Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing
On February 26 and 27, the large-scale dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" with the theme of the national first-class cultural relics "Five Stars Out of the East" brocade arm guard was performed at the Shandong Provincial Capital Grand Theater in Jinan, attracting a large number of audiences to watch.
On the night of the performance, "Five Stars out of the East" has been featured on various David TV and platform evenings, and the graceful and feminine "lamp dance" on the stage has staged "hand picking stars"; the dignified and atmospheric "splendid" dance section has flown with the sound of the loom sleeve dance, showing the courage of the big man; the fiery and dynamic "market dance" makes the audience can't help but swing together... The audience was moved by the legendary story of the national treasure cultural relics.
After the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" began its national tour, it received a lot of praise, and the audience said: "Using dance to tell the story of cultural relics and express national integration, another work of cultural self-confidence", "not only watched the play, understood the history, but also read the story behind a cultural relic". This time to Jinan, Shandong, which has a long cultural accumulation and heritage, the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" also brought the audience a sense of surprise, and its very stylistic creation, rich and diverse dance vocabulary, ups and downs of the plot design, etc., left a deep impression on the audience and received full praise.
The concept and theme of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" comes from the National First Class Cultural Relics "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefiting China" han Dynasty brocade armband excavated at the hetianniya site in Xinjiang on the ancient Silk Road. The dance drama begins from the archaeological site of Niya, and after the archaeologists found the "five stars out of the East and China" brocade arm, they entered the time and space tunnel in the wind and sand, and unfolded the story behind this brocade for the audience——
As a Han Dynasty soldier, he received the "Five Stars Out of the East" armband given by the Emperor of the Great Han Dynasty before shubian. During the storm, Jiante, the son of the leader of the Bonghe Northerners, and his assistants were rescued by the Jingzhi people. From hostility to rivalry to friends and comrades-in-arms, their friendship came naturally, and Feng also reaped the love of Chunjun, the daughter of the elite leader. The wind and sand are sharpened, several changes, the true feelings make them open their hearts, the fraternity makes them watch over each other, and the blood makes them live and die together. He guarded the western region with absolute sincerity, just like his close brocade arm, shining brightly, and the words were thousands of words. But this land is always there, and the people of all ethnic groups have formed a community of common destiny for the Chinese nation, looking up to the five stars shining, and their hearts to the east.
Wang Ge, the chief choreographer of the play, believes that a major feature of the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" is that it collects a variety of dance vocabulary, not a single form of dance style throughout the play, such a choreography form allows the dance display in each sitcom to bring surprises to the audience.
The shadow of the national dance can be found in the night banquet "lantern dance" full of western colors in the exquisite city; the "bungee" dance section of the people of all ethnic groups dancing together in the jingjie market seems to be a mixed presentation of street dance and tap dance; the sleeve bending shown in the "splendid embroidery" belongs to the category of classical dance, as well as the handsome man's "bath dance", the monk's "square dance", the masses' "melon dance", etc. Such a rich and interesting dance creation makes the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" become a different kind of main melody work. It also subverted the audience's traditional cognition of national theme dance dramas, and praised the repertoire after the performance, calling for full creative points.
The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" lasted two years from the preparation of the rehearsal to the stage, looking back on the past of creation, Dong Ning, deputy general manager of Beijing Performing Arts Group, told reporters: "The heart of the creation of the 'Five Stars' work, the process of which is as difficult as an archaeology that goes deep into the desert, although the conditions are difficult, but the surprise it finally brings to us is enough to match the excitement and satisfaction of the deep soul when archaeology has gained." ”
The reason why the work of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" is "difficult" is to make such a precious cultural relic with extremely scarce reference materials become a solid artistic presentation, and at the same time convey its historical connotation, cultural connotation, and spiritual connotation, and on the stage, let the cultural relics "live" and "tell" stories with dance.
In order to tell this story well, the main creative team personally went to Hetian in Xinjiang to collect wind, stood in the hinterland of the desert to feel the most authentic emotional link brought by this arm guard, and at the same time extracted the artistic vocabulary from the archaeological historical facts, local folk customs, ethnic costumes, ethnic music and other aspects of hotan areas, to understand the musical patterns of ethnic minorities and the local artistic expressions with distinct national characteristics, accumulated precious materials for creation, and clarified the artistic direction and characteristics of creation.
Chief choreographer Wang Ye adopted an unconventional conceptual arrangement in the creation, he said: "The collision and integration of cultures in this work is mainly expressed through the integration between people and people, the characteristics of this drama are not heavy, eloquent, using humor, humor, and relaxed performance, suddenly entering another rhythm in a very smooth narrative, such a performance method, let the audience have many novel feelings." ”