Editor's note: "Riding the Wind 2023" has attracted much attention since its official launch on Mango TV. Women's themes have always been an important theme in international communication, so "Riding the Wind 2023" hopes to open the "world map" of women's struggle with a high degree of Chinese cultural confidence, and explore the beauty of different forms and faces of women; With an expression full of openness and sense of the times, to witness the power of women's struggle and growth, and show the spirit of the times in which women are tenacious and hardworking; With an international perspective and music exchanges and life dialogues between women from many countries, we will show the beauty of open and inclusive Chinese culture and show a credible, lovely and respectable image of China. The Hunan Federation of Literature and Culture public account specially published several review articles of "Riding the Wind 2023" to feed readers.
There is a kind of woman who rides the wind, from tradition to the future - comment on the variety show "Riding the Wind 2023"
Wen 丨 Xie Yu
I have seen the sea in "The Adventures of Youth Pi", I have seen the sea in "The Pianist at Sea", I have seen the sea in "Truman's World", I must not have seen the sea under the feet of "sister", let you overwhelm the world, I step on the waves, the wind and clouds, and the thousands of miles.
"If the wind has annual rings, the wind that blows on your and my faces may be reciting the story of five thousand years. We stand in the wind, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against the wind and spread our wings, listening to the wind, chasing the wind, riding the wind, and finally, becoming part of the wind, and the wind, has no boundaries..."
Warmth, loneliness, entanglement, courage, ego, challenge... Cooked in one pot on the stage of "Riding the Wind 2023", let us break through the border, cross time and space, meet tradition, fashion, youth, future, and meet the most beautiful China and the world in a kind of warm care for contemporary Chinese women, under the guidance of a new oriental cultural concept.
The beauty of folk music
Le, give us a "home" here.
The huge women's drum music often has a strong sense of introduction, making people go back to the era of cold weapons and the ever-changing ancient battlefield of formations, taking us to see that in the traditional Chinese "home", there are not only good wives and good mothers with husbands and godchildren, but also heroes such as Mulan, Mu Guiying, Fan Lihua, and other heroes in the female middle school, especially the Southern Song Liang Hongyu who drummed against gold, which is well known.
"Dragon Fist", based on the unique drum music in traditional Chinese folk music, integrates rap, small voice, street dance, and vigorous dance, and finally falls into the Chinese martial art - boxing.
The creativity of the program takes the spirit of "dragon" as the core essence, collecting dragon patterns from Qin bricks and Hanwa, embroidering them on clothes, and painting them on drums. I saw a light side thrown over, powerfully hitting the Chinese lobby drum, Wang Jianan, the principal percussionist of the China Opera and Dance Theater, opened, with 45 drums and 45 female drummers on the stage. The sound of drums and dragons swim. Two dragons roaring in red and blue appeared on the ground screen under their feet, overflowing with colorful streamers in the background color and space of "black", which was particularly dazzling, and a row of backlights hit the five big heroines who were singing and dancing in the center. The rest are hidden in the shadows, not seen, but heard; On the ground, the image of a huge white jade stone carved pedestal rises from the ground screen, holding up the heroism of the scarf and breathing through Changhong.
The show closely follows the Rap style, from the number of Dunhuang to the Great Wall, from the Mongolian plateau to the top of Mount Tai in the east of the Yellow River, from the wind in the northwest to the yellow skin tanned into bronze, only Chinese characters have "dragon", the expression of the world is still missing one, and waiting for the hero, it is still our golden "Chinese dragon".
The beauty of folk music runs across Eastern and Western civilizations.
The beauty of space
Light, here a circle is drawn.
The stage of "Riding the Wind 2023" from the initial stage to the final, takes us to break through helplessness and insignificance, and with our sisters, release, enter, imagine, enjoy the openness and depth, and find the infinite possibilities to reinvent ourselves.
This is a fantasy space, more than 1,000 square meters of circular ground and surrounding façade encircled, with dazzling 3D visual effects, creating a boundless blue deep sea area full of vitality, with a huge ice screen full encirclement to achieve romantic whispers under scientific and technological means. The free-flying lens takes us closer, retreat, overlook, look up, cross, circle... In the circle, a high-light pair of liftable shows at the diameter of the showway is crossed, and a ring-shaped, segmented, deconstructed aerial independent stage with staggered heights hangs above, and a light matrix that is always stuck in the rhythm of music and the atmosphere of virtual reality and artistic conception.
A surreal space-time tunnel jumps in front of you, making it impossible to breathe.
This is "Riding the Wind Red Show", this is "Where the Wind Leads". One drop of water, one world. The sisters may pac cats, laughing at the sky; Or standing in the air, like a goddess descending, motherly the world. Grand, domineering, full of the aura of the symbols of the times, it is none other than the sister who rides the wind.
In the distance, a group of sisters dressed in Chinese red slowly walked, 33 different costume styles such as a hundred flowers contending, romance, dream, passion, tradition, fashion - beauty and beauty! Indeed, there has never been a variety show with such a visual eye-catching power that breaks age and gender, successfully deriving the current Chinese mature women about "young", about "family", about "independence", about "mutual assistance" and other topics, laughing and tears, and finally gaining inner cohesion beyond the past, confidently facing the camera, facing the ebb and flow of life, the sun and the moon are lacking... This is the collective growth of Chinese women's consciousness all the way from tradition.
The beauty of space, connecting the past and the present.
The beauty of makeup
Yi, here tells the story of their respective peoples.
The costumes of "Pure Land of Bliss" and "Love Like Fire" have been well improved on the basis of traditional culture and Chinese culture.
The shape of "Pure Land of Bliss", in order to suit the singer's distinctive melody, electric sound, music style, and the singing and dancing of butterflies and flower kui, from the Japanese national costume small sleeve kimono, retaining the sleeves and diagonal collar, opening the upper arm outer sleeve midseam and large sleeve cuffs, the lower skirt is all opened in the form of a large skirt, the clogs under the feet are changed to lock strap platform high boots, the skirt is obliquely decorated with various color zero segment flowers at the waist, the front is short and the back is long, the overall style is a modified hip-hop style, a two-dimensional shape sought after by young people.
The shape of "Love Like Fire", like the singer's consistent style, boldly changes from Hanfu, simple coffee-colored sheer yarn, ink rendering, short front and back length, oblique sleeves, combined with water sleeves with opera body, hair throwing performance, looking at Lisuo in the front, looking at the ethereal in the back, sandwiching the rhyme of Peking Opera Danjiao, the singing of Wusheng, and then to the dolphin sound of heaven, in the charming, gentle to sonorous and powerful singing, the shaping and instant transformation of one person and multiple angles have been completed, showing the traditional opera program beauty, very "civil, martial arts, unstoppable" style.
What both designs have in common is deconstructive design, and they are deeply cultivated in their respective national traditional cultures.
The beauty of clothing and makeup is common to women.
Comprehensive beauty
Clothing and space constitute a "small universe" of women.
Women are like flowers, and love should be nourished and watered. "Sea of Flowers", from the green song, back to the dream, looking for the source of peach blossoms, looking for the petal rain. If it can solidify at that moment, let it stand. If the blossoms are just the scenery on the road, the footprints of youth, let us brush away the sorrow for time, and dye the tenderness and grace. When love is a thing of the past, we grow up, let go, the sea is companion, and the sky is still bright. The singing is like a whisper, a heartfelt word between girlfriends.
"Sea of Flowers", with a vocal combination that transcends borders, eras, ages and styles, expresses for us the common theme of human beings - love. "Flowers" are seeds that bloom in the singer's body and sublimate on the stage of the song. The costumes and costumes of the characters use "cherry blossoms" as an element, presenting a kind of flowers, stacked yarn, mesh, lace, sequins, large sleeves, flowers and makeup "fog", combined design, so that a sweet cute princess and beautiful dream princess are well integrated in the pink two-dimensional character, beautiful and romantic.
The stage quietly changes in the sub-combined-sub-sub-division of performance scheduling. The two turned from the center of the flat ground to two independent square lifting stages on the left and the right, folded back to the same place, covered by clouds and fog, rose with the center stage, sang and duet in Chinese and Japanese languages, and used the hum of the indistinguishable piano sound and the human voice to constantly transform in the true and false voice, presenting a kind of musical inclusion, full and mellow, singing dreams blooming, our common wish. At the climax, the petals poured down, like rain and snow, and the flowers bloomed and flew all over the sky, expressing the sorrow, reluctance, nostalgia and regret in the girl's heart.
Let it be a fairy tale, a story.
Light language, the light strip is arranged vertically, ring by ring, sometimes like a huge seedling image, sometimes like a fleeting meteor shower, sometimes more like a strong gravity, it seems that there is always an irresistible field energy wrapped and wrapped around the stage, the home of this world at this moment, with the ancient style, with the galaxy, and with the human heart. Musicality, perfectly integrated into the color tone, shape and light space of the costume.
Comprehensive beauty, open up all things.
Based on the excellent traditional Chinese culture, "Riding the Wind 2023" creates a women's theme program that integrates reality shows and variety shows with an open attitude, contemporary aesthetic perspective, modern new technology means and comprehensive innovative thinking. This is the Chinese wind that blows today.
There is a kind of woman, just like a dream, riding the wind, carrying the beauty of tradition to the present day, and will also move into the future.
Source丨China Art News