Public Network Poster News Reporter Li Jinshan reported from Jinan
With the theme of the national first-class cultural relic "Five Stars Out of the East" tapestry arm, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", jointly produced, produced and performed by Beijing and Xinjiang, was brilliantly unveiled at the Shandong Provincial Capital Grand Theater on February 26 and 27. Drama understanding, the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" will tour 50 performances in more than ten cities across the country this year.
On the night of the performance, the graceful and feminine "lamp dance" on the stage stage was staged "with the stars in hand", and the dignified and atmospheric "splendid" dance section flew with the loom sound sleeve dance, showing the courage of the big man, and the fiery and dynamic "market dance" made the audience can't help but swing together... The unique and colorful dance sections are dazzling, the ups and downs, the fascinating story laughs and tears, the applause and cheers in the theater are repeated, and the audience is moved by the legendary story interpreted by the national treasure cultural relics.
After the performance at Jinan Station, the dance drama "Five Stars out of the East" will continue to be wonderful at the Foshan Grand Theatre on March 5-6, opening the legend and telling a moving story of national treasures. It will also tour at the Quanzhou Grand Theatre on March 12-13, at the Shenzhen Binhai Art Center on March 19-20, and in Urumqi and Hotan, Xinjiang in April.
National first-class cultural relics as the theme, dance drama form interpretation of legendary stories
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. In October 1995, members of the Sino-Japanese Niya Site Academic Expedition team found a piece of brocade in an ancient tomb at the Niya Site in Minfeng County, Hotan Region, which was 18.5 cm long and 12.5 cm wide, with eight Chinese characters in seal script: "Five Stars Out of the East and Li China", after thousands of years, the colors are still as beautiful as ever. The tapestry is now a national first-class cultural relic, and the excavation of "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefiting China" is also hailed as one of the greatest discoveries of Chinese archaeology in the 20th century. Based on this incomparably precious creative resource, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" is processed through artistic creation, so that the profound cultural connotation carried by precious cultural relics is vividly displayed on the stage in the form of dance drama.
The dance drama begins from the archaeological site of Nya, after the archaeologists found the "five stars out of the East to benefit China" brocade arm, in the wind and sand into the time and space tunnel, for the audience to unfold the story behind this brocade: as a Han Dynasty soldier in front of the Shubian emperor to get the "five stars out of the East" arm. 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.
In addition to the climax of the storyline and the real and vivid characters, 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 situation story to bring surprises to the audience. The night banquet "lantern dance" full of western colors in the city can find the shadow of the national dance, the "bungee" dance section of the people of all ethnic groups dancing together in the jingjie market, and it seems to be a mixture 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' "eating melon dance", etc., so rich and interesting dance creation makes the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" become a different kind of main theme work, It also subverts the audience's traditional cognition of national theme dance dramas, and praises the repertoire after the performance, calling for full creative scores!
The main creative team of domestic top dance dramas strives for excellence to escort the works
In order to best present such an extremely precious creative resource as the national first-class cultural relics "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefit China" Brocade Arm Guard, Beijing Performing Arts Group fully considered the artistic characteristics and quality requirements of the works when forming the main creative team of the repertoire, and selected the chief choreographer Wang Ye, screenwriter Xu Rui, composer Yang Fan, stage design Liu Kedong, costume design Yang Donglin, lighting design Liu Wenhao, Liu Xiyuan and styling design Jia Lei, who are the most active in the industry, with outstanding creative ability and recognized by all parties.
"Five Stars out of the East" has been performed in Beijing for the second round, with the continuous suggestions and comments from many parties, Beijing Performing Arts Group and the main creative team have spared no effort to modify and improve the play, polish the details, and strive to show it in front of the audience with a perfect posture. Such "perfectionism" is not only a demonstration of the personal strength of the main creative team, but also the unremitting pursuit of artistic creation by the production unit Beijing Performing Arts Group, and strives to make this work from a fine product to a classic, climb from the plateau to the peak, and truly become a masterpiece worthy of the times.
Facing the difficulties and fearless hardships, the creative process is no less than an archaeology that goes deep into the desert
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, said: "The feeling of the creation of the 'Five Stars' work is no less than an archaeology that goes deep into the desert, and the surprise it finally brings to us is enough to match the excitement and satisfaction of the deep soul when archaeology has gained." 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 history of the Hotan area, local folk customs, ethnic costumes, ethnic music, etc., to understand the musical forms of ethnic minorities and the local artistic expressions with distinct national characteristics, accumulating precious materials for creation, and clarifying the artistic direction and characteristics of creation.
The drama takes the "five stars out of the East and Li China" brocade arm protection excavated from the hetianiya site in Xinjiang as the theme, telling the moving story of the Han Dynasty Shubian generals who were enshrined in the ancient city of Jingjie and Jiante, the son of the northern leader, and Chunjun, the daughter of the Jingjie leader, from sword-rattling to hand-in-hand, from unknown to deep identification, and formed a deep friendship, interpreting the theme of the people of all ethnic groups "hugging together like pomegranate seeds" and forming a community of common destiny for the Chinese nation.