This year’s Spring Festival Gala’s dance program was rated as “top-notch” by netizens. From the main venue to the sub-venues, whether it is a pure dance or a partner dance, there is an overwhelming beauty, like a flowing picture scroll, each showing a variety of charms.
In addition to the "Koi" originally created by the main station, it has firmly captured the audience with its "Wu Dai Dangfeng" charm and beauty and ultra-difficult artistic innovation, and has been rated as "so beautiful that it makes me cry" by countless netizens. There are three dances that are absolutely not to be missed. Each one is amazing in its own way.
Mastering his art, "Wing Chun" is soaring all the way
In the movie "The Grandmaster ", Gong Er, the only daughter of the Grandmaster of Baguazhang, uses the word "mysterious": "My father often says, I am this This kind of person can become a famous actor by singing opera, or become a monk by becoming a monk, because I can be fascinated."
I can be fascinated and can perfect my skills. The crew of the Spring Festival Gala and the dance "Wing Chun" used this "fascination" spirit to upgrade and create this "dance + martial arts" visual feast. When Ip Man and the leader of Bagua Zhang exchanged blows, they met each other, pushed each other, punched and palmed, and their moves were like wind and cloud, thunder and lightning, which made the audience's eyes light up and they thought "Too Sa" in their hearts. "It's so beautiful!"
"Wing Chun" comes from an excerpt from the dance drama "Wing Chun". It has been performed hundreds of times, but it is a special version in the Spring Festival Gala. In order to create a more meaningful imaginary space, the director of the main stage Shen Haixiong made several suggestions when recommending this dance drama clip, including changing the actors' costumes from black fragrant cloud gauze to crimson, and the relationship between the male and female protagonists. Instead of the male protagonists "defeating" the heroines one by one, they will compete with each other in martial arts. The male protagonist's martial arts silhouette will be used in the opening to enhance the appeal, and the silhouette effect will be used to show the appearance of "Ip Man". When the lights came on, the three calligraphy characters "Wing Chun" on the window lattice faded away, and the silhouette of "Ip Man" was like a dancing ink painting. Then the actor stepped out of the screen and danced, and his shadow danced with his real body. From the virtual to the real, from flat to three-dimensional, the "silhouette" design greatly increases the layering and viewing value of the solo dance in just half a minute, creating a "standing tall" shadow of Ip Man on the empty stage, which is a moment of visual shock. Magnification is the finishing touch.
The beauty of "Wing Chun" is that it has both the spirit of martial arts and the form of dance, righteousness and style, and even the costumes are full of details. The costumes of "Wing Chun" are made of the intangible cultural heritage fabric "Xiang Yunsha" from Foshan, Ip Man's hometown. The dye is wild Dioscorea oleifera that has been grown for more than 15 years. "It adds just the right amount of softness and vitality.
Martial arts competition, point to point, in the flowing "dance and martial arts", what we see is not only beauty, but also a kind of spirit. Nurturing righteousness, supporting the weak, supporting the benevolent with force, and being gentle and elegant, the values of Wing Chun are the embodiment of the upward, good, strong and restrained character of the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
"Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Daily" reported on "Wing Chun" on the first page of the New Year's Day. In interviews, former editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily He Dongping and experts and scholars in the cultural circles of the capital praised "Wing Chun" for its successful landing on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Pure and true, how cute and elegant the little swan is
When you mention "goose goose", you will naturally look forward to "quxiang singing to the sky". King Luo Bin, Tang poetry and Song lyrics, Chinese culture... When they saw the title "Goose Goose" on the program list, many viewers probably thought it was about chanting poetry. When the curtain opened and Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" played, the atmosphere instantly became dignified and elegant, but next came a group of chubby little geese with their butts swaying. This contrast was so cute that netizens were Called "incredibly creative".
Children’s programs are indispensable every Spring Festival Gala. The director team insists that children’s dances should see the world through children’s eyes and must be consistent with the expression of children’s bodies. These "little swans" are from Yiwu, the hometown of King Luo Bin. They use their own understanding to show the unique charm of the "white goose playing in the water" in "Singing the Goose".The classic action of "Kneeling Tour" vividly depicts "Red Palms Stirring Clear Waves", the "rising buttocks" is even more cute and cute to the audience, and the "dwarf step" swaying left and right is also a ghostly "creation" of children. The whole dance is full of childlike innocence.
In the initial version, there was only a "little white goose". The director of the main station proposed that the children's naivety and cuteness should be presented to the extreme, with a sense of humor and a sense of drama, and suggested adding a "little yellow" that can "make trouble" duck". After rearrangement, the dance suddenly gained more aura. The "little yellow duck" shuttled among the big and small white geese, which not only added a touch of warmth to the overall cold tone, but also made the dance content richer and more childlike.
In the second half of the dance, the actors from the Shanghai Ballet recreated the real "Swan Lake". When cuteness collided with elegance, the story of the ugly duckling and the white swan was full of fun. Although these professional ballet dancers have performed hundreds of performances of "Swan Lake", there are still new challenges on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. For example, when dancing on pointe on a lifting platform, actors need to overcome their fear of heights.
Another problem is to "learn to laugh". In the usual performance of "Swan Lake", actors have to create a noble image and usually do not have large facial expressions, especially rarely smile. But on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for family fun, the director asked to show a warm, sunny and joyful spirit, which made the "professional swans" who are accustomed to being immersed in a calm and calm atmosphere really practice "expression management". Finally, in the contact with the children, the "little goose" led the "big goose", and the "Swan Family" finally presented a creative program that blended Chinese and Western cultures, and coexisted cuteness and elegance.
is pure green and white, and a porcelain rhyme sees the entire "china"
. The shadow of the porcelain reflects the green, tempering the smooth and warm texture; the dance-painted shape shows the beauty of the shape under the simplest colors. The excerpt "Porcelain Shadow" from the dance drama "Only I'm Blue and White" appeared in the Spring Festival Gala, directly igniting Jingdezhen's popularity. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the China Ceramics Museum in Jingdezhen was crowded with people, and many tourists went there just for the “blue and white porcelain”.
If blue and white porcelain is the "porcelain that established the capital" of Jingdezhen, then blue and white porcelain is the "porcelain that established the town" of Jingdezhen. Under the general pattern of "blue in the south and white in the north" in China at that time, the emergence of blue and white porcelain can be said to be the unification of aesthetics and the fusion of culture between the north and the south. It also laid the foundation for the subsequent emergence of blue and white porcelain and various colored porcelain.
"Porcelain Shadow" takes blue and white porcelain as the visual starting point. The performance costumes are inked in color, extracting the two traditional "correct colors" of "green" and "white", showing the oriental aesthetics of simplicity and simplicity. The unique charm of blue and white porcelain spanning thousands of years is shown through the body language of the dancers.
"Spinning" is the finishing touch of the dance. The movement is inspired by porcelain making. The shoes worn under the long skirt have "hidden secrets". The dancers rotate on the turntable, simulating the dynamics of porcelain molding.
The fire continues and the inheritance continues. "Porcelain Shadow" shows a clever interpretation of the blue and white ceramic culture, using contemporary aesthetics to respond to the ingenuity and creativity behind the porcelain. It focuses on the new achievements of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture under the central-district cooperation model. .
Dance fans have discovered that the dance program configuration of this year’s Spring Festival Gala is too high. The only place that can gather so many top dancers is the Spring Festival Gala stage. But the success of the dance program is not only due to the talent of the top dancers, but also, most importantly, the sincerity of the creators.
It is not difficult to understand why the Spring Festival Gala dance programs are out of the circle. They have a common characteristic, which is to firmly grasp the essence of China’s excellent traditional culture and find an expression path in line with contemporary aesthetics in body language.When the character, emotions, and skills passed down from generation to generation are presented in a unique way, the cultural genes of the audience are instantly awakened, and they discover that the "goose goose" we have long known in Wing Chun, ceramics, and kindergartens can still be used. So stunning, so cute, so majestic.
We expect that in the future Spring Festival Gala, there will be more dance works that reflect Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style, which will continue to impress us, amaze us, and nourish us.
Director Producer ▏Yang Hua Dou Xiaowen
Supervisor Producer ▏Xu Chaoqing
Chief Editor ▏Han Chunmiao Zhang Yadong
Material ▏Ma Mengyao
Editor ▏Zhang Siqi
