Yang Liping is a native of Dali, Yunnan Province. She has never been to any dance school and entered the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe from her village in 1971, and became famous for her solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" which she created and performed in 1986. In 1986, she created and performed the solo dance "The Spirit of the Bird" and became famous. She is regarded as a "witch" and "god of dance".
Film and Television Work
The Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes, The Sun Bird, and The Spirit of the Sparrow
Yang Liping is a native of the Bai ethnic group in Dali, Yunnan Province. She lived in a family with divorced parents, and her two sisters and one brother lived with her mother. In Yang Liping's childhood memories, most of them are related to poverty and discrimination, but she has a happy attitude that most people rarely have, and she loved dancing since she was a child, she did not enter any dance school, and in 1971, she entered the Xishuangbanna State Song and Dance Troupe from the village, and in 1986, she created and performed her solo dance, "The Spirit of the Sparrow", which became famous. Over the years, she has visited many countries in the world for artistic exchanges, and has held special dance evenings in the Philippines, Singapore, Russia, the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan and other countries and regions. She also wrote, directed and acted in the movie "Sunbird", which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Montreal International Film Festival.
The mysterious dancer from the mountains has long been known as the "Witch" - a person who is good at talking with her body. Audiences in Taiwan and Southeast Asia call her the "God of Dance". For such a mysterious messenger who conveys the natural vitality of heaven and earth, it is quite amazing to see the silky rhythm of life flowing out of a beautiful and touching lithe figure. The pure and soft dance danced by Yang Liping is a special artistic image, special spiritual intelligence, and an artistic treasure nurtured in the natural and primitive humanistic landscape. At first glance, one marvels at the subtle language of her fingertips and fine wrists; continue to watch, you will realize that its dance charm contains a spirit; and when you appreciate it again and again, you will be able to precipitate a timeless beauty of the heart - in the remote mountains of Yunnan, living in her and her people, they are attached to nature.
The spirituality gained from the harmony of heaven and earth, yin and yang, has led her to have an instinctive and romantic sense of life, love and death, which has led to a unique and self-contained style of her dance art. She is a true artist, creator, and practitioner, a truly unique and emotional dancer.
Major Dance Performances
1. Moonlight
Choreographer: Yang Liping
Yang Liping has always thought that a woman is just as tangible and intangible as she is, so she used abstract and deformed limbs to express her feelings and the holiness of moonlight, in which we can see how the choreographer opens up the wings of her imagination.
2. Two Trees
Choreographer: Yang Liping
Legend has it that two people who were in love could not love each other, and after their deaths they could not be buried together, but at the same time their graves grew a tree each and entwined tightly together, which is the legendary Lianliangzhi. Yang Liping advocates the kind of spiritual love, and her "Two Trees" was selected as China's most popular dance.
3. Gachichi
The body, symbolizing a woman's life will never lack of love. Yang Liping uses the skillful trembling of ten fingers to symbolize the continuous spring rain, and this movement design has been hailed as a unique creation.
4, "Everest"
Choreography: Su Dongmei, He Haochuan, Zhao Mingzhu
You tower over people's hearts, and you stand under the blue sky. Ah! Holy Everest!
5, "Fire"
Choreography: Yang Liping
The Wa people, born in nature, have a primitive worship of fire, which they believe is the sun, which brings light to the earth and ignites all the desires of people for life. Yang Liping will use her fingers and toes to point her body and even her heart to ignite the fire of life.
6, "Lhasa River"
Choreography: Yang Liping
The Tibetans have a bathing festival every year, and they will bathe in the Lhasa River on that day every year to receive the blessing of the motherly care of the river, so that they can get a pure soul and an infinite life, and this dance is the latest work of Yang Liping.
7, "Red Temptation"
Choreography: He Haochuan
She, like a mass of red fog, so that the Bean buddies confused; she, like a blazing fire, called the strong men lost their souls.
8, "Daughterland"
Choreography: Yang Liping
Women do not go to suffer, the day will be sweet? If there is no woman in the sky, the sky will not be bright; if there is no woman underground, the ground will not grow grass.
9, "Wings of the Heart"
Choreography: Su Dongmei
Adaptation: He Haochuan
Wings of the Heart holds up the ancient and young emotions, and the Great Liangsheng is thus youthful and romantic. Soma flower has a new legend.
Awards
In 1979, she starred in the large-scale folk dance drama "Peacock Princess" which won the first prize for performance in Yunnan Province
1979.
In 1986, her famous solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" won the first prize for creation and the first prize for performance in the Second National Dance Competition.
1990 She performed her solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" at the closing ceremony of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing
1992 She became the first dancer from mainland China to go to Taiwan to perform.
1993 In the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Television, she created and performed the duo dance "Two Trees", which won the first place in the audience vote.
1994 The State Council of the People's Republic of China awarded her the title of National Model of Progress in National Unity. The solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" won the Gold Prize of the 20th Century Dance Classics of the Chinese nation.
1997 Participated in the Osaka International Arts Festival in Japan, and was awarded the highest art prize by the Osaka International Exchange Center. The National Folk Dance Association of the Philippines awarded her as a lifelong member.
1998 The movie "Island of the Sun", which she directed and starred in, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Trier International Film Festival.
Yang Liping is a native of the Bai ethnic group in Dali, Yunnan Province. She lived in a family with divorced parents, and her two sisters and one brother lived with her mother. In Yang Liping's childhood memories, most of them are related to poverty and discrimination, but she has a happy attitude that most people rarely have, since childhood, she loved dance, she did not enter any dance school, from the village into the Xishuangbanna State Song and Dance Troupe in 1971. 1986, she created and performed a solo dance, "The Spirit of the Sparrow", and became famous at once. Over the years, she has visited many countries in the world for artistic exchanges, and has held special dance evenings in the Philippines, Singapore, Russia, the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan and other countries and regions. She also wrote, directed and acted in the movie "Sunbird", which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Montreal International Film Festival.
The mysterious dancer from the mountains has long been known as the "Witch" - a person who is good at talking with her body. Audiences in Taiwan and Southeast Asia call her the "God of Dance". For such a mysterious messenger who conveys the natural vitality of heaven and earth, it is quite amazing to see the silky rhythm of life flowing out of a beautiful and touching lithe figure. The pure and soft dance danced by Yang Liping is a special artistic image, special spiritual intelligence, and an artistic treasure nurtured in the natural and primitive humanistic landscape. At first glance, one marvels at the subtle language of her fingertips and fine wrists; continue to watch, you will realize that its dance charm contains a spirit; and when you appreciate it again and again, you will be able to precipitate a timeless beauty of the heart - in the remote mountains of Yunnan, living in her and her people, they are attached to nature.
The spirituality gained from the harmony of heaven and earth, yin and yang, has led her to have an instinctive and romantic sense of life, love and death, which has led to a unique and self-contained style of dance. She is a true artist, creator, and practitioner, a truly unique and emotional dancer.
Major Dance Performances
1. Moonlight
Choreographer: Yang Liping
Yang Liping has always thought that a woman is just as tangible and intangible as she is, so she used abstract and deformed limbs to express her feelings and the holiness of moonlight, in which we can see how the choreographer opens up the wings of her imagination.
2. Two Trees
Choreographer: Yang Liping
Legend has it that two people who were in love could not love each other, and after their deaths they could not be buried together, but at the same time their graves grew a tree each and entwined tightly together, which is the legendary Lianliangzhi. Yang Liping advocates the kind of spiritual love, and her "Two Trees" was selected as China's most popular dance.
3. Gachichi
The body, symbolizing a woman's life will never lack of love. Yang Liping uses the skillful trembling of ten fingers to symbolize the continuous spring rain, and this movement design has been hailed as a unique creation.
4, "Everest"
Choreography: Su Dongmei, He Haochuan, Zhao Mingzhu
You tower over people's hearts, and you stand under the blue sky. Ah! Holy Everest!
5, "Fire"
Choreography: Yang Liping
The Wa people, who were born in nature, have a primitive worship of fire, which they consider to be the sun, which brings light to the earth and ignites all the people's desire for life. Yang Liping will use her fingers and toes to point her body and even her heart to ignite the fire of life.
6, "Lhasa River"
Choreography: Yang Liping
The Tibetans have a bathing festival every year, and they will bathe in the Lhasa River on that day every year to receive the blessing of the motherly care of the river, so that they can get a pure soul and an infinite life, and this dance is the latest work of Yang Liping.
7, "Red Temptation"
Choreography: He Haochuan
She, like a mass of red fog, so that the Bean buddies confused; she, like a blazing fire, called the strong men lost their souls.
8, "Daughterland"
Choreography: Yang Liping
Women do not go to suffer, the day will be sweet? If there is no woman in the sky, the sky will not be bright; if there is no woman underground, the ground will not grow grass.
9, "Wings of the Heart"
Choreography: Su Dongmei
Adaptation: He Haochuan
Wings of the Heart holds up the ancient and young emotions, and the Great Liangsheng is thus youthful and romantic. Soma flower has a new legend.
Awards
In 1979, she starred in the large-scale folk dance drama "Peacock Princess" which won the first prize for performance in Yunnan Province
1979.
In 1986, her famous solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" won the first prize for creation and the first prize for performance in the Second National Dance Competition.
1990 She performed her solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" at the closing ceremony of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing
1992 She became the first dancer from mainland China to go to Taiwan to perform.
1993 In the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Television, she created and performed the duo dance "Two Trees", which won the first place in the audience vote.
1994 The State Council of the People's Republic of China awarded her the title of National Model of Progress in National Unity. The solo dance "The Spirit of the Sparrow" won the Gold Prize of the 20th Century Dance Classics of the Chinese nation.
1997 Participated in the Osaka International Arts Festival in Japan, and was awarded the highest art prize by the Osaka International Exchange Center. The National Folk Dance Association of the Philippines awarded her as a lifelong member.
1998 The movie "Island of the Sun", which she directed and starred in, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Trier International Film Festival.