Besides Yang Liping and the peacock dance, what are the other attractions of the program that made it possible for it to set an undefeated record of more than 100 consecutive performances?
Actors: 75% from the villages
The cast of Yunnan Images*** consists of more than 90 people, 70% of whom are ethnic minority actors from villages in Yunnan. They have the original dance gene flowing in their blood. The youngest of these actors is 7 years old, and the oldest is more than 20 years old. At that time, when Yang Liping went to find them, they were all still doing farm work. According to Yang Liping herself, the reason why a large number of amateur actors, mainly because many professional dancers do not have the taste of folk, they have been outside the circle of folk to find that feeling. And these folk actors in the life of the songs and dances, their songs and dances are full of life's burgeoning spirit, which is not a professional actor. During rehearsals, Yang just needs to guide them to get used to the stage performance.
Performance: red earth original juice ethnic original
The whole play **** have "chaos in the beginning" "sun" "land" "Homeland" "Fire Ritual" "Pilgrimage" "Spirit of the Sparrow" seven songs and dances, showing the Yunnan minority's worship of nature, love of life. The seven songs and dances show the worship of nature and the love of life of the Yunnan ethnic minorities. The choreography integrates and reconstructs the essence of Yunnan's primitive rural songs and dances and ethnic dance vocabulary, and uses new artistic concepts to express the hard work and simplicity of ethnic minorities. The body language combines Yi, Miao, Tibetan, Dai, Bai, Hani and other ethnic dances. The prologue opens with the sound of 60 drums. Even when the women beat the drums, they make people feel the vigorous vitality from the red land. At the end of the show, Yang Liping leads the 60 "peacocks" in the "Spirit of the Sparrow" dance as a coda. The entire show is performed by real people, and the costumes are all prototypes of ethnic minorities' living attire.
Choreography: ancient and modern time jump
"Images of Yunnan" uses a lot of mobile, elevation conversion device. According to reports, Yunnan's ethnic minorities like to dance in the square after work, which they call "playing songs" or "jumping pots and pans". In order to reproduce the original state of such life on stage, Yang Liping broke through the balanced layout of the previous stage art, so that the traditional square activities and modern stage art has been a perfect combination. Music, costumes, lighting, props, will leave the audience a "primitive" specific impression. 180 sets of masks with Yunnan characteristics, cow head, mani stone, the scripture tube in the stage lighting is also real shuttle in the ancient and modern, in the time and space dislocation, visual dislocation in the construction of a kind of ecological emotion.