"Cavalry": Climbing the peak of art with the positive posture

On the raging grassland of war, the brave cavalry rushed to rain, a war horse jumped up, rushed to the enemy, the curtain fell, and the screen rose to the Cavalry Martyrs in the battle of the battle. ... This is the most bloody scene in the dance drama "Cavalry". At the closing ceremony of the 13th China Art Festival held on September 15, this dance drama that praised the patriotic spirit, the vision of human peace, and the beauty of humanity won the 17th Chinese Culture and Art Government Award. The award is the highest prize of Chinese stage performance art.

Investment in hot and true affection, the artistic boutique

The "Cavalry" produced by the Inner Mongolia Art Theater is the first original dance drama in the history of Chinese stage art. The national first -level director He Yanmin serves as the screenwriter and director.

He Yanmin is the descendant of the Inner Mongolia cavalry. She said: "Art creation must be sent from the heart, some creations are from the inside to the outside, and some creations are from outside to the inside. The creation of" Cavalry "is from the inside to the outside. 》 This subject is a seed for me, and has been buried in my heart. The times need heroes, more praise of heroes, as cavalry daughters, I want to tell the cavalry story to more people, as literary workers, I have a responsibility to praise the immortal merits of the revolutionary martyrs. "

Cavalry feelings are not only personal emotions, but also the collective memory and inner monument of the entire grassland people. Artists have a strong sense of mission and responsibility, allowing the audience to understand this history and remember these heroes.

The dance drama is an art that does not speak. In order to create "Cavalry", the main creators led by Director He Yanmin went to the History Memorial many times to visit the old cavalry, and sincerely invited Professor A Mulan, president of the Inner Mongolia Cavalry Research Association as a historical consultant. Based on the in -depth understanding of Mongolian art, it is constantly digging in ideology and boldly innovated in art.

The image of the war horse is the most talked about the audience in this play. They are human and knowledgeable. When they are lying, they are rushing when they are rushing. In order to shape the image of flesh and blood, the creation team broke through the formula, and chose to use people to express the horse. At the same time, it did not use large devices and did not use conventional horse dance steps. In order to form a natural and smooth dance expression, the soldiers and horses and horses are concealed, training, marching, fighting, charge and other trends and thousands of horses, and the dynamic characteristics of unprecedented dynamic characteristics. Cavalry and war horses, the momentum in the battle is like a comrade -in -arms who transcend the relationship between people and animals, making the whole play shine.

The actor of "尕“ "and dancer Baya said:" The director tells us that only if the feeling in the heart is in place, the body movement is infectious. I grew up in the pastoral area. I put this emotion into the role and remembered with '尕'. It was a unruly horse. On the battlefield, I was carrying the owner's charge and fell bravely to kill the enemy. When the sacrifice was sacrificed, the reluctance between the people and horses really surpassed all emotions. "

It is precisely because the creation team integrates the true feelings and innovation into the bone marrow of the work that there is a dance drama "Cavalry" that has been touched by the north and south of the river today.

Pursuing art high standards for three years

On August 19, 2019, "Cavalry" premiered at the Inner Mongolia Art Theater, which was greatly successful. In the past three years, "Cavalry" has performed nearly a hundred games.

"Cavalry" vividly interprets the history of the Inner Mongolia cavalry fighting blood and the spirit of Mongolian horses that move forward, so that it can infect each audience "spring wind and rain, moisturize silent".

"Very exciting, especially the" War Horse Love '' 'Hero Tears', which portrayed the emotions of people and horses and the last life and death, very touching. The moment of the war horse '尕 尕' fell to the ground and struggled. It is not a horse performed by the dance actor, but a really dying jujube red horse, many people cry. "Hohhot audience Liu Chang said.

Emotional is sincere, deep and not impetuous, the unique and aesthetic contemporary nature of art creation. This is why the audience loves the hot market of "Cavalry" and "Cavalry". In addition, the pursuit of high standards for art for the creation team promoted the continuous and peak of the work.

In the past three years, "Cavalry" has been repaired and changed in the performance, and has been carved countless times to present better works to the audience. This year, in order to impact the Wenhua Award, the "Cavalry" creation team carried out the sixth modification and improvement, covering various art categories such as dance body, music, dance, clothing, lighting, and multimedia. Multimedia design Chen Xiaobin said: "We constantly polish the details, put emotions in, let the image set off dance, show performance, and let the audience enter the plot quickly."

He Yanmin is very grateful to the "Cavalry" team for their efforts. She said: "A director wants to realize his artistic dream and emotional expression based on a very good team. Such a team, no artistic standards, no matter how good the director is, it is difficult to realize your artistic dream. "

In the past three years, the "Cavalry" team has focused on artistic standards, and has laid the foundation for the work to go global, spread, and stay. Relying on the creative criteria for excellence, in the 39 outstanding works selected by other provinces, regions and cities, "Cavalry" eventually in the event of a beautiful artistic form, innovative expression, touching revolutionary stories, wonderful stage performances and wonderful stage performances and wonderful stage performances and wonderful stage performances. The spiritual connotation of the upward won the Wenhua Award. Li Li, the party secretary and dean of the Inner Mongolia Art Theater, said that for the Inner Mongolia Art Theater, winning the Wenhua Award is not the end but a higher starting point. In the next work, the Inner Mongolia Art Theater will create more "grounding, open, and leaving" masterpieces such as acrobatics, dramas, and Mongolia dramas. Art can play the role of bacon souls, build a consciousness of the Chinese nation community, and help the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Promote the era of traditional cultural dance

Single dances are indulgent and happy; double dance matches, rigidity and softness; group dance posture changes, the inner rhythm is melodious, the ups and downs and slow harmony ... The dance drama "Cavalry" combines traditional culture with modern technology to try to cross the traditional and modern and modern. Barriers, boldly expressing red themes and revolutionary spirit, are of positive and far -reaching significance for effective leadership and promoting Chinese excellent traditional culture.

Yu Ping, the director of the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and the doctoral supervisor Yu Ping, gave a high evaluation: "" Cavalry "truly realized the high degree of unity, dramatic and dancing, inheritance and innovative unity of ideological and artisticness."

The dance drama "Cavalry" found the symbolic meaning of the Inner Mongolia revolutionary tradition, concentratedly expressing the relationship between the party and the people, as well as the iconic animals that manifest people and nature, people and society, people and animals in harmony - The self -confidence of the culture and the conscious grasp of the advantages and characteristics of the aesthetic spirit of the Chinese nation have successfully created the image of the "cavalry".

Wang Yichuan, a professor at the Beijing Normal University Literature and Art Research Center and vice chairman of the Chinese Literary and Art Critics Association, believes that there are many innovations in "Cavalry", and the most attractive is the creative use of freehand dance language, so that the grassland cavalry heroes who have been described in the past The story is open to unprecedented new meaning space.

Zhu Hai, the judge of the 17th Mandarin Award, pointed out that the Wenhua Award works selected this year have a commonality, that is, insisting on the people -centered creative orientation. The majority of artists are trying to tell the story of Chinese stories and go to the world stage, such as grand narrative, epic work "Cavalry", and "Five Stars Out East", "Only Green and Green", and so on. The judges agreed that the works selected this year are the largest and fastest way to improve the Wenhua Award in recent years. It is a concentrated presentation of Chinese cultural charm and Chinese cultural characteristics.

(The picture in the article is provided by the Inner Mongolia Art Theater)

"Literature and art is the project of casting the soul". Good literary works "like the sun in the blue sky and the breeze in spring, can inspire thoughts, moist the soul, and cultivate life." With the glory of the Mandarin Award, "Cavalry" is about to start a national tour, and the spiritual quality and positive energy contained in the work will continue to be inherited. (Reporter Feng Xueyu)

Source: grassland all media

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