Dance adapted from the movie, in my understanding, the first thing to look at is the mood.
Breaking this dance down:
When the familiar melody of "Flowering Flowers" plays, the texture of the music played on a gramophone takes us immediately into the atmosphere of old Shanghai. However, this time the story takes place in Hong Kong in the 1930s.
Just like Ruhua, a woman of the world who is constantly traveling through the land of fireworks, the dancer starts with her toes half-standing, legs alternating forward, walking and even running quickly; sometimes uncertain, sometimes painfully repressed, sometimes mesmerized, sometimes charming, sometimes elegant and proud ...... followed by a few graceful movements and just the right flat turns, showing the extraordinary beauty of the film's Ruhua. The movie Ruohua extraordinary posture and the dancer's richness and beauty.
However, when Ruohua meets the twelve young men, the women of the world realize what it is like to have a love they shouldn't have. So she struggles and fights under the pressure of the world, leaping, swinging her arms and hooking her legs as powerfully as a dancer. Of course, there is more sweetness in love, and the dancer's increasingly intoxicated facial expressions and softer and softer body movements brought out the entanglement between Ruhua and Twelve Young Men.
Halfway through the dance, the music suddenly takes a turn and time flies fifty years. The combination of lazy expression with arm swinging, lower large waist and chest waist interpreted the relief and fulfillment of Ruhua when she committed suicide. Even though she is alone "down there" in the cold, she is still longing for the meeting with the twelfth young man, and a long-lasting move of the legs means that she is determined. Picking up the bag again, the dancer begins to show Ruohua coming up to look for Twelve Young Men after fifty years, her expression is so expectant and cautious. However, the reality is cruel to Ruhua, the twelfth young man did not give her the same courage to love, in the melody of "burying the heart", the dancer held up her right hand, tilted her head, in a tearful haze, as if before her eyes again saw Ruhua's splendor of that time. But in the end, it is a flowery year that flows like water, and a curtain dream that turns into ashes.
At the end of the dance, the dancer's head is tilted back, her waist halfway down, her arms open and her heels on tiptoe, like a hanging headless corpse from the front, revealing the cruel reality of the old society that forced people to become ghosts, and the bleakness of the state of mind in which she decided not to wait any longer.
"Butterflies fly away, and the heart is not there, who will come on the long, bleak night, and wipe the tears from their cheeks; they are greedy for a little bit of dependence, greedy for a little bit of love, and it is hard to get rid of the old relationship, but they are full of sadness. ......"
From the overall view of the dance:
The dancer was dressed in a high-flying red dress, with the head of the dancer hanging from the ceiling. Dancers a high forked red cheongsam, not only the delicate figure outlined eye-catching, but also foreshadowed the novel Ruhua this character scenery and short miserable life. Throughout the dance, most of the dancers' footwork was done on half-padded toes, which, together with the recurring upward movement of the arms, vividly portrayed Ruhua's difficulties in the real world and her hope for true love.
Though Ruhua is humble, she has her own inner struggles, and she can be martyred for the sake of true love. Liu Yan not only conveyed this information to the audience through his body, but also portrayed the character from the connotation and soul, at this time, Ruhua is Liu Yan, and Liu Yan is Ruhua.
The lyrical fiddle tune was a bit depressing, and a woman in red danced along with it. The changing dance posture and rich expression interpret Ruhua's pursuit of true love in defiance of fate. However, true love is like the wind and mist, even if you reach out, you are unable to grasp the illusion you once had. The wind will always be blown away by the rain, perhaps just like the twelve young people gave Ru Hua a huge flower card at the beginning, "like a dream like a fantasy moon, if it were to be separated from the flower".
The hustle and bustle slowly fades with the music, leaving only the emptiness of silence. However, the human body can die, and those who once survived in the name of love soul, will not die out.
Life is like a dream, only rouge tightly.