Original Song and Dance "Reflections of Yunnan", an ode to life from the plateau

"Reflections of Yunnan" is a traditional and modern stage into one new work, is a cultural feast with a strong ethnic flavor, and thus blowing up the "original" song and dance craze. This folk dance drama not only reflects the traditional dance of various regions in Yunnan, but also represents the development direction of modern folk dance in China. It allows us to see the national memory from the "original" culture, so that people in minority areas, to restore the cultural confidence of the nation.

First, the creative concept of "Reflections of Yunnan"

01. Original

"Reflections of Yunnan" is a large-scale song and dance drama by the famous choreographer Yang Liping, after a lot of village and cottage hunting, the Yunnan minority songs and dances reintegrated, choreographed and directed by Yang Liping as the chief choreographer and artistic director in this dance drama, and led the starring role in this large-scale dance drama. From the very beginning, "Reflections of Yunnan" is a dance drama from the folk, which reflects the beauty of the traditional songs and dances of Yunnan's various ethnic groups, and is also the perfect embodiment of Yang Liping's dance ideas.

Yang Liping on the creation of "Reflections of Yunnan":

It is the loss of remote areas, scattered in the folk music and dance excavated, collected and integrated, constructed a unique Yunnan ethnic minority with the local flavor of the art, and then its finished product to the stage. It records the oldest kind of dance style that thrills the life.

"Original ecology" is one of the aesthetic propositions of the dance drama "Reflections of Yunnan", and the villagers on the stage enthusiastically express their love for their homeland with their bodies and songs. The power, simplicity and innocence from the plateau, which seems to be a mountain stream orchid, so that the people on stage smelled the fragrance of the soil, the fragrance of the mountain air and the fragrance of the wild.

02. Unity of Heaven and Humankind

Unity of Heaven and Humankind is another creative idea in Reflections of Yunnan. The dance drama shows the worship of nature and the love of life of the Yunnan minority, and this "unity of heaven and man" culture into it.

One side of the soil and water, raise a side of the living; a side of the living, honoring a side of the soil and water. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new one.

This sentence is Yang Liping on the "reflection of Yunnan" creative concept of the narrative, but also shows that as a white dancer from Yunnan out of the heart of the voice. The concept of originality and unity of mankind is reflected in all the people, objects and corners of the dance drama.

Second, the "reflection of Yunnan" art appreciation

The "reflection of Yunnan" by the prelude: the beginning of chaos, the first scene: the sun, the second scene: the land, the third scene: the home, the fourth scene: the fire sacrifice, the fifth scene: the pilgrimage, the epilogue: the bird's spirit, seven parts of the composition.

The dance combines the Yunnan ethnic minorities: Sun Drum, Elephant Foot Drum, Mang Drum, Copper Mang, Divine Drum, Copper Cymbal Dance, Smoke Box Dance, Flower Waist Song and Dance, Umbrella Dance, Moonlight Solo Dance, Shake Hair Dance, Xinping Flower-Waisted Dai, Playing Songs, Ox Head Dance, Mask Dance, Huludong Dance, Tattoo, Dongba Dance, Nirvana, Tibetan Dance, Mani Rock, Bible Wheel, Peacock, etc., and the original forms of national songs and dances, totem beliefs, and the tools of production and life, showing the unity of heaven and mankind. The first dance is a dance that shows the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind.

The first scene, "The Sun"

shows the primitive aboriginal period when mankind had not been masked for a long time, and the sound of drums opens up the origin of the nation, and also opens up the prelude to the whole dance.

"The sun and the moon,

chasing each other from east to west, have been together since the beginning of time;

man and woman,

from birth to death, can not be separated,

from the beginning of the earth, they are connected together."

This scene almost includes and shows all the drum instruments of various ethnic groups in Yunnan, for the local people, the drum is not only a musical instrument, but also a kind of totem worship, which symbolizes the origin of the nation. Accompanied by the totem worship was born is the legend of the drums, Yunnan on the drums of the legend can be called China's most famous, the most famous is the Kino legend:

Flooding era of the Kino's ancestor Amei waist white made a sun drum, Maihei and Mai Niu hidden in the drum to avoid disaster, reproduced the Kino descendants. The sun drum has since become the most sacred artifacts of the Kino tribe, and thus derived from the sun drum dance, every New Year's Eve when the sun drum is struck will be struck, and this has become the gospel of the good life of the Kino tribe.

The sound of the drums in the "Sun" is similar to the sun drums of the Jinuo people, and the drum beats run through the conception, growth and development of life to the eventual demise, which is the reverence and expression of life.

The second show, "The Land"

"The Land" consists of "Moonlight" (danced by Yang Liping), "Yi People's Umbrella" (Black Yi), and "The Land" (danced by Yang Liping), and "The Land" (danced by Yang Liping). " (Black Yi), "Cigarette Box Dance" (Nisu branch of Yi), "Daughter Country" (Xinping County Huazhong Dai), "Beating Songs" (Nanjian Yi), "Shiping Huazhong Dance" (Shiping Huazhong Dai), and "The Land" (Shiping Huazhong Dai). "Shiping Huaywa Yi Song and Dance" consists of.

"Moonlight" is Yang Liping's first solo dance, using the stage art of "silhouette" to create an atmosphere of a bright moon in the sky and a hazy moonlight. The soothing music and soft dance posture give people infinite possibilities of reverie, which can be called the peak of folk dance art. The woman can't rest, the woman can't rest, the woman can't rest, the fire will go out?" That is a powerful respect for the origin of life, again emphasizing the theme of "land".

The third scene, "Home"

This scene is mainly about the idea of "everything has a spirit". The idea of "everything has a soul" is that everything under the sun has a soul. It is for this reason that Yang Liping will be the Yunnan ancestors believe in "trees" "tree spirit" "little Park young" "living souls" "will pass away home" "peaceful" combined together to express the theme of "home", showing the ancestors of ethnic minorities on the mountain god, tree god, village god, stone god of reverence.

"Homeland" is a group dance in which the performers express their appreciation and admiration for their homeland through rapid hand clapping and floor singing, while at the same time warning us of the growing environmental crisis, which shocks us throughout the entire six-act performance.

The fourth "Fire Festival"

The grass here will dance if you are willing to prostrate yourself on the ground;

The stones here will speak if you are willing to listen with your soul.

The mountains here are close to the sky, so the myths still live on in the mountain songs of the cattle herders;

The water here flows with the stones,

so the gods get drunk with the old folks.

This is the narration of the "fire sacrifice".

The "Fire Festival" consists of the "Hair Shake Dance", the "Gourd Sheng Dance", and the "Mask Dance", "Tattooing", "Dongba Dance" (Naxi people of Lijiang County), "Ox-head Dance" (Wa people), and "Nirvana", which is a symbol of mankind's entry into civilization and a symbol of the evolution of life. It is a symbol of mankind's entry into civilization and a milestone in the evolution of life.

There are many festivals related to fire among ethnic minorities, the most typical of which is the "Torch Festival" fire ceremony of the Yi, and the "Fire God" ceremony after a fire, etc., which is regarded as the foundation of human life, and people have strong feelings of It is regarded as the basis of human life, and people have strong feelings of worship for it.

The "Phoenix Nirvana" is an expression of the Yi people's worship of the fire god "Ayi Dizhan", and their desire for endless life.

The fifth "Pilgrimage"

"Pilgrimage" consists of snowy mountains, "Tibetan dance", "Bible twister", "Mani stone", "Tibetan dance", "Tibetan dance", "Tibetan dance", "Mani stone", "Tibetan dance", "Tibetan dance", "Mani stone", "Mani stone", "Mani stone", "Mani stone". "Mani Stone". The believers who measure the earth with their bodies, the colorful scripture streamers, the holy mani pile, and the perfect dance show the viewers a picture of the snowy mountains and the heavenly country.

They walk towards the sacred mountains, towards the ideal heaven of the soul, expressing the yearning for a holy and peaceful world, and expressing people's faith in the mountain gods.

Epilogue "The Spirit of the Bird"

"The Spirit of the Bird" shows the image of a white peacock standing in a pavilion, showing the first time to the mortal world of the elves, stepping on the shy dance, full of Daijia flavor.

The beautiful feathers in "The Spirit of the Sparrow" are the yearning for the ideal world and the transcendence of the mundane life. The dancers expressed their respect for the "peacock" through body language, and when the peacock finally waved its colorful feathers and left, the unruly character of the peacock was also embodied, which the audience could not forget for a long time.

"Reflections of Yunnan" is a condensation of original songs and dances, as well as an inheritance of Chinese culture. In this dance drama, the lives of our ancestors are restored, and every detail of respect and reverence for nature in the drum dance, cigarette box dance, singing dance, hair flinging dance, and sea vegetable accent can bring us to tears, which is the collision of national culture and the heart.

Yang Liping said, "I'm glad I was born in Yunnan, the land of song and dance." There, we saw the true goodness and beauty of the seven colors of Yunnan coexisting with the most emotional and sexual, and left a profound "image of Yunnan".