Recently, "Inheritance, Innovation, and Continuous Forward" - a special seminar on the innovation and development of traditional folk arts in the new era was held at the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The meeting conducted a "review" of the 15th Beijing Youth Crosstalk Festival competition held not long ago, and discussed how current crosstalk competes with talk shows to win the "empathy" of young people, and how to create creations based on current development trends. Hot topics such as the publication of more female-themed works were discussed.
On the final stage of the 15th Beijing Youth Crosstalk Festival, female crosstalk actors Li Yushu and Cao Luomeng performed the competition program "Love Guide"
Create crosstalk works from a female perspective
Li Weijian, chairman of the Beijing Folk Artists Association, believes that this year's Crosstalk Festival It presents the following characteristics: First, it returns to tradition. Young contestants are influenced by the older generation of artists and constantly promote the integrity and innovation of cross talk art. Second, it has a wide range of themes, with works involving AI, artificial intelligence, cultural and tourism integrated development, etc.; third, it pays attention to reality and creates The authors actively integrate the feelings of home and country in their works, and their creative perspectives are broader; fourth, the participating groups are broad. This year, not only college students participate, but also many female contestants. In the future, we can consider setting up a college student track, and at the same time give more attention to actresses. Gather and strengthen the talent team of cross talk artists; fifth, promote talents and works through excellent program performances, build a display platform for young creators, and effectively promote the ecological construction of cross talk art. At the
seminar, Li Weijian also focused on the current development trend of female crosstalk actors and how to create more female-themed crosstalk works. "In the past few years, I have been teaching folk art classes at the Chinese Opera. Especially this year, I found that 13 of the 21 students in our class of 2024 are girls. In the folk art class of 2022, there are more girls than boys. If this trend continues, , There will be an endless stream of female crosstalk actors, so in this era, if you still say that girls are not suitable for the crosstalk profession, I think this sentence is too backward and unrealistic."
Li Weijian spoke
He also listed, Jia. Ling and Ma Li, two female comedians, were cross talkers when they first debuted a few years ago and have a good foundation in folk art performances. This shows that cross talk does not differentiate between genders. In the past, it was not suitable for women because some content looked at the world and described life from a man's perspective. "It is not from a female perspective, nor is it a female context, so it would be inappropriate to say it this way. But the current development trend of cross talk and the ecological environment can start from women and find materials based on their actual lives, so that women are more suitable to stand. In the current cross talk stage, Li Weijian said.
After the competition of this Youth Crosstalk Festival, several female crosstalk actors came off the stage and asked Li Weijian what he thought of their crosstalk performances on the stage. Li Weijian responded that it is difficult for a female crosstalk actor to find a way of expressing comedy that is recognized by the audience. Sometimes people find her scenes boring and annoying, but when she goes too far, they find her annoying and disrespectful. "So female comedians have to work much harder than male actors in this regard. They must always look for a comedy expression method that is recognized by the audience and makes laughter natural. For this reason, we must help them achieve it, consciously Create some crosstalk works suitable for female crosstalk actors from a female perspective, female context, and female themes. "
How crosstalk can "empathize" with young people
At the seminar, two people won awards at this year's Youth Crosstalk Festival. Actors and folk art researchers all mentioned how cross talk competes with talk shows to win the "empathy" of young people. Sheng Wei, the award-winning actor representative, believes that cross talk creation should be closer to life. The popular talk shows and sketch comedy forms are more "empathic" with today's young people and are more popular with them. If crosstalk wants to be close to life, it must first go deep into life, feel the reality of life through collecting styles, and make the work close to people's inner world. In terms of creation, we can break through the traditional framework of cross talk and make useful attempts to combine it with other art forms such as drama, film and television.
Sun Yanbo, the award-winning actor representative, took the talk show actress Niaoniao who was very popular online some time ago as an example to explain his insights and understanding of the art of talk show and cross talk. In his opinion, Niaoniao is a very "socially afraid" senior intellectual. She majors in science and engineering, and the content of her talk show focuses on these socially afraid people who major in science and engineering. "These people will sympathize with her after watching her talk show performance, but in my opinion, this attention span is relatively small. Crosstalk covers a wider range of content, which is also very helpful in broadening one's personal horizons. "
On-site seminar on the innovative development of traditional folk arts in the new era
Du Lei, academic secretary of the Folk Art Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, combined with the current situation of variety shows, discussed the two from the perspective of "old fans" of talk shows and "new fans" of cross talk. analyzed. Du Lei believes that, unlike talk shows, crosstalk carries more feelings about home and country, accumulates richer traditional culture, and can arouse wider resonance, which is difficult to achieve with talk shows that focus on personal emotional expression. This is also the uniqueness of cross talk as an art.
Deng Ke, deputy editor-in-chief of "Quyi" magazine, believes that the current cross talk creations are not lacking in works, but they are short of high-quality works. The works often lack the warmth and depth from life, as well as the due aesthetic value and ideological connotation, and are easily simplified into funny tools, resulting in The work is superficial. Our traditional art should not be limited to inherent performance forms and stage space. We can use new technical means, try new expression spaces, and use live broadcast platforms for effective dissemination, so that crosstalk art can be loved by more people.
Tian Peng, first-level inspector of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said in his summary that the development of crosstalk art needs to be driven by the troika of creation, performance and criticism. In the creation of cross talk, the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles should increase organizational efforts to guide folk art workers to go deep into life to absorb nutrients and go into life to accumulate materials; actively integrate the strengths of all parties to create, while following the laws of art, collide with various art categories, and explore Internal creative power promotes cross-category communication and integration to launch more successful works; promotes the in-depth participation of performances and reviews in creation, jointly promotes the prosperity and development of folk art and cross talk art, and achieves inheritance and innovation.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Cui Wei
