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Opening Remarks:
When the youth are prosperous, the country is prosperous, and when the youth are strong, the country is strong. If contemporary young people have ideals, responsibilities, and skills, the country will have a future and the nation will have hope. This newspaper has set up a column entitled "Strivers Are Young", which tells the experience of young people growing up and becoming talents, and the wonderful stories of entrepreneurship and officials, so as to entertain readers.
"I rarely miss youth, because youth is always there." When Zhu Yan, a member of the All-China Youth Federation and deputy head of the Central Ballet, talked about her feelings about youth, her tone was hearty.
In the years of devoting herself to the dance industry, Zhu Yan danced lightly and danced in the spotlight; behind the curtain, she used dance to tell the power of youth and the weight of dreams, interpreting the unique charm of ballet art.
The new era is the era of strivers, and struggle is the brightest background of youth. Zhu Yan talked about her fate with ballet and started with a few adults with soft rulers entering the primary school. The soft ruler is measured on the body of the little girls, and the legs are 12 cm longer than the upper body to enter the dance school. 12 centimeters announced Zhu Yan's lifelong fate with ballet, and natural physical conditions made ballet choose Zhu Yan, and Zhu Yan went from primary school to dance school.
Practicing every day is the daily routine of dance students, ballet challenges human endurance and resilience, Zhu Yan with years of basic skills, successfully admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy.
Zhu Yan and the "Red Detachment of Women" fate is from the Beijing Dance Academy graduated into the Central Ballet to work, then because of the image considerations, Zhu Yan participated in the world's classic dance dramas more, at first did not try the role of Wu Qionghua, with the growth of age and love for ballet, Zhu Yan felt that it is very regrettable not to fight for this original Chinese ballet, so she applied to play Wu Qionghua with the troupe.
"At that time, to play Wu Qionghua, we must first overcome many obstacles, from the appearance, the important thing is whether it can be recognized by the audience, from a professional point of view, the mainland original dance drama and the world's classic dance drama are completely different in terms of action force." Zhu Yan said that she was able to successfully play Wu Qionghua thanks to the troupe for giving her a lot of space at that time.
Zhu Yan University is studying classical ballet, and it is a very difficult process to learn a new dance, to turn the ballet style into a Chinese classical dance style, and to adjust the body language and thinking habits of ballet to Chinese body language.
In terms of content, classical ballet depicts mostly emotions, while this drama depicts revolution and shows class hatred. In order to use ballet art to interpret Wu Qionghua well, Zhu Yan has put a lot of effort into resonating with Wu Qionghua emotionally, and chinese elements have also begun to be incorporated into the dance movements.
In terms of technical essentials, "Red Detachment of Women" is based on ballet as a carrier, adding a lot of classical Chinese dance techniques. Every time I clenched my fists, I thought that the arms of the school students should fall gently like the wings of a swan, and this dance drama requires the fist to be strong. In order to improve, others got off the rehearsal ground, and she continued to practice alone. She is never afraid to give, and she has reaped one success after another.
Talking about the changes in Wu Qionghua from generation to generation, Zhu Yan said that the heroine of the dance drama "The Red Detachment of Women" has been changing, and the dancers of each era have left the imprints of different eras, and it is interesting to use different eras to inherit the unchanged revolutionary spirit and convey the same emotion with the audience.
"In my perception, dancing ballet is like living a slow life, for example, me and ballet, when ballet gave me strength and became inseparable from everything I had (family, work, colleagues, etc.) in the process of growing up, I was very sure that I would continue to go in this industry." 」 Zhu Yan said firmly.
After 25 years in the industry, dance has become an important part of Zhu Yan's life. Zhu Yan felt it, "Ballet is really beautiful, dancing brings me not only a job, but also brings me happiness and beauty, because this beauty gives me too many positive influences on my life, so I also want to pass on such a beautiful power to more people." ”
Some people say that dancing is a youthful profession, but Zhu Yan does not think so.
"A person's thinking is very important, with the growth of age, young people's thinking will gradually mature, now young people more or less exist age anxiety, personal advice to everyone, first of all, do not set rules for themselves because of age, secondly, you need to think according to your own actual situation, analyze your own problems, everyone's situation is different, do not amplify the anxiety of others to transfer to yourself. If you don't create the life you want, you'll be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want. ”
Zhu Yan said, go and fight! Youngster! "Your youth shelf life is up to you."
Reporter: Chen Shuyan is lin hui
Edit: Huang Zhe
Review: Jiajia Zhou