The girls in high buns and green clothes walked in style
A fresh wind blew on the lively CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage
Excerpt from the dance poem "Only This Green"
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the Central Radio and Television Corporation
"2022 Spring Festival Gala"
Attract netizens to swipe the screen
"It's so beautiful!" "Direct culture has swelled!"
Netizens rave reviews
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After the Spring Festival Gala
The whole network is imitating and challenging
Lead dancer Meng Qingyang's "green waist" -
△ Netizen imitation
In fact
CCTV Spring Festival Gala shows only "Only This Green"
A few moments of numerous breath-taking scenes
In the show, the dancers stand in different postures and eventually melt into a turquoise mountain. Vividly restored the famous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". "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 northern Song Dynasty genius painter Wang Ximeng, 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.
Behind this show
What kind of story is it?
How is the "green waist" trained?
Dongdong takes you to see
In 2017, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was exhibited in the entire volume of the exhibition hall on the central axis of the Forbidden City. At that time, it was very sensational, which triggered a boom in queuing and punching cards, and many audiences went to Beijing to watch the exhibition, and even gave birth to a word: the Forbidden City run.
△Image source: Palace Museum
In 2019, China Oriental Performing Arts Group intends to create a work that shows the charm of traditional Chinese culture. The creative team considered "Qingming Upper River Map" and "Han Xizai Night Feast Map", but finally chose "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
Because the vast rivers and rivers and the rolling mountains in the painting are full of rhythm and have something in common with dance. The birth of "Only This Green" was not easy, it took more than a year to create, and it took 5 and a half months of rehearsal before it was finally put on the stage.
Due to time constraints, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala can only show the group dance of "Only This Green", and the entire dance poetry drama records the unforgettable memories of famous paintings from birth to preservation and research. It takes "poetry drama" as the genre, with chapters such as "exhibition volume, seal, singing silk, stone search, studying pen, quenching ink, and entering the painting" as the outline, and the audience follows the perspective of a researcher of the Palace Museum, the exhibition volume person, and wanders in the legendary traditional Chinese aesthetic interest.
Why put the green in this painting
Take it out separately and adapt it into a dance?
Lead dancer Meng Qingyang said in an interview that the green and green are like the dignified, atmospheric and calm that have been quenched for thousands of years in modern paintings, and also represent the precipitation of traditional Chinese culture, just like the arrogant temperament of the ancient literati, there is a cold side, there is a calm side, it is atmospheric, like the kind of plot that carries the sun and the moon in the heart.
Wang Zhongxu, a research librarian in the Calligraphy and Painting Department of the Palace Museum who served as a consultant for the cultural museum "Only This Green", once shared the past of taking photos of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", when the light gradually dimmed, the turquoise color on the painting would emit a jewel-like light. Therefore, the creators agreed that the green may be the key to opening the painter's spiritual world.
"My role in the whole play is Green." Lead dancer Meng Qingyang said that the role of green and green is pure freehand, just like the boldness of a green color in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which needs to open the imagination when interpreting, "This dance is no longer the femininity of women, but more of a magnificent thing, representing a kind of age of traditional Chinese culture precipitation, an atmosphere, and also represents the confident side of our culture." ”
"Dance goes out of the theater and debuts in new media, and both sides need to integrate understanding and respect each other, such as better shot processing." In the theater, the audience can see the dancers in all directions, but in the new media, if the camera only intercepts the dancer's front and cannot see the front legs, the best picture is missed." Because of this, the choreography team and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala director group repeatedly deliberated and displayed the most beautiful "Only This Green" in front of the TV audience.
Before "Only This Green" was put on the stage, the main creative team was worried that such a partial literary and artistic work would not be accepted by the audience, but what they did not expect was that from the first performance, it was difficult to find tickets everywhere they went, perhaps as netizens commented, the magnificent green mountains and rivers of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" once again hit the hearts of the world after 900 years.
Green and green actor Meng Qingyang:
Three times on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala
Meng Qingyang, the actor of Qinglu in the play, is a post-90s person from China Oriental Performing Arts Group. She told reporters that this year is her third time on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and her works have the shadow of Chinese culture.
In 2015, Meng Qingyang performed "Silk Road Neon Dress"
In 2021, she brought "Jasmine" to the audience
Meng Qingyang has loved ancient dance since he was a child, participated in dance training classes at the age of 5, received professional dance training at the age of 9, and often tried after participating in the work, combining traditional culture and dance with innovation. Meng Qingyang in life is relatively quiet, likes to read science fiction, detective novels, but also likes to shop and dress up.
△ Meng Qingyang in life
After "Only This Green" brushed the screen network, Meng Qingyang was very touched and proud. "I didn't expect that 'Green Green' would be so popular, and I was very happy to see that everyone liked the National Style Dance, and the hard work during the rehearsal was gone."
How is the "green waist" trained?
In the dance drama, Meng Qingyang performed the "green waist"
It is to let the body form a geometric state
The right foot is in front and the left foot is in the back
The waist is slowly backwards
Tilt to 90 degrees and then back to positive
Meng Qingyang introduced that the "green waist" is called "dangerous peak" in the play, and the core strength is concentrated in the waist, which is more difficult and more difficult to practice. In order to arrange the play well, she and her colleagues rehearsed at least 10 hours a day for 4 consecutive months, constantly practicing every action and position in the play. "During that time, I forgot about Meng Qingyang in my life, and I only had 'green' in my mind."
In order to better present the calm and proud bones on the stage, Meng Qingyang and his colleagues spent more than half a month practicing "quiet" before the formal arrangement, and read a lot of poetry to understand traditional Chinese culture and understand the hearts of the ancients. "If you want to perform 'quiet driving', you can only control the scene if you are quiet, and the best way to be quiet is to empty and find the role positioning in the most relaxed state of the body."
△ The actors of "Only This Green" rehearsed in the waiting field
Meng Qingyang said that the ability to present works that satisfy everyone is inseparable from the cohesion of the team. "We treat every rehearsal as a formal performance, with a high degree of mental and attention concentration, every stand on the stage, every corner, everyone performs their duties like screws, and every 'little fairy' in the team is a stick!"
Netizen: Only this green
I want to see it a hundred million times
"Only This Green" at a glance
Countless netizens have given a thumbs up:
"People in the painting are dancing, people are dancing in the painting
Shocking, so beautiful! ”
"Eye waves flow, ancient and modern intertwined."
They acted in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"! ”
"Thanks to the team's creation, Chinese culture is broad and profound"
"Only This Green" just debuted at the Spring Festival Gala
There are already anxious netizens under the official Weibo of the Shanghai Grand Theatre
Hurry up the tour!
In fact
The dance drama has already been staged at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in September 2021
At that time, it was also well received
The original 3 performances immediately after the premiere were added to 4
Face the "urging of invoices" of enthusiastic netizens
The Shanghai Grand Theatre is also unequivocal
Direct "seconds back"
Source: Oriental Network Comprehensive CCTV News, China News Network, CCTV News, Dahe Network, People's Network, Zhoukou Evening News
Edit: Xia Xiaoxia
Reviewer: Jiang Xinyu