Recently, the "Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang Dance Couple's 70 Years in the Arts Series" was co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Dancers Association and other units at the Guangzhou Library. Held to review the positive contributions made by two artists, Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang, to the cause of Guangdong dance, and summarize their artistic achievements and artistic experience over the past 70 years.
Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang
Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang are a well-known dancing couple at home and abroad. They can be called models in the art world and a valuable asset to the Guangdong literary and art circles. Over the past 70 years, teachers Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang have been deeply rooted in the fertile soil of Lingnan, the motherland, and people's production and life. They have found creative inspiration from folk dance art. With strong feelings for their family and country and artistic responsibility, they have created and performed one after another that highlights the essence of excellent traditional culture. , handed down masterpieces full of traditional folk dance characteristics, from "March 3" and "Grass Dance" to "Happy Food" and "Touching Snails", from "Old Folk Song" and "Stories by the Village" to "Dragon Son Love" and "National Flag" "In Piao Yang", these works not only have the foundation of traditional Chinese culture, but also have distinctive characteristics of the times and unique Lingnan regional cultural customs.
According to reports, teacher Chen Qiao is known as the "Mother of Li Dance", and teacher Liu Xuanliang has won the Guangdong Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award, and together they have become important representatives of Lingnan dance. The two old artists have rich creative practices and lofty artistic pursuits. , created a precedent for Chinese folk dance and made outstanding contributions to the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese folk dance.
Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang won the Guangdong Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award
This series of activities includes the publication of "Seventy Years Together - Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang's Collected Works", the production of a picture album of 70 years of art, thematic photo exhibition, and the unveiling ceremony of the celebrity reading counter. In other ways, it vividly demonstrates the dancing couple Chen Qiao and Liu Xuanliang's feelings for the people, their original aspirations, their enterprising spirit, and their indifferent character and style as artists of the older generation.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei and intern Ye Jiayi