September 14, 15, 16, these three bright stars at night, will belong to the "Yellow River", as well as a group of "Yellow River people."
is the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China and the 80th anniversary of the birth of "Yellow River Cantata". It was produced by Shanxi Performing Arts (Group), performed by Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater, and the famous artist Zhang Jigang directed the dance epic "Yellow River". It took 10 months to create , Finally kicked off the world premiere at the Shanxi Grand Theater.
This time, nearly 5,000 tickets for 3 consecutive days were sold out before the premiere. Audiences from all over the country came here, even the furthest from abroad!
During the 100 minutes of the first performance on the evening of the 14th, applause rang more than 40 times, accompanied by exclamations and applause. During the performance, the audience saw too many incredible and stunning pictures-the clay sculpture on the stage actually "lived"! The dance can jump in the air! The "Water from the Yellow River" mentioned in the book is really seen! The curtain call for the first performance of
led to a climax of the atmosphere. In the 20-minute curtain call, each actor received the warmest applause from the audience, and the executive director, stage director and other behind-the-scenes personnel also appeared in front of the stage. They embraced each other excitedly. Finally, with the eager eyes of the audience, "Yellow River" screenwriter and chief director Zhang Jigang stepped onto the stage. Looking at the actors around, he wept with excitement. With his back facing the audience, he took off his glasses and quickly wiped his tears; when facing the audience, he only bowed deeply for a long time...
That night, the audience called "full" on his mobile phone. In "Field of Stars", all the "Yellow River people" left a "Yellow River Group Photo", which also remained in the memory of many people.
Three wonderful moments of applause
"Yellow River" performance, never worry about the amount of applause, because every scene catches the eye. A reporter from Shanxi Evening News saw at the performance site that there were 3 wonderful moments that evoked "burst-like" applause at the scene, which was unforgettable.
The opening dance "Nine Songs of the Yellow River" of "The Yellow River" is full of muscles and hormones! Let you fall in love with this river from the first sight, fall in love with the people of the Yellow River——
Amidst the rising and permeation of a white mist, a group of men from the Yellow River swarmed into the embrace of the river, or rolled, or played, danced The movements are minimal and beautiful, with rigidity in softness. In a short while, the men from the Yellow River rolled in the mud and instantly turned into "clay men". The splashing mud stirred up more turbulence and boiling of the Yellow River water, and stirred the hearts of the audience!
The second movement of the "Yellow River", "Water from the Yellow River Comes from the Sky", is even more stunning-
The tune of "Yellow River Boatman Song" sounded, and the rushing and tumbling "Yellow River" poured down with a "waterfall" "The momentum hangs on the stage, it is spectacular! Some people from the Yellow River jumped into the "Yellow River" with a large slope in front of them. Sometimes they were tumbling in the air and sometimes chasing in the water...When the special period came, the "Yellow River" in front of them began to tremble, and a group of people "jumped" into the river one after another. Here, in the turbulent waves rolling up against the current... After the sound of the "rumbling", one by one steel helmets poured down from the "Yellow River". At this time, the "Yellow River" with raging waves and the "Yellow River people" bravely advancing in rapids. Melt into one... Suddenly, everything around me stopped abruptly. After the lights came on, the familiar tune of "Defense of the Yellow River" sounded, and the audience applauded thunderously. Many people followed the tune and hummed softly, "The wind is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring, and the Yellow River is roaring!" It's also eye-catching, especially "Red Silk Dancing in the Yellow River". Under the "Yellow River Waterfall" created by the screen, a pair of men and women dances red silk. In the alternation of red and yellow, a group of people dances, dances, backflips, whirls, red silk or circles. , Or flying all over the sky, the actors seem to be "flying" in the air...
The 12 programs of "Yellow River" have different excitement., Cannot be done one by one, as if the applause "cannot stop".
Two amazing techniques like never before
Zhang Jigang's "Yellow River" has a magical "magic power" that seeing is believing! For example, you can instantly "shape" a "real clay figure" with full muscles and full strength; you can also make actors dance and "upstream" in the pouring Yellow River water; it can also make the Yellow River water and people on the bank , Climbing high in these three-dimensional spaces, appearing in a dance scene.
On the whole, Zhang Jigang's "Yellow River" shows two unprecedented expressions of stage art-the visual impact of returning to the dance itself and the three-dimensional expression of multi-dimensional space. "Returning to the main body of dance" is simple to say, but today, with the help of holographic projection and other high-tech means to create stunning stage effects, it is no easy task. And "Yellow River" did it!
The "Yellow River" on the stage is definitely not an illusory image produced by high-tech, but a "real" existence. It subverts people's artistic imagination and presents an unprecedented way of performing stage art. After watching the performance, some audience members said, “Shock is not enough to express their inner feelings. We can only say that we have never seen such a'Yellow River'!'”
A magnificent and magnificent view
“Yellow River” is not only It is a river, and this dance epic has a huge "view".
An old boat drifting on the river for nearly ten thousand years, slowly tells the story of the river in the way of inner monologue-this is a river of life, a river of heroes, a river of vigorous spirit. The 12 stories in the three movements named "Nine Songs of the Yellow River Ten Thousand Sands", "The Water of the Yellow River Comes from the Sky" and "The Yellow River Flows into the Sea" attract the audience to follow the river from the distant history, in the vicissitudes of life In an interview with the Shanxi Evening News reporter, He Jianping, one of the chief producers of "Yellow River" and the chairman of Shanxi Performing Arts Group, said, "This work brings mothers and mothers to the Yellow River" The river and the motherland’s mother are closely linked together, making the Yellow River and Shanxi closely linked again. (Previously) the box office was sold out before it was staged. This is unprecedented in the history of Shanxi’s art development, showing and establishing a beautiful image of Shanxi. It will definitely leave a strong mark in the powerful promotion of Shanxi’s transformation and development.” The 16th sunset of "Yellow River" premiere is also a new beginning. It will open the road to tour and bring the "unprecedented" in the history of Chinese dance to More places, more people.
Shanxi Evening News reporter Peipi Li
Audience response
Thirty years ago, the first program I danced was "I Came from the Yellow River" by Teacher Zhang Jigang, which was in 1989. Later, he danced his "Yellow Earth Yellow" and "A Man Who Twisted Yangko". I also came to our Shanxi Jinzhong with him to rehearse "The Yellow River Man". This time I specially came to Taiyuan to watch the premiere of "Yellow River" and brought four of my graduate students. I think "Yellow River" is an inevitable product of this era! While China's economy is booming, there is this kind of national self-confidence, and this work has very strong personal creative ideas. In the creation of this work, not only did we feel the power of dance, but also the interaction between dance and the stage, and the echo between the audience and the actors. Under the theme of "Yellow River", we felt the true feelings from all sides. I think this piece is an expression of emotion, dance and confidence. I wish "Yellow River" will be performed in hundreds of venues to promote our Chinese art and culture in the future.
——Yu Xiaoxue, teacher of the Education Institute of Beijing Dance Academy
The moon of fifteen and sixteen rounds, on September 14, "Yellow River" successfully premiered! Looking up at the bright moon, looking down at my hometown...
The Yellow River in Shanxi, the Yellow River in China, and the Yellow River in the world!
That is the blood of mother and father, that is the soul of mother and father!
The Yellow River, surging endlessly with the sun and the moon!
——In Beijing, Shanxi-born literary and artistic workers
, we are students of Datong University. Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, we saw the premiere of "Yellow River" in Taiyuan, excited and excited. Our major is dance. It is really lucky to see such an epic dance work, and it is the first performance! The actors on the stage are our role models, and those mature dancers use a dance to let us "insiders" learnThere are many doorways, and the appearance of Zhang Jigang surprised us even more. He is a mountain in the dance world. We look up and we want to climb. We hope to surpass one day.
——The daughter of four students from the Dance Department of Datong University,
, and my granddaughter came to see it together. This is a Mid-Autumn Festival gift from my daughter, a premiere of Zhang Jigang's work, and an unforgettable Mid-Autumn Festival gift. We all love dancing. After watching "Yellow River", we love dancing even more! I dance with my life, and interpret my life with dance. Many passages are moved and I want to cry. The story of a river for thousands of years has too many moving plots, and the stage is too powerful!
-retired employee Ms. Wang
Shanxi Evening News reporter Jie Zhang
"Yellow River" backstage exploration
Mid-Autumn Night Eve of Nirvana
Before the stage, "Yellow River" was born because of Zhang Jigang. Behind the scenes, the beginning of the "Yellow River" story began with a letter-"...In the past ten years, you have created the dance drama "Handful of Jujube", the rap drama "Liberation" and the dance drama "Avalokitesvara Thousand Hands" for your hometown. ", won a huge honor for Shanxi! The people of my hometown thank you! With the strong response of these repertoires at home and abroad, the units that performed these repertoires are also prosperous and beautiful! As the head of the Provincial Song Academy, I, Seeing people in the city, my own family is very uncomfortable, I feel uncomfortable in my heart! Suffering! Suffering! It is really not a taste! Here, on behalf of all comrades in the hospital, I beg you to help us! Help your mother group! Help the provincial song! Let the provincial song be proud and revive the past glory!..."
This is a letter from Cheng Tuansheng, then the director of the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater (hereinafter referred to as the provincial song), to Zhang Jigang 7 years ago Letter, after reading this letter, Zhang Jigang tears more than ever...
Seven years later, on the night of September 14, 2019, the retired student Cheng Tuan wrote another letter. This letter was written after the premiere of "Yellow River" ——"In the nearly two hours of performance, I did not leave the seat, my eyes did not leave the stage, and the red hands were covered with tears... The huge visual, auditory and even tactile impact came directly, it was so shocking! Sincerely! Congratulations on the great success of the first performance of the dance epic "Yellow River". The provincial song "Yesterday" gave birth to a great master of art, and the provincial song "Today" stood on the shoulders of giants again! The dance epic "Yellow River" will once again save the province The song is brilliant again! Thank you, Director Jigang, and thank you all the cast and crew of "Yellow River". Your contribution has fulfilled my dream, and I will enjoy the rest of my life because of the birth of "Yellow River"."
Full of tears, the excitement, gratification, and pride of the old folk singers, is it not the mood of the younger generation of folk singers on the "Yellow River" stage. For the glory of this moment, they have experienced too much suffering, too much difficulty, the baptism of tears and sweat, the tempering of time and struggle, and they have a brilliant night fixed on the stage.
On September 13, during the Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion, the group of "Yellow River People" in the Shanxi Grand Theater was rehearsing the last night before the premiere. They have spent too much of this night, but this night is different. This is the last time before Nirvana, and every second counts. The Shanxi Evening News reporter also saw a completely different scenery behind the stage this night from a different angle than usual.
After the stage, 3 makeup artists, from 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the makeup brushes in their hands have not stopped. The faces of 38 actors are their "stage"; 4 costume artists have "lived" in the Grand Theater In the backstage, the gears of the sewing machine in front of him are spinning, hundreds of costumes need to be tried on, adjusted, and size modified one by one; 40 staff members are constantly shuttled back and forth on the stage side, dance floor, and backstage, they have to pull The curtains, the loading and unloading of props, the scaffolding to support the "Yellow River" in the sky...
The combination of dry ice and dust makes the backstage smoky. They have no chance to fall because the people here have been working. The 38 actors shuttled back and forth around Shanxi Evening News reporters, visually having a magical sense of travel, but they could really smell the sweat on their bodies, could feel the steaming heat from their skins, and could hear them on stage. The side panted and rested, waiting for the moment to come on stage again.
This kind of magic continues. When the audience cheered for the beauty of the "sculptures" in "Yellow River", the "sculptures" rushed backstage and rushed to the temporary bathroom built of canvas in the brief darkness when the lights were turned off. Because the number is limited, some of them can only wrap a piece of reflective tin foil and washWaiting at the door of the bath. When the Shanxi Evening News reporter passed by, these "sculptures" who had no time to take a bath laughed at the reporter, showing their white teeth, their bodies and faces covered in mud, they could no longer tell who was who, even the pride and pride they exuded. Happiness is so unified.
In the background, Sun Hebing, the deputy director of the Art Creation Center who escorted these stage props, is a difficult interview subject. Just now, he checked the huge 1,500 square meter "Yellow River" in the first movement on the stage side. Disappeared. In the deepest part of the stage, in front of a large scaffold more than ten meters high, a reporter from Shanxi Evening News finally found him. Facing this hidden behemoth and the shocked Shanxi Evening News reporter, Director Sun said that it was the “backbone” of the “Yellow River in the sky” after the start of the second movement. The construction began on the 9th and was completed on the 13th. The Yellow River, which is 16 meters wide and nearly 30 meters long, flows straight down. During the interview, the "Yellow River Man" walked past us, patted Director Sun on the shoulder, and then climbed onto this huge steel "backbone" and disappeared into the darkness at the highest point. Then, the sound of music and thunder and lightning sounded on the stage, and we know that they have danced in the "Yellow River".
Some viewers said that after watching the premiere of "Yellow River", they felt that the moon was fifteen and sixteen round! Yes, during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the countless days and nights before that, the Yellow River people only wanted to win the brightness of Sixteen Nights. The moon in the sky seems to be cheering for them. After the premiere on September 14, Shanxi Evening News reporter walked out of the Shanxi Grand Theater and looked up and saw-the clouds had opened, and the long-lost moon had come out!
Shanxi Evening News reporter Zhang Jie
reporter’s notes
We witnessed that the "Yellow River" flows into the sea
-Zhang Jigang praised the promotion of "Shanxi Evening News"
Two months later, I came to Shanxi Grand Theater again, the same theater, But it is a realm of heaven and earth——
On the evening of September 14, the great success of the premiere of "Yellow River" made the audience wantonly vent their inner surgings. Applause, applause and tears of excitement were all mixed together to push the noise away. To the top. People were reluctant to leave for a long time. The actors called the curtain call again and again, and they were called back by the enthusiasm of the audience again and again, which lasted more than 20 minutes...
At that moment, my memory suddenly returned to two months ago. An exclusive interview with the chief director Zhang Jigang was scheduled that day. He chose the Shanxi Grand Theater, which is the future performance of "Yellow River". We sat on the empty stage and talked. The background was empty seats under the stage, and the whole theater. It's so quiet that only the sound of our conversation...
is really strange, and the sight before me now makes me feel "déjà vu". I tried to remember, oh yes, I used to "witness" everything now in Zhang Jigang's eyes that day! Only at that time, "Yellow River" was completely a "women waiting to be married" who was raised by a boudoir.
It was a long time ago that the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theatre was going to line up "Yellow River". After the New Year this year, I learned that Zhang Jigang had plunged into his mother group and began secretly creating the provincial song, so I knew that this movie was dedicated to the 70th birthday of New China. The works commemorating the 80th anniversary of the "Yellow River Cantata" are like an arrow on the string. But as a blockbuster gift work in our province, it is also the first real marketing work after the transfer of the provincial song to the enterprise. They are under great pressure. At this time, Sangge thought of his old friend "Shanxi Evening News" for many years, and the two hit it off, so the heavy responsibility of exclusive publicity fell on the shoulders of "Shanxi Evening News".
From the first time I was invited to the theater to watch the rehearsal on July 2nd, to the first two and a half months of "Yellow River", the provincial song and director Zhang Jigang gave the "Shanxi Evening News" great trust. And the all-media reporter team of Shanxi Evening News has truly become a member of the "Yellow River", giving up holidays and reunion with their children on their birthdays. Even the Mid-Autumn Festival night was spent at the Grand Theater "Yellow River" rehearsal. , It’s past midnight when I leave the theater, and Mid-Autumn Festival is yesterday...
The manuscript is polished even more. A manuscript written by Zhang Jigang, which lasted half a month, three in-depth interviews; 5000 words for the "children of the Yellow River" in the past. The manuscript, behind the manuscript, is the deletion of 15,000 words; interviews with six actors of the provincial song, undergoing a big change of blood back and forth... the photography team and the new media team also strive to do the shooting, video recording, and optimization of the layout of "Yellow River" To the best!
Every heavy report is like oneThe sound of spring thunder has exploded in the domestic literary circle! And this is in exchange for the "phenomenal" incident in Shanxi that was popular before the performance of "Yellow River" and a ticket was hard to find.
On September 8th, "Yellow River" was in the Dalian Provincial Opera Theater for the last time. Director Zhang Jigang directly praised our reporting team: "Shanxi Evening News is a great contribution! A great contribution! Now getting tickets is nervous! I did not expect The thing is that the propaganda ideas of "Shanxi Evening News" are so clear, especially the methods are so diverse." On September 12, at the press conference for the premiere of "Yellow River", Zhang Jigang played a "complaining" praise: "Oh, "Shanxi Evening News" has caused trouble, because you, the audience from all over the country is here except Macau, Qinghai, and Taiwan. The rest are coming. Now I don’t even have a ticket!"
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75 days, "Yellow River" "Pretend to be married" in our hands! "Yellow River" also "flows into the ocean" under our witness!
On the evening of September 15th, when I once again sat in the hustle and bustle of the Shanxi Grand Theater, I once again felt the surging and passion of the people around me. Although the tears wet my face again, I suddenly felt that my heart was quieter than ever before. For example, two months ago, there was only one more feeling than then: gratification and satisfaction!
Shanxi Evening News reporter Fan Lu
08-09 Edition Photography: Shanxi Evening News reporter Zhong Qing
1, "Yellow River" premiere scene.
2. The performance scene of "The Yellow River Dreamcatcher" in the third movement "The Yellow River Flows into the Sea".
3. The performance scene of "Red Silk Dancing Yellow River" in the third movement "The Yellow River flows into the sea".
4. Performance scene of the first movement "Nine Songs of the Yellow River Miles".
5. The first movement "Nine Songs of the Yellow River Wanlisha" starring Li Yiran's "Yellow River Lullaby".
6. Zhang Jigang, the chief director of "Yellow River", called for a curtain call at the premiere.
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