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"Artists and Pets" poster

"5.21" is a homonym of "I love Yi" in Shanghai dialect. On this day, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center planned a special program "Artists and Cute Pets". In music and dance, invited six An artist and cute pets appeared together, sending love to the little animals who accompany you during the epidemic.

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Tang Yuan accompanies Chen Shaojun to practice the piano

Tang Yuan is a Chinese pastoral cat, 6 years old, who was met by Chen Shaojun, a cellist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, at Soochow University. Recently, Tang Yuan always accompanied Chen Shaojun to practice the piano silently, so Chen Shaojun turned into a director and cut these warm daily life into a literary cat film "A Day in the Life of Tang Yuan". One person, one cat and one piano is a good time.
In the film, Chen Shaojun is practicing Bach's "Suite for Unaccompanied Cello". Tang Yuan is curled up on the sofa next to him, squinting and taking a nap, his face is calm. In the barrage, everyone sighed with emotion, this "art meow" who grew up with the sound of the piano was really calm, "This is a performer's cat, I'm used to it!"

Wei Lala

Wei Lala accompanies Wei Yun to practice the piano

Wei Yun, a young pianist living in the United States and a Ph.D. in piano performance from the Juilliard School, has a German curly-haired cat, 8 months old, named Wei Lala.
What are you going to play for you? After receiving the invitation to shoot, Wei Yun finally chose several songs she was practicing, such as Ravel's "Water Demon" and Coupland's "Wandering Shadow". She also moved out a pocket piano that she had bought for a long time, and happily brought a "Toy Piano Suite" written by John Cage for a toy piano.
Wei Lala walked on the piano on the beautiful catwalk. It also stood on Wei Yun's shoulder to drink water, and came to a difficult "talent show". In a short period of time, Wei Lala changed into three or four sets of princess dresses, like a trendy fashionista, everyone sighed cutely, "I want the same cat."

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Sammy accompanies Sun Yun to practice the piano

"Internet celebrity" piano professor Sun Yun took 5-year-old American short-term Sammy and 5-year-old British short-term Tommy to demonstrate some online teaching.
Sun Yun usually teaches students, and the two kittens often join unconsciously. Over time, they become familiar faces and become small net stars. Occasionally, they also jump up and down on the piano, bringing different colors to the music.
"When cats play the piano, they can't make any unpleasant sounds, because their claws are soft inside and the keys are soft, so they are so comfortable." Sun Yun said to the students in the online class, "Play the piano like a cat's claws. , soft but not soft."

Li Zongze and Li Xiaohui

Li Xiaohui accompanies Li Zongze to practice the exercises

Not just music, but dancing, not just cats, but dogs.
Li Zongze, the "Prince of Ballet" in Suzhou, led everyone to do basic ballet training with Li Xiaohui, a 1-year-old beauty short.
"Many friends around me are suffering in Shanghai at the moment. Not only are they not thin, but they have gained a lot of weight because of crazy eating group food. I want to help everyone have a healthy life." Li Zongze, a dancer of the Suzhou Ballet, made a The "textbook" level demonstration, as a "ballet cat", Li Xiaohui is not idle, too lively, parkour everywhere.
"Half toes are very high, very good." Li Zongze teased Li Xiaohui with ballet eyes.

Duan Jingting and protein

Protein training with Duan Jingting

Fei'er Bichon, 1 and a half years old, is the only dog that appeared on the scene that day, full of energy and long standby.
Duan Jingting, a young dancer and founder of D.LAB Dance Studio, used the camera to record the daily training. Protein was very busy, and revolved around her, "Before the epidemic, Protein followed me to many places. Travel, I hope after the epidemic is over, we can continue to embark on a beautiful journey."
Recently, D.LAB dance studio has met everyone in the form of online classes, "but the quality is not ambiguous, everyone can practice together." Duan Jingting said.

Nomi

Nomi accompanies Lu Jinhua to sing Pingtan

"It's just like Suzhou Pingtan, it has always been whiny and glutinous." Shanghai Pingtan group Pingtan performance artist Lu Jinhua holds the beautiful short Nomi. At the age of 4, it grew up listening to the sound of Pingtan, because the feelings are too deep , she also wrote a Pingtan-flavored little song for it.
"Pingtan is usually performed by one man and one woman. Because of the epidemic, my partner, Gao Bowen, head of the Shanghai Pingtan troupe, was at home and couldn't meet. So I brought a new partner, Nomi, to perform with him."
Lu Jinhua first sang "Qinhuai Scenery" in Li tune, and sang the beautiful scenery of Jinling, and then sang "Fengqiao Night Mooring" in Xue tune, reappearing the scene of "the moon falls and the black frost fills the sky, Jiang Feng fishing fire to the sad sleep", and also With the accompaniment of the pipa, an ancient song "Sound Slow" was presented.
"Wu Nong's soft words, really spirit!" After listening to these songs, many people want to go to Suzhou to play again.
After the song was sung, Lu Jinhua also went to a neighbor's house to visit a class and a litter of kittens that were born during the epidemic. A fairy puppet named Haitang gave birth to 6 kittens, and the neighbors gave generously. Some people gave the kittens a small tent to sleep in, and some people knitted 6 colorful ropes and hung them around the kitten's neck." The birth of a new life has brought us a lot of strength and hope during the epidemic." Lu Jinhua said with emotion.
"I often think about the relationship between animals and people. People have many choices, many friends, and many things to do. Cats are different. In this life, there is nothing but us. So, we must care for them as much as possible." Lu Jinhua's words also represent the aspirations of many pet lovers.