Dancer Xia Bing
The 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Fire", "Only This Green" is a dance based on the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by Wang Ximeng, a young painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, one of China's top ten famous paintings. The immersive dance not only shows the beauty of traditional Chinese culture painting, but also allows people to re-understand the art form of dance and enjoy the abstract, emotional and imagery spiritual food extracted by artists in painting. According to the editor, "Only This Green" was written for "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and for China's five-thousand-year civilization.
The famous dancer Xia Bing participated in the large-scale song and dance drama "Scenery Here Is Unique" derived from the great man's poem "Qingping Le Huichang", extracting themes from the changes of the times, the progress of China, and the call of the people, feelings of hills and valleys, dancing mountains and rivers, red dreams, poetry and painting. Xia Bing's dance works and "Only This Green" verify the phrase "art is connected", and "The Scenery Is Unique" is written for poetry, which traces, sings and inherits the red gene, touches the green landscape, dances the red picture scroll, and carries forward the fearless revolutionary spirit.
In 2009, in order to welcome the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the County Party Committee of Huichang County, Jiangxi Province, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission raised a celebration party, invited directors, artists and famous singers from Beijing to participate, and invited Xia Bing to be the main creator of song and dance when formally forming the core team (each original song and dance in the whole party was completed by Xia Bing). After Xia Bing entered Huichang, at the suggestion of the experts and teachers of the local tea picking troupe, listened to the opinions of the director group, discussed and determined that the red culture that carries forward the revolutionary spirit is the main line, the green culture that closely follows the pulse of the times is the auxiliary line, the red and green are crossed, the song and dance music and poetry are integrated, and the large-scale song and dance poetry drama "The Scenery Is Unique here" is jointly created and completed with artistic appeal.
Xia Bing learned from entering Huichang that the people of Huichang made great sacrifices for the Chinese revolution, and that 77,200 people fought in front of them, 7,704 revolutionary martyrs with names and surnames, and more than 30,000 unknown martyrs. It was that generation who went to the soup to break through the darkness before dawn, let the dawn illuminate the spirit of sacrifice of future generations, and brought us a peaceful life, and the people were able to enjoy a beautiful life of "the scenery is unique" on this red soil. With surging passion, Xia Bing carefully choreographed and strived to convey the red spirit of the revolution through the dance vocabulary, reminding people today not to forget history, remember heroes, and unite and advance under the banner of blood stained red to create a beautiful homeland.
"The Scenery Is Good Here" remembers the martyrs in the blood, precipitates thoughts in poetry, and depicts life in lyricism. The works are divided into two lines of red revolution and green ecology to show: with the exciting red dance "Forward, Huichang" to open the prelude; "Ten Send the Red Army" from small love to glimpse the big love, deep in the soft intestines, compassion in the emotions of the mountains and rivers; "Panshan Song" with an epic narrative to shape the hero group sculptures, is a passionate and tragic heroic hymn; depicting the current green ecological themes such as "Beautiful Xiangshui River", "Spotted Dove Grunting" in harmony between man and nature, "Rice Noodle Love" that reflects the hometown with folk food, and "Colorful Curtain" Brilliant" and other works. In terms of technique, the song and dance poetry drama highlights the elements of Chinese dance, joins the impact of modern dance, and the group dance adopts a large number of Jiangxi folk dance tea picking dramas, so that the works have both a sense of the times and a distinct regional color. Bright red and green, war and peace, heavy and relaxed, the contrast between the theme setting, the ingenuity can be seen everywhere.
On July 23, 1934, in the early morning of the dawn of the morning, a great man climbed to the peak outside the city of Huichang in Jiangxi, and he was full of pride and wrote the famous poem "Qingping Le Huichang". Since then, the people of Huichang have stepped on the Qingping music and dance, draped in red rainbows, and followed the revolutionary journey and bravely moved forward. ”
Xia Bing's "Forward, Huichang" was unfolded in a thick male recitation. Xia Bing wore a red flag, poured passion on the stage, and the freehand dance flowed out of a fiery red ocean, which was not only a shout and confession, but also a call and guidance of faith. The dance made her forget herself and find herself in her addiction. When she looked at it affectionately, her uncle Chen Yiwen appeared in her mind again! In the darkness, her uncle's determined eyes looked at her in the air, giving her strength and encouraging her to move forward towards her dreams and move forward... The inner waves turn into a poetic dance, she leads the dancers to rotate, leap, leap, cross, the inner power is transmitted to the limbs, the fists are clenched, the eyes are like electricity, forward and forward! The group dance is sonorous, the red flag is everywhere, the flowers are colorful, and the earth is rejuvenated!
Stills from "Forward, Huichang"
Xia Bing's maternal uncle, Chen Yiwen, was born in 1923 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1940. During the underground activities, he ran newspapers, composed revolutionary songs, went deep into the countryside to establish armed workers' brigades, and in the arduous struggle, he always unswervingly followed the revolutionary contingent led by Mao Zedong. Arrested for betrayal by traitors, on November 14, 1949, at the Chongqing Zhadidong Prison, he was killed along with Jiang Zhujun (Jiang Jie) and 30 other people, at the age of 26. Xia Bing was shocked to learn about her uncle's deeds in the mouth of her mother Chen Yifang, and from then on she planted a red seed in her heart. Xia Bing climbed Jinggang Mountain more than once to remember the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the cause of liberation, received revolutionary education, and passed on the red genes in their veins. At the time when the dance art is becoming more and more mature, after having the ability to become a choreographer, Xia Bing plunged into the creation of the red theme, and there was no harvest, including the "My Motherland" series, "Jiangshan", "I Swear", "The Flag Fluttering in the Wind", "Send Lang as the Red Army", etc., and "Dongfang Hong" won the gold medal of the Jiangxi Provincial Television Television Song and Dance Competition, "Ten Send the Red Army" won the gold medal of the "Four Counties and Five Districts Song and Dance Competition" organized by the Propaganda Department of the Cultural Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, and "Panshan Singing" won the silver medal of the Jiangxi Provincial Professional Dance Competition. "Scenery Alone" is xia bing's first red-themed large-scale song and dance drama, and it has been successful.
"The East wants to know, and Mo Daojun is early." The people who have stepped through the green mountains are not old, and the scenery is unique here. The peak outside Huichang City, upside down directly to Dongming. The warrior pointed to Nanyue, which was even more lush. ”
Jiangxi is a red hot land. Whether in wartime or peacetime, this red land not only witnessed the course of the Red Army's Long March, but also left behind a magnificent poem by the great man. "Qingping Le Huichang" is a nostalgic work of the great man's adversity life, expressing the heroic spirit of the great man, praising the splendid rivers and mountains, and looking forward to the grand blueprint. With a heart of admiration, Xia Bing has repeatedly studied the poems of the great man, trying to relive the history of bloody rain and wind through words, and strive to make the martyrs who have been buried in the long river of history reappear on the stage.
Through the dance vocabulary, it expresses the firm confidence of the great people in the future of the revolution, and conveys an optimistic spirit, tenacious will, and wisdom to break the situation. Through dance, the land for which the revolutionary martyrs dedicated themselves, bid farewell to vicissitudes, innovate and develop, a famous cultural city with red and green, and a modern Huichang that is steadily advancing in innovation and prosperity, is striding forward.
"Ten Sending the Red Army" and "Panshan Absolute Singing", a lingering pity, a fiery King Kong, a yin and a yang, rigid and soft, with full emotions precipitated out of the spiritual light and became the soul of this song and dance drama.
"Ten Send the Red Army" opens in a folk song sung by men and women, "Oh hey, Red Army Brother you walk slowly, Red Army Brother you walk slowly, Red Army Brother you walk slowly, Red Army Brother you slowly walk mocking, Red Army Brother you slowly walk mocking... The repetitive chanting, the ever-increasing tone sets the tone for the dance. “...... The victory of the revolution you turn back, the old sister waits for you to keep up, the old sister waits for you to be whitehead. "Old Sister Waiting for You to Baitou" is a Jiangxi folk song that has been sung for decades, expressing the scene when the Red Army soldiers parted from their wives or lovers and went to the battlefield. During the revolutionary period, there were countless women who sent their husbands to join the Red Army and stayed in their hometowns to wait for each other for decades or even a lifetime. There was such a true story that made Xia Bing tremble endlessly.
A teenager joined the revolution at the age of 14 and married his wife at the age of 15, and after marriage, the 18-year-old wife learned that her "little husband" was a revolutionary who stood tall in the sky. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, before dawn, the husband received the task to leave immediately, and the wife asked grumpily: "Will you leave today?" Can it be late
How many days to go? The husband said, "I don't want you either, but the situation is urgent!" The wife silently packed some clothes for her husband and sent him out. At the mouth of the village, the husband asked his wife to stop: "It's cold, don't send it." Remember, take good care of our family, take good care of our father and mother. The wife nodded vigorously, but the tears could not stop flowing. After the separation, the husband has not returned, during which he received the news that his husband led the army to resist the war, found the army reunion for 8 days at the age of 20, separated again due to the tension of the war, lost contact, and began a long wait. The revolution was victorious, and many Reds returned home to reunite or take their wives, but her husband's whereabouts were unknown. It was not until the age of 92 that I had the exact news with the help of the government that my husband had died at the age of 22! Because all the Red Army soldiers who fought together died, his deeds were unknown. For more than 70 years, her husband's parting words accompanied her: "Remember, the revolution has triumphed, I will definitely come to pick you up!" Therefore, she stubbornly stayed in the old house and refused all help.
The first paragraph of "Ten Gifts to the Red Army" is a new marriage farewell. The music of "Old Sister Waiting for You to the White Head" sounded, and the bride played by Xia Bing stood at a three-dimensional angle with a hijab, the boy rushed over from the other side of the stage, and the bride herself lifted the hijab and ran to him. Such a detailed arrangement highlights the bride's character and the warmth of love, and the portrayal of the theme adds a sad color. The next double dance shows the newlywed Yan'er, every look and hug is hot and sweet, when it is learned that the groom is going to revolution, the bride pounces on the groom again and again, the actions and expressions at this moment convey sadness and reluctance. The dance movements are very full, but they are layered, portraying the inner changes of the characters.
Stills from "Ten Send the Red Army"
The second paragraph is a farewell. The military trumpet sounded, the red flag was calling, and a couple of newcomers did not have time to enter the cave room
Just to separate. At this time, the background music uses the familiar "Ten Sending the Red Army" to highlight the theme, and the group dance shows the farewell scene of the Red Army participating in the war that year, the mother sending her son, the wife sending her husband, and the sister sending her brother. Under the background of the group dance, a couple of newcomers held hands tightly, looking at each other with tears in their eyes. A period of tender slowness, the figurative commonality into one, showing the women's inner contradictions and struggles, and finally the revolutionary dedication overcame personal sorrow and joy, the thinking was sublimated, the small family was sacrificed for everyone, hiding the inner reluctance, decisively sending farewell.
The third paragraph is hope. "Ten send the Red Army to look at the moon pavilion, ten white jade pillars at a height, and carve dragons and paint phoenixes to shine." This is called Wanghongtai, Wanghongtai. Xia Bing used a solo dance to show the loneliness and loneliness after parting, and used freehand techniques to let a couple meet in a dream, and the emotions were portrayed in line with common sense and full of heat.
At the end, the trumpet of revolutionary victory brings joy and jubilation, the mountains and rivers change, and the heroes triumph. Xia Bing swooped down in the center of the stage with great power, pouring out the woman's backlog of complex emotions, where silence is better than sound, achieving the artistic effect of retracting freely, which is amazing.
"Winding Mountains" is a red epic based on a true revolutionary story. When Xia Bing visited the Huichang Revolutionary History Museum, she was shocked by the oil painting of the same name, and the narrator's narration made her tearful, she looked up in front of the oil painting for a long time, refusing to leave, and her thoughts were immersed in the historical fragments filled with smoke. In 1934, during the period of anti-encirclement and suppression in the Jiangxi Soviet District, a company of the Red Army covered the transfer of large troops, and the top of the Gate of The Gate of The South Gate of the Red Army was the last line of defense of the Red Army, with heavy casualties, running out of ammunition, several fighters fought with the enemy to the death, and after being seriously injured, they jumped off the cliff en masse. Xia Bing, like all the people born under the red flag, has not experienced war and does not understand what the battlefield of life and death is like, but it is the dedication of countless such martyrs who threw their heads and spilled their blood in exchange for today's peaceful and prosperous world. She fell into deep thought.
Stills from "Winding Mountains"
After going through a large number of historical materials and many discussions, Xia Bing found the entry point: starting from the exhaustion of bullets, intercepting the critical moment before jumping off the cliff, highlighting the hand-to-hand combat scene. It is determined to show the situation of the warrior's scales and wounds in a realistic way, to portray the inner spiritual strength with freehand means, and to use the strong and concise body language as the hero's statue.
The north wind whistled on the peaks of the mountains, the sound of gunfire was deafening, the blood rain was bloody, and the fierce battle was desperate. Between battles, the warriors dragged their bloodstained bodies, staring at the Big Dipper, firm in their convictions. After a short rest, the guns sounded again, and another battle began, one warrior fell, another soldier rushed up, for the sake of faith in their hearts, the warriors followed and never surrendered. The hygienist played by Xia Bing was unfortunately shot, and the soldier struggled to pick her up. The thrilling rhythm and the tragic and tragic scenes push the plot into one climax after another. At the end, the warriors were seriously wounded, forced by the enemy to retreat to the edge of the cliff, with their heads held high, seeing death as a homecoming, and casting an immortal monument with flesh and blood and iron will!
The cry of blood brings a shock of the heart and a tremor of the soul. Looking back at history, how many fighters who heroically sacrificed for the victory of the revolution, they (they) are nameless and nameless, but they have made outstanding achievements; their lives have disappeared on the other side of history, and even the corpses have not survived, but the heroic souls have long survived, and the wind and bones are with the green mountains!
After the red theme of the intestines, it is exchanged for a peaceful world of green mountains and rivers. The soil that has been watered by the blood of the hero is full of life and glory. "Beautiful Xiangshui River" is a women's group dance, the light green dress overflows with youthful vitality, and the fresh dance style closely follows the strong sound of the beautiful Chinese era. Xiangshui is the mother river of Huichang, from the vicissitudes of history, now the green mountains on both sides of the river, forming a green ecological corridor, to achieve the "green mountains, green areas, clear water and blue sky" four major projects, the people are well clothed and fed, with full enthusiasm to continue to write a new chapter of "scenery here is good". "The Dove's Cuckoo" puts people and birds on an equal perspective, pays attention to life with a compassionate attitude, sings truth, goodness and beauty with the temperature of the heart, and sets off the green theme of cherishing life, protecting nature, and creating a beautiful environment. The big curtain "Brilliant" means a new beginning, looking forward to the future, and creating brilliance again.
To choreograph a large-scale song and dance drama, from the layout of the stage to the design of the dance movements, from the theme portrayal to the choreography of the soundtrack rhythm, each link needs to be time-consuming, laborious and painstaking. Xia Bing poured out a strong emotion for every dance and every movement, and interpreted the artist's pursuit and faith with exquisite skills and simple and unpretentious creative concepts. The song and dance drama "The Scenery Alone" is written for the red faith and for the unswerving Chinese people. (Teng Yan)