Moderator: Hello audience friends, welcome to the "News Hall". At this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, there was a program that left a deep impression on all the audience. This was the Thousand-Hand Guanyin performed by 21 disabled dance artists. To this day, it has been voted my favorite by the audience on the Internet. Among the programs of the Spring Festival Gala, this program still tops the list, and many people who have watched this program will have this question. They can't hear the music at all. Why can their movements be so uniform? Today we have invited the main creators of the dance in our living room, the lead dancer Tai Lihua, the choreographer of this dance Zhang Jigang, the artistic director of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe Wang Yuan, and our on-site conductor, our sign language teacher Teacher Wang Jing , welcome you all to our press room.
First of all, let’s review the scene of this program at the Spring Festival Gala with our audience friends.
This is the most outstanding dance program in the 2005 Spring Festival Gala, "Thousand-Hand Guanyin". The elegant and graceful dance postures and beautiful shapes baptized and shocked the audience's senses and hearts. It is hard to imagine that these 21 dancers are deaf-mute people living in a silent world. Their average age is 17 years old, and the youngest is only 13 years old. This is also the first time that a disabled artist has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
"Thousand-Hand Guanyin" is a repertoire of the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe. Over the past few years, it has been continuously enriched, from the original 12 actors to 21 today, and has performed abroad many times. Especially his performance at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games shocked the audience with his skills.
This year, in order to match the auspicious and festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival Gala, "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" has been rearranged. So, where did the inspiration for "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" come from? Is it tailor-made for these deaf dancers?
Host: Let me first ask Tai Lihua, has she ever watched the rebroadcast of the Spring Festival Gala? How did she feel when she saw her show?
Tai Lihua: After watching it, I was very excited and very proud, because we can bring our most beautiful special art to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the audience to enjoy.
Host: Director Zhang, was this program originally designed for other dancers, or was it specifically designed for deaf-mute dancers?
Zhang Jigang: That’s right. I had the idea of ??creating such a program in 1996 or 1997, because my hometown is in Shanxi, and there are Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi. I went to Yungang Grottoes, Dunhuang to rehearse and collect styles, Dunhuang in Gansu, and Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi. I often saw this Thousand-Armed Guanyin, and I had long wanted to create such a work. When the China Disabled People's Performing Arts Troupe went to the United States to perform in 2000, I decided to launch the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, which had been prepared for many years, at this party. Ever since, in 2000, Thousand-Hand Guanyin was born for the first time in a deaf-mute child.
Host: I once heard a saying that the Thousand-Armed Guanyin shows a very quiet and peaceful world, so the deaf-mute are more suitable for performing arts. Dance, do you agree with this statement?
Zhang Jigang: I think that for deaf-mute people to play this, and for disabled people to play such a work as Avalokitesvara, it is also an education for the actors themselves, so that they know how to love others and accept the love needs of others. Know thanks. If you are willing to help others, if you are a good person, you will use a thousand hands to help you. If you are a good person, a kind person, you will naturally stretch out a thousand hands to help others. I think this That's enough.
Tai Lihua: I feel that the Thousand-Hand Guanyin is specially designed for us deaf-mute people, because we cannot express it in words, but we can express our care through our hands, expressions, and body language. Many kind-hearted people send blessings, bring happiness and peace to the people who care about them, and thank all the people who care about them.
Host: Speaking of the Athens Olympics, please describe Director Wang. What was the audience’s reaction at that time?
Wang Yuan: After taking the stage, from the moment the music started playing, the actors struck poses, and there was thunderous applause. In such a large venue, during the performance.
Zhang Jigang: Every movement brings applause, every movement brings cheers, every movement brings applause, and the cheers and applause are performed at the same time.
Wang Jing: Because I was conducting on the stage at that time, the cheers and applause suppressed the music. I could hardly hear the music. I was very nervous. Fortunately, we had one in advance. The sound of the headphones is also very small, but because we have been rehearsing with these children for a long time, we know it very well, so we cooperate very well. The actors also came down and told me that they could hardly see the flash of the camera. Our command was over.
Host: I know that in order to participate in the Spring Festival Gala this time, and in line with the atmosphere of the New Year, it seems that New Year greetings have been specially added to the movements, right?
Zhang Jigang: I think it is the first time for deaf and mute children to participate in the Spring Festival Gala. They should use their body language to express this kind of blessing to people. Of course, this is the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, Thousand-Armed Guanyin It is meant to bless the world, so we used three vertical rows, with arms arranged at different heights, to express a form of embracing forward.
Host: Can Tai Lihua do it for us again, because according to Chinese custom, the New Year is not over yet.
Zhang Jigang: It must be an orchid finger. Pay attention to your neck.
Host: I also want to ask Director Wang, because I know that all programs participating in the Spring Festival Gala have to go through rounds of competition. The competition in the middle is very cruel. I don’t know about this program. When it came out, how did everyone including the general director of the party and various judges feel, and did you calm them down at first?
Wang Yuan: I think because there were too many programs in the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning, we were told that if there were too many programs, we should cut them into three or four minutes, but our entire music and dance 5 Minutes and 54 seconds, every second is exciting. Which section should I cut? To be honest, I couldn’t bear to cut it anyway. It’s so beautiful.
Zhang Jigang: I went to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala twice to check the lights, and I asked the children to walk on the stage and check the lights. Every time I made some movements to the lights, I applauded. To match the music, just make a move and clap under a pair of lights.
Wang Yuan: So when we went there for the first time, we simply said that we should still do it. We would perform it for 5 minutes and 54 minutes from beginning to end, and then invite the directors to watch it. After the performance, the director was satisfied and came down to express your gratitude. Have you changed it? Is it shorter? I said no. We are 5 minutes and 54 minutes. Why is it so fast? I feel like it is gone before I even watch it.
Host: After the whole show, many people asked me how they arranged it? It is said that if we are normal, it is too difficult to line up so neatly and come out at once. How can they feel it? Let us first watch the scene of their rehearsal with the audience.
Music is the soul of dance, but these deaf and mute dancers cannot hear the melody and rhythm of the music. This information is from the art troupe's first rehearsal of "Thousand-Hand Guanyin". The instructor's first step is to help the dancers assume the correct postures one by one, and then use gestures to convey the rhythm of the music to them and guide them to dance. . During formal performances, sign language teachers are also required to direct and guide the dancers' movements at the four corners of the stage.
Host: Can you tell me in more detail? With so many, 21 actors, how can I see you directing on the scene?
Wang Jing: We have four sign language teachers for this dance, because their movements are in different directions, and because they can’t hear the music, they rely on our gestures to perform the dance.
Host: Do you give them the beat?
Wang Jing: Yes, beat them and count the beats.
Tai Lihua: There was one rehearsal because the lights were very bright and pierced my eyes. I couldn’t see our conductor, so I got up late for the last move. I was very anxious and made a mistake. It happened that all the 21 actors made the same mistakes, very neatly, and finally the show was completed successfully. I couldn't see the mistake. After I came down, even Director Zhang said he didn't see that you were wrong.
People should be giants of actions, not words.
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First of all, life is priceless
Many people are giants of language and dwarfs of action
So even though Tai Lihua is flawed, her perseverance allows the value of her life to be revealed
That is to say, as long as a person works hard, he will achieve success. Even if he does not have success like her, as long as he has confidence in himself and works hard, then it will be a valuable life!