If the art of burlesque were gone, how long would the burlesque actors live?
Burlesque was born in Shanghai, and its former glory has attracted attention at home and abroad, so Shanghai burlesque art has almost become synonymous with (Chinese) burlesque art. Today, this art, which has brought laughter to countless people, is about to become an object that needs to be protected. It is difficult to see the good works of burlesque actors in Shanghai, but it is possible to see the advertisements they endorse every day, and the audience seems to be more worried about this than the burlesque actors: if the burlesque art is gone, how long can the burlesque actors live?
Even so, Shanghai still has a strong love for burlesque art, the government has allocated funds to support burlesque, and local television stations are still broadcasting Shanghai-style sitcoms such as "Happy Apartment". Shanghai audiences are also obsessed with burlesque art, seeing that Guo Degang has revived cross-talk art for the second time, and the call for Zhou Libo to lead burlesque art to create new glory is also rising. Some people agree, after all, artistic genius plays an extremely important role in the success of art; others oppose and oppose the labeling of Zhou Libo's Haipai as a comical art.
Founder of Haipai Qingkou - Zhou Libo (former burlesque actor)
The success of art depends on the actions of excellent artists. Who does burlesque art rely on? Some people expect handsome Qian Cheng, he is a burlesque artist with both virtue and art, and has long paid attention to the cultivation of young burlesque actors, but to be honest, his performance style is too decent and indeed not funny enough, and he is now nearly sixty years old; some people are looking forward to the comedy star Mao Mengda, he and Shen Ronghai's "Laughter of Shikumen" reflected well in Shanghai, but he retired for many years; more people expect the comical master Wang Rugang, who is an important figure in the past and the future of burlesque art, who was once rated as an Asian comedy star, and has a high reputation in the country. Now that he is nearly seventy years old, he should have retired long ago, and has been retained for the development of burlesque art.
Famous burlesque performance artists - Wang Rugang, Qian Cheng (representative inheritors of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects), Mao Mengda
The future of art depends on young artistic talents. In 1996, Guo Degang was only in his early twenties when he founded the Deyun Society, after the success, he did not forget to cultivate new people and promote the younger generations, not only the Talents of the Deyun Society, but also the talent of the cross-talk community, the so-called one flower is not spring, and the art of cross-talk is ushered in the spring in the blossoming of a hundred flowers. However, burlesque art has persisted so far, and has also cultivated: Pan Qianwei, Chen Liang, Qian Yi and a number of outstanding burlesque actors, in 2017, seven burlesque troupes across the country gathered in Shanghai and jointly launched the "China Burlesque Re-departure" activity, but unfortunately, burlesque art has not yet ushered in a new spring.
Excellent comic actors - Pan Qianwei, Chen Liang, Qian Yi
The development of art should meet the development needs of the times. Young talent Xu Xiang in the Shanghai TELEVISION variety "Shanghai Popularity King" program, said that the singing performance is excellent, widely loved by audiences of all ages, in The Douyin fans have exceeded 1.6 million, far higher than several excellent burlesque actors, he was originally a burlesque actor, but now is a New Talent in Shanghai Opera, and many years ago Shu Yue from a Shanghai opera actor to a funny comedy star has formed a sharp contrast, to a certain extent, explains the development trend of burlesque art in recent years. Burlesque and Shanghai opera are both local arts in Shanghai, but it can be seen from the participation of Shanghai opera performance artist Mao Shanyu in the literary and art symposium on behalf of the Shanghai theater industry that in 2014, the development of Shanghai opera was more in line with the development needs of the new era than burlesque.
Shanghainese popularity king - Xu Xiang
Where there is demand, there will be a market, and where there is a market, there will be development. Good actors can create demand, grasp the demand can create good works, good actors will win the market by performing good works, and a stable market requires a large number of good actors and good works, which is the road to success for the benign development of performing arts. Burlesque art has also come this way, but it seems that it is lost when it walks, and it is absent in the new era of comedy boom. The only time Shanghai Funny participated in the national comedy variety show was in 2105, Shu Yue performed mediocrely in Oriental Satellite TV's "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu", the halo of a funny comedy star finally allowed him to qualify for the final, Shu Yue announced his retirement for Yang Jinci's promotion, its high wind and bright festival was widely praised, but the metaphor is the fact that the art of funny is ill-prepared, unconfident, and unproductive in the new era of comedy boom.
Funny comedian Shu Yue retired from the competition in "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu"
How can burlesque art shine again? Who can be such a leader? Come to think of it, there is no standard answer to art itself! But finding the root cause must be the key to solving, as the saying goes: learn the new from the past, review the formation and development of comic art, and look at the successful experience of other art forms, you may be able to get some inspiration from it, if you can see the sun, you will be able to create new brilliance!
(To be continued)