Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 11 (Reporter Ying Ni) The Central Ballet's original dance drama "A Dream of Red Mansions" premiered at the Beijing Tianqiao Theater on the evening of the 10th, realizing a bold exploration of the fusion of Eastern and Western art, allowing the ballet to be on its toes. Dancing lightly in Chinese classical implication.

Still photo of the ballet "A Dream of Red Mansions"

　　The whole play begins with Baoyu embarking on the road to hermitage, and the stage is also like "a vast expanse of whiteness" in the original work. A huge white wall hangs on the stage, and only a round hole like a moon gate is left at the bottom, as if leading to another world. The entrance to a world.

As Baoyu looked back, the door of memory slowly opened, and the huge wall slowly turned over, turning out golden and red mottled colors, and the prosperous and scenic spot of Rongguo Mansion seemed to emerge from the wind and snow.

The red thin squares at the front of the stage outline the picture like the pages of ancient books, and the poems of the Red Mansion are embellished in calligraphy fonts: "Where is the famous garden built, the fairyland is far away from the world of mortals", "Happy prosperity is just right, and hatred of impermanence comes again", the audience seems to penetrate the paper Looking back, I saw the original work of "A Dream of Red Mansions" turn into moving dance scenes on the stage.

Still photo of the ballet "A Dream of Red Mansions"

　　Daiyu's entry into the mansion, Baochai fluttering butterflies, concubine Yuan visits relatives, Yihong's birthday banquet, reading in the West Chamber together, burial of flowers and burning manuscripts... These classic passages are presented one by one. , which is not only the elegant figure of ballet, but also full of Chinese classical meaning.

The figures of "Shenying waiter" and "Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass" are interspersed from time to time, echoing the past life affection of "Wood and Stone Qianmeng".

In the premiere, the lead actor of China National Ballet Qiu Yunting played "Lin Daiyu", and the main actors Li Wentao and Xu Yan played "Jia Baoyu" and "Xue Baochai". The exquisite interpretation of the artistic conception reproduced the classic characters in the Grand View Garden and won rounds of applause from the audience.

　　The main creative artist team of the ballet "Dream of Red Mansions" gathered Ye Xiaogang, Tong Ruirui, Feng Li, Liu Xinglin, Yang Donglin and many other big names in the industry.

　　The music of the whole play was composed by Ye Xiaogang, chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association and famous composer.

He created a musical framework for the ballet "Dream of Red Mansions" that combines dance rhythm and character creation, and positioned it as "a dance drama music with Chinese classical romanticism".

The work adopts the combination of national melody, pentatonic scale and modern symphony techniques, and has very distinctive characteristics. Although there is no national instrumental music in the orchestra, it shows a strong Chinese color and outlines the red buildings with music. The ups and downs of the fate of the characters.

The performance was performed live by the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra. On the first night of the performance, Zhang Yi, the music director, and Wang Xiaomao, the principal of the orchestra, led the performance, accurately interpreting the musical connotations of Chinese and Western music.

　　In the view of Tong Ruirui, the chief editor and director of the play, "The biggest challenge of the ballet "Dream of Red Mansions" is to find the incision of ballet vocabulary, traditional culture and the literature of famous works. Through this incision, we can naturally integrate various elements, and then create our own Stage language and dance vocabulary. Let the upward and upright features of ballet have a wonderful chemical reaction with the beauty of Chinese dance.” Therefore, the work should not only make a fuss about ballet, but also Chinese taste and The Chinese vocabulary has been worked hard, so the main creative team adopted the narrative method of extraction-entry-extraction, allowing the ballet to express freely in the infinite space of emotion and emotion, which is not only full of Western ballet color but also Chinese aesthetics.

Still photo of the ballet "A Dream of Red Mansions"

　　The stunning stage art was created by Liu Xinglin, a professor at the Central Academy of Drama.

The text at the beginning of the dance drama reminds Baoyu that he witnessed the events of the past emerging from the wind and snow. He said frankly, "This image has touched me from the very beginning, and it has always been the source of inspiration and starting point for the entire conception of the dance design." For this reason, he borrowed Suzhou gardens The "Cloud Grotto" in the China Net Master's Garden and the "Lixue Hall" in the Lion Forest, the former has a round moon gate on a large powder wall, and the latter will still give visitors the feeling of watching a snow scene even in summer .

This kind of blank space in traditional Chinese architectural aesthetics makes the expression of "snow" in his design more detached and free.

　　As the chief planner and producer of the play, Feng Ying, head and artistic director of the National Ballet of China, said that the play took three years of careful preparation, and reproduced the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels with an international and national artistic perspective. , which not only contains the artists' awe of literary masterpieces, but also realizes a bold exploration of the integration of Eastern and Western art.

"We hope to use ballet, an international western language, to connect and perfectly integrate with Chinese classical meaning."

　　It is reported that the ballet "Dream of Red Mansions" is a 2022 annual funding project of the Beijing Culture and Art Fund and will continue to be staged until February 18.

After the premiere in Beijing, the play will also tour to Xi'an, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities.

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