Misunderstanding Yang Liping starts with calling her "indecent"

Using a few stage photos to define and make judgments to launch attacks is a great misreading of dance art and Yang Liping herself. This is colliding with nature with a shackled head and trying to shackle her with the same framework. In her more than 50 years of artistic life, this is not the first time she has encountered a similar dilemma.

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Yang Liping was once again wrapped in controversy.

In the latest version of "Peacock", near the end of the dance, the male dancer wears only a pair of flesh-colored tight leggings and lies on his side in the arms of the actress. The audience was very moved, moved by the love, beauty and power displayed by the dance, and admired the muscle lines and expressiveness of the male dancers; But some people protested that this paragraph was vulgar and indecent, and even criticized Yang Liping for not being ashamed.

In "Peacock", the male dancer's style was accused of indecent by some comments, source: social media

Not surprisingly, this controversial passage is precisely Yang Liping's favorite part of this dance - it is extremely demanding for actors, out of the costume package, the dancer only has the body as a prop, which can only be expressed with the help of the most extreme body language, which is infinitely close to the essence of the dance.

Afterwards, Yang Liping explained that this shape is of course required by the plot: the male peacock sacrifices the most beautiful feathers at the last moment to let the female peacock free. The feathers fell off, flying and falling one after another. After that, the male peacock returned to the original appearance of life, completing the end and continuation. This expression has a more profound meaning, Yang Liping said, we all come naked and walk naked.

2022 version of the dance drama "Peacock", source: CFP/authorized use

This response is very "Yang Liping": the styling is to serve the dance itself; What she has always cared about and tirelessly sought is beauty and life itself. In contrast, "vulgar" and "bottomless" criticism appears shallow and "on the line". But anyone who has seen Yang Liping's dance or knows a little about her will not make such a fuss. She has always been an admirer of nature, and this male dancer's appearance is just another imitation of nature itself.

For a long time, her most basic concept of dance has been: to make a force, each movement should be like growing out of the ground. Based on this philosophy, she prefers to let the dancers take inspiration from nature rather than rehearsal, encouraging them to imitate the growth of plants, the intersection of animals, and the gentle trembling caused by the wind blowing through the leaves; She hated the basic paradigm of flying, splitting, and holding high, and after entering the Central Folk Song and Dance Troupe at a young age, she quickly learned that tiptoe ballet was "not my language" and immediately left. At that time, the most important evaluation of her by the members of the group was: "There is no skill at all, and the legs cannot be straightened." ”

Yang Liping when she was young (data map), source: Internet

Yang Liping's rarity lies in her "difficulty in imitating", even the controversy on her body

Yang Liping is not a person who is good at words, and in interviews for decades, her words have hardly changed. Yin Xiaojian, one of the collaborators of "Yunnan Reflection", described Yang Liping as "few words and naïve". But at the same time, she is aesthetically excellent, open, unscrupulous, extremely sensitive, and "particularly feeling" of everything that happens in nature.

In 2012, at the scene of the "Women of the World" program, Yang Liping took her niece Little Bunting for an interview, and the host asked Yang Liping about Yang Liping's requirements for Little Bunting to learn. Xiao Bunting replied seriously: "She just often let me learn by myself, and then read more books, and she sometimes let me recite poems or something." ”

Yang Liping's reaction was: "Then why don't you say that I let you see the leaves shimmering in the sun?" Like the gap between an artist and a good student, Yang Liping cares about life experience, but the recipient struggles to summarize the methodology.

In the program, she said while raising a hand, white slender nails, like shining leaves in the sun, light and vivid, soon, she gently pulled her hand down, like a bird brushing across the water, "I tell you what did the little swallow leave behind when it crossed the water?" Actually, you don't remember this, so you haven't felt what it's like for a flower to open until now. ”

A self-proclaimed spectator of life, she proudly proclaimed: "Some people's lives are for inheritance, some are for enjoyment, some are for experience, and some are for spectators." I am a bystander of life, and I come to this world to see how a tree grows, how a river flows, how white clouds float, how nectar condenses. ”

This makes her dance difficult to summarize and imitate, because the life force itself is difficult to imitate, more obedient to nature, what kind of soil produces what kind of flowers, it is one leaf that grows another. She is a natural dancer. The reason why her dance touches the audience is not because of how high her legs are kicked and how soft her body is. Her dance is never sensational or showy, but involves countless flowing details and charms, each with its own language.

Such a person has been studying peacocks all his life. "Peacock" has almost become a "symbol" on her, similar to the status of swans in Western dance. Peacocks are so beautiful, especially when peacocks mate - she has never been obscure about sex, and in an interview with "Triptych Life Weekly", she said frankly: "I think sex is a very natural thing, so this dance does not shy away from these." She described the scene in detail: slowly unfolding her tail and screaming like a roar.

All her life, she has interpreted peacocks with the grammar of her body. The peacock and the peacock seduce each other, the peacock's old age and death. And this time, the peacock offered his own feathers to another peacock.

The peacock dance that Yang Liping has devoted many years of hard work, source: CFP/authorized use

The peacock dance that Yang Liping has devoted many years of hard work, source: CFP/authorized use

Yang Liping has always pursued the ultimate control of her dance. From lighting and music to clothing. "Sanlian Life Weekly" recorded such a detail: in 2012, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, to "Love of the Sparrow", Yang Liping arranged two dancers to do movements for her on stage, she stared at the camera below, and discussed with the director what to do with the lens. She refused the usual way of moving the camera of the party, and insisted that it be done her way.

For her, dancing is communion with God. The peacock is possessed, so there will be moments when the soul floats and forgets the limbs. Unfortunately, the viewers are concerned about whether the body attached to this soul is properly dressed.

This is a huge misreading. A kind of indescribable sadness of summer worms. It's talking to a moon about sixpence. It is to collide with nature with a shackled head, trying to shackle her with the same framework.

This isn't the first time she's faced a similar dilemma. Last time, someone left a message under her short video: "A woman's biggest failure is not having a child." "The message makes people laugh and cry. It seems that no matter how much she has achieved in dance and jumped farther, she cannot do without the trap of not having children.

Yang Liping was once commented by netizens that "a woman's biggest failure is not having a child"

The topic surrounding her shouldn't be like this.

Last year, Yang Liping disbanded the two teams of "Yunnan Image" and "A Peng Looking for Golden Flower". At that time, she came out to be interviewed by the media, and her words were very blunt: "I don't have any money, I can't pay salaries." She is 64 years old and has been in the art for more than 50 years, and she began to mind her image in the lens, specifically instructing the photographer who shot her, not to shoot too close, not to give close-ups, "because she is old and old, and she can't take close-ups." "It's a beautiful dancer's maintenance of the external image.

But at the same time, she is very open about aging. She once expressed her view of life and death when referring to "Peacock Winter": "My life is now in winter, and anyone's flesh will age, but I don't panic, each stage has the meaning of each stage." ”

60-year-old Yang Liping, the back of her body still maintains her dancing form

In the face of the aging of such a dancer, it should be fortunate that you can still see her performance, see one less. But at this time, someone asked her over and over again to come out and explain herself.

When the "Three Views Party" occupied the high ground of criticism, art was asked to "prove its innocence"

When did things begin to become the way they are now, and people use the "three views" in the framework of secular concepts to measure literary and artistic works. The heroine of "Madame Bovary" was criticized for loving vanity and taking the initiative to give her arms and hugs; "Ugly Duckling" has become a "blood theory", "Daughter of the Sea" is regarded as a full-fledged love brain story, the protagonist of "Titanic" Jack is a mistress, and even Xiaoxue in "Family with Children" who looks harmless to humans and animals is regarded as a "bar elf" who treats his stepmother inappropriately.

Standing on the moral high ground to judge literary and artistic works, conservative and "clean", this is the easiest and most feasible way for some viewers to grasp the right to comment. As long as it does not conform to the "three views", then everything is impossible to talk about; As long as you don't dress "properly", it is against customs.

Perhaps, the road to art is full of thresholds, and it is easier to pull them off the altar, and the three views and the so-called "bottom line" are the yardsticks that make the viewers feel safe, reliable, have something to say, and be high. As a result, norms have established barriers for our scrutiny, and it is best for the whole world to look like and wear the same clothes - it is better not to wear leggins (leggings), don't think that it is just a pair of pants, it is so close-fitting, it is really inappropriate; Grow the same hair, and it is best that the characters in each work are impeccable from appearance to heart. Otherwise, our fragile minds and eyeballs will be polluted. Every step of art breaking through barriers requires courage and cost, but a moment of regression may only require a few noisy comments.

As early as a few decades ago, the TV series "The Story of the Editorial Office" illustrated this truth: "Once nudity becomes art, it is the holiest thing." Once morality is reduced to hypocrisy, it is the most vulgar. Be brave and do what you think is right and don't get bogged down by worldly gossip. Remember, like a lotus flower, come out of the mud without staining. ”

Young dancer Yang Liping (data map)

Yang Liping should not and does not need to be placed in such a measure: having children and proving her innocence. Fortunately, she didn't care about that. She has long run to freedom through creation, and has never changed herself because of external voices.

In the early years, "Spirit of the Sparrow" was not favored, and the dance troupe did not register her for the competition, so she personally rode a bicycle to send the video to the jury, and the deadline had long passed, and the other party promised her to show them when the judges were resting. As a result, "Spirit of the Sparrow" became the first place in the national dance competition that year. When "Yunnan Image" was made, the investment partners did not pay, and the domestic dance industry basically did not accept her dance, thinking that it was a joke for untrained ethnic minorities to come on stage, and she insisted on her own approach, which was the beginning of her mastery of large-scale dance, which also had sexual expression. "Two Trees" is a sexual dance of ethnic minorities; appeared on the Spring Festival Gala's "Love of Sparrows", and she cooperated with modern dancer Wang Di. What she created was neither purely traditional nor purely Western, and friends laughed at calling her a "postmodern peacock."

She has always been looking for a breakthrough, but all this time, what she pursues has not changed: dance should be free and free, just as her clothes seem to grow on her, and her dance also grows from the ground, so it has unparalleled vitality and soul. Just as the moon is sung or denigrated by humans, it does not change its brilliance. She jumped hard, already breaking through the limitations of her body and gently jumping to a high place.

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