Nandu News Reporter Li Chunhua The wind is blowing in the wilderness, and the sound of horse hooves is approaching. From August 1st to 2nd, the "Wenhua Award"-winning dance drama "Cavalry" will be performed at the Guangzhou Grand Theater, presenting a majestic heroic epic.
"Cavalry" is the first large-scale original dance drama with cavalry as the theme in the history of Chinese stage art. The Inner Mongolia Art Theater invited famous national and autonomous region artists and cavalry revolutionary historians to create the work. It shows the Inner Mongolia People's Cavalry's infinite loyalty to the party and their service to the country. The sentiments and spiritual outlook of family and country with the courage to sacrifice. In 2017, he received funding from the National Arts Fund. In 2020, he won the 12th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Dance Drama Award and the China Copyright Best Content Creation Award. In 2022, he won the "Wenhua Award" of the 17th China Culture and Art Government Award; the "Five One Project" Award of the 16th Spiritual Civilization Construction.
Highlights of the dance drama
The square-inch stage and the vast grassland
The stage setting of "Cavalry" is ingenious. The "horizon" and "grass slope line" are used to divide the stage into front, middle and back areas, forming a three-dimensional superimposed spatial relationship. In addition, the montage method is used to The use of it makes the dance drama full of three-dimensional time and space, and the overall narrative rhythm is more compact.
's freehand stage space structure simplifies the complex and outlines the vastness and magnificence of the grassland and the tragic and majestic war. It depicts the vision of peace and the beauty of human nature with every dance and leap.
People are used as horses , dance steps are arbitrary
The biggest highlight of the repertoire is to turn the image of horses into human expressions, breaking through and innovating the leisurely steps of traditional Mongolian horse dances, and combining the body movements of the neck, legs, feet and so on to express the horse's rustle , the horse's loyalty is vividly demonstrated.
More than a dozen war horses each have their own temperament. Before the war, the horses were high-spirited and danced freely; on the battlefield, they charged bravely with the cavalry soldiers and were strong and unyielding.
Super many dance sections, dancing for love
In the play, solo dances, duet dances, trio dances and group dances are performed alternately, becoming a carrier of story and emotion transmission. It depends on the comradeship between man and horse, the love and understanding between people, and even more on the loyalty and perseverance that protects the country.
The dance drama "Cavalry" has the enthusiasm of the horses, the enthusiasm of the grassland people of Inner Mongolia, and the passionate dedication of the cavalry soldiers. The play has the ruggedness of the north, like a texture painting mixed with quartz stone, with delicate emotions flowing between the particles. With its unique texture, it three-dimensionally shows the charm of the cavalry.
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