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On the evening of July 27, 2008, 26-year-old Liu Yan dressed in a dance costume and danced to the beat of music.
I saw her dancing gracefully, and her skirt flew, like a fairy under the ordinary.
Soon after, suddenly, an ambulance roared in, and Liu Yan, who could not move, was transported away.
In the ward, the doctor said to Liu Yan with a heavy face: "You will never be able to dance again." Liu Mu beside her couldn't help but cry bitterly.
Liu Yan gritted his teeth, forced tears, and tried to squeeze out a few words: "No, I firmly believe that I have new wonders!" ”
She is China's first Tara Prize winner and Paralympic dancer
In 2016, the Vienna City Hall was illuminated.
Liu Yan, 34, wears a white dress and sits in a wheelchair, smiling and her eyes are shining.
As the music played, Liu Yan slowly raised her slender and slender arms.
Soon, Liu Yan's dexterous slender fingers danced happily to the rhythm of the music.
The scene was silent, and everyone's eyes were on her in the circle of magnesium lights.
Liu Yan seemed to be completely immersed in the performance, and her neck and head also swayed rhythmically with her hands.
This is a solo dance that fights against life, Liu Yan does a set of movements, walks in clouds and flowing water, and sees everyone's heart.
As soon as the music fell, the scene suddenly broke into a thunderous applause.
Liu Yan has won worldwide recognition with his superb performance.
After 8 years of self-challenge, Liu Yan finally regained her confidence and strength as a dancer.
It was Liu Yan's first world-class event since her injury, and she was the only Chinese representative to win the prize at that party.
The theme of the evening was "Life Goes On", which honored those who suffered the blows of fate but continued to strive and actively surpass themselves.
Liu Yan was fortunate to win the "Tara" honorary award for the first time as a disabled dancer. During the award, the host crouched next to her and handed her the microphone.
Liu Yan said indifferently: "The most important thing for people is to overcome themselves. ”
Liu Yan, who was holding the trophy in one hand, spoke sincerely and powerfully, and his eyes were soft.
Through this appearance, she is full of expectations and confidence in the future.
And the tenacious spirit she showed is the purpose of this party, to encourage the general public in life.
With this as a starting point, six years later, Liu Yan reappeared at the torch relay at the Beijing East Paralympic Games.
At the beginning of March 2022, the winter chill has not yet subsided, and people are mostly wearing thick down cotton jackets and wrapping themselves tightly.
Although the weather is cold, the cold wind blows, and you can hear the sound of teeth clenching and trembling. But the people were enthusiastic and looked at the place where the crowd had gathered.
On this morning, 40-year-old Liu Yan wore red and white Olympic clothes. Holding a torch in her left hand, her right palm slightly open, she tied the head of the ball, and playfully greeted the onlookers.
At this moment, Liu Yan is sitting in an orange wheelchair, and her companions are actively preparing for the completion of the final torch relay in their area.
This year, unlike 6 years ago, Liu Yan has several more titles.
She is a professor at the Beijing Dance Academy, a member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Youth Federation, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Although her body sits in a tiny wheelchair, she has opened up a wider world for herself.
She can do more than before, and she has gained a lot of joy at the same time.
In 2023, a wonderful dance drama "Blue Skirt" will be launched for the first time at the Chongqing Grand Theatre.
This drama tells the story of a young woman codenamed "Blue Skirt", who risks her life and undergoes several trials to finally complete the task of delivering the codebook and sacrifice heroically.
As soon as the drama was released, it received a flood of praise.
And the chief director of the play is 41-year-old Liu Yan.
She not only continued her love of dance through the creation of dance drama, but also gained the power of transformation.
In fact, the inspiration for "Blue Skirt" is also Liu Yan's original dance work of the same name in 2017.
Liu Yan not only loves beauty, but also practices the pursuit of beauty.
In an interview with the media, Liu Yan once said that she has been trying to integrate her understanding of dance beauty and human beauty into the creation of her works.
In the world of dance art, she has constantly broken through and has already lived a joyful new life.
However, behind her smile, there is also a story that cannot be told.
After fifteen years of learning to dance, he fell into paralysis
In 1982, a crisp cry came, and the Liu family laughed in surprise.
The Liu family finally welcomed a little girl, this girl is Liu Yan (from Inner Mongolia).
She has a pair of highly educated parents who named her "Iwa" in the hope that she will be strong and happy in the future.
Who expected that Liu Yan after growing up would indeed be as weathered as a rock, but he would always stand.
Liu Yan was very handsome, slender limbs, and showed an unusual talent for art at the age of three, often understanding it at one point and learning quickly.
Liu Yan's teacher found her soft figure and rich expression.
In particular, her legs are straight and long, which is very suitable for learning dance.
So, at the age of 11, Liu Yan was sent to the Beijing Dance Academy for professional training.
Anyone who knows dance knows that learning dance is actually very hard.
Every day, I have to experience countless body pulls, leg presses, splits, lower backs, etc., and every movement tightly pulls the muscles and bones of the body.
No matter how tired and hard the training is every day, Liu Yan will not shed tears easily, let alone complain.
She always quietly ponders and practices every dance move taught by her teacher until she becomes proficient.
It is her diligence and hard work that after six years of hard training, Liu Yan was admitted to the classical dance major of Beijing Dance Academy with excellent performance.
After some professional training, 21-year-old Liu Yan is already a skilled young actor.
Out of recognition of her ability, Beijing Dance Academy stayed on as soon as she graduated, and gradually moved to a bigger stage.
In those obscure years, Liu Yan has never let up.
As long as she has the opportunity to appear on stage, she actively fights for it.
Finally, at the age of 24, Liu Yan ushered in an opportunity that she will never forget.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2006, Liu Yan had the honor to perform with her admired teacher Yang Liping and young dancer Tan Yuanyuan.
That time, Liu Yan's advantages were magnified again, and her "Liu Yi Leg" gradually attracted the attention of the outside world.
Among them, director Zhang Yimou first found her when preparing for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and identified her as an A-role actor in the dance "Silk Road".
To be able to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on your doorstep is an incomparable honor for the actors.
Liu Yan thought so, so she worked extra hard in her weekday training and rehearsals.
Every day was the first to arrive on site and the last to leave. In order to prepare for this performance, Liu Yan has made great efforts and has high expectations for this.
Unexpectedly, on the evening of August 27, 208, a few days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
That day, the rehearsal reached the evening, Liu Yan was still in high spirits, standing with great confidence and dancing on the moving scroll.
She shows every movement wholeheartedly, which is quite enjoyable to watch.
Unexpectedly, when she came to the moment between the picture scroll and another shuttle bus, the car was only 1 second ahead, and Liu Yan's fate was rewritten.
The surrounding music, drums, and cheers stopped abruptly, and there was silence all around. Zhang Yimou immediately cut through the crowd and rushed over, only to see Liu Yan lying motionless on the ground.
She didn't shout, her pupils seemed to be dilated, and everyone gathered around her and kept calling her, calling her.
But she didn't respond for a long time, when someone just stretched out his hand to her waist, Liu Yan suddenly highlighted two words with difficulty: "Don't move." ”
Immediately, she struggled to open her eyes and asked Zhang Yimou: "Director Zhang, can I continue to participate in the rehearsal?" ”
When Zhang Yimou heard this, tears rolled down, choked and nodded.
At this time, a long shrill sound pierced the silent night sky, and the 120 ambulance stopped at the rehearsal site.
The thin Liu Yan was carried into the car by everyone, and with another rapid alarm, the car drove away.
Here, Zhang Yimou had to quickly call Liu Yan's parents.
The hospital that treated Liu Yan is not far away, about 3 kilometers from the bird's nest.
Liu Yan was in a coma for 2 days, and after rescue, she saved her life.
However, because she fell straight from a height of three meters, it caused irreparable damage to her spinal bones.
After Liu Yan woke up, he tried to lift his legs and try to move his waist, but he was horrified to find that his lower limbs were unconscious.
Liu Yan stared at his mother in panic and asked, "Mom, can I still stand up?" Liu Mu covered her face and nodded.
The doctor had already told Liu's mother that Liu Yan would not have the possibility of standing up for the rest of his life.
This year, Liu Yan was only twenty-six years old, and her youth had just begun, but she was facing lifelong paralysis, which was really cruel.
Fortunately, Liu Yan is a strong and optimistic girl, after a year of struggle and adjustment.
With the company of her parents and family, she slowly walked out of the shadow that could not be looked back.
Under the critical attack of life, Liu Yan has no power to fight back, and she can only accept it.
But she has gradually adapted and started a new life.
Abandoned by the famous director's boyfriend
In fact, no one wants such an accident to happen. But fate always loves to play tricks on people, and the established facts that cannot be changed, then face it calmly.
After Liu Yan was discharged from the hospital, her boyfriend broke off contact with her.
In the face of bad luck, people are generally unprepared, and so is Liu Yan.
If you can't stand up and dance, what else can you do? Liu Yan asked herself that she was not good at anything else and was not interested in anything other than her love of dance.
But life always has to go on, Liu Yan thought about it, and finally decided to continue to cultivate in the dance major.
She began to pick up books and focus on hand dance.
Liu Yan is as strong as her name. She withstood the test, and after nearly two years of study, she was successfully admitted to the China Academy of Arts as a doctoral student in dance.
Ph.D. in hand dance, dance teacher in wheelchair
Since then, she has begun to study in depth the sign language of the deaf and mute, the hand movements of Liyuan opera, etc., and learn from everyone's strengths.
Liu Yan eventually created a unique and novel hand dance.
At the same time, because he has personally experienced pain, Liu Yan also wants to help more people in need through his limited strength.
So she set up a special fund to do charity and public welfare undertakings.
Among them, Liu Yan is most concerned about deaf and dumb children, and the most frequent visits are also welfare homes.
Among them, there is a deaf boy named Fan Jie, because he cannot receive regular teaching normally, he can only explore by himself.
But he was passionate about dance, and Liu Yan even studied sign language specifically to better guide him in his studies.
Liu Yan, who was in a wheelchair, taught through sign language, and Fan Jie danced to her beat with a hearing aid, and it didn't take long for him to make great progress.
In fact, in the process of helping these vulnerable groups, Liu Yan is also healing herself, and she has become more cheerful and happy.
Because she found her value, she is still needed by society and is still a useful person.
In addition, Liu Yan put all his energy into the innovation and development of hand dance.
After Liu Yan received her doctorate in dance, she also successfully stayed on to teach and began her teaching journey.
Relatively speaking, although Liu Yan did not have the freedom to move, she gained great spiritual satisfaction and soul freedom. In the past, she could only work hard to be a skilled dancer.
Today, she can work in the vast art of dance, teaching and doing academic research at the same time, and even taking on the work of screenwriting.
For her before, these must have been things she never thought of.
As the old saying goes, if you lose your horse, you will not know it. Liu Yan lost the ability to stand up, but also gained the ability to be more independent and powerful mentally.
Recalling the days when she was just discharged from the hospital, in order to get back on her feet, she continued to do rehabilitation training, which was actually her struggle against fate.
Because she was unwilling to be defeated by fate, she would rather suffer more hard training.
Unfortunately, her struggle at that time was useless, the fracture of the spine could not be regenerated, and all her efforts were in vain.
However, even though she is paralyzed for life, she learns to turn in the process of fighting fate.
Go straight and it doesn't work, then go left to right, or take a step back.
Fortunately, Liu Yan successfully defeated himself and tribulation. She continues to explore her potential in her areas of expertise.
The past does not look back, Liu Yan lived himself. Before the accident, she won numerous awards. After the accident, he also relied on his own strength to face the world again and win his own honor.
Liu Yan not only got a higher degree, became a teacher, and even became a director of dance dramas. Published books, did public welfare, pioneered hand dance, and returned to performing as a dancer in a wheelchair.
On the artistic path of dance, the legs cannot reach the distance, and the hands and brain can reach.
And Liu Yan did it, just as she understood the phrase "God is dead", she believes that "the good has always been".
A person who does not succumb to fate and bravely fights will truly feel the beauty and tension of life.
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