Known as the "goddess dancer", she unfortunately had an accident in the rehearsal of the 2008 Olympic Games, resulting in a lifelong disability and losing her lower body.
This issue of Ziya Childlike Character Ji will take you into the story of dancer Liu Yan.
Love to dance, the rising star of the dance world
Liu Yan was born in 1982 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and her grandfather named her Liu Yan, hoping that she would become a person with a strong personality and not to give up lightly.
Liu Yan's mother was a doctor and his father was a judge, but Liu Yan did not inherit his parents' profession, but chose the path of dance.
Her parents were very supportive of her choice, and Liu Yan also showed amazing dancing talent from an early age, and her talent was also seen by Bai Ying, the instructor of the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe, who gave her a chance to select the song and dance troupe.
Liu Yan also passed the selection very contentiously and became a small dancer in the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe. With the guidance of professional teachers, Liu Yan's performance on the stage has become more and more eye-catching.
Instructor Bai Ying once found Liu Yan and told her, your condition is the best among so many people I have ever met, you are simply born for dance, if you can have more professional training, then you must have a lot to do.
Later, with the support of his parents, Liu Yan decided to apply for the best dance school in China.
In 1991, Liu Yan, who was not even ten years old, came to Beijing to take the exam of the Affiliated Middle School of the Beijing Dance Academy, and the number of people taking the exam reached nearly 2,000.
Among the two thousand people, there were many small dancers who were already famous, and Liu Yan was not afraid of this, and finally was admitted to the long-awaited Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School with excellent results.
In the six years of studying at Beiwu High School, Liu Yan has her own goals and persistence, except for cultural classes, she spends all her time practicing dance.
At that time, dance was her best friend, and the effort must be rewarded, and 6 years later, Liu Yan was sent to the Chinese Classical Dance Department of the Beijing Dance Academy.
Liu Yan, who went to college, still did not relax, she believed that only continuous learning could become a good dancer, so she began to constantly go out to participate in competitions and performances to train herself, so as to find her own shortcomings.
In 2002, she participated in the "Lotus Cup" dance competition and also won the silver medal in the competition. In 2004, at the 6th National Dance Congress, he won the gold medal of the competition for "Rouge Buckle".
In 2006, at the age of 24, she was invited to the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, co-starring with Yang Liping and Tan Yuanyuan in "Three Friends of the Cold Year", and she was like a rising star in the dance world.
In 2008, Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, designed a dance program that promoted the history and culture of the ancient Silk Road, and the program required a professional dancer to perform solo dance.
However, because this solo dance is quite difficult and dangerous, many professional dancers have refused Zhang Yimou's invitation, and if they give up this solo dance program, it will become imperfect.
Just when Zhang Yimou was at a loss, Zhang Jigang, who was an assistant director, recommended him a dancer who was very suitable for the requirements, and this dancer was Liu Yan.
Liu Yan has always hoped to contribute his strength to the motherland, and Liu Yan, who learned of this news, was very happy and immediately said that he would definitely try to practice solo dance.
In this way, Liu Yan became the A corner of this show. Although the solo dance lasted only two minutes, she was still under a lot of pressure because the performance represented not only her personally, but also the country.
She had practiced the solo dance of only two minutes hundreds of times, never absent from every rehearsal, and now she was able to master the stage skillfully.
If her performance on the Olympic stage goes well, her dance career will also take a big step forward, but it backfired and an accident happened.
Accidentally fell and continued to shine in the dance industry
On July 27, 2008, Liu Yan was rehearsing as usual, waving a ribbon more than three meters long and dancing on the tissue paper.
Just after the solo dance, she jumped on the float by accident, because of the scheduling problem, the float was a second ahead, although it was only a fleeting second, but it was fatal to Liu Yan.
Liu Yan jumped to the top of the flower platform and did not stand still, causing his body to fall backwards and fall directly from a height of three meters.
This accident made everyone stunned, and soon the on-site commander reacted and immediately contacted the ambulance, sent Liu Yan to the People's Liberation Army 305 Hospital, and underwent 12 hours of surgery.
The parents and Zhang Yimou rushed to the hospital overnight after learning the news, and the doctor told them that Liu Yan's twelfth vertebrae were injured, and the mother who heard the news cried bitterly, because she was also a doctor and knew that there was no possibility of recovery from this part of the injury.
A week later, Liu Yan was transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward, and although the doctor told her about her condition very gently, she still couldn't stop crying when she saw her parents' red eyes.
High paraplegia is simply a thunderbolt for a dancer, and during this time Liu Yan feels that his world has collapsed.
Zhang Yimou took time out of his busy work to visit Liu Yan with the director team, his eyes were full of guilt for Liu Yan, he accompanied Liu Yan for a long time, and finally encouraged her to attend the closing ceremony as scheduled.
During this time, she had been lost, desperate, and cried bitterly, but with the persuasion and encouragement of her parents and friends, Liu Yan slowly accepted this fact and cheered up.
Her parents pushed her to the scene of the closing ceremony with a wheelchair, and the solo dance of the Silk Road program was also performed by Yin Shuo, a B corner, and after the performance came out, she quickly spread throughout China, and Liu Yan felt a pang of bitterness in her heart after watching Yin Shuo's performance, and this opportunity was originally her own.
Half a year later, Liu Yan also like her name, strong and vibrant, she decided to continue her studies and not give up dance, in 2010 she was admitted to the China Academy of Arts dance graduate students.
After graduation, she became a teacher of North Dance, and she was especially satisfied with the fact that she could not dance herself but could teach more people to dance.
Today, she is also keen to participate in public welfare activities, and has set up a special fund for literature and art named after her to support art education in poor areas.
Liu Yan, whose life has gradually stabilized, resolutely decided to use her mutilated body to continue to engage in the dance career she loves most.
In July 2021, Liu Yan's Jingwei'er dance drama "Beijing Banquet" premiered at the Century Theater and performed five times in a row.
This is Liu Yan's first time as a dance drama director, in order for this drama to be recognized by everyone, she has paid a lot of painstaking efforts, and she will come to the scene in a wheelchair for every rehearsal, patiently explain her understanding to the actors, and correct every wrong dance technique.
Liu Yan said in a later interview: "I was brilliant on the stage before, although now I have lost the opportunity to stand on the stage, I firmly believe that I can still show my talent under the stage, and I will not lose to me on the stage!" ”
"Although I can't go back to the stage of my dreams, I will always stick to the dance industry." At her insistence, this dance drama is very successful and has been loved by many people.
Not being able to dance in the hearts of every dancer is the cruelest thing in the world, and Liu Yan is the unfortunate person.
But she did not face the hardships of life, but stood up again, continued to shine in different ways, selflessly dedicated to the cause of dance, such an inspirational person, worthy of respect from each of us.
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