From the dance performance in the Tokyo Olympic special program "wassai" to the solo dance of Moriyama's future white at the opening ceremony, it has caused continuous controversy after its broadcast. Some netizens complained about "Hades", "Horror" and "Can't Understand". Some people also stand up to refute the "rebellious spirit" and "dark aesthetics" of popular Japanese dance, thinking that it is very "advanced".
Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony dance
Unexpectedly, a dance performance at the closing ceremony on the evening of August 8 once again brought "discomfort" to many audiences. A dancer dressed in green dances in memory of the deceased, whose movements are distorted and their expressions sluggish and painful. This performance was "sprayed" on Weibo hot search. "Closing ceremony dance can not understand" Weibo read 200 million, discussed 13,000. Some netizens said: "Although there is a profound meaning, I am still scared." ”
Tokyo Olympics Special Program "Wassai"
Why did several performances cause such controversy?
Dance critic Fang Jiajun said: "'Dance Step' embodies a tyrannical body aesthetic, which is related to the complex background of the times and has a great academic controversy. It is obviously inappropriate to over-present the 'dance step' style in the Olympic Games, at least for most people it is too remote and distant from the public aesthetic. The emotional color is also too obscure and dark, and it is difficult to cause spiritual resonance. ”
Japanese dancer Mirai Moriyama performs a solo dance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics
Chen Li, the planner of the dance program, watched several dance programs and did not resist. In her view, in the world of contemporary dance, there are more subversive forms of performance, but when such a form of expression is placed under a high-definition close-up, it is magnified and gazed, so many people feel that they have been aesthetically impacted.
"The opening and closing dances this time are indeed very different from the program styles of the large-scale events we have seen in the past, not only the Chinese audience, but also many foreign audiences will have the same feelings when they watch it." Now a new generation of young people are accustomed to expressing their views through social media, so it is expected that various voices will appear on the Internet. Chen Li said.
So, what's the problem?
Fang Jiajun believes that the "Tokyo 8 Minutes" five years ago let the world see that Japan is not without creativity, not without high technology, not without good musicians, not without an international standard production team. The question is, what to show the world, to express the spiritual pursuit and value orientation of contemporary Japanese people? In terms of cultural choices, there has been a deviation. "The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games should seek common ground in the broadest sense of aesthetic consciousness and should follow the principle of 'both national and world'. We have a tolerant and accepting attitude towards the different cultures of the world, but we need to feel the positive and sunny content that coincides with the Olympic spirit. ”
"The dark painting style of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was "complained about"? There's a group of Tokyo specialties you don't know about, and Lee Shane, author of "Edoko," asks the question: Why did the Tokyo Olympics go against the jubilant, enthusiastic design of previous olympics? "Over the past year, the world has been almost stagnant and chaotic, and plague, death, fear and isolation are key words that no one can turn a blind eye to," he wrote. As a global event, the Tokyo Olympics clearly cannot be ignored. "If we copy the design model of the past, it is a blasphemy against those who have died and the unfortunate infected who are still struggling with life and death."
But Fang Jiajun believes that it is precisely under the epidemic that audiences around the world are looking forward to such a grand event as the Olympic Games to eliminate the psychological shadow brought by the epidemic to all mankind. "In the current situation, each of us does not want the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to be loud and prosperous; what we need to feel is sincerity, and it is precisely this that too little information can be received." The opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics clearly did not meet the common expectations. ”
Controversy over the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics is still simmering. In the face of the same performance, some say beauty, some say ugly. Fang Jiajun believes that healthy aesthetics have established guidelines, and we cannot blindly "take ugliness as beauty".
Chen Li found the emergence of two different voices very interesting: "One is to spit out and express his feelings in a creative and humorous way; the other is to popularize science, collecting various academic materials to analyze this type of dance." I don't think we have to say that these two voices are opposites. On the contrary, these two voices form a complete social group, allowing us to see that cultures and perspectives can be diversified. Of course, no matter which view you hold, the premise is still to be calm, tolerant, and the embodiment of the Olympic spirit. ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Zhang Yi Title Image Source: Video Screenshot Image Editor: Shao Jing
Source: Author: Wu Tong