"The Wind Rises and Da Chen": Dance out of a history of reclaiming the wasteland
Author: Zhang Yani Li Zhouyang
"I cried when I watched it, I was really moved!" This is the feeling of many viewers after watching the dance drama "The Wind Rises and Da Chen". The dance drama "The Wind Rises Da Chen" was prepared for two years and rehearsed for two months, incorporating a large number of "Da Chen elements". In the play, the audience can see the grand occasion of the reclamation team raising chickens and fish on Dachen Island, and the two generations of Chen Liang and Dashan are like strings of sugar gourds, connecting the heroic stories of the eventful years.
After watching this dance drama, there are only two words in my mind: lingering and passionate. Departure, landing, reclamation, harvest, passion is the main theme. In the 50s of the last century, 467 members of the reclamation team resolutely landed on the devastated Dachen Island with the dream of "building the great motherland's Dachen Island", united with the officers and soldiers guarding the island, and carried out the reclamation cause of fighting the sky and fighting the sea with enthusiasm and enthusiasm. The majestic and high-spirited dance steps show the vigor and selfless dedication of young people.
On stage, the actor's handling is very important, not only the dancing posture, but also the eyes. Eyes are as important as dance, dance makes the audience yearn for beauty, and eyes make the audience believe in the tenacity of beauty.
Looking at the reclamation team members on the stage, there was a light in everyone's eyes. Especially when Chen Liang held the red flag tightly and the picture froze, whether it was the starring actor or the group performance, everyone's face was shining. What is light, a power that makes people trust, a power full of expectations, and a force that is infinitely upward. Only by understanding the light can we understand the core of the whole story.
Before watching the dance, the author had some exchanges with the actors. They are offstage, either cute or simple, but when they arrive on stage, they immediately exude a dazzling and dazzling demeanor, from their posture to their smiles, they are intoxicating and particularly infectious. This is the actor's sense of belief in the stage, which is consistent with the spirit of reclamation of Dachen Island.
In addition to passion, there is lingering. Wife Xiaoyu and husband Dashan, mother Huifeng and father Chen Liang, they let everyone see the lingering love.
Hui Feng and Chen Liang secretly had feelings when they were washing clothes, they were back to back, shoulder to shoulder, the gentleness of bowing their heads, and the shyness of raising their eyes, confirming each other's intentions. The innocence and coquettishness of the actress and the honesty and diligence of the actor all make the audience happy. In the lingering pas de deux, a strong beam of light projected diagonally on the opposite side of the stage pushes the atmosphere of the dance drama to the extreme, allowing the audience to look forward to a happy life that is kicking off.
The two most shocking and touching duets are from Chen Liang and Huifeng, Dashan and Huifeng. The actors used beautiful and dynamic dancing to depict the difficulties and hopes of the reclamation era, the difficulties of reclamation, the difficulties of love, the hope of inheritance, and the hope of the future.
After Chen Liang's sacrifice, Huifeng's memory flashed back, watching her husband come home, she was full of joy, served food and wine, and danced with Chen Liang. The wife's joy and hope are waiting for the husband's return. The storm sounded, mixed with the mourning of his wife. Step by step, she stepped on the mournful rhythm, as if stepping on the heartbeat of the audience, and finally she sat weakly on the ground, from a flower-like girl to a demented old woman, as if only for a second, a person's spirit was suddenly emptied.
When the two danced together, they thought that every second was eternal, as soon as the dance stopped, Chen Liang waved away with love, his youth and life were dedicated to the cause of reclamation, the audience looked at each other with tears in their eyes, he and his life came to an end first, and Hui Feng was still obsessed with staying in place.
Another pas de deux is a dance between Huifeng and Oyama's mother and son. Dashan was dissatisfied with his mother all day long, and threw away his mother's picture album, and his mother slapped Dashan. After his son crossed over and watched the love of his parents, he finally understood his mother and his extraordinary father.
At the end of the dance, the mother sees the shadow of her husband in her son, implying that the son has finally become a person with great ambition and tenacity like her husband. The mother rode on her son's shoulders, and now, she wants to stand on his shoulders and see a better world. This prosperous world is as the husband wishes.
The silky, smooth and powerful dance, rhythmic tumbling and shouting, each role is fully interpreted by the actors with superb dancing postures and free emotional expression, so that the people and things of Dachen Island become full of vivid memory points, rather than rigid symbols.
The positioning, formation, and action design on the stage combined with the changes of the scene, and the expression techniques of interludes, flashbacks, and memory reproduction of the story extend the dance language beyond the fingertips and toes, to another time and space, leaving the audience with infinite aftertaste.
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