the actors of the Beijing Opera and Dance Theater, and learned from each other, and the actors of the two theater groups also showed an amazing tacit understanding in the performances one after another, and also cultivated deep feelings.
Reporter / Liu Yi
Editor / Sun Chaohui
Image / Courtesy of the interviewee
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