Do you know what a "green waist" is?
"Green waist" comes from
Dance poetry drama "Only This Green".
Since the dance drama became popular,
The women's group dance "green" in the play
it became a hit,
The difficult "green waist" in the play
Also successfully out of the circle,
Caused a large number
Imitation and challenge for professional dancers and enthusiasts.
Chinese New Year's Eve night,
Women's group dance "green" landed on CCTV Spring Festival Gala,
With the bones of the landscape and humanities,
Praise the motherland for thousands of miles.
Poke the video for a visual feast
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In the painting, the qingfeng peaks are stacked, and the green water looms;
Dancers with sharp eyebrows and high hair,
Neatly throwing sleeves, hidden in the painting...
Stills from "Only This Green"
"I directly inflated the culture" "Beauty cried"
"Later the program rolled up to this extent"
"This dance can make everyone in this room cry"
"Only This Green" premiered in August 2021, with Chinese dance "Twin Stars" Zhou Liya and Han Zhen as the chief choreographers. This dance poetry drama dialogues with the talented painter Xi Meng of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the "dance painting" is the peak of green landscape painting, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which has toured more than 50 times in 16 cities across the country.
In October 2021, the excerpt "Only This Green" landed on the first issue of the "National Treasures Exhibition Season" and received 2.44 million hits; in December 2021, the excerpt "Green" from "Only This Green" was featured on the 2021 "Most Beautiful Night" bilibili New Year's Eve Party, where 180 million viewers learned about oriental aesthetics online in real time.
The mineral pigments (stone green, stone green) in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" have not faded for thousands of years, and even in the dark environment, they are still glowing with gemstones, and the main creative team extracted the image of "green green" from this detail.
Green Is the only abstract, freehand character in the play. It is the soul of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and it is also the aesthetic purification of the whole play, inanimate, but with temperature.
Wearing a long turquoise skirt and combing her hair in a towering bun, as soon as she appeared on the scene, she made people hold their breath and shouted "Beauty is crying." ”
The green clothing design emphasizes the sense of thinness advocated by the Song Dynasty in style, the sleeves of the hands are stacked, like the undulating mountains; the skirt type will be wrapped around the waist, and the layered feeling of the mountains will be formed with its layered feeling, just like the layers of forests and mountains in the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"; the color is extracted from the head blue and stone green in the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which come from the painting and will eventually return to the painting.
Qinglu waited for a thousand years in the painting, and the two directors took "jing" as the starting point and designed a series of modeling actions such as "waiting", "looking at the moon", "falling clouds", "thinking", "single step", "dangerous peak" and "lying stone" in the Song Dynasty painting. The green and green are silent, and between the hands and feet, they are all loud sounds and elephants are invisible.
The women's group dance "Green" appears in the middle of the dance drama. The dancing "greenery" seems to be transformed into steep mountains and cascading mountains in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", dancing out of the sense of dependence between mountains and rivers, and a hard and majestic momentum comes to the face.
"All the walks are semi-squatting, the feet slowly protrude forward, and at the moment of probing out, after reaching the maximum value of the center of gravity movement, then gently rub forward, there is no pretense here, your cuffs are open, and you are embracing the courage of the mountains and rivers and the sun and the moon." Director Han Zhen once interpreted this dance segment in this way.
"This dance is no longer the femininity of a woman, but more of a majestic atmosphere, representing a kind of precipitation of traditional Chinese culture." Meng Qingyang, the lead dancer and green actor, said.
Such an imagery role is difficult to play. At the beginning, Meng Qingyang was also very difficult, after several months of precipitation, she suddenly understood why Qinglu was looking at the moon, and she had a state of having hills in her heart and mountains and rivers in her eyes.
Meng Qingyang performed the green waist
The "green waist" that runs through the whole drama is even more amazing. The long sleeves are thrown off, and the upper half lies behind him, almost parallel to the ground... This difficult movement, which seems to float in mid-air, requires the dancer to have a steady foot strength like a rock, and even more requires the dancer to have a waist strength as tough as a reed.
"Do you know what a 'green waist' is?" After the "green waist" was fired, Meng Qingyang also specially filmed a 15-second short video, the eyes were sharp as a hook, the lower waist was in one go, quickly swept the major websites, and received countless likes.
"Invited Moon Princess", the netizens who were amazed and conquered gave Meng Qingyang such a title, calling out "My sister's waist is not a waist, it is a hook that touches my heart".
"This action is actually called 'Dangerous Peak', and 'Green Waist' is summed up by the audience." Zhou Liya laughed.
"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 behind, the whole person is like a mountain stone, a majestic mountain, with the consciousness of the back of the head to extend down, the waist slowly backwards..." When teaching the essentials of action, Meng Qingyang once said so.
"Green is like the soul of this painting." The two directors interpreted that from Xi Meng to the craftsmen, the exhibition people, and then to the collectors who have collected it, they are all passers-by in the life of this painting, "It is the strongest vitality, just like the bright moon, which exists for thousands of years." Therefore, when the green and green appear in the play, it is always the bright moon overhead, and the two images always coexist, which is a reflection of time and space.
"We grind one action at a time, practice one action after another, and we must not be lazy when we move one action at a time." The two directors said that "Only This Green" was written for "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and for China's five-thousand-year civilization.
Source: The Paper