Just after the Spring Festival Gala stage, it will be on the "Northern Shaanxi Plateau" China Oriental Performing Arts Group re-arrange "Orchid Flower"

On the afternoon of the 23rd, dozens of dancers tied waist drums and waved the red silk in the rehearsal hall of China Oriental Performing Arts Group on the third floor, and they were rehearsing for "Orchid Flower" staged at the Poly Theater on March 20 and 21. The team behind "Orchid Flower" is the original team that brought a number of dance works such as "Jasmine", "Auspicious, Auspicious" and so on at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

In the rehearsal hall, the actors nervously rehearsed the dance drama "Orchid Flower" Beijing Daily reporter Fang Fei / photo

The dance drama "Orchid Flower" is a classic dance drama of China Oriental Performing Arts Group, with He Lishan and Tang Wenjuan as the general directors, Zhou Liya and Li Mingjia as the choreographers, and the four acts are respectively responsible for four people. Although it was a rehearsal, they still gathered in the rehearsal hall to polish the details for the actors.

"The boys don't move their feet, just make the movements on their hands and show me." In the rehearsal hall, Zhou Liya, the choreographer in charge of the first act, was rehearsing with the dancers, "Look, when someone crosses the hand, it is only a manual, and someone is also moving the upper body, here should be Qi." Zhou Liya is one of the choreographers of the Spring Festival Gala program "Jasmine" and one of the chief choreographers of the hit dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave", in which she is rehearsing the scene of the festival community fire in Shaanxi.

"This scene mainly shows the folk customs of northern Shaanxi, and the group dance of the Ansai waist drum must first be neat and then reflect the rhythm." Zhou Liya said that although "Orchid Flower" is a classic play, there are new people in the cast, in order to make the visual effect better, the rearrangement still has to be "cut" from the details. With only one hand-drawn movement, she led the dancers to "cut" for more than ten minutes, and she also followed the music demonstration.

The rehearsal hall on the third floor is playing with a waist drum, and the rehearsal hall on the first floor is placed on a long stool, and director Tang Wenjuan is giving a dancer a solo play, from action to expression, from expression to character status. "This drama is a love story on the Loess Plateau, and the style is particularly strong, and the audience in the city will definitely feel the simplicity and enthusiasm that comes to the fore." She said that the requirements for the actors are very high, and now almost all young dancers have grown up in the city, and it is not easy to experience the humanistic customs of the Loess Plateau decades ago.

Tang Wenjuan said that as a director, she will help the actors find a sense of the countryside in the play. She is actually very distressed about the actors, last year to prepare for the Spring Festival Gala for a few months, the end of the performance is the first day of the New Year, which just slowed down a few days to start rehearsals. Tang Wenjuan herself has just served as the choreographer of the Spring Festival Gala dance "Auspicious, Auspicious", and then threw herself into the rehearsal of "Orchid Flower".

Choreographer Li Mingjia introduced that the rehearsal of "Orchid Flower" began on the 22nd, and every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., there were actors rehearsing in the rehearsal hall. Li Mingjia said that the rehearsal also made new adjustments in the details, the second act will show a variety of Shaanxi folk customs, and the "hi" character spelled out with props will become a new design on the stage of this performance.

"'Orchid' has been rearranged since its inception, with changes every time, refinement every time, and in the process a lot of young choreographers and actors." General director He Lishan said that this time in the play to play the male and female protagonists are the dancers Zeng Ming, Meng Qingyang, one of them staged a red silk dance in the Spring Festival Gala, the other is the lead dancer of "Jasmine" and "Auspicious, Auspicious", all have very professional dance quality and skills, "Dance drama requires actors to have a particularly strong ability to shape characters, Zeng Ming and Meng Qingyang are also very good at digging and experiencing the character's heart, accumulating experience in many performances, and they constantly deny themselves and improve themselves, this time there will definitely be better performance." ”

Text/Beijing Daily reporter Han Xuan

Editor/Cui Wei