The dance program of this year's Spring Festival Gala was evaluated by netizens as "Shangdafen". From the main venue to the branch venues, whether it is pure dancing and dancing, there is a dizzying beauty, like a flowing picture scroll, each showing all kinds of style.
In addition to the original "Koi" created by the main station, which firmly captured the audience with the charm and beauty of "Wu Belt Dangfeng" and the ultra-difficult artistic innovation, and was rated as "so beautiful that it soars to tears" by countless netizens, there are three dances that are absolutely not to be missed.
To its finest art, "Wing Chun" soars all the way "sass"
In the movie "The Grandmaster", Gong Er, the only daughter of the Baguazhang Grandmaster, used the word "fan": "My father often said that people like me can become famous by singing, and monks can become monks, because I will be fascinated." ”
Fans, can refine skills. The Spring Festival Gala and the dance "Wing Chun" crew are upgrading with this spirit of "fan" to create this visual feast of "dance + martial arts". When Ip Man and the head of the gossip palm made a move, they greeted and closed, pushed and pushed, punched and palmed, and made moves, like a wind and clouds, thunder and lightning, and the audience's eyes lit up, and they thought in their hearts, "It's so sassy, it's so beautiful!"
"Wing Chun" comes from an excerpt from the dance drama "Wing Chun", which has been staged for 100 performances, but it is a special version in the Spring Festival Gala. In order to create a more meaningful imagination space, Shen Haixiong, director of the main station, put forward several suggestions when recommending this dance drama clip, including the actor's costume changed from black Xiangyun yarn to crimson, and the relationship between the male and female protagonists should be changed from the male protagonist "defeating" the heroine one by one to learning martial arts from each other, and the opening scene uses the male protagonist's martial arts silhouette to enhance the attractiveness, and uses the silhouette effect to show the appearance of "Ip Man". When the lights are turned on, the three calligraphy characters of "Wing Chun" on the window lattice fade away, and the silhouette of "Ip Man" is like a dancing ink painting. From virtual to real, from flat to three-dimensional, the design of "silhouette" greatly increases the sense of hierarchy and ornamentation of the solo dance in just half a minute, creating a shadow of Ip Man for the empty stage, and the visual shock is instantly magnified, which can be called the finishing touch.
The beauty of "Wing Chun" lies in the fact that it has both the god of martial arts and the shape of dance, righteousness and style, and even the costumes are full of details. The costume of "Wing Chun" is made of intangible cultural heritage fabric "Xiangyun Yarn" from Ip Man's hometown of Foshan, and the dye is wild dioscorea that has been grown for more than 15 years.
In the flowing "integration of dance and martial arts", we see not only beauty, but also a spirit. Cultivating righteousness, helping the weak, using Wu Furen, and being gentle and elegant, the values of Wing Chun are the embodiment of the excellent traditional Chinese culture of upward-looking, benevolent, robust and introverted character.
The Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported on Wing Chun on the front page of the Lunar New Year. He Dongping, the former editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily, and experts and scholars in the capital's cultural circles praised the successful landing of "Wing Chun" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in an interview.
Pure and true, how cute and elegant the little swan is
When you mention "goose goose goose", you naturally have to look forward to "song to the sky". Luo Bingwang, Tang and Song poems, Chinese culture.... Seeing the title "Goose Goose Goose" on the program list, probably many viewers thought it was a poem. When the curtain opened, Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" played, and the atmosphere instantly became dignified and elegant, but the next thing that appeared was a group of round little geese with twisting buttocks.
Every year, the Spring Festival Gala is indispensable for children's programs, and the director team insists that children's dances should see the world from the eyes of children, and must conform to the expression of children's bodies. These "little swans" are from Yiwu, the hometown of King Luo Bin, and they use their own understanding to show the unique charm of the "white goose playing in the water" in "Song of the Goose". The classic action of "kneeling and swimming" portrays the "anthurium plucking the clear wave" vividly, and the "cocked ass" is even more cute to the audience, and the "short step" swaying left and right is still from the children's ghost horse "creation", and the whole dance is full of childlike innocence.
In the initial version, there was only a "little white goose", and the director of the main station proposed to present the children's naïve and cute to the extreme, with a sense of humor and drama, and suggested adding a "little yellow duck" who was "making trouble". After re-choreographing, the dance suddenly has more aura, and the "little yellow duck" shuttles among the big and small white geese, which not only adds a touch of warmth to the overall cool tone, but also makes the dance content richer and more childlike.
In the second half of the dance, the performers from Shanghai Ballet recreated the real "Swan Lake", when the cuteness collides with elegance, the story of an ugly duckling and a white swan is full of fun. Although these professional ballet dancers have performed hundreds of performances of "Swan Lake", there are still new challenges on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. For example, when dancing on tiptoe on a lifting platform, the actor needs to overcome the fear of height.
There is also the issue of "learning to laugh". In the usual performance of "Swan Lake", the actor wants to create a noble image, usually does not have large facial expressions, especially rarely laughs. But on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for family fun, the director asked to show a warm and sunny and joyful spirit, which made the "professional swans" who are accustomed to immersing themselves in a calm and calm atmosphere really practice "expression management". Finally, in the contact with the children, the "little goose" drove the "big goose", and the "Swan Family" finally presented a creative program that blended Chinese and Western cultures, and coexisted with cuteness and elegance.
至净青白，一段瓷韵看见整个“China”
The porcelain shadow reflects the blue, refining the smooth and warm texture, and the beauty of the vessel under the simple color is shown in the dance painting type. An excerpt from the dance drama "Only I am Qingbai" "Porcelain Shadow" appeared at the Spring Festival Gala, which directly led to the popularity of Jingdezhen. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Jingdezhen Chinese Ceramics Museum was crowded, and many tourists went to the "Qingbai porcelain".
If the blue and white porcelain is the "porcelain of the capital" of Jingdezhen, then the blue and white porcelain is the "porcelain of the town" of Jingdezhen. At that time, under the general pattern of "blue in the south and white in the north" of China's porcelain-making territory, the emergence of Qingbai porcelain can be said to be the unification of aesthetics and cultural integration of the north and south, and also laid the foundation for the emergence of blue and white porcelain and various colored porcelain.
"Porcelain Shadow" takes blue and white porcelain as the visual starting point, and the costumes are inked on the color, extracting the two traditional "positive colors" of "green" and "white", showing the complex and simple oriental aesthetics. Through the body language of the dancers, the unique charm of Qingbai porcelain spanning thousands of years is revealed.
"Rotation" is the finishing touch of the dance section, which is inspired by the porcelain blank, and the shoes worn under the long skirt are "hidden mysteries", and the dancers rotate on the turntable to simulate the dynamics of porcelain molding.
The fire is endless, and the inheritance is not endless. "Porcelain Shadow" shows an ingenious breakthrough of Qingbai ceramic culture, responds to the ingenuity inheritance and creative surge behind porcelain with contemporary aesthetics, and focuses on the new achievements of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture under the cooperation model between the central and local governments.
Dance fans found that the dance program configuration of this year's Spring Festival Gala is too high, and only the stage of the Spring Festival Gala can gather so many active top dancers. But the success of the dance program is not only due to the talent of the top dancers, but most importantly, the sincerity of the creators.
It is not difficult to understand that the Spring Festival Gala dance programs are out of the circle, they have a common feature, that is, they firmly grasp the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, and find an expression path that conforms to contemporary aesthetics in body language. When those generations' styles, emotions, and skills are presented in an ingenious way, the audience's cultural genes are instantly awakened, and they find that the "goose goose goose" that we have long been familiar with in Wing Chun, ceramics, and kindergarten can still be so amazing, so cute, and so majestic.
We look forward to the emergence of more dance works that embody Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style in the future Spring Festival Gala, which will continue to move us, amaze us and nourish us.
(Source: CMG Watch)