During the Lantern Festival, the dance drama "five stars out of the East" created with the theme of the national first-class cultural relic "five stars out of the East benefit China" in the Han Dynasty tapestry arm guard landed on Henan satellite TV and Bili many Lantern Festival parties. The dance segments such as "splendid dance" and "lamp dance" were popular in the circle, causing heated discussion all over the network. How is this dance drama forged and what artistic features does it have? In the creation of cultural relics, what experience does this play bring that is worth learning from? Recently, the creators and experts of the dance drama "five stars out of the East" discussed and exchanged on relevant topics at the work seminar jointly sponsored by the China Literary Critics Association, the literary and art criticism center of the China Federation of literary and art circles and Beijing performing arts group. Tell the story of national treasures in the form of dance drama It was jointly produced by the propaganda headquarters of Beijing Uygur Autonomous Region Party committee and Beijing Hotan Prefecture Party committee, and jointly performed by Beijing Hotan opera and dance troupe. The idea of dance drama originated from the national first-class cultural relic "five stars go out of the East and benefit China" Brocade arm guard of the Han Dynasty unearthed from the Hotan nya site in Xinjiang. In October 1995, members of the academic investigation team of the Sino Japanese Niya site found a piece of Shu brocade of the Han Dynasty in an ancient tomb at the Niya site in Minfeng County, Hotan Prefecture, 18.5cm long and 12.5cm wide, with eight seal characters woven on it: "five stars come out of the East and benefit China". The excavation of this cultural relic is known as one of the greatest discoveries of Chinese Archaeology in the 20th century. When talking about why he chose to tell the National Treasure Story of "five stars come out of the East and benefit China" in the form of dance drama, the party secretary of Beijing performing arts group Zhao Jiachen, chairman of the board, said: "to tell stories with cultural relics, we must first make cultural relics live. After repeated discussion, we believe that dance drama is a good form to activate cultural relics, because dance is the most primitive, authentic and universal human art form." The first problem in the creation of dance drama is where the "drama" comes from. Although "five stars out of the East benefit China" is a well-known national treasure cultural relic, due to the limited clues that this brocade arm guard can use, the dance drama "five stars out of the East" has experienced a difficult process in story creation. Zhao Jiachen said that in order to find more materials and with a rigorous creative attitude, the main creative team went to Hotan, Xinjiang to collect wind, and revised 12 drafts of the script alone. In the process of creation, experts from the fields of history, literature, cultural relics, philosophy, religion, dance, music and so on discussed the content of the script in detail and repeatedly studied the creative ideas and direction of the purpose of the play. Finally, the dance drama starts from the nya archaeological site. After archaeologists find the brocade arm guard, they enter the space-time tunnel and open the curtain of the story. Based on the idea of brocade armguard, the dance drama gives birth to a moving story: the border garrison generals of the Han Dynasty are held between the ancient city of Jingjue, jiante, the son of the northern leader, and Chunjun, the daughter of the leader of Jingjue, from sword tension to hand in hand side by side, from strangers to deep recognition, and forged deep friendship. The dance drama vividly interprets the theme of the people of all ethnic groups "holding together like pomegranate seeds" to form a community of the Chinese nation. "Although the story of the dance drama" five stars out of the East "is fictional, the setting of the story conforms to the logic of life, successfully shapes the character image, skillfully restores the history of ethnic integration in border areas with superb artistic means, realizes the activation of historical reality through the typification of artistic reality, and silently makes the audience accept the theme of the Chinese national community." Xu Yuechun, vice president and Secretary General of China Literary Critics Association and director of the literary criticism center of China Federation of literary and art circles, said. Dance is often not good at telling stories. It is more important to express emotions, but dance drama creation must pay attention to the integration of text and dance. Zhao tiechun, vice chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association and vice president of the National Grand Theater, believes that the dance drama "five stars out of the East" has achieved mutual verification of the text and dance. In addition to lyricism, it is relatively mature in storytelling, and the choreographer and director have a good command of the text, thus making the dance literary. "Ordinary dance dramas often know the ending from the beginning and the context of the characters. They rarely make people think about the text or literary value. But this dance drama can lead the audience to follow the fate of the characters." Zhao tiechun said. Rich dance imagination activates the connotation of cultural relics "Dance" and "drama" of dance drama are like two wheels of a car and two wings of a bird. They complement each other and share equally. Dance drama is a stage performing art with dance as the carrier, and "dance" is very important. The dance action constructs the dramatic conflict and plot narration of the dance drama. Yu Ping, consultant of China Literary Critics Association and honorary Dean of the dance school of Nanjing Academy of Arts, believes that as the "core" of the dance drama "five stars out of the East", Chun Jun played by gulimina plays a key role in communicating the relationship between characters and resolving drama conflicts with a dramatic dance performance, which constitutes the dramatic tension of the play and becomes the finishing touch of the play. In the dance drama "five stars out of the East", all kinds of dance segments are unforgettable. The graceful and charming "Lantern Dance", the dignified and atmospheric "splendid dance", the fiery and dynamic "market dance", and the passionate "disco dance"... The audience can not only find the shadow of national dance and classical dance, but also seem to see the integration of hip-hop dance and tap dance. The creative dance has won a lot of praise for the dance drama. During this year's Lantern Festival, the "splendid dance" and "Lantern Dance" and other dance segments in the play appeared in many Lantern Festival parties. They even appeared on the online hot search list and attracted the attention of the whole network. Huang Doudou, Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Federation of literary and art circles and vice chairman of the China Dancers Association, believes that the dance arrangement of the dance drama "five stars out of the East" highlights new ideas. From western region dance to Han and Tang classical dance, from folk dance to palace music and dance, and colorful dance, the works have a very natural integration and dialogue of different dance types in the dance arrangement design. "Dance drama" five stars out of the East " The most prominent artistic innovation lies in the use of dance imagination to activate those fresh stories deeply buried in the archaeological relics in the frontier, so as to realize the coincidence of imagination between Archaeology and dance art. Associate the rich symbolic significance of the brocade arm guard, and conceive the blending dance between the Central Plains culture and the western regions culture in the Han Dynasty. The dance language ideas of the three series of western region style, Central Plains Style and central plains western region fusion style bring the audience back to an imaginary Chinese picture of cross-ethnic exchanges in the Han Dynasty. " Wang Yichuan, vice chairman of the China Literary Critics Association and professor of the literary and art research center of Beijing Normal University, said. Following the popularity of the dance drama "only green" inspired by the cultural relic "the picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains", the emergence of the dance drama "five stars out of the East" once again shows people the broad space for artistic creation of cultural relic themes. Wang Yichuan believes that this work gives valuable enlightenment to artistic creation. There are still many cultural relics in China, such as "five stars come out of the East and benefit China", waiting for artists of various categories to display their extraordinary imagination, let the elves of the past live again in contemporary life, and enrich the audience's enjoyment and yearning for a better life. (outlook new era)