A "Hongyan Goose" is tender like water and air, and lets people see the vast distance of the grassland sky between the low wanderings; a "war horse" is full of strength and pity, so that people can see the introverted tenacity and affection of the grassland people; a "City Shepherd" is spontaneous and humorous, full of Mongolian freedom; a "Dream Eji" soft intestines are broken a thousand times, making countless people cry... These dances, engraved in people's memories, are the "labels" of the steppe dancer Li Degejing.
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Dance work "Eji in a Dream".
"I'm from Hongyan's hometown." Born in the Urat steppe, Li Degejing likes to introduce himself in this way. The Urat grass reason Wulat classic folk song "Hongyan Goose" is well-known, and his wild goose flying from the grassland is also known as the "grassland dance fairy" with its unique dance temperament.
In 2014, he was the top ten contestants of "China's Good Dance", the annual champion of the 2018 "New Dance Forest Conference", the judge of the 2019 "Avenue of Stars" Weekly Competition, Monthly Competition and Annual Finals, and in 2019, he achieved outstanding results in public welfare activities such as China's top dancers entering the campus, overseas tour, and touring classrooms.
In February 2020, Li Degejing participated in the recording of the dance version of "Ordinary Angel" online, paying tribute to countless ordinary people on the front line of the "epidemic". Born in 1986, Li Degejing is also the youngest director of the China Literary and Art Volunteer Association. On March 23, Li Degejing attached a poster for a public welfare performance on Weibo: "2020 Continues - Inheriting Culture and Passing on Love".
Li Degejing participated in the program "Dreammaker".
Discover dance in life
Li Degejing was one of the first volunteers of the China Literary and Art Volunteer Association, and since the first performance established by the association in 2014, he has not been left behind.
"We went to a village in Bijie, Guizhou, to perform, in addition to the old people in the village are children, some families have several children, all left-behind children, seven or eight years old to take care of three or four years old. It was very sad to see the children so lonely, and there was the dance of "Left-behind Children". ”
"A husband and wife sentry in Xinjiang, that place is so quiet that a bird call is strange, they have been there for more than ten years, raising the national flag every day." We improvised the dance 'husband and wife outpost', and the two of us cried until they couldn't stop crying. If you don't feel this kind of dance on the spot, it is difficult to create. ”
Li Degejing said, "Volunteering also has a very attractive place for me, that is, doing the same thing with people in different fields, there will be a lot of inspiration collision." For example, when creating "Left-behind Children", one lyricist expressed: 'The bridge and the flowing water talk, the birds talk to the flowers, the frogs talk to the rice paddies, and I talk to myself.' He expressed the loneliness of children vividly and gave me inspiration to create. Another calligrapher gave me a three-word calligraphy work after watching the dance I danced: 'Jing Qi Shen', which he said was the rhythm found in my dance. I think this is the collision of art, but also the inspiration of the environment and life. Many places of volunteer service are places that individuals are unlikely to go to, and to feel at the scene of life, which is the source of creation. ”
Participated in the program "Good Dance in China".
Temper the dance in the competition
When he saw Li Degejing in the rehearsal hall, he was talking to a student: "Dance must have its own thinking, but also be polished and tempered thousands of times, and muscle memory must be formed." ”
Li Degejing, who was wearing a plaster on his left knee, said: "I have been injured for two years, but I don't want to rest, and now I have a lot of ideas, and I can add more years to the work." ”
Li Degejing has always been a person with ideas.
The public's familiarity with Li Degejing began with the "Chinese Good Dance" in 2014, but Li Degejing's award-winning experience in the industry was already brilliant before participating in the "Chinese Good Dance".
After working in a song and dance troupe, he resigned and was admitted to the dance department of the Central University for Nationalities. Li Degejing said, "At that time, there were not so many platforms, and many times in the dance troupe was to dance in large groups or to accompany singers, and I wanted to have my own dance art works." ”
In his senior year in 2009, he caught up with the triennial "Tao Li Cup" competition.
He said, "Before going on the field, I was a little over-excited and jumped non-stop, and after jumping to the middle of the stage, I felt that my muscles were particularly heavy, and my brain could be excited for a long time, but the muscles would be slack after a long time, and then I had experience." "Tao Li Cup Li Dege Jing won the Outstanding Performance Award. Subsequently, in 2009, Li Degejing successively participated in the Beijing Dance Competition, the North China Five Provinces Dance Competition, the CCTV Dance Competition, and the Lotus Cup Dance Competition, and won gold awards.
When Li Degejing, who won many awards, looked back, he found that his classmates had found jobs, and he had changed from a fresh graduate to a former student.
Li Dege on the stage.
"I didn't want to enter the unit again, so I did 4 years of art training, I thought that these 4 years were a low tide period, and looking back, this was 4 years of precipitation." Basic skills, classical dance, modern dance, technical skills, choreography techniques, improvisation, Mongolian and Tibetan Dynasty Dai and other national dances must be taught by themselves, and there are many choreographed dances, there is more thinking about dance, and the body is constantly practicing. Li Degejing looked back on the 4 years of dance training road is very emotional.
He said, "At the end of 2013, 'China Good Dance' found me. My first dance on the stage of the good dance, "City Shepherd", was rearranged from the dance of the 'Tao Li Cup' competition, but it felt completely different to dance after a few years. Tired of running on the grassland, take a break to drink water and touch the beard This very witty dance comes from life. Experience and mentality have changed, the rhythm has changed from pure allegro to a combination of fast and slow, I have enjoyed the dance, and the audience can feel a sense of ease. ”
Looking back on the TV programs he has participated in over the years, Li Degejing said, "The harvest of one month of training in 'China Good Dance' is particularly great. Since then, I have been exposed to street dance, jazz, and national standards, and I have incorporated everything I have learned into my body language, and my body is more free, and Mongolian dance is richer. And the stage 360-degree camera has no dead angles, a minute and a half, all the action details, facial expressions, and freeze-frame modeling are required to practice to the extreme, which exercises my stage accuracy and camera sense. ”
"Participating in 'Dreammaker', the advice given to me by the mentor Teacher Jiang Wen is not only to be precise in body movements, but also to precipitate culture and physical fitness, and he talked to me about drama conflicts, stage scheduling, and story lines, which gave me a lot of inspiration."
"Participating in "This is Street Dance" also caused a lot of sparks. Street dance has a strong sense of rhythm, Mongolian dance traditional back pulling without point pause, but combined with street dance, pulling back can have a strong sense of dotted rhythm. ”
"When I attend the New Dance Forest Conference, I have to consider working with my dance partner, which exercises my double dance."
Since 2014, Li Degejing has left classic dances such as "Hongyan", "City Shepherd" and "Eji in Dreams" on the stage of "China Good Dance"; left innovative dances such as "War Horse" on the stage of "Dreammaker"; on the stage of "This is Street Dance", "War Horse" was once again stunning in the form of group dance; on the stage of "New Dance Forest Conference", he and his partners left impressive jazz dance, modern dance, Mongolian dance and other creative dances with different styles.
Li Degejing said, "Every journey has gains and growths. I have been with the idea of inheriting and developing Mongolian dance, I think it is necessary to add modern and contemporary elements to the folk dance, such as the rhythm of modern dance, the cutting and breaking of street dance, the combination of various rhythms and beats will produce a very magical effect, and we must try to do a good inheritance in innovation. ”
In 2019, Li Degejing participated in "A Good Lesson" as a class representative and participated in the "Walk of Fame" as a judge. Teaching is mutually beneficial, innovative inheritance, this road he has been exploring.
Enjoy dancing as you grow up
Affectionate interpretation.
Looking back on his college life, Li Degejing said, "At that time, I was a part-time actor in my spare time, dancing in a theater-style restaurant with Mongolian food, and "Ordos Wedding" could earn 90 yuan a day by dancing, and I danced for three and a half years, about 1,000 times. The troupe has one person on a rotation every day, I am a substitute actor, and the people who rest every day are not in the same position, so I will jump in all positions of "Ordos Wedding". ”
"So far, I'm especially thankful that I've been doing what I love. Minor illnesses and injuries do not want to leave the stage. Li Dege said with a smile.
His love makes each of his dances full of emotional strength, however, sometimes it is also an incurable pain. In "Eji in the Dream" that has touched countless people on the stage of "Good Dance in China", Li Degejing rarely dances again, because he is sad once.
"Grandma had just died, and I danced this dance in honor of Grandma. The last action of wanting to hug but holding empty, and folding your hands to pray for blessings, are all improvisations of love. Grandma often prayed for the blessing of her family, and that dance ended up making it impossible to tell whether it was a dream or a realistic emotion. ”
Li Degejing said that when Grandma left, it was during the final of "Good Dance in China". The first 3 months were his most popular time, the appearance fee suddenly changed from hundreds to tens of thousands, Weibo comments private messages from a few to thousands, walking on the road there will be passers-by to propose a group photo. "The change will not be adaptable, but it will also be happy." It was at this time that my grandmother passed away. Sometimes you think, I'd rather not have any of this, and I'd just want to be able to go back to 3 months ago with my grandmother. ”
Li Degejing also talked about the touch of a commercial performance in Shenzhen many years ago. He said, "That performance invited a lot of people from the Inner Mongolian performing arts circles, including Teacher Tengger, Teacher Buren bayar, Hu Sileng, Ayunga, Wuyunga, Hanggai Band, Erguna Band, etc. A party was performed for 3 consecutive performances, and the audience was all full." When Teacher Tengger sang "Mongolians", all the people in the audience sang along, and after thanking the curtain 3 times, they did not let them step down, and the dancers began to improvise with dance, and the atmosphere felt very unreal, especially touching. I wondered if I could make a Mongolian-style classic and tour the whole country or even the world. ”
The strong appeal of Mongolian culture is typical in the Li de Ge Jingjia. His father was Han Chinese, but was obsessed with Mongolian culture. "My father taught himself Mongolian, and he told me and my sister to learn Mongolian from an early age." My mother is a long-tuned inheritor, and she can sing more than 300 folk songs, and some songs can have 8 different words in a melody, and can be sung for half an hour. I remember attending the wedding feast when I was a child, and everyone could sing from night to morning. My mother's songs were taught by my grandmother, and our family loved music. When I was young, my father spent more than 800 yuan to buy a tape recorder, and the music at home went from morning to night. ”
The influence of the family on Li Degejing has a subtle influence, as well as the guidance of the direction of life.
"When I was in college, I was shaken to learn dance because the income gap was too big compared to my classmates in business. My father said to me, 'Don't do anything to earn money or do anything, but do what you love.' For the sake of my family's livelihood, my father regretted not developing his favorite poetry and music as a profession, and he did not want me to do the same. So, I've been lucky enough to keep doing what I love. Li Degejing said.
Talking about his parents, Li Degejing looked happy, "Our family's Spring Festival is bilingual, my father writes Chinese, my mother writes Mongolian, and they have a lot of fun in life. Our family loves art, and in the future I want to have a child and let him grow up in a family environment full of art atmosphere. ”
During the interview, Li Degejing's father waited outside the door, carefully settling his evening performance. The father said: "Now we often accompany him everywhere to perform, which is a kind of enjoyment. But also to see his difficulties. Once in Xinjiang performance, it rained a lot, the audience seat had a canopy, the stage was open-air, the floor was particularly slippery, but the performance could not stop, at that time it was really painful for my son. ”
Li Degejing laughed and said: "My parents are my dance supervisors, when I participate in the TV show, they will stay in front of the TV, after watching it, they will evaluate, which section is good and which section still needs to be polished." ”
Refine your dance as you explore
In the middle of the show.
Li Degejing now has a relatively fixed job teaching at an art institution.
He said, "What I am doing now is basically three parts, one is to participate in some variety shows, so that I can continue to improve." The second is to participate in volunteer activities. The third is teaching, including fixed lectures and irregular social invitation master classes. ”
Li Degejing feels that dancing is a kind of enjoyment for him, he said, "My feeling is to enjoy it in order to keep improving, I have to give myself at least 3 homework every year, which is a compulsory course, and participating in TV shows and some large-scale activities is an elective course." There are also some activities to promote Inner Mongolia, which must be done, because I carry national symbols on me and have a sense of mission. ”
Li Degejing is pondering his personal special, "Now there are many small works, but I feel that dance poetry and dance drama can express my thoughts more deeply, I would like to do cross-border combination attempts, and I am also exploring the combination of art forms such as horse head qin, humai, long tone, and recitation with dance, I hope there are more possibilities." ”
Passing on the dance in the education of people
Li Degejing was very eager to form a system of what he had learned. He said, "My presentation on the stage is limited, but the inheritance of national dance is unlimited, I want to do combination of teaching materials, such as shoulder combination, horse step combination, back combination, chopstick combination, Andai combination, etc., I want to make these basic combinations to the extreme, plus a variety of styles and attributes, so that people who come to study here take root, they have the foundation of creation, there will be infinite possibilities." ”
At present, Li Degejing has compiled 4 combinations. He said, "When teaching, I will go into the combination, cut the details, let the students comment on each other, and to achieve a certain effect in short-term dance training, I must give students some things that the school does not have, so that they can enjoy dance and study skills." ”
Li Degejing will now selectively participate in some dance variety shows.
He said, "I hope to participate in more programs that pursue to achieve the ultimate in my work, and I also want to do more meaningful things, and I think educating people is a particularly interesting and meaningful thing." ”
Inheritance is what Li Degejing has in mind. He said, "Some simple dance moves practiced to the extreme, there will be amazing stage presentation, which is a sublimation of art, but this needs to be based on a rich dance vocabulary and extreme training, educating people, is to start from this simplicity, to make the simplicity to the extreme." Inheritance is a mission. ”
As a dancer, Li Degejing has also been using dance to talk to himself, "All the places where I dance, I think of it as a prairie." ”
Li Degejing is like a wild goose taking off from the grassland, and where he spreads his wings and flies, people can see the appearance of the grassland and are deeply moved by it. (Inner Mongolia Daily Rong Media Reporter Li Xia)