Outside the stage, it is surrounded by the arcade street that has gone through hundreds of years of vicissitudes, facing the long-flowing Pengjiang River; on the stage, dynamic music is played passionately, and enthusiastic street dances fully interpret the story of "overseas Chinese".
The scene of the 2024 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Street Dance Open "yo!jm".
This scene seems to be the intersection of time and space, telling the vicissitudes of history and the vitality of modernity. The creative street dance performance shows the wonderful collision of "international style" and "Chinese style".
Old street trendy dance: interpretation of the intersection of history and modern
The Changdi Historical and Cultural District where Changdi Plaza is located carries the memories of Jiangmen people. This is the birthplace of Jiangmen City. It was once one of the most prosperous commercial centers in Jiangmen and the most lively place in Jiangmen. With the popularity of "Kurst", the Changdi Historical and Cultural District, where the filming took place, has radiated new vitality and has become a tourist attraction. "Kurst" has given the Changdi Historical and Cultural District new connotations, making this area that carries The ancient neighborhoods with historical memories are blooming with a different kind of brilliance in the new era.
Changdi Plaza data map.
"Changdi Square is the place where my dream began." 2024 Jiangmenyi hip-hop judge cmazing Bu Jingyun has been dancing here since he was a child. From this familiar place to a broader stage, he became a hip-hop star.
cmazing Bu Jingyun performed a street dance performance.
Changdi Plaza that night became a carnival stage, where young people from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area released their enthusiasm and creativity. They used dance to express their love for life and longing for the future, and Changdi Plaza The square, with its broad mind, accepts these new energies and provides a platform for dancers to express themselves; here, the past and present are no longer two isolated existences, but blend with each other and set off each other.
Changdi Square has witnessed the historical changes of Jiangmen and the rapid development of the city. Yi Street Dance has brought new vitality and vitality to the historical and cultural blocks, allowing people to see the infinite possibilities of combining tradition and modernity. Jiangmen not only has Changdi Square, but also watchtowers, ancient towns and villages, etc. At the intersection of history and modernity, it will give dancers a broader display space.
Dialogue between China and the West: Western Street Dance Encounter Overseas Chinese Culture
Street dance originated overseas. It quickly became popular around the world with its rhythmic music, cool movements and free and unrestrained expressions. The dancers used difficult movements, such as the Thomas Full Spin, the Windmill, etc., to show their physical limits and strength, conquering audiences of all ages from the streets to the stage.
When street dance meets Jiangmen’s traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture, a unique cultural fusion is quietly taking place, all of which is vividly displayed on the Jiangmen street dance stage.
Jiangmen traditional martial arts has a long history and profound historical connotation. From Wing Chun to Cai Li Fuquan, every martial art contains the bravery, tenacity and wisdom of Jiangmen people. Each move of martial arts combines hardness and softness, possessing both practical power and artistic beauty. When the vitality of hip-hop meets the vigor of martial arts, innovative artistic expression styles emerge.
The street dance work "Moving the Stage" combines traditional Jiangmen martial arts moves such as Wing Chun and Baguazhang.
Jiangmen is the "Chinese Overseas Chinese Capital", and Jiangmen's overseas Chinese culture adds rich connotation to this integration. As one of the representatives of overseas culture, hip-hop dance has a natural connection with overseas Chinese culture. People in the hometown of overseas Chinese have a more open attitude and deeper understanding of overseas culture. They combine street dance with overseas Chinese culture and create street dance works with Jiangmen characteristics. These works contain both the fashion elements of hip-hop and the diversity and inclusiveness of overseas Chinese culture.
On the 2024 Jiangmen Yi Street Dance stage, Jiangmen alienz crew won first place in the youth group with their work "Tao". Cai Xiaomin, the choreographer of the dance group, said that the work mainly focused on "overseas Chinese" culture, and Chen Yixi founded Xinning The story of the railway is expressed with the hip-hop elements of contemporary dance + breaking, hiphop, popping + jazz. It is hoped that through the work, it can convey a positive energy and convey the spirit of patriotism, love of hometown, and the courage to fight for the overseas Chinese.
The street dance work "Tao" by Jiangmen alienz crew exotic dance group.
What belongs to the nation belongs to the world. The popularity of the first domestic 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong" once again proved this point. Zhao Bihui, director of the Guangdong Youth Street Dance Association, said: "Jiangmen is the hometown of overseas Chinese and has a lot of materials. We can let everyone understand the culture of overseas Chinese from a new perspective through the creation of street dance works."
The depth of street dance and Jiangmen's traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture The fusion produced a wonderful chemical reaction. The overseas cultural characteristics of hip-hop are like a breath of fresh wind, injecting new vitality and creativity into Jiangmen, while Jiangmen’s traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture are like a deep background, giving hip-hop a rich historical heritage and richness. cultural connotation. The
Yi Street Dance stage undoubtedly provides an excellent display space for this integration, vividly presenting the collision and exchange between different cultures in front of the audience. On this stage, overseas street dance cultural characteristics are ingeniously connected with Jiangmen's local traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture. They blend with each other and jointly create artistic masterpieces. This not only adds a dazzling cultural color to the city of Jiangmen, but also becomes an important position for inheriting and promoting Jiangmen's traditional culture and promoting cultural innovation.
Bay Area Integration: Using street dance as a medium to promote exchanges
The cultures of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao blend with each other and prosper together. As an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Jiangmen, with its profound historical and cultural heritage and unique geographical advantages, has become a leader in the Greater Bay Area. The Bay Area occupies an important position in the cultural landscape. Jiangmen is adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, and people have close exchanges. "On average, one out of every five Hong Kong people has an ancestral home in Jiangmen, and two out of every five Macau people have an ancestral home in Jiangmen." This vividly explains the strong ties between Jiangmen, Hong Kong and Macao. Blood and family ties.
Macau dax one dance complex team performs the program "da jazzy".
The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" clearly states that "jointly building a humanistic bay area". As a dynamic cultural brand, Jiangmen Yi Street Dance will undoubtedly shoulder the mission of promoting cultural integration in the Greater Bay Area. On the stage of street dance, dancers from various cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area sweated to their heart's content. With their agile dance steps and passionate enthusiasm, they conveyed their love for life and their persistent pursuit of dreams. Here, dancers communicate and learn from each other, which not only improves their dancing skills, but also enhances mutual understanding and friendship.The dax one dance complex team from Macau won the first place in the 2024 Jiangmen Yi Street Dance Youth Group. Its choreographer Xu Xiaodong said that he went to Jiangmen to participate in Yi Street Dance and deeply felt the love of different teams for street dance. He hopes to have more opportunities to come in the future. comminicate.
Jiangmenyi Street Dance not only showcases outstanding dance works from all over the Greater Bay Area, but also creates masterpieces of street dance with unique characteristics of the Greater Bay Area. For example, Jiangmen's overseas Chinese culture, traditional martial arts and street dance can be cleverly integrated to fully demonstrate Jiangmen's regional characteristics; or Hong Kong's film culture and Macao's Portuguese customs can be integrated into street dance to enrich the expression of street dance. In the future, Jiangmen Yi Street Dance can also promote cultural exchanges and cooperation between various parts of the Greater Bay Area by organizing tour performances, cultural exchange activities, etc., so that more people can understand the diverse culture of the Greater Bay Area.
"Jiangmen is one of the important cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. By holding Yi Street Dance, we can attract friends from the Greater Bay Area to come and compete. With more interactions and exchanges between hip-hop enthusiasts, I believe that Yi Street Dance will become more and more popular. The better." said 2024 Jiangmenyi hip-hop judge Benj Chen Bianjie.
Jiangmenyi hip-hop brand uses hip-hop as a medium to promote cultural exchange and integration in the Greater Bay Area and enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of young people. The relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee said that Jiangmen is the "City of Chinese Dance" and the hometown of Mr. Dai Ailian, the mother of Chinese dance. He hopes to use the street dance activities as a platform to promote the popularization and development of street dance culture in the cities of the Greater Bay Area and continue to Continuously carry out exchange activities, give full play to the power of street dance culture of "youthful self, dynamic power", and promote Jiangmen city to "surge" all the way.
Although the street dance competition has come to an end, the exchanges and friendship will not stop. The story of Bay Area integration will continue to be written in Jiangmen.
Outside the stage, it is surrounded by the arcade street that has gone through hundreds of years of vicissitudes, facing the long-flowing Pengjiang River; on the stage, dynamic music is played passionately, and enthusiastic street dances fully interpret the story of "overseas Chinese".
The scene of the 2024 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Street Dance Open "yo!jm".
This scene seems to be the intersection of time and space, telling the vicissitudes of history and the vitality of modernity. The creative street dance performance shows the wonderful collision of "international style" and "Chinese style".
Old street trendy dance: interpretation of the intersection of history and modern
The Changdi Historical and Cultural District where Changdi Plaza is located carries the memories of Jiangmen people. This is the birthplace of Jiangmen City. It was once one of the most prosperous commercial centers in Jiangmen and the most lively place in Jiangmen. With the popularity of "Kurst", the Changdi Historical and Cultural District, where the filming took place, has radiated new vitality and has become a tourist attraction. "Kurst" has given the Changdi Historical and Cultural District new connotations, making this area that carries The ancient neighborhoods with historical memories are blooming with a different kind of brilliance in the new era.
Changdi Plaza data map.
"Changdi Square is the place where my dream began." 2024 Jiangmenyi hip-hop judge cmazing Bu Jingyun has been dancing here since he was a child. From this familiar place to a broader stage, he became a hip-hop star.
cmazing Bu Jingyun performed a street dance performance.
Changdi Plaza that night became a carnival stage, where young people from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area released their enthusiasm and creativity. They used dance to express their love for life and longing for the future, and Changdi Plaza The square, with its broad mind, accepts these new energies and provides a platform for dancers to express themselves; here, the past and present are no longer two isolated existences, but blend with each other and set off each other.
Changdi Square has witnessed the historical changes of Jiangmen and the rapid development of the city. Yi Street Dance has brought new vitality and vitality to the historical and cultural blocks, allowing people to see the infinite possibilities of combining tradition and modernity. Jiangmen not only has Changdi Square, but also watchtowers, ancient towns and villages, etc. At the intersection of history and modernity, it will give dancers a broader display space.
Dialogue between China and the West: Western Street Dance Encounter Overseas Chinese Culture
Street dance originated overseas. It quickly became popular around the world with its rhythmic music, cool movements and free and unrestrained expressions. The dancers used difficult movements, such as the Thomas Full Spin, the Windmill, etc., to show their physical limits and strength, conquering audiences of all ages from the streets to the stage.
When street dance meets Jiangmen’s traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture, a unique cultural fusion is quietly taking place, all of which is vividly displayed on the Jiangmen street dance stage.
Jiangmen traditional martial arts has a long history and profound historical connotation. From Wing Chun to Cai Li Fuquan, every martial art contains the bravery, tenacity and wisdom of Jiangmen people. Each move of martial arts combines hardness and softness, possessing both practical power and artistic beauty. When the vitality of hip-hop meets the vigor of martial arts, innovative artistic expression styles emerge.
The street dance work "Moving the Stage" combines traditional Jiangmen martial arts moves such as Wing Chun and Baguazhang.
Jiangmen is the "Chinese Overseas Chinese Capital", and Jiangmen's overseas Chinese culture adds rich connotation to this integration. As one of the representatives of overseas culture, hip-hop dance has a natural connection with overseas Chinese culture. People in the hometown of overseas Chinese have a more open attitude and deeper understanding of overseas culture. They combine street dance with overseas Chinese culture and create street dance works with Jiangmen characteristics. These works contain both the fashion elements of hip-hop and the diversity and inclusiveness of overseas Chinese culture.
On the 2024 Jiangmen Yi Street Dance stage, Jiangmen alienz crew won first place in the youth group with their work "Tao". Cai Xiaomin, the choreographer of the dance group, said that the work mainly focused on "overseas Chinese" culture, and Chen Yixi founded Xinning The story of the railway is expressed with the hip-hop elements of contemporary dance + breaking, hiphop, popping + jazz. It is hoped that through the work, it can convey a positive energy and convey the spirit of patriotism, love of hometown, and the courage to fight for the overseas Chinese.
The street dance work "Tao" by Jiangmen alienz crew exotic dance group.
What belongs to the nation belongs to the world. The popularity of the first domestic 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong" once again proved this point. Zhao Bihui, director of the Guangdong Youth Street Dance Association, said: "Jiangmen is the hometown of overseas Chinese and has a lot of materials. We can let everyone understand the culture of overseas Chinese from a new perspective through the creation of street dance works."
The depth of street dance and Jiangmen's traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture The fusion produced a wonderful chemical reaction. The overseas cultural characteristics of hip-hop are like a breath of fresh wind, injecting new vitality and creativity into Jiangmen, while Jiangmen’s traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture are like a deep background, giving hip-hop a rich historical heritage and richness. cultural connotation. The
Yi Street Dance stage undoubtedly provides an excellent display space for this integration, vividly presenting the collision and exchange between different cultures in front of the audience. On this stage, overseas street dance cultural characteristics are ingeniously connected with Jiangmen's local traditional martial arts and overseas Chinese culture. They blend with each other and jointly create artistic masterpieces. This not only adds a dazzling cultural color to the city of Jiangmen, but also becomes an important position for inheriting and promoting Jiangmen's traditional culture and promoting cultural innovation.
Bay Area Integration: Using street dance as a medium to promote exchanges
The cultures of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao blend with each other and prosper together. As an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Jiangmen, with its profound historical and cultural heritage and unique geographical advantages, has become a leader in the Greater Bay Area. The Bay Area occupies an important position in the cultural landscape. Jiangmen is adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, and people have close exchanges. "On average, one out of every five Hong Kong people has an ancestral home in Jiangmen, and two out of every five Macau people have an ancestral home in Jiangmen." This vividly explains the strong ties between Jiangmen, Hong Kong and Macao. Blood and family ties.
Macau dax one dance complex team performs the program "da jazzy".
The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" clearly states that "jointly building a humanistic bay area". As a dynamic cultural brand, Jiangmen Yi Street Dance will undoubtedly shoulder the mission of promoting cultural integration in the Greater Bay Area. On the stage of street dance, dancers from various cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area sweated to their heart's content. With their agile dance steps and passionate enthusiasm, they conveyed their love for life and their persistent pursuit of dreams. Here, dancers communicate and learn from each other, which not only improves their dancing skills, but also enhances mutual understanding and friendship.The dax one dance complex team from Macau won the first place in the 2024 Jiangmen Yi Street Dance Youth Group. Its choreographer Xu Xiaodong said that he went to Jiangmen to participate in Yi Street Dance and deeply felt the love of different teams for street dance. He hopes to have more opportunities to come in the future. comminicate.
Jiangmenyi Street Dance not only showcases outstanding dance works from all over the Greater Bay Area, but also creates masterpieces of street dance with unique characteristics of the Greater Bay Area. For example, Jiangmen's overseas Chinese culture, traditional martial arts and street dance can be cleverly integrated to fully demonstrate Jiangmen's regional characteristics; or Hong Kong's film culture and Macao's Portuguese customs can be integrated into street dance to enrich the expression of street dance. In the future, Jiangmen Yi Street Dance can also promote cultural exchanges and cooperation between various parts of the Greater Bay Area by organizing tour performances, cultural exchange activities, etc., so that more people can understand the diverse culture of the Greater Bay Area.
"Jiangmen is one of the important cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. By holding Yi Street Dance, we can attract friends from the Greater Bay Area to come and compete. With more interactions and exchanges between hip-hop enthusiasts, I believe that Yi Street Dance will become more and more popular. The better." said 2024 Jiangmenyi hip-hop judge Benj Chen Bianjie.
Jiangmenyi hip-hop brand uses hip-hop as a medium to promote cultural exchange and integration in the Greater Bay Area and enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of young people. The relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee said that Jiangmen is the "City of Chinese Dance" and the hometown of Mr. Dai Ailian, the mother of Chinese dance. He hopes to use the street dance activities as a platform to promote the popularization and development of street dance culture in the cities of the Greater Bay Area and continue to Continuously carry out exchange activities, give full play to the power of street dance culture of "youthful self, dynamic power", and promote Jiangmen city to "surge" all the way.
Although the street dance competition has come to an end, the exchanges and friendship will not stop. The story of Bay Area integration will continue to be written in Jiangmen.
Interview and writing: Nandu reporter Yan Liang