"The words 'Song Yun' are so moving." At the end of this month, in the autumn color of The Lake Sky Andbi Building, director Chen Liyi took his main creative team and gathered with the team of Hangzhou Performing Arts Group again.
I can't count how many times this is the first time this year that the creative team of the song and dance drama "Song Yun" has planned. The script alone has been polished more than a dozen times before and after. However, as soon as the 83-year-old Chen Liyi talked about drama, he was excited.
Song Yun is the first large-scale stage art work wholly produced and produced by Hangzhou Performing Arts Group since its establishment. "We want to create a literary and artistic masterpiece of the times that shows the culture of the Song Dynasty and cultivates cultural self-confidence, and high-quality display of the most vivid 'window' image of Song Yun culture in the practice of common prosperity." Hong Jiancheng, general manager of Hangzhou Performing Arts Group and chief planner of "Song Yun", said.
1/ From the story of Qian Li, the diversified expression of the intersection of ancient and modern times
"When I walked on the Royal Street of the Southern Song Dynasty, the modern commercial atmosphere slowly disappeared behind me. Suddenly, the lights came back on, time and space folded, and I felt as if I had returned to the roots of the imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the scene of singing and dancing in the tile fence appeared in front of my eyes..." This is about "Song Yun", Hong Micheng was the first imagination in his mind.
Over the years, Hong Has been brewing an original stage work that best represents Hangzhou culture. Due to the cooperation of this year's drama symphony poem "Longting Hou Cai Lun", he and Chen Yiyi hit it off in the creation of "Song Yun".
Chen Yiyi's creative inspiration for "Song Yun" comes from the artistic ideas that have haunted her for more than ten years - Qian Li, the king of Wuyue. "Fifteen years ago, I had the opportunity to work with Hangzhou on a play about Qian Qi, but in the end it didn't work out." In her opinion, due to the peaceful return of King Qian to the Song Dynasty, a historical city, Hangzhou, was able to enter a period of thousand-year-long historical prosperity. "Without such a king with the people in his heart, how could he have Hangzhou in the style of the Song Dynasty?"
As the show's general director, Chen Is working on a "Celebrity Celebrity" version that will premiere at the Hangzhou Grand Theatre in mid-to-late December. Pu Cunxin, Guan Dongtian, and Shi Ke jointly performed a "symphony of modernity and the Great Song Dynasty, a symphony of tradition and the future, a symphony of kings and subjects and the people".
"Song Yun" has a "crest" that revolves around the story of hundreds of family names. In addition to Qian Li, the opening chapter also sets another important role - Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. "In the memory of the Southern Song Dynasty, zhao kuangyin's descendants continued the Chinese civilization in Hangzhou." Chen Yiyi said that the Song Yun culture is not limited to the Song Dynasty, it embodies a kind of accumulation, a kind of infiltration, and a kind of inheritance.
This time in terms of roles, there is also a clever setting - Qian Chen, a British student who returned to Hangzhou to find his roots, and Zhang Amao, a "leak picker" from the Song Dynasty. A tall and mighty drama actor, a short Kunqu opera clown, they are all present throughout the scene, will form a collision and mutual learning between Western modern civilization and traditional Chinese culture. ”
"Beauty is the highest principle of drama." In Chen's current vision, the ultimate beauty of Song Yun's elegance will be presented on the stage as faceted and flexible as possible. In "Song Yun", liu yong, Qin Guan, Su Shi, Li Qingzhao, Xin Shuyi and other famous poems of the Song Dynasty will be integrated into four traditional Chinese festivals and displayed in the form of recitation and song and dance. "At that time, the background of the stage will become six ancient city gates in Hangzhou. At that time, Li Qingzhao lived outside the Qingbo Gate. On the stage, the West Lake love of 'the first talented woman in the ages' flows between the song and dance poems and paintings. ”
2/ With the song and dance poetry and painting drama as the preface, create a series of art volumes of "Song Yun"
"Song Yun" will create three different performance versions - "Celebrity Masters" version, resident version, and touring version.
Song Yun is a representative of Ya culture. In the life of the Song people, whenever there is a feast and drink, there will be songs and dances. Whether it is the Song Dynasty court dance that was at its peak in that year, or the Song Dynasty folk dance that later "broke through the wall", it is an aesthetic expression of "living color and fragrance, brilliant and magnificent" on today's stage.
"In the resident edition, we will use a variety of technical means such as sound, light, electricity, and even extended reality (XR) to create a comprehensive work of art that integrates culture and tourism, suitable for all ages, with more essence of content and more innovative form." At that time, the play will be performed in a theater near the West Lake in the main city, 3-4 times a day, 100-150 times a year, and strive to achieve both word-of-mouth and benefits. Later touring editions focused more on meticulous story expression and extreme artistic effects. "Song Yun" performance planner Xu Shaojun introduced.
"After more than a month, the version of 'celebrity masters' that was finally presented on the stage may not necessarily be called 'Song Yun'." Hong Jiancheng revealed that Hangzhou Performing Arts Group is currently further planning the "Song Yun" series, and the song, dance, poetry and painting drama that is currently being created is only a beginning. "My initial idea was to elaborately create a masterpiece that embodies the Song Yun style, Hangzhou characteristics, and modern elements. But later, through continuous exchanges and learning with experts, scholars, artists, and through my in-depth interpretation of Song culture, I realized that only one stage work could not carry such a grand and rich Song Dynasty. He said that hangzhou performing arts group takes song, dance, poetry and painting as the preface, first let everyone establish a historical and cultural background in their minds, and then paint a long scroll of art with richer content and more diversified forms.
Among them, the humanistic light shining in the Song Dynasty is like a star. For example, Yue Fei, Lu You, Wen Tianxiang, these magnificent and upright patriotic celebrities, such as su Dongpo's indissoluble relationship with Hangzhou, and then such as the colorful folk life of Goulan Vasheli. Through different themes, different stories, and different art forms, we will present a deep and meticulous slice of the times, deepen the connotation, and blossom into a hundred flowers. "Li Jingjing, the publicity planner of "Song Yun", said that through the "Song Yun" series, it is hoped that this culture can truly fall into the current life and aesthetics of the citizens, and let more and more people understand and deepen the roots of Hangzhou's culture." At the same time, everyone's spiritual and cultural needs have gradually become abundant. ”
Spiritual wealth is the soul of "common prosperity". In Hong's view, the "cultural foundation" that has been continuously consolidated is also feeding back the abundant vitality of Hangzhou's cultural masterpieces. "In the next literary and artistic creation, we will continue to 'revitalize' and deepen the 'deconstruction', so that the Song Yun culture can truly 'flow' and 'inherit' in the current era."
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