[Editor's Words] The husband and childlike heart, the absolute innocence, the original heart of the first thought. If you lose your childlike heart, you lose your true heart; if you lose your true heart, you lose your true person. --Li Zhen
Although in everyone's life, the time of childhood will eventually fade into history, but all great artists, often even if the mountain is up, always retain a childlike, childlike and childlike heart in their hearts.
We will take you back to the teachers, wise men, and practitioners in the historical process of the new Chinese dance scene, their childhood memories and the heart of a child. They embraced the masses of the people with a fiery heart, and faced the dance with pure enthusiasm.
In the face of art and life, their wisdom lies in keeping a childlike fun and holding a childlike heart.
| Dai Ailian - frank heart, sincere love
Dai Ailian was ten years old and took a dance photo
Dai Ailian's life journey is a legend that belongs to the times, and her life has been followed by her heart from beginning to end. A good family education and Western learning environment have given Dai Ailian a maverick, love-hate, frank and frank character, and also gifted her with great love for life, embracing life and loving the motherland.
In May 1996, Dai Ailian's improvisational performance on her eightieth birthday won the full house
(As a child, she was lively and dexterous, and could play football in the tree like a boy; she loved labor, "let the cocoa beans flip and dance" during the season of drying cocoa beans; she was obsessed with the stage, and at the age of five, she took to the stage to perform the song and dance "Fairy Bluebells"; she loved to dance, and at the age of fourteen, she choreographed "Easter Eggs" to play the cute chicken.) Life gave her an innocent childlike heart, and she threw this innocence into the dance art of the motherland. Jiang Qing, "Saying Love Lotus", People's Publishing House, 2016)
In 1949, the liberation of Peiping, when the Northern Shaanxi Waist Drum Team entered the city with the People's Liberation Army, the ecstatic Dai Ailian excitedly followed the mighty literary and art legion members all the way to twist the song, and in the middle of the break, she also actively ran to comfort and invite everyone to twist the song together, it is this innocence and enthusiasm that infects more and more people, following her footsteps, falling in love with the art of dance, and has also become Mr. Dai's very distinctive personal charm.
As a teenager, Eileen (left) with her eldest sister Phillis (center) and second sister Grace (right) are at the doorstep
| Jia Zuoguang - forget the old and happy, always maintain a childlike heart
Since the age of 15, Jia Zuoguang has officially started the way to learn dance
Born in a poor family, Jia Zuoguang, although his life is hard, he has tenacity and open-mindedness in his nature.
No matter how bad the external conditions are, he always maintains optimism and pursues ideals. Before learning to dance, the young Jia Zuoguang always looked forward to the New Year, only because he could watch adults step on stilts, twist and sing, and dance big-headed dolls during the New Year. When the music on the street sounded, he was excited to watch it, and when he returned home, he did not forget to hang two small strings of red chili peppers on his ears, buckle the bucket and hold the handkerchief, and learn to twist around like an adult.
Jia Zuoguang performs "Wrangling Dance"
Although he did not formally learn to dance until the age of 15, this fiery enthusiasm accumulated from childhood has always been integrated into his artistic career. Deeply rooted in life, rooted in the people, creeping in the vast land to draw creative inspiration, continuous improvement, integration and innovation, and finally become one of the founders of Mongolian stage art and dance.
(I love literature and art, and on the Chinese New Year's Eve or the first or fifteenth day of the first year of junior high school, I often sneak to Siping Street in the city to watch the song.) I love stilts, especially twisting songs! Often I go under the crotch of people's pants and squeeze into the crowd to see, and people think it's a puppy! I was naughty at that moment, and whoever stood in my way, I would bite whoever I wanted. 'Oops!' The bitten man looked like a child and always picked me up! I'll just call him out, "Uncle, uncle, let me go to the front and take a look?!" They waved a slap and I was "beaten" to the front. Jia Zuoguang, "The Goose Is Talking", Shanghai Music Publishing House, 2014)
From his youth to the age of the flower armor, time has stained his sideburns, but he cannot withdraw this love of dancing from his heart. In his old age, Jia Zuoguang is still full of youthful vitality, running for the dance career day and night. Suddenly, he spoke on the coast of the South China Sea with great vigor, suddenly appeared in the song line of the border town of the northern country, suddenly talked about art to international friends in the luxurious and rich hotel hall, and suddenly danced impromptu at the invitation of the enthusiastic host in the bamboo building, felt room, and hut.
"The more simple, the better", the innocence of his childhood obsession with the art of dance, turned into a pure yearning for dance to the best of his ability.
Life shines brightly in the praises of life and the dancing of the ground.
| Zi Huajun - Looking for innocence, to the best of art
Zi Huajun at the age of 9
After the liberation of Tianjin, the performance of the Liberated Area Cultural and Labor Troupe became the spiritual food of the year of Cardamom in Zihuajun, and when the crowded theater was difficult to find, she tried her best to "sneak in" to watch the play. Even once in order to watch the performance of the "Lu Yi" troupe, she actually climbed on the window sill, climbed down the rain pipe to the window on the left side of the stage, and on the narrow window sill, her feet were "one" horizontally open, her hands were on the window ledge, her body was close to the glass window, and she watched the whole performance with this only extremely dangerous posture.
In 1984, Zi Huajun performed "Flying Sky"
After that, she gave up the opportunity to submit to Nankai Girls' High School, resolutely applied for the Dance Troupe of the Central Academy of Drama, which Dai Ailian was the head of the group at the time, and officially started her dance art career in the junior class.
(I used to be childlike and romantic, and for many consecutive mornings, I climbed the White Tower of the North Sea and watched with fascination the ever-changing white clouds flowing in the blue sky, which seemed to have a winding road.) yes! Which one is the path I took in The Flying Sky? I have also carefully read and studied various relevant materials, not only the elegant "Dunhuang Songs", but also the imaginative new poems, and even read many popular villain books - catching various fairy images wearing ribbons. I longed to create the image of a goddess who longed for freedom and happiness, and the long ribbon was my wings, and I could fly freely with it.
Zi Huajun "Dance and Me", Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House, 1987)
| Shu Qiao - spontaneous and dancing, frank and true
Childhood comfort
Under the supervision of Yan Father, Shu Qiao spent a childhood of "with books as a companion", and at the beginning of enlightenment, her father asked her to write more than 3,000 new words "rote, dead back, and dead writing", and at the age of six or seven, she was asked to read "The Appearance of Officialdom", "Ru Lin Wai Shi", and "Mirror Flower Edge". Although she also opposed her father's over-common sense, she finally held up the book and read it carefully: "The country of villains, red hair and green eyes, a black cloud under the feet of bad people..."
In this way, when she had not really entered primary school, Shu Qiao had begun to use her childlike eyes to try to approach the profound philosophies that did not belong to this age in common sense, and this advanced and difficult "preschool education" made her jump from the first grade to the third grade within half a month after entering school, and from the third grade to the primary school, she also took the first place in the final exam, and the reward was Snow White and the mask of the seven dwarfs, which was the first set of toys in Shu Qiao's childhood.
Shu Qiao played Zhou Xiuying in the dance drama "The Little Knife Society"
At the age of eleven, Shu Qiao joined the "Xin'an Tour Group" and became one of the seven or eight children in the children's department. Here, the hardships of life seem to be cloaked in fairy tales, and in her childlike eyes, there is always endless fun in these chores, spinning flowers and weaving, practicing labor. The tour of "Xin'an Tour Group" has sharpened her will and deeply engraved art in her young heart.
She thinks in choreography, writes in thinking, seeks truth in writing, and constantly uses her own strength to reach the artistic peak of Chinese dance drama.
| Zhao Qing - in dance, painting entertainment
Four-year-old child star Zhao Ludan (stage name)
Born in an artistic family, Zhao Qing enjoyed the happy time of her childhood under the influence of the artistic atmosphere, and the "amusement club" often held by her family became a small stage when her art was budding, allowing her to sing and dance in it, improvisational performances. When she was first attracted by the beautiful dance of the ballet "Swan Lake", it was difficult to hide her enthusiasm for the art of dance, "I was stunned! There is such a beautiful art in the world! She tiptoed high and mischievously asked, "Am I like a little swan?" The light body danced, "I like to dance!" This youthful passion for dance did not fade with the passage of time, but condensed into a pure passion, urging her to continue to improve in her subsequent artistic career, and her cheerful and straightforward personality also made her more agile and innocent in shaping her artistic image.
Zhao Qing's 63-year-old oil painting "Uncle Watermelon" (2009)
After the costume faded, Zhao Qing, who had entered the year of flower armor, had to say goodbye to the stage due to years of injury, but she did not give up her dream of art, but changed her way, painting on the canvas and dancing with ink. His father Zhao Dan's achievements in painting subtly influenced Zhao Qing, and the phrase "art should give people truth, beauty, and happiness" is always remembered by Zhao Qing, whether it was dancing in the past or painting in the present. Years of dance skills have made her sensitive to the color and movement lines of the characters, and the characters she paints are both divine and childlike.
Zhao Qing's promotional photo of the 1959 National Day ceremony presenting the performance "Baolian Lantern"
| Soybean Bean – Dance for Love
Huang Doudou performs the dance "Little Snail" choreographed by his mother
In 1977, Huang Doudou was born in a family full of literary and artistic atmosphere, and since he has a memory, he has often been a family member of the team, following his mother to lead the literary and art propaganda team to perform in the surrounding areas of Wenzhou. During the performance, his mother asked him to pay attention to whether the actors made mistakes on the spot, so he became one of the most serious audience members in the whole performance. Although the actors at that time were difficult to compare with today's professional dancers at the technical level, their passion for dance and their love of life deeply touched the young heart of Huang Doudou.
Huang Doudou in kindergarten is lively and martial, is the "child king" in the garden, originally he did not like boys to dance, thinking that those feminine works lacked the masculinity of manhood, but when he first saw Xing Shimiao perform "Goodbye, Mother", he was immediately impressed by the masculine beauty of the characters in the play.
In terms of physical natural conditions, Huang Doudou is not the proud son of dance learning, but after his parents discovered his dance talent, they did their best to support his artistic path and never gave up. In order to successfully pass the initial examination of the Shanghai Dance School, his father had to stretch his legs by 3 centimeters with a hanging ring; before he took the stage for the first time at the age of 15, his father guided him alone and transmitted experience.
From the rise and imitation of "Goodbye, Mother" when he saw him as a child, to today, he has been standing on this stage for more than thirty years.
Success is never achieved overnight, but in the persistent upward growth, the seed of dreams will take root, sprout, and grow into a towering tree.
With full of love and sincerity, Huang Doudou fulfilled the dance dream of two generations.
(Source: China Dancers Association Photo: Network Draft: Little Dancer)