Talent and beauty meet, and the dream of soaring yellow and soaring has emerged
Dance is the whole of Liu Yan's life. Since she was a child, she has had a dancing figure and a smart dance posture. At the age of 17, Liu Yan, who was still in high school, was escorted to the Chinese Classical Dance Department of the Beijing Dance Academy with his outstanding talent.
Here, her dreams have begun to be caressed and formed.
After entering the dance hall, she never slackened in her study of good kung fu, and her graceful dancing posture and zero-mistake technique made her one of the best in the academy. In her junior year, Liu Yan's solo dance "Rouge Buckle" conquered her teachers and classmates and won the highest female dance award in the 3rd "Lotus Cup" National Competition.
Throughout her college years, Liu Yan won countless awards, her dancing was known as outstanding and beautiful, and the stage was her paradise.
After graduation, Liu Yan successfully stayed in school and became a member of the dance troupe of Beijing Dance Academy. This is her dream job, to be a dance companion and pass on her dance from generation to generation.
At the age of 24, Liu Yan ushered in the first peak of her life, and she was selected to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Dancing with idols Yang Liping and Tan Yuanyuan, Liu Yan performed a flowery dance in a red dress.
Liu Yan became famous and became the most dazzling dance star of the new generation at that time. At the age of 26, she completed her master's degree and became a young teacher and dancer at the Beijing Dance Academy.
Liu Yan feels that life is already intoxicated, and she is at a time when her career is in full swing and her dream has come true.
If you make a mistake, your dreams will be shattered
In 2006, after Liu Yan's brilliant debut in the Spring Festival Gala, he ushered in the second highlight moment of his life. That was the day she met dance director Lang Kun. Two artistic hearts burst into a stirring spark, and they fell in love.
Lang Kun is 23 years older than Liu Yan and already has a wife and daughter, but this does not prevent the two hearts from getting closer and closer.
In 2008, when the relationship between the two was like glue, Liu Yan received an invitation to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, and she would dance the highlight of "Silk Road" solo.
For her and Lang Kun, this is undoubtedly a double happiness. In June, Lang Kun took the initiative to divorce his wife, seemingly in order to be with Liu Yan. Liu Yan felt that she had found true love, and she was so sweet that she was about to fly.
Who knew that tragedy would strike at this time. In July, Liu Yan accidentally fell from a three-meter-high platform during rehearsals, and the world spun in an instant. With heart-rending pain, she clearly felt that her dream of being a dancer in this life was shattered.
The fear of not being able to dance anymore overshadowed all her hopes and joys. At this time, what she needed most was Lang Kun's company and waiting, but she never waited for him to visit once.
Liu Yan spent the night before the opening ceremony in despair, and Lang Kun's farewell without saying goodbye undoubtedly made matters worse. She was held tightly in her mother's arms and cried bitterly, like a lost child.
No one told her that Lang Kun actually only regarded her as a lover and would not marry her. "Can you still dance?" This question tormented her to death. Everything she once had was wiped out in an instant, and the unbearable pain almost broke her down.
Metamorphosis and rebirth, breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly and flying again
After being discharged from the hospital, Liu Yan faced the darkest period of his life. She had to put herself in a wheelchair and face the fact that she couldn't stand. Walking in the familiar North Dance campus, Liu Yan couldn't help but come to the dance studio where he used to train.
Looking at the seriously rehearsed figure in the window, tears blurred his vision. She wanted to rush in and tell them that I could still jump, that I would be able to fly again.
At that moment, Liu Yan found the belief to stand. With amazing perseverance, she arrived at the rehabilitation center and began a long and painful process of exercising. Every painstaking stretching and stretching and mechanical instrument training that forgot to sleep and eat made Liu Yan see a glimmer of hope.
Once again, she believed that there would be miracles.
After more than half a year of struggle, Liu Yan was finally able to perform hand dance in a wheelchair. She wrote and directed the program "Butterfly Fluttering" to participate in the talent show, and the audience stood and applauded in amazement.
The judges couldn't believe that this was the woman who had been a high paraplegic, who had been reborn from the ashes and was ready to fly.
This became the starting point for Liu Yan to stand on the stage again. At the age of 30, she finished teaching at the university and entered the Chinese Academy of Arts to study for a doctorate. In six years, she devoted herself to the study of classical Chinese hand dance and published many papers.
Now she has returned to Beiwu as a scholar and mentor, and has devoted all her efforts to cultivating students. She found the greatest thing in her life, and that was to share the magic of dance.
Dance out of life, courage lights up and inspires the world
After being reborn, Liu Yan found the meaning of life beyond dance. She actively participated in public welfare undertakings and became the first disabled artist in China to win the "Tara Prize" in Vienna.
This international award highlights her spirit of self-improvement and spreads her story around the world.
Liu Yan often appears at various charity galas, and she sits on the stage and dances like a blue butterfly. The absence of the support of her feet does not prevent her from swaying calmly, and her soft hands outline beautiful lines in the air.
The scene resounded with warm applause and cheers, and people were moved by her tenacity and courage. Her innate talent for dancing is a gift from God, and that compelling perseverance is truly unparalleled.
As a public welfare spokesperson, Liu Yan has the opportunity to contact and help more disabled friends. She patiently teaches Xi dance to children with special needs, so that the children can also feel the innate artistic charm.
They may not be able to complete difficult movements, but smiling and laughing are the most moving dance language in the world. Liu Yan used his life story to tell the children that don't give up, pain is temporary, as long as you have dreams and courage in your heart, there is no other shore that you can't reach.
Reborn at the age of 41, Zhang Yimou danced unforgettable in his life
Today, 15 years later, the 41-year-old Liu Yan has become a leader in the new generation of dance instructors. Her self-choreographed and directed dance drama "Blue Skirt" was staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and every show was full.
The audience applauded the figure on the stage, and couldn't help but think of the woman who continued to soar in contempt for fate 15 years ago.
The success of this dance drama invited high praise from the chief director Zhang Yimou that year. Fifteen years ago, he witnessed the terrible scene of Liu Yan falling from a height, and he also guarded her by the bedside and cried in despair.
Now that we meet again, Liu Yan has been reborn, and she has proved the invincibility of life with perseverance and wisdom. Director Zhang couldn't help but be moved, and he shed tears for the first time under the spotlight.
"Liu Yan is the most self-reliant person I have ever met. She paid a terrible price for the perfection of the opening ceremony, but she never gave up. Zhang Yimou never forgot the doomed summer of 2008, and never forgot the promise he made to this brave girl.
Now watching her bloom on another stage, he is sincerely proud and pleased for her.
A dance belonging to the disabled is blooming under the leadership of Liu Yan, and she has used her life's work to achieve an excellent life that cannot stand but can be swayed freely.
Her story is like a beam of light that pierces through the clouds, illuminating every soul whose path is bleak. This is her courage to achieve miracles, and it is also the most important stroke in Zhang Yimou's memory.