It expresses the love of the Chinese people for the loess land and their dancing on the loess land, which gives rise to a high spirit and optimism.
A man with a chest drum sits on the stage, and the music evokes a sense of desolation. Suddenly, with a powerful cry, the lights came on, full of dancers instantly kneeling down and standing up and back, immediately creating a momentum. As the women retreated, the men slowly moved forward in a low center of gravity dance with a slightly difficult but determined pace, with their feet far apart. They kept beating their drums, raising their arms and stamping their feet in unison, sending out a high spirit and optimism.
Expanded:
The dance "Yellow Earth Yellow", choreographed by Zhang Jigang, music Wang Zhenning. 1994, won the "Chinese National Dance Classics of the Twentieth Century" Golden Statue Award, is one of the Zhang Jigang "Dedicated to my parents" dance evenings.
The dance uses the Shanxi chest drums and rice-planting songs as its material, kneading the bitter, spicy, sour and sweet life and the spirit of self-improvement of an ethnic group into the dance, and then revealing it through the performances of the actors and actresses, and impressing and touching people with its strong artistic charms, and giving them silent contemplation and long-lasting illusion, and then turning them into moral nourishment.
In the creation of the dance, the choreographer pursued the idea of "expressing emotions with the meaning of movement". At the end of the dance, kneeling down on the soil" and holding the yellow soil with both hands, the design of the dance image is the finishing touch of the work. It sublimates the spirit of the "yellow earth". The vast Loess Plateau is characterized by long and deep ravines. On this barren land, there have been kind people living for generations.