"Thousand Hands Guanyin": Dream stage Difficult dance moving audience (figure)

"Thousand Hands Guanyin" stills "Thousand Hands Guanyin" stills "Thousand Hands Guanyin" still "thousand hands Guanyin" still Sina Entertainment news by the dance choreographer Jigang seven years to complete the large-scale dance drama "Thousand Hands Guanyin" on January 27 debut The National Theater, presents the refreshing stage effect. As the largest on the art platform, the National Grand Theater has been to launch the nation's art products as its responsibility, 2011 Spring performance season, the National Grand Theater chose the folk dance drama "Thousand Hands Guanyin" as "the most important dance drama."　　It is reported that the play will continue from January 27 to February 1, and should be strongly requested by the audience, especially on January 29 on the afternoon field, hoping to allow more viewers to feel the charm of Chinese dance. The ballet "Thousand Hands Guanyin" is not the dance "lengthened version" before this people had guessed, the dance drama "Thousand Hands Guanyin" is the Dance "thousand Hands Guanyin" an adaptation or the expansion. In the evening premiere, Jigang confirmed his previous interpretation: "Dance dance and dancing only a little bit the same, is the same theme, people's eyes and ears to hear is completely different, this is a new work!"　　In this creation Jigang followed his three convictions: one is never repeat others, do not repeat themselves; the second is to enrich the means, the state should be simple; third, the belief that the limit is a genius grindstone, the actor forced to a narrow space, in a very small range of imagination to play to the extreme. In order to "thousand hands Guanyin", for several years Jigang led the core creative team, footprints all over the mountains and rivers of the Earth, the Yellow River Hukou waterfall, Yue Hengshan have given him a huge imagination space; Shanxi's long history of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and the culture of the Yellow River, Genzu culture, Jin Shang culture for his creation provided the basic elements; Mount Wutai,　　The cultural connotations of Yungang grottoes and other scenic spots constitute the background information of the plot. 12 Carols compose the World Big Love dance drama "Thousand Hands Guanyin" adopted a brand-new elaboration way, has abandoned the general dance drama common pattern structure, but uses 12 carols the way to divide the whole story into 12 paragraphs, each other independent and interrelated, the layer advancement. This design makes the ballet look more like a temple, the temple echoed 12 carols, hanging 12 paintings, telling the beautiful legends. Jigang said: "I think this is a true, to the good, to the United States, a kind of praise, praise, but also we are in China to build a harmonious society needs of a kind of friendship and mutual help, such a and beauty, such a happiness, is the dance drama throughout the idea to convey. "The ballet revolves around the Dai princess to save the Father King to look for the magical Lotus, finally turns the thousand hands Guanyin Bodhisattva to carry on the story unfolds, has manifested the Chinese nation harmonious humanity noble spirit, as well as the Chinese civilization gorgeous beauty." The entire work draws on the Surrealism creation method, in the character portrayal, the atmosphere rendering, the choreography, the music, the dance stage and the clothing design and so on the inventive way, the brave exploration, has highlighted the fable like, the legendary, the dreamThe artistic style of illusion. Super big screen to create fantasy stage Jigang in the "Thousand Hands Guanyin" debut before, once said: "Thousand-hand Guanyin" art design to be concise, to simple, showing a lifetime of two or two three or three born all things, the last thing to a design concept. But until then, Jigang has been kept in a state of secrecy about how the stage should be rendered. In the evening's performance, this magical and dreamy stage finally unveiled the veil of mystery. The whole stage does not have pavilions, Kosan of the scene, but the three princess over the mountains and mountains to find the Magic Lotus process to perform vividly stunning, the mystery of which is attributed to a huge LED screen composed of the stage.　　This length is 12.5 meters wide and 9.5 meters, weighing up to 17 tons of super large screen has become the main stage of the performance, so that the actors at the foot of the thousands of changes, at the same time with a huge led "frame", inside and outside the two screen for three-dimensional three-dimensional rotation, creating a kaleidoscope of the general fantasy stage effect. Collection of ancient temple bells, to create the music in order to make the whole play "static, net, the environment", "Thousand hands guanyin" not only used a high level of on-site accompaniment, but also special collection of some special music elements. Director Jigang Special arrangements before the performance of professionals to collect folk songs-thousand years old temple Taiyuan Chong Good Temple sound. Four o'clock in the morning, the dead of night, the staff to install good equipment, waiting for the ancient monastery monks worship, that quiet and distant, penetrating the sky-like sound of a chime, no noise, no desire, so as to achieve the whole dance of the required effect, the theme of perfect coordination.　　Brahma music, drum, in the air over the stage echoed, dancing, shining figure, let the audience. Super big scene difficult dance section beautiful as the body of the dance, "Thousand Hands Guanyin" dance condensed Jigang the greatest wisdom and heart.　　The sheer size of a total of more than 400 dancers is impressive enough. The most brilliant of the play is also the most core of the Pas de deux, "thousand-hand Guanyin" of the Pas de deux is the dance between God and people, expression and presentation is therefore more subtle. One part of the performance of the three Princess and the lad to find the Lotus traveled in the vast wilderness of unusually tired in the boundless desert into the dance segment of the dream, showing a very strong difficulty and the great test of the actor. In this dance, there is an extremely complex lift, known as "the most difficult lift in history" by Jigang.　　In the evening's performance, the male and female starring Zhangxiaoguan and Zhang Yi Month outstanding completes this movement, to present each audience to bring the visual and the heart double shock. At the end of the finale of the press Axis Dance section "Thousand Hands Thousand Eyes", more can be used to describe, this section of the choreography completely broke the previous dance "thousand Hands Guanyin" successful mode, did not again use straight line structure to show the shape of the thousand-hand guanyin, but with more than 400 actors all stage of the formation, really presented the "thousand hands with the same station" Spectacular scene, give a very deep impression.