The prize for the best female lead in the fourth China Dance Lotus Prize for Dance Drama goes to Yang Liping, for the program "Reflections of Yunnan".
Yang Liping, born on November 10, 1958 in Eryuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Chinese dancer, vice chairman of the 10th Chinese Dancers Association, the national level performers, enjoy the State Council "government special allowance". He is also a member of the Expert Committee of China National Folk Dance Level Examination.
In 1971, she joined the Xishuangbanna State Song and Dance Troupe, and later transferred to the Central Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe, where she became famous for her "Peacock Dance".
In 1994, her solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" won the Gold Medal of the Chinese 20th Century Dance Classics.
In 2009, she achieved success with the sister piece of "Reflections of Yunnan", "The Sound of Yunnan", and became the first dancer in China to organize a solo dance party.
Production Description"Reflections of Yunnan" is a new stage production integrating tradition and modernity, which is a new integration and reconstruction of the original original vernacular song and dance essence and folk dance classics, showing the rich ethnic flavor of Yunnan. The song and dance set of 70% of the actors from all over the states of Yunnan and even the fields of the local ethnic minority actors, performance costumes restored in Yunnan various ethnic groups dressed in life prototype.
Yunnan Reflections makes extensive use of movable, elevating and transforming devices. In order to reproduce such an original state of life on the 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 with a specific impression of the "original ecology". 180 sets of masks with Yunnan characteristics, cattle head, Mani stone, the Bible 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.