"Tang Palace Night Banquet" created by Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater in Henan Province became a hit
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Our reporter Bi Jingjin
"People's Daily" (14th edition on February 24, 2021)
At the 2021 Henan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala, the dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet" performed by Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater received many praises.
"The performance is very hard. Before each performance, you have to put on makeup for nearly 3 hours, and the clothes and headwear weighs 30 kilograms." The dancer Yi Xingyan, who participated in the performance, introduced that the Tang people regarded fat as beauty, and 14 actors put on it. With a special tight-fitting cotton-padded jacket, the red and green coat is supported to create a plump visual effect, but "every time you dance, you will sweat."
Despite the hard work, Yi Xingyan and her companions were relaxed.
This dance mainly shows a scene where a group of girls who are about to participate in a dance performance are frolicking on the way to the performance location.
"Even though the times are thousands of years apart, our joys, angers, sorrows and joys are the same. The'they' we play are also dancers and girls. Before each performance, we will have similar moods and play with each other. "Yi Xingyan said.
The program director Chen Lin said that when she visited the Henan Museum in 2017, a group of figurines of singers and dancers from the Sui and Tang dynasties aroused her interest. She thought of creating a work based on them.
"The story is appealing, and the emotion is what moves people." Feng Shuangbai, chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, believes that the success of the show lies in the attention and expression of ordinary people's emotional elements on the premise of insisting on high-level performance.
"When the audience is interested and sees in, they will pay more attention to and understand the historical and cultural elements contained in the work, the work will have vitality, and the culture will be spread."
The show not only has beautiful dancing postures and down-to-earth scenes, but also superimposes images of many historical relics through virtual reality technology, so that reality and virtuality are intertwined, emotions and cultures blend.
"The creative concept of paying attention to life and paying attention to ordinary people's emotions runs through the whole process of this Spring Festival Gala." said Li Xuan, the art director of Henan Spring Festival Gala.
According to reports, during the Henan Spring Festival Gala this year, the Huaxia Ancient Orchestra from Henan Museum and Fang Jinlong, a pipa player, used a variety of traditional Chinese musical instruments to play selected pieces of Henan Opera and other repertoires familiar to the audience.
Famous opera artists in the province, medical staff and their families who participated in the fight against the epidemic sang opera programs to show the dedication of medical staff.
"Henan has rich historical and cultural resources, which is the foundation for our prosperity of cultural undertakings." said Changjiang Ling, member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and the Department of Propaganda Department. Batches of "explosive" products that are rich in history and culture and are loved by people. "We must continue to maintain integrity and innovate, launch more and better cultural products, and let the Central Plains culture spread farther." Jiang Ling said.