On the evening of April 26, the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater's new masterpiece and the closing performance of the Guangzhou Grand Theater's 7th Women's Art Festival, "Living Among the Flowers", officially premiered. This Cantonese dance drama, which depicts the true love between mother and child and the memory of Lingnan from a unique perspective of "people-flowers-city", has finally made its stunning debut after many rounds of refinement. The premiere was packed with seats. The ordinary and warm story was slowly unfolded under the superb performance of the dancers. The delicate and strong emotions moved many viewers to tears.
On April 27, the play will be performed again at the Guangzhou Grand Theater.
Dance in the Flower City Praises Love and Beauty
The dance drama "Man Lives Among Flowers" is directed by Xiong Jian, the director of the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater, as the chief planner and producer, and invites Feng Shuangbai, chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, as the artistic consultant. He is a first-level director of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Arts. Screenwriter and literary critic Chen Jianzhong serves as the literary consultant; Fei Bo, a national first-level choreographer and chief choreographer of the National Ballet of China, is specially invited to serve as the chief director, and Wen Fangyi, a young teacher at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University and a doctor of arts, serves as the screenwriter.
This work also brings together outstanding artists from various fields on the domestic stage.
The creative team of "Living Among Flowers" worked hard to create a poetic picture in which ordinary life is intertwined with dreamy imagination, and the true feelings of the world are integrated with Lingnan culture.
The play invites the audience to walk through the memory of a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease, telling a touching story between a mother and her son who are connected to flowers. Flowers allow the mother who is trapped in memories and illusions to regain courage and strength, and also allow her son to gradually enter and understand his mother's inner world. While mother and son bridge the gap and achieve reconciliation, love and beauty bloom forever among the flowers.
"Human Living Among Flowers" focuses on realistic themes that are rarely touched in domestic contemporary dance dramas. Starting from Alzheimer's disease, a disease that has attracted much social attention, it conveys the true feelings of the world with highly contagious dance vocabulary.
Feng Shuangbai, the artistic consultant of the play, lamented: "In this work, there is 'love' everywhere - the mother's love for her child, the love of the whole society caring about her mother, the love between neighbors, the child's growing love for her mother, Together, they form the great love in the world. "Love" is vividly and meticulously displayed in the work. "
Uses dance to interpret Lingnan life.
Compared with other works with grand themes and concrete perspectives, "Man Lives Among Flowers" The story focuses on the homes of ordinary people, telling the warm and delicate relationship between mother and child. It uses tiny incisions to reflect the eternal proposition, explores poetry and painting in every bit of reality, and injects innovative vitality into the Cantonese dance drama.
Xiong Jian introduced that "the combination of reality and fantasy" is the most prominent exploration and innovation of "Man Lives Among Flowers". The audience will delve deeply into the inner world of the mother and son in the play, and travel between reality and fantasy. They can not only feel the fireworks of the world rooted in reality, but also awaken the dream-like romantic imagination.
This is a work with the theme of the emotional interaction and the integration of life between "people, flowers and cities". When thinking about the core concept of "flower", director Fei Bo thought that Guangzhou people are accompanied by flowers all year round, and flowers bring people firm and warm companionship. He wanted to present this eternal vitality from flowers.
There are no physical flowers on the stage of "Human Living Among Flowers". The creative team finally used people to imitate flowers, using free poetic artistic techniques to open up endless imagination space and using various imagery treatments to invite the audience to depict the most beautiful things in their hearts. "flower". Fei Bo said that when the flowers dance, love and life bloom like flowers on the stage.
Flowers not only write the delicate words of mother and child, but also imply the cultural temperament and fireworks memory of Guangzhou, the "Flower City". The lively and vivid secular life of Lingnan is fully reflected in the play: the ordinary flower shop in Guangzhou Qilou, the fate and style of the Dan family women, the enthusiasm and kindness of the neighbors in the old streets... The dance drama "Living Among the Flowers" dances out the story of the thousand-year-old flower city. Long Cantonese rhyme.
Text | Reporter Huang Zhouhui Correspondent Tang Xiaoting Chen Qianqian
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