"I knew there was it!"
On the evening of January 30, as soon as the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala program list was announced, many netizens "Versailles" their own "prophetic foresight" on the Internet. Not "I want to die you", nor "unforgettable tonight", netizens said, is the dance poetry drama "Only this green".
"It was so beautiful! Absolutely", "MVP of this year's party"... Not long ago, "Only This Green" debuted at the Bilibili "2021 Most Beautiful Night" New Year's Eve Party, and the B station netizens who have always been "picky" have euphemistically hit the bullet screen with "just like this conquered by you". From the B station New Year's Eve party to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, so "breaking the circle", why "only this one volume"?
Stills from "Only This Green". Courtesy of China Oriental Performing Arts Group
Detail control: "Formation accurate to the eye"
Through seven chapters of "Exhibition Volume, Asking Seals, Singing Silk, Searching for Stones, Learning Brush, Quenching Ink, and Entering Painting", "Only This Green" tells the story of a young researcher of the Forbidden City who "crossed" back to the Northern Song Dynasty and "peeked" at the painter Wang Ximeng's creation of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" from the perspective of "exhibition volume people".
The story is not complicated, but the dancer's silent interpretation of the whole process and the abstract expression of some plots and scenes have raised the threshold for the audience to "enter the painting" to a certain extent, but this does not prevent "Only This Green" from relying on the beauty of "out of the circle".
The peak of the green landscape "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" has its own aura, the chief choreographer of the dance drama "The Eternal Radio Wave", the composer of the TV series "Langya List" and "The Pretender", the stage designer of the opera "Turandot" and other "fantastic" creative teams to base, "Only This Green" presents the audience with an audiovisual feast of "every frame is a painting".
And that's just the "face". "Li'er" is the team's reverence for beauty and the strict demand for details.
Chief editors And directors Zhou Liya and Han Zhen revealed that the pre-creation of the play alone took more than a year, and it took 5 months to create and rehearse, and the team repeatedly discussed and exchanged with experts from the Palace Museum. "Everyone on the team created this dance poem with the utmost devotion." Han Zhen said. This devotion also left a deep impression on Wang Zhongxu, the cultural consultant of the play and the research librarian of the Calligraphy and Painting Department of the Palace Museum: "Their questions are only what you can't think of, and there is nothing they can't ask." ”
How much does the team get to the details? The answer is: "The breath is continuous", "the formation is accurate to the eye". From the B station "Only this green VLOG| our wonderful journey to the New Year's Eve party at the B station ~" this rehearsal tidbit can be seen:
"Sideways waist up, there is that lazy temperament, and at the same time the breath is continuous. It's important to keep going on and on, and these are very detailed links. There is also a paragraph just now, and here we will define it. Some people's eyes are here, some people are directly here, this is very uneven, we all have the perspective of dreams, so it is good to unify. ”
More really so far, there is a "only this green" is the beauty of the stunning, only to stimulate the netizens "watching the process can breathe normally" playful. What is even more valuable is that from the premiere to the tour, the creative team has been collecting audience feedback, making modifications and adjustments.
Zhou Liya said: "There is no final version of 'Only This Green', only the best version. ”
Deep resonance: You and I are all exhibition people
Deep resonance is often hindsight.
Every time the performance is "high-energy", the applause continues in the theater, and the bullet screen continues to brush the screen. What you see is what you see, but you are more moved than what you see. "Is there some kind of switch in our genes, and we want to cry when we see this!" The eyes of the audience and netizens are bright, and the wisdom is online: it seems that they do not know what to do, but they point the decoding key to the inside and point to the depths.
Chinese introverted, especially the expression of emotion. The presentation of beauty in "Only This Green" touched the heartstrings of the audience, making it difficult for the introverted audience to restrain the DNA that jumped in their bones, and what stirred the DNA was our traditional Chinese culture.
You think it doesn't show the dew, but you don't know that it has already buried the sense of existence in the genes of every admiring audience. In other words, before watching the performance, beauty and emotion already existed in the minds and hearts of the audience, and what "Only This Green" did was to tick out their feedback on beauty.
As Jin Ruiguo, deputy director of the Department of Museums and Social Cultural Relics of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said: "The cultural spirit represented by "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is thousands of miles away, thousands of years away, but close at hand, always in the hearts of tens of millions of viewers, never dissipated." ”
This deep resonance reaches its climax at the end of the dance.
In the exhibition hall, men, women and children are endless. At both ends of the long display case, the scroller and Wang Ximeng looked at each other speechlessly: one bowed deeply, and the other made a salute.
This is the "rushing appearance" of cultural relics researchers and research objects, and it is also the encounter between ancient and modern in parallel time and space!
"The moment Wang Ximeng and the exhibition volume people looked at each other in the air, they suddenly 'broke through' me and touched the softest place in my heart." Feng Shuangbai, art consultant of "Only This Green", chairman of the China Dancers Association and doctoral supervisor, was amazed by this scene, "The tradition of the Chinese nation is not only the exhibits placed in the display case, but living in the present and living in our hearts." ”
The person on the stage is Wang Ximeng's "audience". The audience under the stage, how can it not be the "exhibition person" of this endless mountain and river?
Alpine flowing water for zhiyin. "If the audience can feel the profundity of Chinese culture and ignite their love for traditional culture from 'Only This Green', our hard work will be worth it." Screenwriter Xu Junrui said.
Art media mutual learning: get the new code of "breaking the circle"
"Only This Green" is jointly produced by the Palace Museum, China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. and People's Network Co., Ltd.
Such "joint models" are rare. Ye Zhenzhen, secretary of the party committee, chairman and president of People's Daily Co., Ltd., regards it as "a connection between literature and art, and a mutual learning between art and media".
Since the moment of the birth of creativity, "Only This Green" is not only a useful attempt to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, but also a vivid practice of China Oriental Performing Arts Group to strive to be a "national team for art production and the vanguard of institutional innovation".
Jing Xiaoyong, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of China Oriental Performing Arts Group, said that "Only This Green" firmly grasps the precious value of China's excellent traditional culture, explores and refines the aesthetic essence that conforms to the contemporary perspective in the cultural exhibition, dance, music, literature and non-genetic inheritance, and creates a high-quality masterpiece that conforms to the leading and exemplary role of the "national team" in literary and artistic work. The most professional cultural and cultural institutions, literary and art academies and authoritative party media have joined hands to integrate art production, transformation, operation and dissemination, so that everyone involved in it has become an "exhibition person" and "collector" of China's excellent traditional culture.
During the performance, the People's Network carried out all-round reports through various forms such as graphics and short videos, and constantly narrowed the distance between the play and the public. By the end of the premiere, the cumulative exposure of related reports has reached 247 million. The People's Daily overseas media platform and the People's Daily's 9 major foreign languages were published simultaneously, which effectively amplified the overseas dissemination of the works.
On January 20, "Only This Green" held a press conference for the 100-performance tour in 2022. At the meeting, Tang Weihong, member of the Party Committee of the People's Network and chairman of the Board of Supervisors, summarized the "circle-breaking" code of "Only This Green" as "three forces": the charm of traditional Chinese culture, the wisdom and strength of the artists of China Oriental Performing Arts Group, and the joint efforts of producers and partners. In recent years, from the book "Here is China" to the films "My Motherland and Me" and "King Kong Chuan", the "joint production" of the People's Network has gone hand in hand, the "circle-breaking" code of mutual learning between art and media has become clearer, and the dividends of deep media integration have continued to be released.
In August 2021, "Only This Green" was "exhibited" for the first time at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and then performed more than 50 times in 16 cities including Shanghai, Suzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. People's Network Weibo topic #Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains Picture Alive # and #Dance Poetry Drama Only This Green # has a total reading volume of more than 61 million, and the creative short video "Challenge green waist" has a total of 58.4 million reads and 2.18 million likes. Netizens of the People's Daily and people's daily overseas social media accounts rated "Only This Green" as a "top performance" and thanked the participants: "Thank you for presenting a great history." "From offline to online, the popularity and reputation of "Only This Green" have "won the numbness"!
A few days ago, the play has decided to start the second round of touring in March, covering nearly 40 cities such as Haikou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Hefei and so on, and is expected to perform more than 120 times. Can't wait for the march ticket, you may wish to see the "Only This Green" style on the Spring Festival Gala stage, I believe that the new live broadcast technology will bring a new sensory feast.
"No name, no money, only this one volume."
(People's Daily WeChat)