—— "Wild Mountain", "Sister Baby Mountain Song HaGaza", "Sister Baby Wants to Cross the River", love on the tip of the toe
Dancer Xia Bing
"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent." Ladies and gentlemen. ——" Poetry Classics and National Styles
"Wild Mountain", created and led by the famous dancer Xia Bing, won the Silver Award of the Ministry of Culture's Qunxing Award; "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza" won the Gold Medal of Hubei Province Golden Phoenix Cup and was broadcast on CCTV Dance World; "Sister Baby Wants to Cross the River" won the Yellow Crane Star Award of Hubei Province, was broadcast on CCTV Dance World, and was selected as the final of the National Star Award. Love is an eternal theme, and love stories from the folk have been passed down through the ages because of the truth and purity of being interpreted into different art forms. Xia Bing's love trilogy is based on Tujia dance, combined with modern dance techniques, and has its own advantages in narrative and expression. The love on the tiptoe, through the background of national culture, emits the fragrance of earth and the atmosphere of the mountains, bringing visual beauty and spiritual tremor, and the hidden beauty of life is like the love in the Book of Poetry.
Xia Bing's love trilogy refracts the grand and thick national spirit with microscopic perspective emotions, with profound themes and far-reaching intentions. Under the details, you can vaguely capture the creator's attitude towards love, personal life trajectory and mental growth process. The love of "Wild Mountain" is ignorant and primitive, it is the pure love in the wilderness, the meaning of the mountain soul and the spirit, the freehand of oil painting, the integration of modern college techniques, both realistic and abstract, in the use of national dance, highlighting the unique national culture behind the work, so that the work jumps out of the wildfire light; the love of "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza" is enthusiastic, vivid and witty, highlighting wisdom, it is not difficult to see that Xia Bing has touched the cultural essence hidden in the blood of the Tujia family in the years of in-depth excavation; "Sister Baby Wants to Cross the River" The love in the middle is full and abundant, swinging intestines, structural processing is more ingenious, time and space are intertwined, almost across the life of the Tujia woman, from the initial heart to the hand of the son, from the mutual foam to the twilight year, the main character of the sister from the daughter to the wife to the old woman, multi-angle switching, in the grand narrative of the years of ups and downs to remove the impurities and trivialities of life, in the framework of carrying forward the national spirit to reveal the temperature of human nature.
"Wild Mountain" is the first successful work in the Xia Bing Tu family dance. Featuring abstract expression and stream-of-consciousness techniques, it follows tradition and breaks through tradition, boldly presenting the beauty of primitive wildness. Like a rough wilderness love song, freehand landscapes, and love, reflecting the unique national nature.
Stills from "Wild Mountain"
Structurally, the opening scene brings emotions into the large-scale freehand picture, followed by a realistic figurative narrative to express the authenticity of human nature, and the third part jumps in and out between realism and freehand, collides and merges, sets off a climax, and completes the sublimation of the theme.
The first part is abstract freehand. In the wilderness, the spirit of the mountain is wrapped in red dress, long hair, personality, psychedelic frankness, she runs wildly through the mountains and forests, persistently pursuing the love she yearns for, crossing the forest and crossing the stream, cutting thorns, nothing can stop this woman like the wind, the original explosive power and the fiery faith drive her all the way forward. In Lin Mang's breath, the souls of the mountains opened their hearts, they intertwined with each other, and the spirits communicated with each other, releasing a signal of love. This is the love of men and women, the love of mountain souls and spirits, and the fire of life and life looking for each other.
The second part is a realistic narrative. It is a praise for human nature and the mountains. One of the most important fast-paced sections, using the "Sal ho" technique of mourning dance, selects the flowing steps of the lower body, the knees flutter, loose, steady and powerful, setting off the hero and heroine's firm dedication to love, reflecting the optimistic and open-minded spirit of the Tujia family and their love for the mountain.
The third part enters the climax, jumping in and out between abstraction and figuration, combining virtual and real, and using the inner emotional explosion to portray the love of the mountain and human nature, flexible and ethereal, with deep meaning. It's like the stream of consciousness in the early films of the film master Zhang Yimou.
At the end, the girl has an action, with a smeared hand on the boy's face, this action comes from the Tujia custom, called smear, is a symbol of love: when the girl falls in love with the boy, she will use her hand to stick the bottom of the pot ash to the face of the sweetheart, in order to prove true love. After completing this action, trance enters the state of mountain spirits and elves, who are entangled and rolling in the dust, expressing their love wantonly. Here, the dancer is the spirit of the mountain, the sister-in-law immersed in love, and the self in reality; the boy is both the shadow of the mountain, the soul of the mountain, the portrayal of masculinity, and like the brothers and sisters who swam and played in the river when they were young. From the soul to restore the human body, and from the human body to the soul, abstraction and figurative evolution and reciprocation, no matter what the appearance is, their hearts are hot, to give the fiery love to each other without reservation, in order to achieve the fusion of water and milk, become the complete body of love, let love, in the storm of stream of consciousness, set off a wild flame, the passion is infinite, endless.
In the dance vocabulary, based on the traditional mourning dance "Sal ho" of the Tujia family, combined with modern dance techniques, the dance language is strong and fiery, wild and unrestrained, revealing the essential origin of life. Abandon interference, focus on the male and female protagonists, in the wild big picture, the man's body language hides the soul of the mountain, and the woman's body language hides the spirit of the mountain. "Sal", also known as the funeral drum, is a unique ancient funeral ritual dance, which is a spiritual link that affirms the value of life and maintains national cohesion. The Tujia family called the funeral "Bai Xi", believing that birth and death, death and life, death is as gratifying and congratulatory as the birth of a baby. When an old man dies, the clan is not sad, and the drums are sung, "Its song will be crazy, and its people will dance", singing and dancing to sacrifice. "Sal ho" adds to the connotation and tension of the work.
"Wild Mountain" highlights a "wild" word, the literal meaning of wild contains the original, closed, uncivilized, and the rules are opposite, but also represents the pure emotions that are not polluted, contains a kind of wild and powerful force, in the rough mountain wind, the love of young boys and girls is simple and warm, true and pure, in addition to the praise of the mountains and the song of love, its deep meaning is the praise of the inner temperament and national integrity of the Tujia people.
If "Wild Mountain" is a wild love song with a mighty mountain wind, then "Sister Baby Mountain Song HaGaza" is a hot love song minor key. In the realistic method of flat and direct narration, the use of contradictions to create conflicts, the use of humor, ridicule, wit, and resistance to create dramatic effects, the rhythm is compact, interlocking. The works skillfully use dance language to reveal the personality of the characters, and use unique dance designs to highlight the national spirit of unity and upward mobility.
Dance is a comprehensive art, in addition to the dance itself, it also includes music, art, literature, drama and other arts, but the closest partner is music, and it can even be said that music that conforms to the content of dance is the soul of dance. Teacher Wan Chuanhua, a national first-class composer and conductor of Hubei Opera and Dance Theater, is Xia Bing's mentor and friend, and also a partner of tacit understanding, in many of Xia Bing's works, Teacher Wan's music casts the soul of dance. Wan Chuanhua once served as the composer and conductor of the dance drama "Twelve Chao" and served as a music producer, conducting and performing famous dance dramas such as "The Little Knife Society", "The White Haired Girl", "The Red Detachment of Women", and composing and conducting the large-scale musical dance "Chime Dance". Xia Bing's song and dance poetry drama "Jin Na Yin Er Suo" was composed and synthesized by Teacher Wan, and the song and dance "Sister Baby Wants to Cross the River", "Fashion Grandma Singing Drama", "Spotted Dove Gollum", "Solitaire Bridge", "Gao Hongtai Chinese Gong", etc. were all composed and synthesized by Teacher Wan, and these works have won provincial and even national awards.
Looking at the structure of "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza", the role of music is crucial, which can be seen from the two folk songs selected by Teacher Wan Chuanhua for Xia Bing. The introductory part uses a low male voice to cooperate with "Mason trumpet" to highlight the majesty of the mountain and highlight the masculine atmosphere; the first paragraph sets off the feminine rhyme of the Lichuan folk song "Lang on the High Slope", borrowing the plot of embroidering the lotus bag and throwing the lotus bag, and cooperating with a double dance to show the femininity of the woman and the yearning for love; the second paragraph uses the slow rhythm and the group dance of the prominent plot to show the process of love encountering obstruction; the third paragraph uses the more affectionate "Lang in the High Slope" to foil the characters and praise love; the climax section, with a very characteristic Lichuan meat continuous playing brilliant. Music has become a solid framework for the work, and it is integrated with dance, Xia Bing said, "Sister Baby Mountain Song HaGaza" has received excellent performance results and won the Hubei Provincial Golden Phoenix Cup Gold Award, and Wan Chuanhua's meticulous soundtrack is indispensable.
Stills from "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza"
The prologue kicked off, with the low and thick "Masonry Trumpet", a group of Tujia Hanzi walked up to the stage from far and near with a heavy and powerful dwarf step; then, the music was transformed into a clear folk song "Lang on the High Slope", which entered the first paragraph, "The sun comes out red like fire, the sun-dried little sister has nowhere to hide, XiaoLang I am really sad in my heart, my sister Baby, give a straw hat you wear, you wear..." The pretty sister baby expresses love to the lover brother with mountain songs and purses, and the dance tone at this time is relaxed and cheerful, soft and naughty, The humorous and mischievous humor of the boys teasing the sister-in-law shows the character of the Tujia man who loves labor and loves life and loves the sister-in-law to the fullest.
In the second paragraph, the dance rhythm is slow and low, showing contradictions and conflicts with narrative and dramatic plots: the father discovers the love affair, the young man is caught off guard, the psychological changes of the characters are seen through in the dance language, and the emotional expressions such as surprise, concern, hesitation, dissatisfaction, thinking, and entanglement enhance the development of the plot and accurately convey the spirit.
In the third paragraph, in order to defend love, Wa launched a struggle against her father, from confrontation, challenge, fierce battle, the dance rhythm became more and more distinct, from slow to fast, subtly revealing the determination of the sister baby to win. The means of the competition is the dance "meat ringing", from one person slapping, two people fighting, the whole audience group fighting, "meat ringing" is the result of the new and old concepts from opposition to unification, is the cheer of victory and the praise of harmony, and at the same time conveys a united and upward national cohesion.
The climactic passage is particularly shocking. After winning the love defense war, the sister baby made a dramatic appearance, heroic and refreshing, revealing the stubbornness of the sister baby and the arrogance of victory in the bones of the earth sister. Subsequently, the music appeared again male chorus "Lang in the high slope", "the sun came out red like fire, the sunburned little sister had nowhere to hide, Xiao Lang I was really sad in my heart, my sister also gave a straw hat you wear yo," In the hot sun, music drives the plot, dance drives the actors, from hearing to vision, from sense to heart, intertwined with an ocean of passion. Then he spun around and danced, and it was the shy sister baby again, and he gently slapped his sweetheart's face to express his love, and the lover brother was caught off guard and froze for a while. The audience suddenly sounded a powerful Tujia language "Ha Gaza! "This is a compliment to the Tujia sister-in-law who defends love!" In Xia Bing's words, this applause, the soul of the whole dance came out at once, all the previous plots became the foreshadowing, group dance, throwing bags, mountain songs, competitions, all of these are for this "Hagaza!" "It is as if a veil is unveiled and a picture scroll is unfolded, clearly outlining the brave, fearless, and enthusiastic spiritual temperament of the unearthed family, such as Daigo empowerment."
At the end, with a soft board treatment, the music gradually weakened in the sweet female solo, "Lang lifted the stone on the high slope, the sister embroidered the lotus bag in the room," the dance gradually closed, the sister looked at it affectionately, and Lang was on the slope... Aesthetic closure, unfinished.
"Hagaza" is a kind of exclamation and praise in the Tujia language, similar to the Chinese exclamation words "oh - yo hey" "oh - ah! "Like, it has different meanings depending on the priority of the tone. The name of the work contains this word, which only appears once in the end, but it appropriately sets off the deep meaning behind the love song and dance. On the other hand, the mistress covered his mouth and froze his expression, and deep inside he didn't have a sigh of surprise pop out of his wide eyes--"Ha Gaza!" The two lines of one light and one dark, with sound and silent echoes, increase the weight of "Ha Gaza", enhance the connotation of the work, and reflect the ingenuity of the creator Zhang Chi. At this moment, the water has come to fruition, the high-pitched original mountain song resounds loudly, and the boys lift up their sister-in-law and look up at her adoringly, as if looking up to the goddess in their hearts. The sister is high, her legs swing up and down like a swing, in a fiery red sun, leisurely, free, proud, confident, happy, enjoy the peace and tranquility of the unity of heaven and man. The mountain song minor key belongs to the Riba people, and the exquisite design at the end makes "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza" stand out from the big customs and show elegance. The Song of The Sister Baby Mountain is really "Hagaza"!
The highlight of the dance of "Sister Baby Mountain Song Hagaza" is the fascinating application of "Meat Ringing". The "meat ringing" of the national intangible cultural heritage of Lichuan region in Hubei Province is a kind of rhythmic sound of palms hitting the forehead, shoulders, faces, arms, elbows, waist, legs and other parts, with the ringing of fingers, jumping legs, trembling steps, wearing palms, turning and other lively and free body movements, its performance style is unrestrained and enthusiastic, relaxed and lively, and the techniques are diverse. The essence lies in the sound, and the use of multiple paragraphs of "flesh continuous sound" delicately portrays the characters and plays a role in fueling the development of the narrative. Xia Bing grasps the relationship between inheritance and innovation, learns the ancient without mud, breaks the law without violating the law, and "meat ringing" not only increases the fun and story of the dance, but also highlights the character of the character, drives the rhythm, and achieves a moving artistic effect.
"Sister Baby To Cross the River" is a love aria, simple, gorgeous, gorgeous, high-pitched, is the finishing touch of the love trilogy, but also one of Xia Bing's favorite works, borrowing the Tujia family's excellent folk song "Dragon Boat Tune" to render love, in order to praise the hometown, sing a national spirit.
The work adopts the technique of flashbacks, with the memories of an old couple entering the theme; the first paragraph is the encounter and love by the river, the beginning of a better life; the second paragraph is the love melon ripening, the consummation of the marriage of the flower car; the third paragraph is to stay together until the white head, love will never fade after the baptism of years.
In the beautiful landscape of northwest Hubei, an old couple recalled in the song of "Dragon Boat Tune", "Sister Baby wants to cross the river, which one will push me?" ”
The beautiful sister meets the handsome offspring by the river, and the love buds. Under the background of the music, the dancing boys naughtily separated a pair of lovers, the sister baby shyly escaped, the latter was eagerly pursued, the boys carried the post-life on their shoulders, and threw them into the air together, chasing and amusing, the scene was witty and funny.
In the second paragraph, the love melon ripens, the festive music sounds, the flower palanquin to greet the relatives comes, and the later life can't wait to break through the siege and take out the beloved girl from the flower palanquin, at this time, "Dragon Boat Tune" sounds again. In the center of the stage, the sister baby jumped on the shoulder of the descendant, and was steadily driven by him, in the soulful music and blessings, the sister baby raised her head, one arm upwards, like the wind swinging willows, graceful and graceful, tender, and like a blooming rose, full of warmth, delicate. The mountain smiled with affection, and the shy sister became a happy bride. This frame shape, which implies the sweetness and beauty of love, also shows the infinite expectations placed on the future; this frame shape has become a heavy color of love, reflecting the rest of life, bright as ever.
The third paragraph, which enters the climax in the warm narrative, is arranged like a stroke of god through time and space: a red silk floats in the sky, tied to a big red flower, the white-haired grandfather takes it in his hand, and the grandmother leans over and asks the grandfather to put it on her, as if to say, "I still want to sit in the flower palanquin, and I still want to be a bride." Grandpa also leaned over and asked Grandma to put it on him, as if to say, "I want to wear flowers too, and I want to be your bridegroom again." "As she grew old, she was still the shy sister in his heart, he was still the strong offspring in her heart, and their love was as beautiful and festive as red silk, never fading." Freehand red silk has multiple meanings, is a symbol of love, is a symbol of a happy marriage, but also a hopeful future of the Tujia family, but also a kind of affectionate blessing, the children and grandchildren of the Tujia family in the red silk sheltered in the landscape, deeply loved, live.
"Dragon Boat Tune" is adapted from the traditional folk song "Seed Melon Tune", almost integrated with the blood of the Tujia family, and is also an excellent food for the Chinese nation, and the affectionate and beautiful "Dragon Boat Tune" rings anywhere in the world, which will arouse the nostalgia of all Chinese. From the ancient legend of the white tiger to protect the descendants of the Emperor To the real hero Ba Manzi, the singing of "Dragon Boat Tune" has become the soul of the Tujia family's belief, thousands of years ago the ancient Tujia family sang "Dragon Boat Tune" heroic resistance; thousands of years later, the modern Tujia family sang "Dragon Boat Tune" to live steadily; thousands of years later or more in the future, generation after generation of Tujia will also sing "Dragon Boat Tune" to multiply, as the song sang, "Sing the sun never sets, sing the moon never stops." The integration of "Dragon Boat Tune" makes "Sister Baby Crossing the River" not only stay in the appearance of love, but through the small love of the children of the Tujia family, to show the great love of the nation covered in the depths of the work, which is also what Xia Bing really wants to express and praise, that is, the optimistic and open-minded, tenacious, enthusiastic and uplifting national spirit in the bones of the Tujia family!
The three works have their own advantages, the image of the sister in the work, full and rich, real and amiable, both the feminine beauty of a young woman and the maternal love of a mature woman, the sister is not only the ideal female image in the minds of the creators, but also a model of the Tujia woman, and also an excellent representative of women in China's 56 ethnic groups.
Enshi's Tujia family has lived in the lofty mountains since childhood, opening the door to the mountains, going out to climb the mountains, laboring to get along with nature, tempering the character of perseverance, optimism and perseverance, "see life as the past, see death as life" Open mind and mountains and rivers. Xiao Suhua, a famous Chinese dance choreographer, believes that choreography is not only a technique, but also a culture that integrates into people's hearts, "Wen is like its people", and through a work, we can see what the people behind it are and what his cultural background is. Undoubtedly, Xia Bing proved this with his works.
"The wind blows the woman." Uncle Xi Bo Xi, Advocate Yu and Daughter. The wind is sloppy, and the wind is drifting. Uncle Xi Bo Xi, advocating for a daughter. "Xia Bing's love trilogy, in the epic song of modern folk dance, leaves a moving chapter."
Stills from "Sister Baby Wants to Cross the River"