"East-West-South-North Dance" is a national song and dance work initiated by the famous young dancer Maize Ti, which invited the young composer Li Yan to create and complete, and the work was deeply loved and praised by everyone after being released on major platforms; the east- west, south- and north are intended to be a community of destiny without language boundaries, identity boundaries, and ethnic boundaries. No matter where you come from, we will coexist without distinction between you and me. Form a solid community lifeline in the new era.
The work uses songs and dances to create a new era of red songs and dances from the three aspects of lyrics, tunes and dances. In line with the aesthetic and communication habits of the masses in the current era, the style of the music is cheerful, relaxed and dynamic; the lyrics adopt the easy-to-understand, catchy language of the people, anthropomorphize the east, west, south and north, and establish a cordial sense of national integration in the form of mutual greetings.
As the most primitive language of human beings, dance can become a channel for people to communicate with each other, no matter what country, what color, or what language. Through the way of dance, it can quickly close the distance between people, thus generating resonance between lives. Dance is also the easiest way to communicate and spread. Each ethnic group also has a unique dance vocabulary, and the fusion of their vocabulary into a common vocabulary is the core meaning of "common dance"!
It is worth mentioning that when everyone dances together, the choreography and design of dance movements can integrate the vocabulary and movements of various dances, highlighting the common language of dance. In the action choreography, The teacher adopts the gestures of gratitude and blessing of various ethnic groups (palm up) throughout the dance climax movement, the crossed gesture of the peace dove represents the wish for peace and unity, combined with the rhythm of music to highlight the national attitude of all ethnic groups to the party, the action design is fashionable, simple and easy to learn, fully highlighting the modern national appearance of China in the new era.