She graduated from the China Dance Academy and is the principal dancer of the China Opera and Dance Theatre. With a height of less than one meter and seven meters, she relied on her own efforts to be admitted to the North Dance with the first place in the professional class.
She uses dance to express ancient poems, and interprets one role after another in the song and dance drama with a stunning dance posture. She is a goddess-level presence in the Chinese classical dance circle and has won the laurels of many dance competitions in China.
In this issue, Ziya Tong Quqia students will take you closer to the dance life of "classical dance goddess" Tang Shiyi.
Tang Shiyi was born in 1990 to a public family in Yongzhou, Hunan Province. Probably because of the position, parents are people who do things very well, and there is no artistic atmosphere at home that can infect children.
Despite this, Xiao Shiyi has a strong artistic cell since she was a child and loves dance very much. When she was six years old, she noticed that her daughter's parents had a talent for dance, so she let her learn dance with Liu Cuiling, a youth dance teacher in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province.
Teacher Liu Cuiling
Liu Cuiling is a very senior dancer, and under her teaching, Xiao Shiyi's potential for dance has slowly been developed. In the following years, the little girl was selected by the Yongzhou Cold Water Beach Children's Art Troupe and participated in many performances.
These performance experiences in her childhood made Xiao Shiyi love dance even more, and also strengthened her determination to take the road of dance.
In 2001, Tang Shiyi performed a performance of "Red Lights and White Moon" in an art competition in Hunan Province. At a young age, she played very well in this competition and stood out from the contestants and won the first prize.
Xu Hongying, chairman of the Hunan Dancers Association, is very fond of Tang Shiyi's performance. On New Year's Day 2002, she found Liu Cuiling, who was with her at a seminar in Macau.
Teacher Xu Hongying
Immediately said that Tang Shiyi has great talent and potential in dance, must be well trained, and may be admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy in the future.
Xu Hongying's words attracted Liu Cuiling's attention. After the meeting, she immediately returned to Liuzhou to visit Tang Shiyi's parents and persuade them to send their children to the Beijing Dance Academy for deeper dance learning.
Although the parents are also very supportive of their daughter's learning of dance, Tang Shiyi is the only daughter in the family, and suddenly sends her daughter to study far away from home, and it is inevitable that she will not give up for a while.
Finally, under the persuasion of Liu Cuiling, Tang Shiyi's mother decided to let her daughter try it. Soon, the couple took their daughter to Beijing to prepare for the art examination of the North Dance.
Tang Shiyi, who was angry, stood out from nearly 10 million candidates across the country and scored in the top five. In this way, tang Shiyi, who was only 11 years old, was admitted to the Chinese dance major of the Beijing Dance Academy and officially became a professional dance student.
The so-called poor parents of the world. Tang Shiyi's mother feels that her daughter's cultural class results are very good, and her and her husband's salary income is not low, and in the future, Xiao Shiyi will definitely be able to enter a good school and get a good job.
Learning to dance is very hard, and she doesn't want her daughter to suffer from this. After some persuasion by Liu Cuiling, Tang Shiyi's mother finally put aside her worries and agreed to let her daughter enter the North Dance Annex.
But it didn't seem to go so well. Seeing that the enrollment time was getting closer and closer, Tang Shiyi was suddenly unexpected. She accidentally broke her arm while riding a bicycle.
It took at least 3 months for her arm to heal completely, which directly affected her studies. In addition, after she was injured, her mother continued to boil soup to supplement her nutrition, resulting in her getting fatter and fatter.
You know, for a dancer, body shape is so important. After his arm healed, Tang Shiyi, who had always loved dance, began to become more and more diligent.
In order to lose weight, she only eats a little bit at each meal. During class, she also kept practicing and increasing the amount of exercise. On weekdays, as long as there is nothing else to do, she will stay in the practice room all the time.
Under the efforts of Tang Shiyi, her figure gradually recovered, not only that, her professional class performance has also been greatly improved. In the next two years, Tang Shiyi's professional course results have always ranked first.
In 2006, 16-year-old Tang Shiyi was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy with the first place in the professional class during the graduation examination, majoring in classical dance education.
After entering the university, she began to precipitate herself, and while trying to improve her dance skills, she also learned to make her heart richer and more connotative.
In the same year, Tang Shiyi won the gold medal in the "Tao Li Cup" classical dance junior group in a dance competition with a solo dance "Biyu Youlan", which is also an important award in her dance process.
The following year, Tang Shiyi shined again, starring in the first song and dance drama work of her dance career, "My Peony Pavilion". In the play, she interprets the image of the heroine Du Liniang's tenderness like water with a graceful and gentle dance posture.
During this period, national professional groups such as the China Song and Dance Theater sent invitations to Tang Shiyi to join, but they were all politely rejected by her. For her at that time, dreams were the most important.
From the opening of Tang Shiyi's song and dance drama curtain in 2007 to the present, she will show several excellent works to the audience every year, and she has also won many awards that are important in the dance world.
In 2010, after graduating from Beiwu, Tang Shiyi officially became a dancer at the China Song and Dance Theatre. Just after joining the theater, she starred in the classical dance drama "Water Moon Roselle".
Once the play was performed, it was successively selected for many awards such as the "Five One Project Award" and the "National Stage Art Excellence Project". Tang Shiyi personally won a number of outstanding awards such as the 8th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award".
In 2013, Tang Shiyi successively participated in the Spring Festival Gala of Beijing Satellite TV and the dance competition reality show "Dance Forest Competition" of Oriental Satellite TV.
In the show, she won a large number of fans with a dance like a dragon. After several rounds of wonderful and fierce competition, Tang Shiyi won the runner-up of the current "Dance Forest Battle" with a record of one vote.
Although she missed the champion, she was the champion of online voting, and was called "Sunshine Dancer" by millions of netizens, and even the American judges commented that Tang Shiyi was the best Chinese dancer she had ever seen.
This stage elf has never stopped, she has not only participated in many stage plays and large and small activities, but also wrote and performed an ancient dance drama "Tang Shiyi Dance" in 2017.
The title, like her name, is very poetic. The play is inspired by Tang poetry, and she shows the style of Tang poetry in the form of dance.
After the national tour of "Tang Shiyi Dance", it was immediately loved by the Chinese people, and even the old dancers in the song and dance theater industry praised it. Tang Shiyi also successfully transformed due to the birth of the play, and since then, people have gained some new understanding of this "classical dance goddess".
Long life, only love can withstand the long years. Tang Shiyi spent more than 20 years to integrate dance into her bones, and she used her personal experience to let us see a classical dance elf whose heart resonates with dance.
In everyone's consciousness, most of the dancers are tall, and this legendary goddess of the dance world is less than one meter and seven meters tall, but she has won all the gold medals in the dance competitions she participated in with her strength.
Therefore, there is no so-called perfection in this world, and seemingly perfect people are moving forward step by step in tempering. Tang Shiyi said that what she asks of herself is to work as hard as possible within her ability!
But every time she played on the stage, she vividly showed every role she played, interpreting classical Chinese culture from the perspective of a dancer.
Dreams will not shine, and it is you who chase dreams that will shine. If you choose a life, don't care whether it is different from ordinary people, don't care about other people's words, just move forward firmly.
At that faint end, there will be a braver and better self waiting for you. In this issue, The young students of Qia have told you about this point. Which of Tang Shiyi's dance works do you like the most?
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