CCTV Spring Festival Gala program single official announcement, 44-year-old dancer Tan Yuanyuan will appear, and dancer Zhang Aoyue and pianist Li Yundi will bring piano and dance "I Love You China".
As early as 2006, Tan Yuanyuan had appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In "Three Friends of the Cold Year - Pine, Bamboo, Plum", she once competed on the same stage with the "Peacock Princess" Yang Liping. Fifteen years later, Tan Yuanyuan once again appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and her partner dancer Zhang Aoyue, who was once the champion of "Dancing Forest Competition", appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2012.
Tan Yuanyuan
Tan Yuanyuan has long been a Chinese myth on the world ballet stage. Born in Shanghai, she received ballet initiation at the Shanghai Dance School, won the gold medal at the French National Ballet Competition at the age of 16, and became the principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 19. This year marks her 26th anniversary with the San Francisco Ballet, and no lead dancer in the company's history has held out on stage for so long.
Behind the ultimate beauty of ballet is extraordinary self-discipline. Tan Yuanyuan has been dancing for many years and has maintained a weight of 47 kilograms. I went to many cities around the world, but I almost never had time for sightseeing, and the first thing I did when I went to a place was to find a practice room.
"To be a ballet star, you need a little persistence." Tan Yuanyuan once said in an interview with the Liberation Daily Shangguan News reporter, "For so many years, the thing I am most afraid of is getting hurt, but sometimes, even if I take painkillers every day, I have to insist on jumping." For ballet, you have to give up and sacrifice a lot. For so many years, I didn't have any private time, either on stage, in the rehearsal hall, or in physiotherapy, osteopathy. I'm used to living like this. ”
After the outbreak last year, she brought back 33 pairs of pointe shoes from the San Francisco Ballet studio, trained at home every day, and even pulled her 72-year-old mother to practice together. After returning to China, she participated in Hunan Satellite TV's "Dance Storm 2" as a contestant and caused a hot discussion.
Tan Yuanyuan once said that she was going to retire at the age of 35, but she reneged on her promise. "The moment I was on stage was still the happiest and I really wanted to see how long I could dance. Italian ballet dancer Carla Vlacci, who is still dancing the 16-year-old Princess Aurora in her 50s, shocked me. I believe that as I get older, I will have richer experience and life insights. However, once I question and doubt my body and state, I stop there and leave the stage. ”
The 38-year-old Li Yundi, like Tan Yuanyuan, became famous as a teenager. He went to the Spring Festival Gala earlier and more often. In 2000, Li Yundi won the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition, and the following year he first appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, when he was only 19 years old.
Li Yundi
In 2012, Li Yundi worked at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with Wang Lihong Douqin. In 2013, he collaborated with magician Liu Qian on the Spring Festival Gala stage on "Magic Qin". At the Spring Festival Gala of 2018, Li Yundi, together with the piano Chen Sa, performed a fragment of the piano concerto "Yellow River" at the Shandong branch of the Spring Festival Gala.
This year's Spring Festival Gala, Tan Yuanyuan and Li Yundi, a "ballet queen" and a "piano prince", what kind of sparks will be rubbed?
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Source: Author: Wu Tong