Tonight, the original dance drama "Thunderstorm" will premiere at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the publication of the script "Thunderstorm" written by Cao Yu. This well-known Chinese literary classic will be put on the stage for the first time in the form of dance with the creation of the entire text and all the characters. In 90 minutes, the body will be used to express a story. A thunderstorm night when conflicts broke out. Yesterday, the play had a pre-performance rehearsal at Dongyi.
"Thunderstorm" was first published in "Literary Quarterly". The play is set in Chinese society around 1925. It tells the complicated and tragic story of two families, the bourgeois Zhou family and the urban civilian Lu family. It is regarded as the cornerstone of realism in Chinese drama and a milestone in the maturity of modern Chinese drama.
At yesterday's rehearsal scene, you can see that a "violent storm" related to fate is being staged. In the airtight "thunderstorm" time and space, eight dancers, including Shan Chong, Zhang Aoyue, and Sun Qiuyue, performed every movement and every movement. Every look is full of understanding and emotional investment in the character, telling a story about fate, love and struggle through dance. Zhao Xiaogang, the chief choreographer and director of the play, said that in this version of "Thunderstorm", the first thing the audience sees is the "dance" itself, and using dance to lead the drama is a concept that has been constantly emphasized in this production. "With eight starring roles and eight roles, just using dance to express the personality of each character is exciting enough. The difficulty lies in how to express these secrets in words, create conflicts, and create love, hate, anger and obsession between the characters. , express it with body language. "
In the play, dancer Shan Chong plays Lu Shiping. She slowly looks back at the center of the stage, leading the audience to open up that memory, and her forbearing movements also tell the audience her inner struggle. When Lu Dahai asked Zhou Puyuan for salary, he danced very nervously to express his appeal in the first second, and suddenly fell to the ground in the next second, crawling in front of his biological father with a baby's movements, and his inner world was immediately transferred to the audience... ...The whole play hopes to use dance movements to analyze the deep-seated character psychology hidden in the play, let the characters jump out of their own subtext, and guide the audience to associate and examine the characters' fate.
In terms of stage design, the dance drama "Thunderstorm" uses multimedia light and shadow to divide the stage space, throwing the multi-dimensional "thunderstorm" time and space into the audience's sight. A huge and deep circular staircase stands at the back of the stage, with characters constantly flowing back and forth, forming a spatial visual "montage". The ring-shaped facade is a metaphor for the entrance to the abyss, forming a three-dimensional composite "visual landscape". In terms of lighting, this work is given more of a sense of oil painting, wood carving and subtle tones, in order to externalize the rich emotions of the characters into the obscurity of the lighting, forming a harmonious and balanced beauty. Yang Donglin, who is responsible for the costume design, has created popular dance dramas such as "Only Green", "The Eternal Wave" and "Wing Chun". From color to style, Yang Donglin integrated his understanding of the characters and metaphors for destiny into the costumes in this dance drama "Thunderstorm". For example, in a certain scene, pink costumes were used to represent and imply ideals and dreams.
The play will be performed at Dongyi for 5 consecutive performances starting tonight, and will start a national tour of more than 30 shows in November. It also plans to go to the world stage. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang)
