When I first met Guo Leng, most of them had an impression - dry and thin.
This is a middle-aged man with a skinny pin and sunken cheeks.
▲ Impression of Guo Leng.
His life can be described as "scrawled".
He often wore loose T-shirts and pants, and a headband of no longer visible color was wrapped around his head. Still single, he can't cook, can't do laundry, and his life is almost entirely dependent on the care of the parents of the students.
Who would have thought that this "giant baby" in life was once Guo Leng, a dancer who was heavily influenced by the dance goddess Yang Liping?
Because of the injury and helplessly bid farewell to the stage, leaving the mentor Yang Liping, what has Guo Leng experienced now? Is he doing well?
One: Yang Liping's genius apprentice.
Guo Leng was born into an ordinary family in Yinchuan.
At a very young age, he showed great interest in dance.
In Yinchuan in that era, dance was not a very popular "hobby", and his parents thought that this was just Guo Leng's "whim", so they sent him to the dance class to play for a few days, thinking that he might stop when he got tired of playing.
▲ Guo Leng was extremely focused when he danced, and the whole person instantly became vivid.
Unexpectedly, Guo Leng jumped more and more happily, and in the process, his talent began to be stimulated.
Others have to learn dance for a long time, and he often watches it once.
It didn't take long for Guo Leng to become the best student in the class.
Guo Leng's parents saw that their son was so good, and they also began to fully support him in learning dance.
At the age of 9, Guo Leng broke through the "many difficulties" and was admitted to the classical ballet class of the Beijing Dance Academy.
How difficult is it to "overcome difficulties"?
As a professional ballet dancer, the legs must be no less than 12 cm longer than the upper body. This condition alone has eliminated many people. Secondly, a good "sense of dance" is unattainable.
At that time, about 20,000 people applied for the examination, but only 20 people were admitted. The veritable "one in a thousand miles", and Guo Leng is the "lucky one" of this thousand miles.
It is worth noting that Guo Leng was the only boy in the classical ballet class at that time.
The reason why there are very few boys in ballet classes is because men are inherently less flexible than women.
Ballet requires a lot of flexibility, a physiological bottleneck that many men can't cross.
Many male dancers have a good "sense of dance" and a body proportion, but they can't do the action in place, and the same action is (relatively) much simpler for female dancers.
But Guo Leng's physical condition was very good, plus he was willing to make more efforts to make up for the deficiencies, and he soon became the top of the dance class.
▲ Guo Leng's excellent performance attracted the attention of yang Liping, the goddess of dance.
He began to compete, proving himself with medals.
At the age of 17, Guo Leng was selected by the top dance troupe in China, the "Oriental Song and Dance Troupe", and became a part of it.
That is, during the days when the "Oriental Song and Dance Troupe" danced, Guo Leng's excellent performance attracted the attention of Yang Liping.
Because of her pity, Yang Liping adopted Guo Leng as her disciple and carefully taught.
Of course, Guo Leng studied ballet, and Yang Liping's "peacock dance" is more inclined to ethnic dance, but the dance skills are the same, and Yang Liping often teaches the movements of the upper body to Guo Leng.
Guo Leng combined Teacher Yang's upper body movements with his leg ballet skills to form his own unique style.
▲ Guo Leng said that dance shoes are not something that every woman can control, although it is not valuable, but it requires you to accompany you for a lifetime.
Just as everything was moving in the direction of the dream, an accident happened.
During a training session in 2000, Guo Leng's leg was accidentally injured due to a misjudgment of movements.
Although Guo Leng's leg has recovered after treatment and does not affect walking, his dance state can never return to its peak.
▲ Yang Liping once guided Guo Leng.
It is no problem to maintain a normal life, but it is no longer possible for Guo Leng to carry out high-intensity training and complete difficult actions.
Yes, Guo Leng's days of shining on the stage are over. This plunged him into a strong depression for a time.
Previous life has been learning to dance, suddenly can not dance, which is no less than the destruction of life for a talented dancer.
▲Yang Liping.
During these painful days, his teacher Yang Liping pointed out a way out for him:
You can't dance, you can teach others to dance.
This sentence immediately made Guo Leng feel suddenly enlightened.
Although I have no way to realize my dream of dancing, if I can lead students to the world-class stage and let students realize their dreams for themselves, this is also a special kind of "dream come true".
So, after recuperating for a while, Guo Leng packed his bags and went to another city to start his coaching path.
▲ Guo Leng became a dance teacher.
Two: I don't know anything but dance.
In this way, Guo Leng set up his own dance classroom and became a dance teacher.
Fortunately, although he changed from "dancer" to "teacher", he was still with his favorite ballet.
▲During the break, Guo Leng suddenly practiced.
This is a "strange" teacher.
Parents rushed to Guo Leng's fame and teaching standards, all of which cooperated with his "quirks".
For example, Guo Leng sleeps during the day, and the lecture must be at night. Although the class schedule says 2 hours, as long as the children can hold on, he has been teaching, each time to talk about more than 4 hours, talking about the second half of the night, parents can not hold on, he is still dancing with the children.
▲ Not young, but still have to demonstrate in person.
Another example is that Guo Leng must teach various instructions in French. At first, many students were not used to it because they could not understand it. But Guo Leng said that ballet was popular in France in the early years, so it was the most authentic in French. After a few lessons, the children can also understand Guo Leng's French instructions.
Guo Leng said:
Entering my course, your life, your personality, your self-esteem, all have been erased by me, and they all belong to me.
▲ When it comes to my students, I am always triumphant.
In his teaching career of about 20 years, more than 30 of Guo Leng's students have been admitted to China's three major ballet companies.
Undoubtedly, this achievement is simply a miracle for a private dance classroom, but in addition to "dance", Guo Leng's life is a bit "stretched".
This "overstretched" is not to say that the economic situation, Guo Leng is not short of money.
It is not that on the spiritual level, Guo Leng is still engaged in his favorite dance career.
It is his life that encounters difficulties.
His students had some adults, but mostly children. Each person is charged more than 200 to 300 yuan per lesson. Someone calculated that Guo Leng could earn millions a year.
But Guo Cooling joked that he didn't even have time to spend money.
He confessed:
I can't do anything but dance ballet, I can't hold light bulbs, I haven't made a bowl of porridge... My thick winter clothes, cotton clothes, were washed for me by the parents of the students.
Guo Leng, who is still single in his 50s, lives in a fast hotel near the dance classroom because it is close to his work.
He doesn't know how to cook, and he always goes to the same restaurant after class, of course, because he is "close".
After a long time, the parents of the students were very distressed about him, so they took the initiative to take charge of his meals and even washed his clothes for him.
▲Guo Leng is very thin.
I don't know if it was to maintain his body shape, he ate very little when he was emaciated. He said:
Meals, fruit drinks, all given to me by parents... I eat this meal every day, at 9 o'clock in the evening, while going to class.
Most people who see Guo Leng will think that his height is extremely high, should be more than 180cm, but in fact, it is because he is very thin. Guo Leng, who is 177 tall, weighs less than 120 pounds...
Because he didn't eat much, even if his parents changed the method to prepare him for food, he didn't grow fat.
▲ Guo Leng's life is taken care of by the parents of the students.
Speaking of the care of the parents of the students, he used the word "love", as if he had put himself in the position of a "child who needs to be taken care of".
Indeed, if you leave the "dance", Guo Leng is a "giant baby" who will not know anything.
Such a Guo Leng is easily reminiscent of his teacher Yang Liping.
For the sake of the dance career, Yang Liping needs to maintain a slender figure, only in this way can the peacock's demeanor be imitated more perfectly when dancing the peacock dance.
In order to maintain a weight of about 90 pounds, Yang Liping can not eat rice for more than 30 years and strictly control her food intake. It is said that she only drank some water or tea for breakfast, and never ate staple food at noon, only a small piece of beef, a slice of apple and a bowl of soup. Dinner is simpler, with just a slice of beef and a slice of apple.
▲ The stage may look just right, but in life, Yang Liping has been thin to the skin and bones.
Not only that, for the sake of beauty, Yang Liping still has long nails.
Because her nails are so long, she can't eat, dress, comb her hair, put on makeup, and even take a bath with the help of her assistant.
It can be said that for the sake of dance, Yang Liping has almost lost her ability to take care of herself.
It is not difficult to find that masters such as Guo Leng and Yang Liping have focused on only one thing in their lives, and have done this one thing to the extreme, which is indeed admirable from an artistic point of view.
But life can not take care of themselves, but also sacrificed marriage and self-space, the price paid by the two is not small.
Whether to live a life of blandness or to live a radiant life is your own choice.
As long as you feel it's worth it, why care about other people's eyes.
What do you think about Guo Leng and Yang Liping? If it were you, what choice would you make?
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