After years of hard training, the "Luo Shen" flying underwater is stunning four
He Haohao: I am not out of the circle but traditional culture out of the circle
"Pan is astonishing, graceful as a dragon..." Not long ago, Henan Satellite TV launched the "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" opening dance "Luo Shen Underwater Flying to the Sky" and "Praying" is amazing. The dancers swooped in underwater clothes and fluttered their sleeves. The dance seems to reproduce the scene of Cao Zhi's "Fu of Luo Shen".
On Weibo, the reading volume of related topics of "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" exceeded 3.5 billion, with 19 hot searches in 48 hours. Among them, the topic of "Henan TV is going crazy" has 1.03 billion readings and 205,000 discussions.
Among them, the opening underwater dance "Pray" (also known as "Luo Shen Shui Fu") has attracted much attention, and netizens praised it as a perfect reproduction of "Pray like a frightening hungry, graceful as a dragon, flying in the sky under water, and Luo Shen's water fu". Aesthetic scenes, performer He Haohao is also known as the true portrayal of "underwater gods", "one minute on stage, ten years off stage".
How to achieve underwater dancing?
What twists and turns did the whole process go through?
In response, He Haohao, a performer of the national style dance, told the reporter of Beijing Youth Daily the whole process.
Swimmer "transformed" into dancer
He Haohao, a girl born in the 90s, said to her being out of the circle because of the show’s popularity: “In fact, this is not my outing, but a traditional culture. As Dong Qing said, when a person’s youth and hard work can match the country’s image Linked together, this is a lucky and glorious thing."
She posted a screenshot of a tweet by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying on her personal social platform, and also posted 9 consecutive "ah" characters to express her excitement and excitement.
She was very fortunate that the underwater dance was finally seen by everyone.
She started to learn synchronized swimming since she was eight years old. “I was still in elementary school at the time, and our coach came to the school to select people. The selection was mainly based on height and body shape, with a focus on whether the bones were tall or not.” This study lasted ten years, and she also gained Won the team champion of the National Youth Synchronized Swimming Championships.
Eighteen-year-old He Haohao stood at the crossroads of his life.
"Eighteen is really the end of our career as an athlete, and it just happens to have to take the college entrance examination, so I retired."
He Haohao, who studied in the Journalism Department of Guangzhou University, still likes water and has snorkeled many times.
I tried deep diving the year I graduated in 2013 and got a diving certificate afterwards.
After leaving a state-owned company in 2016, he started his career as a mermaid coach.
Thanks to 10 years of synchronized swimming, a special idea began to emerge: dancing underwater.
To this end, He Haohao also shot hundreds of videos of underwater dances, "Practicing the stability under water, the smoothness of movement, the adaptability of opening eyes in the water, and the length of suffocation... these are all Very meaningless things in the eyes of people around you".
He Haohao said that he has persisted until now with his passion, and he is particularly grateful for this opportunity to show underwater dance on Henan Satellite TV.
It is not easy for all the staff of the whole project, and it cannot be summed up in just a few hundred words.
He Haohao revealed that the image in the show refers to the Dunhuang murals. "Dad's friend worked in Dunhuang and compared them specifically and said that it is a god-like restoration. It is really my honor to be able to promote Chinese culture with one skill."
The underwater dance is inspired by "Fu of Luo Shen"
On May 23, He Haohao's team received a notice to participate in an underwater dance show.
"After receiving the task, I hurriedly choreographed. After the choreography was sent to the director, she felt that it was not shocking enough, thinking that the form of expression was still too much like land dance." In view of this, she took a plane to Shanghai in the early morning of the 25th to participate in the program group. Dance training.
During the choreography, He Haohao referred to "Lie Ren Xing" to show the charm of underwater dance, but during rehearsal, he found that "Crash" with another show, "Lie Ren Xing's dance is short and rapid, and what I showed is a The movements of the underwater gods are magnificent and majestic, so it must be Dunhuang Feitian." So she studied the movement and emotional expression of Dunhuang Feitian.
Because the name of the show is "Pray", He Haohao also went to see a lot of blessing and powerful dances, and specially re-read "Luo Shen Fu".
"Pian Ruo Jinghong, graceful like a dragon. It seems like a light cloud covering the moon, and fluttering like a breeze returning to snow. Looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as the sun rising; if you are forced to observe it, it is like a glowing flower. The wave...The light body stands tall, if it will fly and never fly." Luo Shen Mi's grace and charm floated in the ancient writings of Cao Zhi.
Among them, the two sentences "Pan Ruhong, graceful as a dragon" and "Lift light body to stand out, if you will fly but never fly" have become the main inspirations for He Haohao's dance creation.
"Many actions are indeed based on "Luo Shen Fu". For example, when both feet are kicked up, the hands are spread out, and the movements like wings and flapping show Pian Ruohong; the hands are stretched back, the right leg hits on tiptoe, and the left The leg is bent on the knee of the right leg, and the whole person is leaning forward, as if about to take off. It’s like'sharp light to stand out, if you will fly without flying', this is also my favorite action. Because it will fly Ruofei's movements infinitely shorten the distance between man and god."
He Haohao added that the colorful Luoshen dresses worn during the performance cater to the custom of tying five-color silk threads to pray for the Dragon Boat Festival; the ornaments on the wrists were carefully studied by the team reading books.
"The Dragon Boat Festival is when people worship the river god to pray for the prosperity of the country and the people, and the weather will be smooth. This also contains a good wish from the show to the audience."
More than 200 times in the water every day
Time is tight and tasks are heavy. Behind the beautiful dance is hard work.
She flew from Guangzhou to Shanghai on May 31. She started to take makeup photos on June 1st, re-trained on the 2nd, shot on the 3rd and 4th, and re-shot some scenes on the 8th.
The entire dance lasts 1 minute and 54 seconds, which does not seem to be long under normal circumstances, but it is a huge challenge for underwater performers.
According to He Haohao, there are more than 200 times of repeated launches a day, and the actual shooting time is more than 30 hours. The average time spent underwater is five or six hours a day, and the breath is changed every 50 seconds.
"The biggest difficulty in this shooting was the entanglement of the rope. The drape on the hand, the hair band on the head, the colored silk on the body, and a long strap on the tail. The first day was the assistant helping me underwater. Straighten out, by the next day, I and the rope have already developed feelings, and know how to use some ingenuity to make them more elegant." He Haohao frankly said that after a long time in the water, people will gradually lose temperature and feel colder and colder. When she hiccups, she can't adjust her breathing, so she can only go ashore to hiccup for a while, and then suffocate in the water to continue shooting.
While doing her job well, He Haohao also actively promotes marine protection and participates in social welfare. The "HAE" she shot is about a rare disease-hereditary angioedema, "underwater suffocation". It is the best way to show the suffocation caused by this disease. Although it cannot be cured at present, it can only be relieved, but at the end of this film I broke free of the band that symbolizes the disease. This is a wonderful cure for this disease in the future. Vision."
Text/Reporter Song Xia, intern Yang Ling
Coordinator/Photo courtesy of Bailong/Xinhua News Agency