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"This cross-Chinese New Year's Eve, I watched the folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" at station B, you can't imagine how happy I am!" "Oriental aesthetic ceiling!" At the beginning of the new year, #红楼梦 big dream # and so on on on the hot search. Just a few days ago, its excerpt "Flower Burial" just appeared at the "Dance Ceremony Huazhang" Chinese Dance Festival, and the first episode of CCTV's large-scale program "National Stage" presented the front and back scenes of the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions".
Since its premiere in September 2021, more than 210,000 people have watched the performance, and it has also won the 13th "Lotus Award", becoming a real "phenomenal" dance drama, and this "Red Mansion Boom" will continue to rise.
Excerpt "Garden" Station B New Year's Eve
"Dream of Red Mansions" and other hot searches
Gently lifting the curtains and pushing the screen, the "Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" are dressed in bright costumes and dance slowly, and the scene of the Red Mansion slowly unfolds in front of the audience like an oil painting...... On the evening of December 31, 2023, the folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" appeared on this stage with an excerpt "Garden".
The folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" adopts the structure of a chapter hui novel, and the twelve chapters, such as "Entering the House", "Fantasy", "Sour", "Provincial Family", "Garden", "Funeral Flowers", "Lantern Festival", "Lost Jade", "Chongxi", "Reunion", "Flower Burial" and "Returning to the Great Wilderness", each has its own title, which is independent and can be connected into a chapter.
In "Garden", there are Baochai fluttering butterflies, Xiangyun drunk lying peony medicine, and the fresh interest of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. The different chapters of these original works are cleverly integrated by the dance drama to show the audience the vitality of the Grand View Garden.
The reporter learned that the excerpt "Garden" on station B is a "side story" that meets the expectations of the audience. In the original work, the "Twelve Golden Hairpins" did not appear in the Grand View Garden at the same time, but in the dance drama, when the Twelve Golden Hairpins were prosperous in Jiafu, they wore gorgeous clothes and danced together.
The daughter of the twelve golden hairpins, the delicate and flexible posture and steps, and the luxurious and exquisite Jiafu are the profound imprints left by the thousand-year-old ritual and music civilization, revealing the oriental elegance from the inside out.
The reporter learned from the Jiangsu Grand Theater that unlike the orchestra pit that can be "raised" on the stage of the theater performance, the New Year's Eve party of Station B presents a "customized version" of "Garden", in order to bring the "non-shrinking" aesthetic experience of the excerpt, the director also made minor modifications to the dance section suitable for the stage of the party.
Chinese have always had no resistance to oriental aesthetics, and sure enough, the barrage filled the screen during the performance——
"The many freeze-frames of the twelve golden hairpins are simply a beautiful world famous painting"; As beautiful and fleeting as a flower, I truly understand the meaning of 'a thousand reds crying, ten thousand flowers are sad together'"; The most beautiful paragraph, I can't see it at all, my eyes are so busy, who understands the charm of this posture and figure, it really fascinates me";" These are the chief sisters of the various dance troupes, they are simply amazing"; Unilaterally announced, "Garden" is the best in the audience"; Just this one clip is amazing enough, and I can't wait to go into the theater to see it!"
After the excerpt "Garden" was broadcast, the entry "Dream of Red Mansions, Lore" and other entries immediately appeared on the hot search, and the number of video views on various platforms remained high, and the amazing dancing of the dancers attracted heated discussions among netizens.
Excerpt "Flower Burial" debuted in the "Dance Ceremony"
The soul cry shows the charm of authenticity
On the evening of December 27, 2023, the annual tour of the Chinese dance industry, "Dance Ceremony Huazhang", was staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The 14 works of different nationalities, different themes and different forms reflect the thinking of dance creators, and also highlight the scene of dance art blooming.
The folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" brought excerpts from "Flower Burial", with twelve golden hairpins, twelve high-backed chairs, and twelve gorgeous colorful clothes...... After the dance, it received long-lasting applause from the audience.
The excerpt "Flower Burial" is in the eleventh chapter of the folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions", If the previous paragraphs mostly use dance to restore the classic storyline in "Dream of Red Mansions", then "Flower Burial" jumps out of the creators' thinking about life.
This scene is no longer a simple plot dance, emotional dance or situational dance, but contains an artistic philosophy, a spiritual dialogue between the actors and the characters in the play, and an important scene for the audience to communicate with the soul of "Dream of Red Mansions" - the flowers of the Grand View Garden have fallen, the fragrance has disappeared, the story has been reset, and everything has returned to zero. Twelve women dressed in plain clothes sat on twelve high-backed chairs, they fell, or tore, or broke free, or suffered, or screamed, but they still could not get rid of the confinement of the "chairs" on them, their youth and lives were buried here, trapped in the "Grand View Garden". The blooming and blooming of youth, the burning and withering of life, are opened and broken...... The audience was embarrassed.
CCTV's "National Stage" reveals the secrets in front of and behind the scenes
The creators said, "This is my life dance drama"
Performing arts are simple and complex arts. Whether it looks good or not, it is simple and can be seen at a glance, but the sun arch in the creative process is a complex multi-type and multi-dimensional running-in progress. The apprehension of the actors, the director's pursuit of art, the fine-tuning of the stage design, and the relaxed daily life behind the scenes......
On December 30, 2023, China Central Radio and Television's large-scale cultural program "National Stage" will be broadcast, and the first episode presents the front and back scenes of the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions".
The aesthetics of the folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" is traditional aesthetics, and its aesthetics and atmosphere, including the design of stage art and costume details, are packaged, deconstructed and integrated with traditional Chinese vocabulary. The show is more than an hour long, and reveals its birth process in a real way.
After watching the show, many netizens said that they witnessed the gorgeous bloom of the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" from zero to one, and also felt the charm of the stage intertwined with light and shadow from another dimension.
The two directors, Li Xing and Li Chao, said with emotion that they still remember the apprehension when they first received this project. Although the road to creation is not a smooth road, but the main creators "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers", standing on the shoulders of giants to recreate, everyone will treat the awe of traditional culture and the "ambition" of artistic creation in the palm of the hand, there is awe, restraint and unrestrained, to present the power of Chinese excellent traditional culture, the power of Chinese oriental aesthetics, "our roots will always be deeply rooted in tradition, but the audience we face and the direction of creation is always the future", and finally realize the cocoon into a butterfly, attracting people into a "dream".
In the show, the main creators, leading actors, and behind-the-scenes staff opened their hearts to talk about the creation and rehearsal stories, with tears, sweat, laughter, a sense of achievement, satisfaction, and a sense of belonging. They said that in the process of creating the play for months or even years, they found their own growth and wanted to "live" in this drama all the time, "This is my life dance drama".
Liao Yi, general manager of Jiangsu Grand Theatre, talked about the "Red Chamber Boom" triggered by the folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" among young audiences, and believed that "heroes have come out of teenagers since ancient times", and a masterpiece like "Dream of Red Mansions" should be interpreted by young people. The folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" has indeed completed the contemporary interpretation of traditional culture with a youth "reader", which has aroused heated discussions from all parties.
Multi-dimensional circle breaking, hot discussions, wave after wave
Netizens urged the "2024 tour plan" online
With multi-dimensional breakthroughs and multiple discussions, Jiangsu Grand Theatre's original folk dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" has delivered a perfect answer sheet to 2023-
In addition to the stunning evening party of Station B, the behind-the-scenes analysis of "National Stage", and the gorgeous appearance of "Dance Ceremony Huazhang", this year, the national dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" also won the 13th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Dance Drama Award, ushering in 100 performances.
All kinds of hot searches have attracted more attention, so the problem also comes. The reporter saw that many netizens urged the "2024 tour plan" online under the official accounts of multiple social platforms of Jiangsu Grand Theater.
Some netizens said that they watched these shows at the end of the year, and they were simply stunned, and they felt that it would be more difficult to grab tickets for the performance in 2024. Some netizens directly complained that they had never grabbed tickets before, so it was their turn to watch a show in 2024. Many netizens prayed online that "we must grab tickets in 2024". More people are asking, hurry up and "continue to play music and dance", "the 2024 tour plan will be released soon", "when will the 2024 show be officially announced".
The reporter learned from the Jiangsu Grand Theater that the number of tours in the new year will be announced soon, so please pay attention to the news on the official platform.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Proofread by Faye Wong