China news agency, Tianjin, October 7 -
Question: Yang: Dancing is my life's emotional exit
China News Agency reporter Zhang Daozheng
"Dancing is an emotional outlet in my life, and it is also my respect for my talent." The famous dancer Yang Liping said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 6th. Although she has been working behind the scenes as a choreographer in recent years, she has not stayed away from dancing. "As long as there is a suitable work, I will be on stage again at any time."
Data map: On the evening of January 29, 2018, the dance drama "Peacock Winter" was staged at Tianjin Grand Theater.
From "The Peacock Princess", "The Spirit of the Bird" to "The Love of the Bird", 60-year-old Yang Liping interprets the love and time in life with her unique dance language and the beauty of life at different stages.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tong Yu
On the same day, Yang Liping's dance theater "Ambush on Ten Sides" (modern dance drama) art sharing session was held in Tianjin Nanyuan.
Yang Liping made an appearance with the starring team of "Ambush on Ten Sides", sharing the stories and artistic insights from the stage and behind the stage with art lovers.
During the period, she appeared in a peacock dress, full of "fairy air", deducting a unique oriental beauty.
From the start of the "Peacock Road" in the large-scale dance drama "Peacock Princess" in 1979, to the creation and performance of "The Spirit of the Bird" in 1986, "Peacock" is Yang Liping's most classic artistic image on stage, and she herself is also known as "Princess Peacock".
"Dance is a way of life of our nation. People dance at weddings and funerals, and work in the fields." Yang Liping said that her mother was already dancing when she was pregnant in October; she hadn’t received professional training. Dancing is natural. In childhood, She often walks into nature to observe animals, and her most representative peacock dance was originally benefited from the observation of peacocks.
For Yang Liping, dance is like air and water.
I have been with dance for decades, not by "persistence" but by "love". It is "inspired". She said: "Dancing is an emotional outlet in my life, and it is also my respect for my talent. "
After returning to the theater after the epidemic, Yang Liping was full of emotion. She said that this can make people feel the cruelty of the reality of "natural and man-made disasters", just like the danger described in "Ambush on Ten Sides", full of "uncertainty"; Let mankind realize that "battle" sometimes comes from the heart and sometimes from the outside world.
Speaking of "Ambush on Ten Sides," she said: "In this story, the common humanity is in it, and the characters in it are also'live' in the present and can be seen in life. We must look for the connection between history and the present." For example, Xiang Yu’s story is about whether a spirited hero has the wisdom to survive. Xiao He is like those who can make the weak succeed and let the talents perform. The characters such as Liu Bang, Han Xin, Yu Ji can also play Find a shadow in life.
Yang Liping said that the most difficult part in creation is how to perform such a complicated story with dance. For this reason, she adopted rich Chinese traditional cultural elements such as Peking opera, pipa, and paper-cutting to expand the artistic connotation of the work.
Looking back on the dance career and creative standards, Yang Liping said, "My creation is still very diverse. In the early days, I liked the idioms of flowers and birds, the wind, flowers, and the moon. Later, I focused on exploring the meaning of life. Art with national characteristics, and works such as "Ambush on Ten Sides" are experimental in recent years. I am thinking about whether we can express the traditional Chinese culture in the most modern way."
It is Yang Liping's constant pursuit to spread and convey Chinese stories to the world.
She said, "I have always loved Chinese traditional culture. It has its own taste and national symbols. How to convey it with artistic techniques is what I am interested in creating."
"I prefer to create. Some works are created for myself, and some are created for suitable dancers. In the future, I will tailor-made for myself." Yang Liping said that for her, age is not an obstacle, and there is no stage. Everywhere.
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