The first prize of the Jinfeng Award "The World": Find the answer to life with the national standard dance

Jimu Journalist Xia Yu

Video editing summer rain

The story starts with a family portrait and ended with the family portrait. In the meantime, there were countless gathering and clutch when turning around, and the ups and downs when rotating and jumping.

On June 20, the Hubei Dancers Association announced the 6th Hubei Dance "Golden Phoenix Award" (non -professional) award list. The group dance "The World" brought by Wuhan Sports Dance Art School won the first prize.

"The World" is the winning work of Liang Xiaosheng Mao Dun Literature Award, and it is also the hottest TV series in 2022. Either literary works or episodes. For them, we can read it slowly and understand it carefully, but for dance works, how to condense the life stories that spans over decades and in the middle of the times. In 7 minutes?

"It's really moved." This is the sigh of many netizens after watching the dance "The World". What triggered the original intention of Wuhan Sports Dance Art School in dance language? Today, Jimu Journalist interviewed Yu Mengchen, director of the work and an outstanding young teacher of Wuhan Sports Dance Art School.

A photo, a period of life travel

Reporter: Why did you think of making a dance work of "The World"?

Yu Mengchen: Life is a hurry and short trip, just like the family portrait in the hands of Zhou Bingkun, which is only a moment. The father's toughness and integrity, the mother's resentment, the younger brother and sister's career, Zheng Juan's pure to good ... a paragraph flashed back in the past, bringing him infinite warmth and sigh: No matter what kind of collision and pain in the fate, To be persistent and strive to find a way out, and never give up the bottom line of "being a good person and a good person".

What can people look like? What should people look like? We are looking for answers in the tide of the world, in the tide of constantly moving forward.

This feeling gave me the concept and inspiration of my creation. I know that only these passions are not enough, so I immediately reported to the leaders, and quickly established the creation group of Deng Yanping, Peng Ze, Nie Yidi and me.

Reporter: It is not difficult to find people familiar with the story of "The World". The protagonist in dance works seems to be Zhou Bingkun. Of course, there are other main characters: father, mother, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zheng Juan. In addition, no matter which character is under the spotlight, there are always a group of dancers in the dark part of the stage to do some prescribed actions. What do they represent?

Yu Mengchen: It represents ordinary people who are ordinary, representing changes in years. Among them are the daily life of the six brothers and their families, and the ordinary life day after day. At the same time, it reflects the huge changes in Chinese society and the ups and downs of people's lives through the form of the dance symbol and body language.

Those dancers without names are the creation of environmental atmosphere. They are the rendering of the entire dance emotions and the wave of promoting the era. Their existence can set out the scenes and emotions of the main characters in the work. Reflecting the greatness of ordinary.

Four types of dances, once a perfect art pursuit

Reporter: What do you think is the highlight of dance and what is it difficult?

Yu Mengchen: Common dance works are generally interpreted in traditional Chinese dance forms. The highlight of this dance is to express it in international dance limb language; the theme song of work music sounds the most suitable time. We heard such a hundred turns: "We are like seeds to the sun throughout their lives, and they grow up with everything in this soil ..." In addition, this time the clothing uses AB version, A (front) can reflect the shape of the characters. B (reverse) can also reflect the style characteristics of the Latin dance dynamic dynamic.

The difficulty is that there are many characters, and it is difficult to express them one by one in such a short dance work. The 58 -episode TV series needs to be condensed to 7 minutes and 52 seconds, and the character relationship and role of character must make the audience clear at a glance.

Our students average age is 17 years old. They control the characters and mobilize emotions for this work. It is difficult for the motion of emotions. It spent a lot of time to create a group to inspire and mobilize them.

Reporter: I learned that experts from the Provincial Dancers Association have commentary works. Dance language has different expressions in this work. Yu Mengchen: This work includes four dances: Lunba, Samba, Bull, and Cowboy in Latin dance. Lunba's entanglement of emotions; the contradiction in dance in the dance of bullfighting; the wave of the times when the performance of samba is continuously advanced; the outlook of denim dance performance on new life.

For example, Zhou Bingzhang and Zheng Juan met for the first time. At first sight, the love in Zheng Juan's heart, Zhou Bingyu's love for Zheng Juan, and Zhou's mother were paralyzed. Dance is expressed; and the relatives and friends around you are not optimistic about Zhou Bingzhang's relationship with Zheng Juan, but use the bullfight dance to interpret conflict contradictions ... In different time and scenes, use different dance styles to express the emotions required in the work, realize the dance in the dance Inheritance and transition.

Reporter: When is the rehearsal of "The World", what kind of homework do you do for the best work in order to make the best work?

Yu Mengchen: We started rehearsing since the establishment of the creation group in April. A total of 18 students, 9 men and 9 women. We pulled out the framework for two weeks because it was very close to the primary election, but in fact, it was not a very immature work at that time. Instead of taking care of our mentality, President Deng has not hit us, but instead uses many ways to help us and adjust it from a more advanced structure. The creation group often discussed late at night. Mr. Peng also put forward new ideas in his work conception. Teacher Nie also carefully designed in the dance movement of girls. After changing again and again, even the night before the preliminary video, we are still modifying. The costumes of the preliminary round are not ideal. We hurry up and invite experts and clothing designers to design a new set of clothing according to the integrity of the work. This is to present the best results.

Reporter: How does this award feel?

Yu Mengchen: First of all, it must be happy and excited. I am happy because this work has been recognized by the "Golden Phoenix Award" expert review. Students' dance ability and dance performance have greatly improved. The aesthetic standards for art forms are improved in the silence of moisturizing. In the process of rehearsal explanation, students understand how to be a kind person, filial piety first, see the true feelings in the ordinary, and there is greatness in ordinaryness.

Secondly, let us be more confident to use the national standard dance to create more good dance works. Here I also want to thank the Hubei Dancers Association to build a high -quality, high -standard, influential platform for Hubei dance art, so that more outstanding talents and works can be reflected through such activities. Finally, I would like to thank my students and the teachers of the Chuangbu Team. Everyone has worked together to achieve today.

(The picture is the performance site, the trial rehearsal, picture and video source: Wuhan Sports Dance Art School)

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