Interview with | Li Jie: Acrobatic art is national and also the world

Li Jie, head of the Hangzhou Acrobatic Troupe:

Acrobatic art is both national and worldly

"Surprise, excitement! This is the first time that our group has participated in the Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival, and we are very happy to achieve good results. On the evening of September 30, after learning the news that "Women's Handstand Skills" won the Golden Lion Award of this year's Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival, Li Jie, head of the Hangzhou Acrobatic Troupe, could not hide his excitement: "The Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival brings together the world's highest level of acrobatic programs, and this session is a gathering of elites, masters such as forests, multiple trapeze artists, big springboards and other thrilling programs. "Women's Handstand Skills" ability to overwhelm the crowd to win the Golden Lion is not easy! ”

"Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf He Tiantian". Under the soft light, the budding flowers are delicate under the turquoise leaves. The girl dressed in green stands upside down with one hand on the left and right, and the side balance is pushed up, changing various shapes between flowers and leaves, expressing delicacy, ethereal and feminine.

The little lotus only shows its sharp corners. Li Jie introduced that this show is tailor-made for actors. Actress Shi Yiling is 17 years old this year, and when she entered the group at the age of 12, she designated a teacher to conduct one-on-one guidance and training for her. The program was created in 2018 and won the 10th National Acrobatics Exhibition Outstanding Program Award in 2019. In the process of creating and polishing the program, the acrobatic experts and seniors in the troupe paid great attention to it and offered suggestions. In order to participate in this year's Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival, we designed more difficult movements, and put the horizontal handstanding skills of the male actors on the female actors. The two hands are rotated upside down 360 degrees, giving full play to the comprehensive strength of the actress's waist, legs and top. ”

The women's single handstand can be said to be a traditional show of acrobatics, why can it win in a competition full of masters? Talking about the advantages of the show, Li Jie said: "First of all, it must be skill, but acrobatics are far from enough to have difficult skills, and many factors such as art choreography, costume props, modeling design, stage performances and so on are also very important." "Women's Handstand Technique" has a distinct intention, surrounding the spring dawn of the lotus pond, showing a strong Jiangnan charm and highlighting national characteristics. In today's globalized world, acrobatic art needs to continue to develop, not only need to innovate, but also need to maintain its own national characteristics, in order to have a more competitive advantage. Walking in the international market requires studying foreign audiences and market demand, but we cannot blindly cater to the aesthetic orientation of foreign audiences, and we cannot lose China's cultural elements and spiritual core. In the final analysis, it is still the old saying that only the national is the world. ”

This year's Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival was affected by the epidemic, and all the participating programs from various countries competed online. "Online brings us more challenges, lack of immersion in the scene, how to attract the audience? Close-ups put forward higher requirements for the expressiveness of actors, how to meet the audience's multi-perspective viewing perception? In what ways can it be deeply integrated with technology? These are all problems that we need to think about and solve. "Li Jie believes that performances like the Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival, which bring together the world's top acrobatic programs, online performances can allow more people to appreciate the beauty of acrobatics." The advantages of the online model in breaking through the limitations of time and space are obvious, for example, this year we enjoyed the most prestigious animal taming performance in Russia, which was difficult to see in previous acrobatic competitions. The synchronous promotion of each live broadcast platform has an audience of one million or even tens of millions, which is unimaginable for stage art. ”

"Thank you Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival for providing us with such a good platform." Li Jie sincerely thanked the Wuqiao Acrobatic Festival for bringing together the world's best programs, showing China's most distinctive acrobatic programs to the world, strengthening the exchange of acrobatic arts between the East and the West, innovating and developing China's acrobatic arts, and further letting China's excellent traditional culture go further to the world. (Hebei Daily reporter Xiao Yu)

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