Yang li Ping saw how a flower was in full bloom.

Yang li Ping: I have a flower in my stomach.

In the performance on the evening of July 4th, Yang li Ping and her niece danced with their long hair waving.

10 years ago, she was like this. 10 years later, she is still like this. It seems that youth is always in this person. On the fifth day of his performance in Beijing, Yang li Ping accepted an exclusive interview with Youth Weekend and told the secret of his youth. In her words, "I have a flower in my stomach."

In the large-scale dance collection "The Voice of Yunnan", Yang li Ping brought all kinds of voices in the south of colorful clouds to the extreme. From June 30th to July 5th, she performed in poly theatre for six days, but Yang li Ping said she didn't feel tired because she liked the process.

◎ Talking about the "Yan Ecology" dance ◎ Doing whatever it takes on the stage.

At 5pm on July 4th, poly theatre, before the performance that night, Yang li Ping accepted an exclusive interview with the reporter of Youth Weekend. The topic starts with several masters who died recently.

"Michael Jackson is my favorite singer, and I like his dance very much," said Yang li Ping, and pina bausch, a German modern dance master, who watched her dance video a few years ago. "She just died, and I am very sad."

"Will you learn anything from western modern dance yourself?" The reporter asked.

"No, because there is no need. There are too many folk things in Yunnan and there is no law. " Yang li Ping blurted out without thinking.

Yang li Ping is a Bai nationality from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Most of her childhood memories are related to villages and poverty. She likes dancing since she was a child and has never been to any dance school. But with her amazing talent, she created peacock dance's Spirit of the Sparrow, which became famous in the last century.

On this day, our photojournalist took a picture of her. She made a gesture and said to the photographer, "You should be lower. It is too high to show the wrong facial structure. " Even the person who helps with the flashlight will ask for the exact location.

"Do you want to use a reflector?" "There is no reflector. Use that poster instead of fill light? " Unlike many interviewees, she didn't shoot as required, but kept making suggestions in the process of taking pictures.

It can be seen that Yang li Ping is very sensitive to modeling. She has her own ideas, and must strictly follow the requirements and strive to achieve an ideal state. Maybe anyone who has made achievements in art will be like her, either not doing it or doing it to the extreme.

For example, this time in the large-scale dance collection "Voice of Yunnan", in order to show the various voices of Yunnan folk, she tried her best to collect them. Even agricultural products such as rice and gourd were put on the stage on a large scale by her.

What I saw in the rehearsal field that day surprised the reporter. Thousands of gourds are piled up everywhere, and rice is packed in more than twenty huge bamboo baskets. There are hundreds of trunk drums taller than people, each with a year. There are also grotesque musical instruments everywhere, such as water tanks, bamboo hourglasses, Dan Xian violins, hookahs, wine glasses and cigarette cases, all of which have national flavor. Walking into this rehearsal field is like walking into a frontier farmer's market.

Yang li Ping spent more than eight months collecting all these. She will try every means, such as how to put so many gourds on her body and how to keep those bamboos from cracking, which requires a lot of energy. However, she said these were minor problems because she enjoyed the process very much. "All my peasant brothers and sisters and I are immersed in a desire and passion for creation, which is very comfortable."

When Yang li Ping produced Yunnan Image six years ago, the props were far from so extravagant. At that time, she didn't even make any money. She had to sell her house in Dali, Yunnan, shoot electrical advertisements, go to performances, make money by these methods, and then buy clothes and rent a theater.

Fortunately, all this has become the past. Rehearsal began in August last year, and major domestic performance companies such as Xiken and Poly came to talk about it. At that time, I signed 50 shows, and before I left home, the performance fee was already allocated. Yang li Ping reinvested the first batch of performance fees to make his works more perfect, which became a virtuous circle. "Everything is going particularly well, which is not easy in the performance industry." Yang li Ping said.

Youth weekend: This time, you put forward the "ecological dance". Can you give an example to explain what is original ecology and what is ecological dance?

Yang li Ping: In the past, Mao danced peacock dance with his grandfather in the village, which was original ecology. It was a dance that men danced, and they felt that they could not express their feelings, so they created "Sparrow Spirit", which is Yan Ecology.

Similarly, the Voice of Yunnan is also a group of us. Xiao Gang and A Peng learned something from their parents and grandparents, but they were not satisfied. They created a lot and were full of whimsy, which became an ecological evolution. Reproduce and grow new things with their own personality in that land.

Youth Weekend: Is the second dance "Cowbell" also an ecological evolution?

Yang li Ping: Yes! When I was a child, I herded cattle in the village. Everyone ties a cowbell around the cow's neck, so that I won't lose it no matter how far I go. As soon as I recognize it, I know it's my cowbell. In my ears and eyes, this is a wonderful percussion music. This scene has been in my mind for too long, and I want to show it this time. Cowbells have been put on the stage and become percussion music, which has never been seen on the traditional stage.

Youth Weekend: Why is it called Voice of Yunnan?

Yang li Ping: I want to collect Yunnan sounds. When I was a child, I listened to the natural breath and rhythm in the forest. Our fathers had a song called "The Wind Blows Leaves", which means that the wind blows leaves and leaves beat each other, so there is a folk dance of clapping hands. There is also a tune called Hai Cai Qiang. When people saw the aquatic plants in the lake rolling with the waves, they created a seaweed wall with a special taste.

These are all parts of Yunnan. Yunnan percussion music is full of aura, the breath and realm of harmony between man and nature. I think some of them should be presented on the stage, so this song "Voice of Yunnan" came into being.

Youth Weekend: I saw so many ancient wooden drums as soon as I entered poly theatre. How did I get them?

Yang li Ping: We found the drums of those tribes deep in the forest. Each is more than two meters high, and two or three people hug each other. It is a musical instrument made by our ancestors from the trunk of a whole tree. At first glance, it has a history of hundreds of years.

I observed that after these drums were put there in Hangzhou Hall, as soon as the audience came in in awe, they immediately felt, alas, this is simply a soul, a lost soul, something that should be collected in the museum. So on this tour, these ancient drums will fly all over the country with our performance team.

Youth Weekend: Is the transportation cost high?

Yang li Ping: It's not very expensive. It cost 70 thousand to 80 thousand, which is my personal expense. Wherever I go, I will show them in the performance hall. I think this can awaken an ancient memory and awaken the original starting point and end point of the soul.

Talking about "the secret of youth" and keeping "vitality"

Face to face with Yang li Ping, the most impressive thing is her slender waist and long nails.

Her figure, thin and tall, has almost no fat, which makes it hard for you to believe that it actually belongs to a woman of 5 1 year. As for the white nails on ten fingers, they are two or three centimeters long. Obviously, they have been carefully trimmed, like thin white jade, vaguely lit. Yang li Ping said that these long nails made her feel back to ancient times, which was very useful for dancing. There is a kind of A Dai dance in Yunnan called Longjia Dance.

Yang li Ping, born in 1958, wears a pair of fashionable flip-flops and walks with elasticity, as if there were springs on the ground. Swinging her arms easily when walking makes her look like a little girl.

The clothes on her body not only have ethnic customs, but also have a sense of design. At the beginning of the meeting, she proudly told reporters that the earrings were Miao, the embroidery on her chest was Yi, and the hat was designed by herself.

She is wearing a pair of silver earrings like a top, which is a bit exaggerated. Later, when talking about the original ecology and evolutionary ecology, the reporter asked, is this earring the original of the Miao nationality? Haven't you processed it yourself?

"Is the miao nationality, not processed, why don't you believe it? Look, look! " She took off the earring from her right ear and handed it to the reporter for him to "verify".

"Earrings are original, can also be regarded as a kind of original? But the hat has been designed and processed by itself, isn't it a derivative ecology? " The reporter asked.

"Yan ecology is just a dance concept. You writers can write whatever you want. " Yang li Ping smiled and shook his head. After a while, he restrained his smile and said, "As for dancing, you should know the singing of birds! You have to hear the sound of butterfly wings flapping! "

In the performance "Voice of Yunnan", there is a dance that shows the process of a pregnant woman from pregnancy to delivery and finally death. Yang li Ping said that in the village where she lived as a child, a woman gave birth to a child, and everyone in the village came to beat drums to deliver her baby. This experience left a deep impression on her, and she moved to the stage this time.

Yang li Ping never gave birth to a child herself. For a person who has been dieting for a long time and has almost no fat on his body, pregnancy is unthinkable. A few years ago, the media reported that if Yang li Ping wanted to have children, she had to gain weight, which meant stopping dancing for a long time. Finally, in a dilemma, Yang li Ping chose to dance.

"You haven't given birth yourself. How can you play a pregnant woman?" After the interview, the reporter asked this sentence temporarily. At that time, Yang li Ping was about to leave. Hearing this question, she stopped, suddenly patted the chair beside her and said to the reporter, "Do you know this chair is my child?"

She waved her slender arms and said, "The sun is my child, the moon is my child, and everything in the world can be my child!" " "

Her tone became fast and excited. "Why can't I play pregnant women? You'll know after watching the show. I can eat anything. I have a flower in my stomach! "

At this time, Yang li Ping is no longer the talking and laughing Yang li Ping at the beginning of the interview, but just likes to play. Her last few words were neat, jumping and a little angry, as if there was a flash of light.

Youth weekend: Your figure hasn't changed for so many years. How do you keep it?

Yang li Ping: You mainly exercise and dance every day. When you sweat, your body will excrete a lot of acid toxins. If you don't exercise for a long time, your cells will die

Youth weekend: What should you pay attention to in your diet?

Yang li Ping: You should eat Chili, such as Chongqing Hotpot. Eating Chili peppers will stimulate cell renewal. You can drink some red wine, and you must drink soybean milk. It is best to drink soybean milk today and black soybean milk tomorrow, so drink it against the exchange. There is a good machine on the market now, and it takes about 10 minutes to make warm soybean milk.

Nuts, such as peeled pine nuts, are all bagged in supermarkets, which is especially good for clearing away lung heat. But don't eat one every day, you can eat it today and tomorrow, and you should eat it in a planned way. My home is a row of transparent pots and pans on the wall, which are full of licorice, chrysanthemum, mung bean, soybean, walnut, black sesame, white sesame, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. They are very beautiful and have to wait in line to eat.

Another is to drink tea, and Pu 'er tea must be drunk. I sometimes squeeze a lemon, squeeze it out in the oldest way, and put some honey in it, just like soy milk. There is a kind of fun in it, and it feels particularly good. In a word, I think a person should be full of interest and curiosity about life, and you will be particularly happy. Keep your energy.

Youth weekend: You have good physical strength. This time you danced in Beijing for six days in a row, and you have to tour the whole country. Is it really not tiring to perform for such a long period?

Yang li Ping: How can you get tired from dancing? Just like your interview, are you tired of the interview now? No matter how tired you are, you can regain your strength after 10 to 20 minutes as long as you have a rest.

Youth weekend: You have been dancing for 38 years. Will you dance like this all the time? Even if it's old.

Yang li Ping: So what? I don't have to dance on the stage. Look at the street outside. Those old ladies danced at that age. It seems that no one jumped from 197 1 like me. I don't think I take it as my career because I love it.

For me, dancing itself is a particularly good way to express and solve. It is my other language and my second mother tongue. Of course, I will be so attached, so persistent and so enjoyable. I think people who can dance are lucky.