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no.50
A storm of toes
——Watching the irish large-scale tap dance drama "The Dance of the Great River"
/Total 1478 words Estimated reading 4 minutes/
Text/Qingdao Poly Sheep
Venue: Opera Hall
With a tap speed of 32 beats per second, "Dance of the Great River" tells the world such a legend - the legend of the Celtics. After its successful premiere in Dublin in 1995, "Dance on the River" won the Grammy's Musical of the Year in 1997. Since then, "The Dance of the Great River", known as the "World's First Dance", has been accompanied by a fierce heartbeat, and the enthusiastic applause and applause have never stopped for eighteen years.
On January 16-19, 2013, "Dance of the Great River" was presented in four performances at the Qingdao Grand Theatre.
The dance drama opens, the stage background led the big screen in the rising sun, a ray of sunlight breaks through the dark fog, and the light shines on the earth. A tap group dance rises up like a huge wave crashing on the earth, which is the image of the ancestors in the sinister environment, brave and stoic, brave and stoic, through thorns, fearless. The leader of the dancer is handsome, dashing, and the image of the dancer tells us that he is the unquestionable dance king in this dance drama. His tap dancing technique is quite skilled, and the viewer's brain and eyes do not react as fast as his feet hit the ground. Legend has it that the dancers in "Dance of the Great River" hit the ground 10 times per second, and the dancer set a Guinness Book of Records with a frequency of 32 hits to the ground per second, which is 3 times the frequency of butterflies flapping their wings per second! However, no matter how fast his feet hit the ground and how much the dance movements were amplified, his upper body always stood upright, like the upright spine of his righteous and selfless ancestor Kukulin. The dancing king exudes a dazzling superstar glow, and he leads the audience's eyes to the dazzling stage with a shocking and intimidating body language. It is said that when the Celts were still in their mother's womb, their little feet began to move with the mother's regular heartbeat, which was the code of life left by their ancestors.
In "Dance of Thunder and Lightning", there is no background music, and under the dance lights that resemble lightning and thunder, 12 male dancers full of masculinity are shocked to open. They were lined up, their morale was high, they were the Celts who would never sink, never be defeated. Their upper bodies are straight and solemn, their hands are naturally drooping against their hips, and their tap dance technique and ornamentation are completely different from the casual humor of Black Tap Dance in the United States, and they are also different from the free and free casual nature of Broadway Tap Dance. Irish tap dance wins with the rigor of foot skills and movements, which is more heroic. Loud shouts, like thunder across the night sky; powerful kicks, like a storm hitting the earth, is the indomitable courage and strength of human beings in the face of natural disasters.
From spring planting to autumn harvest, from silent winter to newborn spring, the cycle of the four seasons makes the whole world vibrant, but also gives inspiration to musicians, accordion, violin, drums, bass, flute, bagpipes converge into the joy of the seasons. Every performer is quite outstanding, both talented and passionate. Violinists and drummers run to the center of the stage and play or strike romantically and casually. The musicians use their instruments to talk to each other, which is funny and lively. Melodious and cheerful Irish music exudes a charming atmosphere of fields, making people involuntarily immersed in the joy of the harvest created by the musicians.
The dance ends with a large group dance that sweeps the entire theater into the rolling heat of "Dance of the Great River". It's a storm of tiptoes! This is a dance that melts into life! It's a journey of power that makes your blood boil with passion! A pair of raised feet hit the audience's vision like a tide, and the sound of kicking and stomping in the mountains shook people's hearts. The Tap Dance of the Irish completely got rid of the simple showmanship, they not only integrated the extraordinary dance skills into the rich history and culture of the nation, but also danced the soul of the national spirit with this magical dance. A wonderful tap dance drama, its connotation and influence have far exceeded the scope of "dance". It not only tells the epic of blood and tears of ireland's ancestors who fought against nature and experienced wars, famines, and displacements, but also inherits wisdom, courage, life and love, as well as hope for life, expectations and blessings for the land under their feet.
Qingdao Grand Theatre
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