After 50 years in the arts, dancer Yang Liping published an autobiography titled "The Journey of Beauty" on April 28 through the official account of "Dance Forest Secret Books".
The autobiography begins with how she fell in love with art and dance, and details her rich and varied creative past over the years. When talking about her well-known masterpiece "Image of Yunnan", Yang Liping choked up and burst into tears.
In 2003, the premiere of "Yunnan Image" encountered "SARS", "When the curtain opened, the audience was empty, and there was no audience. So we had to disband the team, and the children came back. in my own village."
19 years have passed, because of the epidemic, after more than 7,000 performances, the "Yunnan Image" team disbanded again, "This epidemic is really too cruel, too cruel, without the stage, we really don't have any. The way to survive... So, we disbanded the team once again."
This year coincides with the Year of the Tiger, Yang Liping filmed the zodiac dance series "Howl of the Tiger" and spread it with the help of high-tech network means, trying to find a possibility without a stage through another art form.
Have you started yet?
Start right away, put on a mic.
OK
Can you hang here?
OK.
Oh, is that what the lights are? Okay.
Camera teacher, this, don't shoot too close, especially don't give close-ups, because I'm too old and old, this can't take close-ups.
My tiger, this year is the Year of the Tiger, this tiger should have a camera, okay?
OK
Mr. Yang, are you ready?
Well, it's ready.
power on.
ah? What am I going to say?
Oh, 50 years, 50 years in the arts.
Alas, 50 years, how time flies so fast.
In these 50 years, there are so many things and so many memories, where do I start?
Otherwise, let's start with the song my grandma sang.
Alas, it is this local accent, no matter where I go, it will be in my dreams, in my mind, lingering, lingering.
I remember when I was young, I followed my parents to dance on the ridge...
As soon as I stepped onto the stage, in fact, to me, it was no different. It was as if the stage was still a field, and there was still the soft ground.
Grandma told me that dancing is to thank the sun.
It brings us warmth, so we sing and praise it.
Father, they beat drums for the harmony of Yin and Yang.
Because the drum is a woman, and the drum beater is a man.
So the drums were beaten, and the sound of the drums reached the sky, and God blessed us with many children and grandchildren.
So we have four kids in our family, and I remember my uncle's family had 10.
Singing and dancing is really a need for life.
When I was a child, I danced, and the leaves were blown by the wind and rubbed against each other. That was music;
The rushing sound of the small river is the rhythm;
Birdsong and various sounds are combined together, that is a symphony of nature.
And all this, when I was on stage later, became a symphony of instruments.
Every time I'm on stage, oh, I can't remember how many times I've been on stage in the past 50 years.
But whenever I walked to the side curtain strip, I felt like I was standing on the edge of the field. When the music started, I jumped onto the stage, like a fish caught in water.
On the stage, the sun will rise as usual, no different from my hometown, oh, there is also the moon, I can dance in the moon as well, I still hide under the linden tree on the stage as I did when I was a child, watching how the peacock opens its screen, See how butterflies break their cocoons, how ants line up, how dragonflies point water, how caterpillars twist their waists, look at me, become moonlight, and I become a peacock.
I see how a flower blooms, how a tree grows, how a river flows, how a white cloud floats, and how a dew condenses.
It was nature that taught me the expression of these emotions.
Some people's life is to inherit the lineage, some people are to enjoy, some people are to experience, and I am a bystander of life.
I like to observe and translate them into dance.
For me, life, nature, the stage are all the same.
The difference is that on the stage I can spread the moonlight to more people. On the stage, I can use dance to find the soul of the peacock.
When we dance together, I have unlimited energy.
When I was young, I danced in the field, and the audience might be the grass, the big tree, and the cloud.
Whenever I dance on stage, I feel like I can relate to the audience.
Especially when the curtain call is over, their applause sounds like the sound of water rushing through the river when I was a child. It's so beautiful.
Later, I left my hometown, Yunnan, and wandered outside for 30 years. Suddenly, one day, I felt homesick and missed my hometown very much. There was a feeling lingering in my mind, a voice was calling me, it must be To return to that land, perhaps, this is a feeling of falling leaves returning to their roots.
When I really went back to Yunnan, I found that when I was young, those songs, dances, fields, and buildings had all changed. Only one or two old people could play such beautiful drums, and no one sang such beautiful songs as Haicai.
How can something so good just watch them disappear?
The reason why I have always loved our Yunnan, my hometown, is because there is a treasure house of our national culture, which is the source of art and the ocean of singing and dancing.
When I returned to Yunnan, I was like a bird returning to the woods, feeling, enriching, and flying to the fullest.
So in the next 20 years, I traveled all over Yunnan's mountains, rivers and rivers, and collected a lot of dances and songs with attributes that represent our nationality and characteristics.
He has created more than 10 large-scale works.
From the idea to the rehearsal, to the production to the final stage, everything seems to happen naturally.
Later, I created experimental modern dance dramas such as "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Rite of Spring", bringing our national quintessence Peking Opera, as well as these symbols of our particularly beautiful Tibetan culture, to all parts of the world through dance. go on tour.
In fact, we just want to pass on our own Chinese, our own culture and art and our nation's things to the outside world, so that more people can share with us.
I think that's what we're all about as dancers.
I hope that the whole world can understand our stage language and use our works to show the oriental aesthetics, oriental wisdom, and oriental philosophy.
Time flies so fast, back in Yunnan for 20 years, looking back, we had a dream to bring our people from the fields to the stage, and we wanted to pass on the traditional cultural spirit of our ethnic groups.
I remember that day when we premiered, when the curtain opened, the audience was empty and there was no audience.
So we were forced to disband the team and the children went back to their villages.
Today, 19 years have passed, but what I never imagined is that because of the epidemic, we once again lost the stage.
For two whole years, more than two years, we have been sticking to it and don't want to give up...
I know that many people are more difficult than us, they have lost more, and some even lost their lives...
This epidemic is really too cruel, too cruel, without the stage, we really have no way to continue to survive......
So, again, we disbanded the team.
After 19 years, after nearly 7,000 performances of "Yunnan Image", we disbanded again...
In fact, I am not a person who is afraid of difficulties...
It's just, just watching their backs leave, I'm really sad, sad...
I was the one who brought you from the fields to the stage, but now I'm leaving...
But I believe that the stage in our hearts, the stage in our hearts, is still there.
This year is the Year of the Tiger, and I shot the zodiac dance series "Howl of the Tiger". In fact, I wanted to use another art form to find a possibility without a stage.
With the help of high-tech network means to spread, I think this is a "new species", I hope it can bring you new experiences and new thinking.
Under this epidemic, we need to use the spirit of the tiger and the strength of the tiger to continue to fight.
In our work, there is a lot of beauty, the power of life.
In this work, there are beautiful love between men and women, lively dances, and children. Yes, I think children are our hope.
These 50 years of artistic career are really too much emotion, there are really many ups and downs in life, but the stage is always beautiful.
I hope we can return to the stage one day earlier. I also hope that we can continue to be brave, strong, and survive like tigers. I want to live happily.
The body will age and life will dry up.
But our souls can dance forever.
let's work hard together.
The autobiography begins with how she fell in love with art and dance, and details her rich and varied creative past over the years. When talking about her well-known masterpiece "Image of Yunnan", Yang Liping choked up and burst into tears.
In 2003, the premiere of "Yunnan Image" encountered "SARS", "When the curtain opened, the audience was empty, and there was no audience. So we had to disband the team, and the children came back. in my own village."
19 years have passed, because of the epidemic, after more than 7,000 performances, the "Yunnan Image" team disbanded again, "This epidemic is really too cruel, too cruel, without the stage, we really don't have any. The way to survive... So, we disbanded the team once again."
This year coincides with the Year of the Tiger, Yang Liping filmed the zodiac dance series "Howl of the Tiger" and spread it with the help of high-tech network means, trying to find a possibility without a stage through another art form.
Yang Liping's statement
The following is Yang Liping's own statement:Have you started yet?
Start right away, put on a mic.
OK
Can you hang here?
OK.
Oh, is that what the lights are? Okay.
Camera teacher, this, don't shoot too close, especially don't give close-ups, because I'm too old and old, this can't take close-ups.
My tiger, this year is the Year of the Tiger, this tiger should have a camera, okay?
OK
Mr. Yang, are you ready?
Well, it's ready.
power on.
ah? What am I going to say?
Oh, 50 years, 50 years in the arts.
Alas, 50 years, how time flies so fast.
In these 50 years, there are so many things and so many memories, where do I start?
Otherwise, let's start with the song my grandma sang.
Alas, it is this local accent, no matter where I go, it will be in my dreams, in my mind, lingering, lingering.
I remember when I was young, I followed my parents to dance on the ridge...
As soon as I stepped onto the stage, in fact, to me, it was no different. It was as if the stage was still a field, and there was still the soft ground.
Grandma told me that dancing is to thank the sun.
It brings us warmth, so we sing and praise it.
Father, they beat drums for the harmony of Yin and Yang.
Because the drum is a woman, and the drum beater is a man.
So the drums were beaten, and the sound of the drums reached the sky, and God blessed us with many children and grandchildren.
So we have four kids in our family, and I remember my uncle's family had 10.
Singing and dancing is really a need for life.
When I was a child, I danced, and the leaves were blown by the wind and rubbed against each other. That was music;
The rushing sound of the small river is the rhythm;
Birdsong and various sounds are combined together, that is a symphony of nature.
And all this, when I was on stage later, became a symphony of instruments.
Every time I'm on stage, oh, I can't remember how many times I've been on stage in the past 50 years.
But whenever I walked to the side curtain strip, I felt like I was standing on the edge of the field. When the music started, I jumped onto the stage, like a fish caught in water.
On the stage, the sun will rise as usual, no different from my hometown, oh, there is also the moon, I can dance in the moon as well, I still hide under the linden tree on the stage as I did when I was a child, watching how the peacock opens its screen, See how butterflies break their cocoons, how ants line up, how dragonflies point water, how caterpillars twist their waists, look at me, become moonlight, and I become a peacock.
On November 29, 2003, "Image of Yunnan" was performed in Hangzhou. Visual China Data Map
It was nature that taught me how to dance and how to choreograph.I see how a flower blooms, how a tree grows, how a river flows, how a white cloud floats, and how a dew condenses.
It was nature that taught me the expression of these emotions.
Some people's life is to inherit the lineage, some people are to enjoy, some people are to experience, and I am a bystander of life.
I like to observe and translate them into dance.
For me, life, nature, the stage are all the same.
The difference is that on the stage I can spread the moonlight to more people. On the stage, I can use dance to find the soul of the peacock.
When we dance together, I have unlimited energy.
When I was young, I danced in the field, and the audience might be the grass, the big tree, and the cloud.
Whenever I dance on stage, I feel like I can relate to the audience.
Especially when the curtain call is over, their applause sounds like the sound of water rushing through the river when I was a child. It's so beautiful.
Later, I left my hometown, Yunnan, and wandered outside for 30 years. Suddenly, one day, I felt homesick and missed my hometown very much. There was a feeling lingering in my mind, a voice was calling me, it must be To return to that land, perhaps, this is a feeling of falling leaves returning to their roots.
When I really went back to Yunnan, I found that when I was young, those songs, dances, fields, and buildings had all changed. Only one or two old people could play such beautiful drums, and no one sang such beautiful songs as Haicai.
How can something so good just watch them disappear?
The reason why I have always loved our Yunnan, my hometown, is because there is a treasure house of our national culture, which is the source of art and the ocean of singing and dancing.
When I returned to Yunnan, I was like a bird returning to the woods, feeling, enriching, and flying to the fullest.
So in the next 20 years, I traveled all over Yunnan's mountains, rivers and rivers, and collected a lot of dances and songs with attributes that represent our nationality and characteristics.
He has created more than 10 large-scale works.
From the idea to the rehearsal, to the production to the final stage, everything seems to happen naturally.
Later, I created experimental modern dance dramas such as "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Rite of Spring", bringing our national quintessence Peking Opera, as well as these symbols of our particularly beautiful Tibetan culture, to all parts of the world through dance. go on tour.
In fact, we just want to pass on our own Chinese, our own culture and art and our nation's things to the outside world, so that more people can share with us.
I think that's what we're all about as dancers.
I hope that the whole world can understand our stage language and use our works to show the oriental aesthetics, oriental wisdom, and oriental philosophy.
Time flies so fast, back in Yunnan for 20 years, looking back, we had a dream to bring our people from the fields to the stage, and we wanted to pass on the traditional cultural spirit of our ethnic groups.
On November 29, 2003, "Image of Yunnan" was performed in Hangzhou. Visual China Data Map
But in 2003, our "Yunnan Image" premiered, but encountered "SARS".I remember that day when we premiered, when the curtain opened, the audience was empty and there was no audience.
So we were forced to disband the team and the children went back to their villages.
Today, 19 years have passed, but what I never imagined is that because of the epidemic, we once again lost the stage.
For two whole years, more than two years, we have been sticking to it and don't want to give up...
I know that many people are more difficult than us, they have lost more, and some even lost their lives...
This epidemic is really too cruel, too cruel, without the stage, we really have no way to continue to survive......
So, again, we disbanded the team.
After 19 years, after nearly 7,000 performances of "Yunnan Image", we disbanded again...
In fact, I am not a person who is afraid of difficulties...
It's just, just watching their backs leave, I'm really sad, sad...
I was the one who brought you from the fields to the stage, but now I'm leaving...
But I believe that the stage in our hearts, the stage in our hearts, is still there.
This year is the Year of the Tiger, and I shot the zodiac dance series "Howl of the Tiger". In fact, I wanted to use another art form to find a possibility without a stage.
With the help of high-tech network means to spread, I think this is a "new species", I hope it can bring you new experiences and new thinking.
Under this epidemic, we need to use the spirit of the tiger and the strength of the tiger to continue to fight.
In our work, there is a lot of beauty, the power of life.
In this work, there are beautiful love between men and women, lively dances, and children. Yes, I think children are our hope.
These 50 years of artistic career are really too much emotion, there are really many ups and downs in life, but the stage is always beautiful.
I hope we can return to the stage one day earlier. I also hope that we can continue to be brave, strong, and survive like tigers. I want to live happily.
The body will age and life will dry up.
But our souls can dance forever.
let's work hard together.
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