The children's program "Star Dream" at this year's Spring Festival Gala changed the tone of the previous years' jubilant and enthusiastic, full of joy and laughter, and chose to depict a dream about the sea of stars from the perspective of children, expressing Chinese's pursuit of space dreams. In the program, Zhao Yunxi, the daughter of astronaut Wang Yaping, also stepped onto the stage and issued a deep call to her mother.
The 720-degree circular screen stage is like a vast starry sky. Children from the Air Force Blue Sky Toddler Art Troupe, incarnated into cute "little stars" and beautiful feathers, plugged in the wings of dreams and flew into space, talked to the stars, harmonized with the moon, and swam in the vast and boundless universe.
A quiet "feather", in the imagination of the children, transformed into wings carrying dreams, leading them to explore the unknown universe.
Zhang Qiang, choreographer of the children's dance "Star Dream" of the "2022 Spring Festival Gala" of the main station: We have thirty children, and the whole stage is paved with a large feather, a complete feather. From the very beginning, we feel that it is moving, it is breathing. In this dream, we put a little protagonist, he stands in this feather, he seems to have begun to look for this sky, to ask questions, to imagine.
As one of the first programs to be selected for the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Tiger, the children of the Air Force Blue Sky Children's Art Troupe began an intense rehearsal in October last year. For children with an average age of only five or six years old, it is not easy to master nearly 2.5 meters of feather props.
Zhang Qiang, choreographer of the children's dance "Star Dream" of the "2022 Spring Festival Gala" of the general station: We have always said that we know that the child is only five or six years old, and we try to be as light as possible. The selection of materials is the props teacher there has thought of countless methods, we have also tried a variety of materials, and finally chose this material.
Zhang Ruina, executive teacher of the Air Force Blue Sky Children's Art Troupe: They usually practice very hard, and usually their muscle strength is particularly important, so they carry the kettle, and when they usually practice until their hands are trembling, the children's sweat is really drop by drop.
Ma Qian, executive teacher of the Air Force Blue Sky Early Childhood Art Troupe: After rehearsal, the children would tell me that I also wanted to pick a star and give it to the teacher, because the teacher was very hard, which made my heart very warm.
Using the 720-degree dome dance design of this year's Spring Festival Gala, "Star Dream" has created a fully immersive space, with various spacecraft such as major planets, Beidou satellites, Shenzhou 13 manned spacecraft and The Chinese space station, all presented on the ring screen. The program also uses AR interactive technology, and the children who perform in the case of not seeing the actual object also need to accurately cooperate with the stage scheduling, make various actions such as blowing feathers, and interact with virtual feathers.
Zhao Fei, choreographer of the children's dance "Star Dream" of the "2022 Spring Festival Gala" of the main station: When you get to the stage, you will follow the rhythm point that we give the child to line, and then go to the rhythm point where the AR feather appears, and then his movement is in line with this feather, which is actually very difficult for a five-year-old child to master.
In order to make the children show their best mental state on the stage, the teachers will take time to chat with the children patiently and encourage them every rehearsal.
Zhang Qiang, choreographer of the children's dance "Star Dream" of the "2022 Spring Festival Gala": Through this Spring Festival Gala, we perform to all the whole country as big as you, even bigger than you or smaller than you, as well as those uncles and aunts, grandparents, we show them, show them and tell them that we are in the space, the sky, and the beautiful dream, we are all working hard to realize it, can we do it?
As the finishing touch to the show, a little girl dressed in red calls out to her mother on a mission in space. At this time, on the 720-degree circular screen of the Spring Festival Gala stage, the picture of the astronauts leaving the capsule appeared.
Zou Wei, deputy director of the "2022 Spring Festival Gala" of the general station: Since we are using the perspective of children to express the achievements and development of aerospace, we must want to be able to put this program and the three astronauts outside at this moment, it can have a hookup, we found Wang Yaping's daughter, designed her into this program, and finally have a sentence expression for her mother.
In the distant Chinese space station, three astronauts can also watch the Spring Festival Gala in real time, astronaut Wang Yaping not only saw her daughter's performance and heard her daughter's kind call, she and two other astronauts also issued New Year greetings from space when the clock rang at midnight.
On November 7, 2021, Wang Yaping, who has worked on the space station for three months, went out of the capsule to carry out the mission, taking the first step of The Chinese women's extravehicular spacewalk.
Astronaut Wang Yaping: The construction of the space station has gone further, and the excitement of China's space flight is still continuing, so let's refuel together.
Two days later, Wang Yaping's daughter Zhao Yunxuan spent her sixth birthday in kindergarten, which was also the first birthday that Xiao Yunxi spent without her mother around.
Aerospace kindergarten children Wang Yaping's daughter Zhao Yunxuan: I wish my mother a safe and smooth ride in space.
Source: CCTV news client