Poke the video, follow the Kunqu top Hua Dan, learn a beauty to hold the fan
Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Li Wei
On the evening of the Lantern Festival, backstage of Hangzhou Red Star Theater, the "Jingyun Kunlu Noisy Lantern Opera Evening" is about to open.
Through the crowded corridors, in the penultimate room, a pink "Du Liniang" revealed a small half of the figure behind the high hangers of the multicolored costume, as if a touch of early spring color.
This body, Yang Kun put on two hours ago. After a long absence from the stage, she was a little excited. Since the middle of last year, this Wenhua Performance Award winner, a national first-class actor, and the object of Zhejiang's "Five Batches" literary and artistic talent incubation plan, is still performing face-to-face with theater fans on the theater stage.
"Du Liniang" slowly descended the spiral ladder, came to the waiting area, picked up the golden fan, stood in the dark corner, and brewed the emotion of "how to know that spring is as promised".
A "Miss Ah ~" sounded, and the audience applauded.
Du Liniang came.
Yang Kun played Du Liniang in "Peony Pavilion"
Inherit the top Hua Dan
This folding play "Garden Dream" is a few minutes of performance, ready to get up but the same is indispensable, after dressing up can not sit, tired can only lean against the wall ... For Yang Kun, he has long been accustomed to it, and the bigger challenge is the "Peony Pavilion" special session the next night, and he must do his best.
Dreams, dreams, photographs, souls, the whole set of small books "Peony Pavilion", to sing for more than two hours, during which there is almost no rest, and the dress changes are calculated with a stopwatch.
"The upper ben is much more tired than the lower ben, outside the singing voice, the position, the body, the action, the eye style, after a night of acting, the sweat clothes are all wet, the feet do not listen to the call, and the road cannot be walked." Yang Kun said, but she has played so many boudoirs, and she most appreciates Du Liniang's affection, "Maybe it's a bit like myself."
At that time, the partner who studied drama with Yang Kun in the Jiangshan City Art Training Class brought a little drama to the past. "She has to go to Hangzhou to learn Kunqu opera, dead or alive." I picked up a few pieces of clothing, packed them and threw them over the wall, and ran away with a cigarette. ”
"They've overcooked it." Yang Kun smiled, "I went to Zhejiang Kun Opera Troupe to introduce talents, I waited for this opportunity for two years, and only made up my mind in 1994." It is a little dashing when walking, no matter what the road ahead, go and say it again. ”
Shortly after Yang Kun reported for duty, just as the two troupes merged into the Zhejiang Jingkun Art Theater (now Zhejiang Jingkun Art Center), she stumbled into the luck of "asking for capital and not coming", and got the personal inheritance of zhang xian of the "chuan" character, Gong Shikui of the "shi" character generation, and Wang Fengmei of the "sheng" character generation.
At that time, Teacher Zhang Xian was more than eighty years old, speaking Suzhou + Shanghainese, and treating Yang Kun like a granddaughter. In the afternoon, after learning the play at her home, Yang Kun was often left by the teacher to eat and accompany the old lady to drink some "flower wine", "The flower wine that the teacher talked about is to drink some small wine against the bonsai flowers and plants." ”
A classic scene of Yang Kun in "Peony Pavilion Photo"
The poster of the "Peony Pavilion" special session on February 16 is a close-up of Yang Kun's "photo", which is her favorite play. "The two-handed pen was taught by teacher Wang Fengmei, and when I saw the teacher posing a few times, I wanted to learn, the posture was particularly beautiful, and there was more bookishness."
Teacher Wang Fengmei taught Yang Kun to carefully cut this play, and the interesting thing is that "the teacher himself performs, only according to the mood and aesthetics of the moment, sometimes two pens, sometimes one pen, very casual." Yang Kun laughed, "From Teacher Wang, what I feel is the two words of Tongbo." ”
"Photo" plays Du Liniang because of the thought of Liu Mengmei, tea and dinner do not think, described emaciated, in order to retain her own unique style, she painted a posture on the mirror, but also hinted that she will soon die.
Following Wang Fengmei's pick-and-roll movements, Yang Kun also went to learn calligraphy and Chinese painting, "When thrushing eyebrows, there must be the appearance of thrushes, when splashing ink, there must be the appearance of splashing ink, and when writing poems." Du Liniang has exhausted the last strength of her life, and I have to perform this feeling. ”
Teacher Gong Shikui of the "Shi" generation taught Yang Kun a lot of plays. "At that time, she had been retired for several years, and she was afraid that she would be tired of teaching drama. The teacher teaches the drama like rushing to harvest when the farmer is busy, even eating is roaring, pulling a few mouthfuls of rice and starting to teach, desperately pouring, I desperately pick up, a few days of work can learn a play. ”
Yang Kun played Bai Suzhen in "Leifeng Pagoda Broken Bridge"
Pick up the girder of "Peony Pavilion"
"Like the unpopular "Thorn Tiger" and "Catch Alive", as long as the teacher is willing to teach, I can learn any drama." Yang Kun is like a sponge, learning art in all directions——
Follow Teacher Wang Fengmei to learn "Peony Pavilion", "West Garden", "Healing Jealousy Soup", "Hall of Eternal Life", most of them are gentle characters; follow Teacher Gong Shikui to learn "Lion Roar" and "Iron Crown Tu Thorn Tiger", etc., to expand the drama path; also learn from Teacher Zhang Jingxian "West Lou Ji", "Jade Hairpin Record", "Zhan Hua Kui" and so on.
Yang Kun played Fei Zhen'e in "Iron Crown Tu Thorn Tiger"
Yang Kun played Yang Guifei in "The Hall of Eternal Life"
At the end of the 1990s, Zhekun planned to put the small book of "Peony Pavilion" on the stage.
She also remembered following Wang Shiyu, Zhou Shirui and Wang Fengmei to the home of Xu Shuofang (a famous expert in ancient literature research and a titan figure in the field of Yuan, Ming, and Qing opera novels) to listen to "Peony Pavilion", and sat on a small bench as a clerk.
"The first time I went to the lecture, I just talked about the preface for a day." The little clerk Yang Kun listened to it like a drunkard, and regretted that he did not understand many places, so he brought a Walkman for the second time and recorded it back to listen to it repeatedly. After three lessons, I sorted out a thick stack," I wrote on that kind of green grid composition paper and wrote down several copies. ”
"Peony Pavilion" opened the row, Yang Kun was divided into group C, and group A was Wang Shiyu and Wang Fengmei. Several times, teacher Wang Fengmei did not arrive, and teacher Wang Shiyu pulled Yang Kun in a row. "What a chance to ask for it!" I practice with the teacher, where to look at each other, where to throw an eye wind..."
In 1998, Yongkun (Yongjiakun Opera Transmission Institute, now Yongjiakun Opera Troupe) arranged a big play "Pipa", which needed to be borrowed. The Provincial Department of Culture and the Zhejiang Jingkun Art Theater sent Yang Kun. "It's okay to be bitter, you can learn something." I didn't say a word and went. ”
The cooperation of "Pipa" is good, so when Yongkun wants to restore the only completely preserved Southern Song Dynasty drama "Zhang Xiezhuangyuan", he "borrowed" Yang Kun to play the heroine, this time it is a special invitation, she alone plays the roles of poor girl and "Shenghua".
The rehearsal is in the summer, and the rehearsal room is on the top floor of a matchbox building, with no air conditioning, only electric fans. She wore one set and two sets, and at the end of the day she was all wet.
In this play, 6 people play 12 people. "I remember a teacher who played four roles." "Zhang Xiezhuangyuan" participated in the first China Kunqu Opera Arts Festival in 2000, became a dark horse, and won the "Excellent Repertoire Award" in one fell swoop.
This drama also made many people suddenly find out, when did Yongkun have such an actress? With this play, Yang Kun later won the "Mandarin Performance Award".
Yang Kun played Qiao Xiaoqing in "Healing Jealousy Soup Inscription Song"
When Yongjia returned, Yang Kun gradually took over the troupe's housekeeper drama "West Garden" and "Peony Pavilion", and she cherished every cooperation with the famous masters of her predecessors, under their leadership and help, tempered herself——
He has performed with Wang Shiyu, the leader of Kunqu Towel, and his beloved apprentice Tao Tie Axe for many times; cooperated with Cai Zhengren, the king of Guansheng; joined hands with Wang Shiyao, Liu Yilong, and Tao Bo several times; and performed to Taiwanese audiences under the leadership of Lin Weilin, Cheng Weibing and Tao Tie Axe, and was known as "Three Kings and One Queen".
Yang Kun played Mu Suhui in "West Garden Chronicles and Louhui"
Another kind of heritage
Before the Spring Festival, Yang Kun posted a special poster in the circle of friends, and immediately some fans and friends snatched the tickets and rushed from Beijing to call friends to see. Being able to perform "Du Liniang" in "Peony Pavilion" all night alone, there are very few Kunqu opera actors like this.
Yang Kun always feels that "cultural and artistic cultivation is an important magic weapon for actors to complete the process from imitation to creation." "Learn a trick and a style from the teacher, sing a little bit of action, the rhythm of the program should be slowly polished, but also have to understand the spiritual world of the characters in the play, eat through the character drama, activate the skill carrier, in order to find the performance method that can best correspond to the role."
In 2015, after completing her bachelor's degree at Zhejiang University, Yang Kun was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy to pursue a master's degree and became a student of Professor Tian Mansha. Three years later, she newly wrote the Kunqu opera "Lady Yue Fei" as a graduation play and obtained a master's degree, which is also a "breakthrough of zero" among the current Kunqu actors in Zhejiang.
"At present, there is no problem with the inheritance of Kunqu opera, but the audience of the theater is very limited, and the dissemination is still not enough." What Yang Kun wants to do is not only to teach a few plays as the teacher did in those years, but she also wants the Kunqu audience to establish a kind of inheritance.
"The beauty of Kunqu opera should start from a young age, if you have been exposed to her beauty, even if you meet it by chance when you grow up, you will have a different kind of aftertaste." She said that Kun opera is like tea with sweetness, which will bring a good way of life.
On Xiaohezhi Street on the canal side of Hangzhou's Gongshu District, Yang Kun has a Kunqu opera training center. When there is no performance task, she communicates and teaches Kunqu opera here, and before the epidemic, there was a regular teaching here. Yang Kun will also go out and enter the school for public welfare teaching.
"A lot of people come to ask me if I have any online classes, and the society has this need. I gave some students in Zhejiang Dahan Shuo's class online character makeup class, and they looked quite similar. ”
Deep in the ancient alley, the wooden door is hidden, the chairs are all pulled on, and the air conditioner is not turned on. Yang Kun wore a practice suit, circled around the table pillar, and walked fast and slowly, fast and slowly--this kind of boat step only saw people moving, not people moving.
Sweaty, but very happy.
"I don't have a luxury, Kunqu opera is my luxury." It doesn't make me hurry, run to an inexplicable rhythm, run to a place where I can't recognize myself. Here, there is Kunqu opera, which is a very happy thing. ”
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