Li Hui has a tight schedule. He participates in Disabled Aid Day activities in the morning, performs at school at noon, and rushes to Huairou for rehearsal in the afternoon. In 2012, Li Hui became a high-level paraplegic due to an accident, but he chose to continue his dancing life, pioneered wheelchair fitness dance, established a dance team, and used dance to heal the body and mind.
"Dance has not given up on me, and I will never give up dancing."
At the age of 27, Li Hui suffered a high paraplegia due to a motorcycle skid, and his career as a dancer came to an abrupt end. He has difficulty taking care of himself, feels his dignity has been damaged, and often stays awake at night.
With the encouragement of family and friends, Li Hui gradually cheered up. His mother loved listening to "Swan Geese", and the melody that sounded again and again awakened his forbidden dance impulse. He began to choreograph dance moves. Although it was very strenuous, his head, hands and waist could still move. Li Hui felt that dance had not given up on him. .
In addition to necessary rehabilitation training, Li Hui also slowly healed himself through dance. A year and a half after the injury, he completely got rid of the haze caused by the injury. In 2018, he established the Heart of the Heart Art Rehabilitation Service Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, to use dance and other art forms to help disabled people perform rehabilitation exercises and improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of the disabled group.
Because Li Hui used a wheelchair as his legs and feet, Li Hui often bumped and fell during training, resulting in head injuries, broken arms, and skinned buttocks. But he said that these small bumps did not affect his love for dance. "Dance has not given up on me, and I will never give up dancing."
Exploring the unique "secret" of wheelchair dancers
This unique wheelchair dance team currently has about 15 people. The youngest is born in the 1990s and the oldest is born in the 1960s. They get together every week to warm up, rehearse and perform under the leadership of Li Hui.
Li Hui is very familiar with professional dance movements and training methods, but in order to adapt this methodology to dancers in wheelchairs, he has made improvements and innovations, and created a set of warm-up and training methods suitable for wheelchairs, including wheelchair models Training and ballet body training.
"Wheelchairs are the way we walk, and the rhythm of dance lies in the rhythm of walking. Training wheelchair models to match the rhythm of music when pushing wheelchairs can exercise arm and waist strength, while keeping the body upright and the eyes firm..." Li Hui said about him The unique "secret" of exploration, the voice is brisk and lifelike.
His self-created ballet body training is to use a wheelchair as a foot, the upper body changes into ballet postures, and the body is upright. The key point is to enhance the control of breath and muscles. "We need to develop the flexibility of the breath and upper body muscles. When some injured patients may not be able to transmit their waist strength to the shoulders, I will tell them how to use breath to help them complete the task."
On these basis, Li Hui also created some Dances suitable for wheelchair dancers change the conventional foot movements to wheelchair rotations, and the rhythm is also changed to a rhythm suitable for wheelchairs. Li Hui said, “The movements of wheelchairs can be diverse, and at the same time, attention should be paid to the stretching of the upper body limbs."
Healing in dance
"Dance is very pure and is expressed in a silent way. thoughts and attitudes. Dance is also about positivity and perseverance. If you don’t give in, you won’t reach a satisfactory state. "Li Hui believes that dance can heal people. Scientifically dancing the body can promote the recovery of the body and nourish the soul. In the
dance team, there was a man who was very shy and reticent when he first signed up. But every time he trained, He is very positive and always arrives an hour early, and is the last one to leave. Li Hui found that he has become more and more cheerful, and now loves to laugh and chat, and he also takes the initiative to joke.
has witnessed some members being changed by dancing and becoming more and more cheerful. She has become more and more optimistic and confident. “I used to be afraid of others seeing my body, but now I show myself generously on stage. "Li Hui felt gratified.
Li Hui is the soul of the dance team, everyone's close friend, and even the "maintenance master." "He often bent over to confirm the fault of his teammates' wheelchairs, and picked up the tools to repair them with ease.
"I cherish the power that dance brings to me, and I also cherish everyone's recognition and recognition. support. "Li Hui is very grateful to the dance team.
It is common to go out to perform. This dance team has already left Beijing and has performed in Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, etc. Provincial and municipal performances. More than ten people from the dance team gathered together, talking and laughing. Even if their hands were busy rolling the wheelchair, a smile would naturally appear on their faces, full of "spirit".
Li Hui is still in the new media. Live broadcast and teaching wheelchair dance on the platform, allowing more people with disabilities to participate and heal in dance.
"I hope this team can make people happy." More people see that our group also hopes to use dance to convey power. "Li Hui said that he will always remember that when performing on stage, the disabled and able-bodied people in the audience all moved and applauded to the beat. "This is the blending of people and people, and heart to heart. ”
reporter Wang Guibin Ye Hongmei photo report
editor Zhang Ying proofreader Fu Chunmin
