Kong Yanling instructed her daughter to practice table pedaling skills
Drum training
Kong Yanling corrected her daughter's performance posture
"Women's Disc" in pedaling skills
Actors practice pedaling the big vat
In the training center of heze northern acrobatic troupe, accompanied by cheerful music, one by one acrobatic actors began their daily training. Under the guidance of acrobatic teacher Kong Yanling, acrobatic programs such as pedaling large cylinders, pedaling tables, kicking drums, and dreaming hula hoops were staged one after another.
Kong Yanling is the chairman of the Acrobats Association of our city and the inheritor of the pedaling skills of the city's municipal intangible cultural heritage projects. Pedaling is a project of foot pedaling in the acrobatic performance situation, and it is also a major project in traditional acrobatic programs, which is divided into three categories: "heavy pedaling technique", "light pedaling technique" and "pedaling person". The performer lies on his back on a low-hip sleeping mat, closes his legs, puts various light and heavy props on his feet, and relies on the strength of his legs and the skills of his feet to make different props rotate and churn on his feet, change the angle, and make different tricks. The commonly used pedal lane has a variety of daily necessities such as square tables, water tanks, buckets, ladders, umbrellas, and jars, and also forms the earliest sublimation from labor to art.
Kong Yanling was born in an acrobatic family, her parents and uncle are acrobats, she has heard about it since she was a child, she received systematic acrobatic training at the age of 12, and began to perform on stage at the age of 15. In 1987, in a performance activity, Kong Yanling won the approval of Zhu Guiying, a famous pedal performer in the city acrobatic troupe at that time, and accepted her as an apprentice and carefully taught her. In 1998, 26-year-old Kong Yanling founded the Heze Northern Acrobatic Troupe. For more than 20 years, she has led acrobatic troupes to more than a dozen provinces in the motherland, during which she has been invited to Southeast Asia for acrobatic cultural exchanges.
In her 30 years of artistic performance and inheritance, Kong Yanling has trained nearly 200 students and disciples, and more than 40 apprentices in Yunnan alone. Along the way, she insisted on integrity and innovation, creating new acrobatic programs while integrating traditional programs into modern factors and other performance styles, which was unanimously praised by the audience. The programs "Trapeze" and "Flying Car" created by her herself won the first prize in the provincial acrobatic competition in 2020 and 2021 respectively. She was personally awarded the Peony Literary and Art Award by our city in 2020.
In recent years, Kong Yanling has stopped performing on stage, and has focused on cultivating the next generation and passing on skills while running a good acrobatic troupe. She and Heze Art School jointly opened an acrobatic major in the school, while learning cultural knowledge, while learning acrobatics, but also attracted many acrobatic enthusiasts to come to visit.
Heze Newspaper all-media reporter Shi Sujian