Lu Shiping, played by "Queen of Dance Drama" Shan Chong, slowly looked back in the center of the stage. When the curtain fell, the audience seemed to have found an exit in the airtight "thunderstorm" time and space, and burst into endless applause. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the release of the script of "Thunderstorm". From July 25th to 28th, the dance drama "Thunderstorm", the sixth work produced by "Dongyi Manufacturing", was performed for 5 consecutive performances in the first round. The audience responded enthusiastically, with ratings on Douban and Damai. 9.1.
The dance drama "Thunderstorm"
was born in 1934 as "Thunderstorm". Adapted versions in different art forms continue to radiate new vitality on the stage. This is not the first time that "Thunderstorm" has been choreographed. Previously, there have been Wang Mei's "Thunder and Rain" and Zhou Liya's dance theater "Yao". This time, Dongyi convened a front-line creative team to work together to complete this dance drama with all the characters, all the characters, and even a new narrative structure and stage aesthetic.
After the first round of performances of the dance drama "Thunderstorm"
, many viewers posted "wild" reviews on social media, saying that the dance drama "Thunderstorm" was more like a lyrical essay. Dr. Gao Ya from the School of Dance of Shanghai Theater Academy said, "Through realistic and surreal stage effects, the dance drama is a faithful reproduction of realistic themes." Zhang Yuling, professor of the School of Dance at Shanghai Theater Academy and director of the Dance Theory Teaching and Research Office, commented: The dance drama "Thunderstorm" is A tribute to the classic "dance-like flow and inheritance". Although it seems to be superficial in terms of counterpoint and dialogue between Chinese and Western cultures, it has made useful explorations and explorations in exploring and exploring the contemporary and contemporary nature of classic works. Try, "Look forward to more works like this."
Dance drama "Thunderstorm"
The inextricable entanglement of the eight characters, the confrontation between human nature and fate, is an important highlight of "Thunderstorm". How to speak with your body in 90 minutes? The dance drama "Thunderstorm" breaks the timeline from one act to four acts in the original work, using reverse order, revealing the ending of the entire work at the beginning. Chief director Zhao Xiaogang adopts the creative and choreographic concept of "dance as the stage" to guide the audience to experience the overlapping emotions of the characters, which ultimately leads to the outbreak of dramatic conflicts.
Surrealist group dances constitute symbolic abstract symbols that mediate the tragedy of the work. Gao Ya said that the heaviness and absurdity of history, destiny, and reality are exactly the same as the meaningless absurdity of group dance. It is about the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity in the interpretation of the original work, and the symbiosis of reality and romance in the stage aesthetic style.
The dance drama "Thunderstorm"
The dance drama "Thunderstorm" is directed by Zhao Xiaogang, a national first-level choreographer. Eight dancers, Shan Chong, Zhang Aoyue, Sun Qiuyue, Shen Xubin, Wu Jiawen, Xu Liang, Zhu Fei and Zhang Zhe, not only share the stage to create a group drama , each expressed their inner "monologue" through 8 solo dances like the arias of an opera protagonist. On the stage of the first round of performances, the dancers gave these characters new life and charm through their superb dance skills and unique artistic understanding. Wang Mengqi, a doctoral candidate at the Shanghai Theater Academy, lamented that all the eight main actors are outstanding in the dance industry, with unique physical abilities and authentic narrative methods.
Dance Drama "Thunderstorm"
Since 2018, Shanghai Oriental Art Center has produced five different types of stage works including "The Garden of the Jin Family" and "The Righteous Path of the World is Vicissitudes of Life". The dance drama "Thunderstorm" and the drama "Toward the Past" premiered in May this year. "Yan'an" is the latest two works of "Dongyi Production", and "Thunderstorm" is also the first original dance drama work of "Dongyi Production". Literary critic Fang Jiajun believes that Dongyi has integrated high-quality resources from the Chinese dance industry to complete the creation, rehearsal and performance of the dance drama "Thunderstorm". The new quality characteristics of the work are gratifying, and the future of the young "Dongyi Manufacturing" can be expected.
After this round of performances, the dance drama "Thunderstorm" will embark on more than 30 tours from November this year to January of the following year, visiting cities such as Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Kunming, Qianjiang, and Nanchang. It is also expected to "go "Go Out" uses dance vocabulary that is popular around the world to tell oriental stories and show the cultural heritage of Shanghai style.
dance drama "Thunderstorm" is produced by the Propaganda Department of the Pudong New Area Committee (Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism), and is produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center Management Co., Ltd., Nanjing Poly Grand Theater Management Co., Ltd., Hubei Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd., Wuhan Qinqin Co-produced by National Taiwan University Theater Management Co., Ltd., co-produced by Beijing Dancer Studio, and co-produced by Shanghai Theater Academy.
