"Only this green" dances and paints thousands of miles of rivers and mountains
2022-05-23
With the bright moon shining, the 18-year-old boy in white waved and decorated, and the "green" in the clouds and flowing water bloomed in front of him step by step from dark to bright. At the last stroke, the painting was finished. The boy burst into tears and laughed up to the sky. Then he turned around and left a lonely figure, a famous painting for thousands of years - nameless and worthless, just this volume; Green for thousands of years, mountains and rivers are boundless. This is the climax of the second half of the dance Poetry Drama "only this green" – "painting". From the "green" segment "out of the circle" in the Spring Festival Gala of the year of the tiger in Taiwan in February, to 18 consecutive performances in Beijing Poly Theater in April, and then written into the white paper "Chinese youth in the new era..." only green "has become a phenomenal stage art work. How does an ancient painting go from the museum to the stage? How does the play connect tradition and modernity? What reference significance does it have for future stage creation? Recently, at the online seminar held by the dance Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, the creators and experts of "only this green" exchanged views on relevant topics. A dialogue across time and space The dance Poetry Drama "just green" is jointly produced by the Palace Museum, China Oriental performing arts group and people.com. It adopts a time-space staggered structure narrative: the picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains is about to be exhibited. A researcher of the Palace Museum (the exhibitor) travels through time and space. When the manuscript is about to be completed thousands of years ago, the audience follows the steps of the exhibitor and follows the chapters of "exhibition, seal character, silk singing, stone searching, pen learning, ink quenching and painting", Enter Simon's painting world The picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains hidden in the Palace Museum has always been regarded as a giant masterpiece of green mountains and rivers in the Song Dynasty. It was exhibited in full volume in 2017, which triggered the popularity of "Palace Museum run". Among the bustling crowd at that time were Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, two editors and directors of "only this green". A glance at the painting made them unforgettable for life - thousands of years later, the bright green color in the painting is still amazing. It can be said that "only this green" is a creation made by the two editors and directors. However, there are few characters and plots in the picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and there are few records about Ximeng. How to construct a stage play? "The theme of only this green determines that it cannot be presented in a strong dramatic conflict. We try to narrate with emotional logic." Zhou Liya said. "I think there is a combination of narration and lyricism in this green only. On the one hand, there is narration, such as the production process of this work, including various processes and steps, which are displayed in narrative; on the other hand, there are lyric scenes, including the mood of the exhibitor in the face of this national treasure and the beautiful dance style of the silk weaving woman, which have rich and outstanding artistic pursuit." Song Baozhen, director of the drama Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of art, said. Zhou Liya said that "only this green" has multiple dimensions, including ancient and modern, static and dynamic, virtual and real. For example, the exhibitor is a real dimension. Through the eyes and imagination of the exhibitor, the audience goes back to the past and sees the young Simon and the craftsman behind the painting; "Green" is a life body conceptualizing the picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. It is a virtual dimension. It leads the audience from ancient times to today, so as to complete the ancient and modern dialogue of time and space. "I call it a new narrative mode of multi-dimensional narrative system." "Only this green" dance beauty design Gao Guangjian said. To this end, the dance beauty design of "only this green" breaks the Convention, and the stage displays the concept of scroll with concentric circle structure, which is also the concept of time. With four turntables on the ground and three tracks in the air, the rotating stage is like a ring engraved with national memory, leading the viewer into the cycle of time. An introverted and gentle classical beauty Watching "only this green", a kind of introverted and gentle classical beauty comes to my face, which is pleasing to the eyes. The scattered modeling changes, the rhythm conversion of dynamic and static combination, and the beautiful and elegant clothing colors make an ancient painting fresh and vivid in front of today's audience. Song Baozhen believes that "only this green" is refreshing, and the impact of visual beauty is particularly strong. The works attach importance to the beauty of images and the beauty of rhymes, and emphasize the tenderness, tenderness and implicit comfort of oriental aesthetics. This is exactly the image that the creators want to express. For example, the choreography takes stillness as the starting point and introverted and retracted as the tone. It designs modeling actions such as waiting, looking at the moon, thinking, walking alone, dangerous peaks and lying stones, showing a kind of quiet and elegant beauty. The segment of "green" deduces this quiet and elegant beauty to the extreme. "Green" is a pure freehand brushwork in the whole play. Green clothes, towering hair bun, beautiful but not soft posture... The beauty of Song Yun enters the hearts of the audience with the dancer's gentle gait. "When we create this paragraph, we think of a state of mountains and stones and a feeling of being in the mountains. For example, the well-known 'green waist', we imagine a slow and powerful tension formed by mountains and stones in the changes of years." Han Zhen said that it's like a slow shot when browsing the mountains. The viewer feels a continuous spirit in the slow rhythm. Although only this green is based on traditional aesthetics, it is not a concrete "reproduction" or simple "restoration" of a volume of pictures of the Song Dynasty. The creators are looking for a balance point of integrity and innovation in every penny. For example, dance choreography, "we take its spirit more than its shape. It is an exploration and practice of classical aesthetics from a contemporary perspective starting from the aesthetic characteristics of the Song Dynasty." Han Zhen said. The same is true of clothing modeling. "What we want to show is the costumes made in the Song Dynasty, but perhaps there is not a completely restored song costume in the play, which is more a reflection of the aesthetic feeling of the Song Dynasty." Yang Donglin, the fashion designer of "only green", said that for example, the clothing of the "green" segment is not a special traditional song style, but it conveys the simple and elegant attitude in the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. Qing Qing, deputy director of the dance Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, believes that "only this green" presents a quiet, simple, restrained and tenacious aesthetics. A large number of blank spaces used in the play also represent the openness and tolerance of Chinese culture. A retrospect of traditional culture "This painting is painted with the people of heaven and earth, but it's enough to see green!" Ximeng's monologue reflects another layer of profound meaning of "only this green" -- the color of the picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains that has not faded for thousands of years, which was created by the ingenuity of countless workers and protected by generations of cultural relics protection workers. It is such a group of people that finally condensed into this unique green, which together constitute the "thousands of miles of rivers and mountains" with overlapping mountains and more profound meaning. In addition to showing Ximeng, the exhibitor and "Qinglv", this Qinglv also devotes a lot of space to the seal engravers, silk weavers, stone grinders, pen makers and ink makers... It is the intensive work of the "nameless and moneyless" craftsman who has spent his whole life and worked in one thing that enables Ximeng to write freely and achieve famous paintings for thousands of years. "This play reflects the mutual hope and mutual respect between spiritual production and material production. When we talk about literary and artistic creation, we are often limited to spiritual production and the creator itself, ignoring material production. In fact, spiritual production depends on the basis of material production, which is a contribution of only this green." Lu Taiguang, director of the Institute of Marxist literary theory of the Chinese Academy of Arts, said that young Ximeng is legendary and easy to form an individual narrative, but "only this green" does the opposite. It tells a story created by an individual into a story created by a collective, which is a look back on traditional culture and a tribute to the spirit of craftsmen. Wang Kui, director of the Drama Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, said: "although it is a traditional theme work, it deeply shows a realistic position. Its creation closely focuses on the reality, that is, how to understand the tradition today and how to reproduce the living tradition on the stage." He said that the performance of rival artists is actually to deconstruct the realistic material carrier into the works of art, and show the group value of a painting when it is formed by tracing the material composition. At the end of the play, a bright moon shines for thousands of years. Ximeng and the exhibitor are opposite each other at both ends of the picture scroll and cherish each other at a distance from time and space. This is a cultural heritage spanning thousands of years. "This green is not only green, but also more than green; it is a green landscape painting, but also a humanistic painting blending feelings and scenes - see paintings, people, stories and spirit." Zhou Liya and Han Zhen said that "only this green" was made for the "picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains", and also for the inheritance of China's 5000 year civilization. (outlook new era)
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