It's not too much to say that Yang Liping is a dance nerd.
In order to dance, she has almost become a fairy.
However, there is a person like her, the dance as the whole life, known as "male version of Yang Liping".
He is Yang Liping's disciple Guo Leng .
This excellent ballet dancer, love dance love to the extreme, almost all the time and energy are devoted to dance, and with exquisite dance skills, fame and fortune.
In life, Guo Leng lived a very simple life, no mansions, cars, no socializing, living in a fast hotel for many years, the material needs of the low to meet the survival can be.
What's even more bizarre is that he's nearly 50 years old and still can't do laundry, cook, or take care of himself, just like a "giant baby".
So even though he earns a lot of money, millions of dollars a year, and is a typical bachelor, no one dares to get married.
From the Internet, I read this question: "Can I live a good life by doing only what I like?"
From Guo Leng, we seem to be able to come up with a little answer.
Sometimes a hobby can change a person's life.
Guo Leng was born in Yinchuan, Ningxia in an ordinary family, from the childhood, he had a strong interest in dance.
At that time, there were very few boys learning to dance, and of the more than 30 children in the dance class, Guo Leng was the only boy.
His parents thought that when he was fresh, he would not stick with it.
But Guo Leng danced among the girls, and he didn't feel out of place, but got more and more excited.
He is a very talented dancer, not only has a strong memory, many movements will learn, and physical conditions and flexibility even more than the girl is superior, body movement is very beautiful.
It didn't take long for Guo Leng to become the most prominent student in the dance class.
Seeing his son's genuine love for dance, Guo Leng's parents began to cultivate him.
When Guo Leng was 9 years old, the Beijing Dance Academy was recruiting students from the outside world, and with an admission ratio of 1:1,000, the competition was especially fierce as 20 students were selected from 20,000 people.
In the end, Guo Leng successfully conquered all the examiners with his standardized and smooth movements and excellent stage performance, and was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy.
He chose to specialize in the classical discipline of ballet and remained the only male in his class.
But he was also the hardest worker in the class, practicing almost all the time, and was known as the "three men of desperation".
As he grows older, there is a clear gap between the softness of boys' and girls' bodies, and Guo Leng needs to work ten times as hard to keep his body flexible.
The suffering in the eyes of others, but he is as good as it is, when incarnated on the stage of the noble, elegant white swan, all the pain and fatigue are offset by that moment of accomplishment.
A few years of hard work and careful cultivation of teachers, Guo Leng has become an outstanding student in the college, participated in many dance competitions, won numerous awards.
At the age of 17, he was selected by the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, one of the top dance troupes in China, and immediately embarked on a new journey in the field of dance.
Guo Leng has always idolized Yang Liping, feeling that she is like a soul dancer, bringing a kind of heart-stirring shock to every performance, which is what Guo Leng dreams of achieving.
After coming to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, he got closer to his idol, and through his outstanding performance, he successfully attracted Yang Liping's attention, and was honored to become her closed disciple, realizing his long-cherished wish.
Under Yang Liping's careful guidance, his dancing skills improved by leaps and bounds, and Yang Liping's purity and dedication to dance y influenced Guo Leng.
Guo Leng's life is very simple, every day in addition to training is to perform, tired and boring, but he lived a full life, happy, flavorful.
Gradually, the stage on which he performs is getting bigger and bigger, and he dances the Peacock Dance beautifully and ethereally.
This is a very difficult effect for male dancers to achieve, from which we can see that he has a deep foundation.
However, just when he was making a mark in his dancing career, a devastating blow almost crushed him.
In 2000, during a performance, Guo Leng suffered an accidental injury, tearing ligaments in his knee, which was so severe that he could not recover from it, and this meant that he had to say goodbye to the stage.
This was a bolt from the blue for a man who loved the stage, and Guo Leng was in pain.
"If you can't dance, you can teach others to dance."
Under the guidance of his mentor, Yang Liping, he found another way out the door.
After the rehabilitation training, Guo Leng said goodbye to the big stage from now on, and walked on the small stage belonging exclusively to himself, he came to Wuhan alone, set up a dance training course.
The training course is a continuation of Guo Leng's dream of being on stage, so he is notorious for his strictness towards his students.
Many parents take their children to learn ballet, are holding the attitude of "even if you can not learn professional, practice temperament is good", but in Guo Leng here, "almost on the line" does not work.
His teaching is very strict, as long as the student movement is not standardized, regardless of age, all head and face a training.
There was a girl named Xing Nan, who started attending Guo Leng's classes when she was 15 years old, and she used the word "scary" to describe her first class.
Because of a poorly executed move, Guo Leng threw her shoes out of the classroom and scolded her for being "dumb as a pig".
It seems that in his eyes, it is not important to make money, but the attitude of the students to the dance is the most important, he can not tolerate any perfunctory dance.
"Into my classroom, your person, your personality, your self-esteem, all erased by me, all belong to me."
He takes the standard that his teacher demanded of him when he first learned to dance, and holds the students to it.
He said: "This pair of dance shoes is not every woman can handle, it is not worth a lot of money, but you need to spend your whole life to accompany."
He wants to train people who love dance as much as he does, more than he wants to improve his students' skills.
That's why his dance studio is so different from other training organizations.
Ballet was popular in France in the early years, so he always uses French to give movement instructions, so that his students can better immerse themselves in the atmosphere of classical ballet.
"Battement, Battement tendu, Demi plie......"
Whether the students can understand, he never explains in Chinese, and let the students follow his demonstration movements slowly to understand the instructions.
He never explains in Chinese whether the students can understand or not, but lets them follow his demonstration to understand the meaning of the command.
Once he started the lesson, he was like a fully charged motor, like he never knew how to get tired.
The class was supposed to last two and a half hours, but he never went below four and a half hours, and sometimes even five or six hours.
Some parents often stayed until one or two o'clock in the morning, and when they were really sleepy, they slept on the floor of the classroom.
Guo Leng's class, and not simply only practicing leg press, step across the basic movements, but the basic movements into the dance, so that the children always follow the music dance, with the body to experience, with the heart to feel.
Xingnan, who cried for her mom to quit after the first class, became Guo Leng's favorite student two years later. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see him, and he was so happy to see me," he said.
Parents have this **** knowledge: "The biggest difference between here and other ballet classes is that the teacher is so strong, a little mention, you can feel a huge change in your child."
He brought out the children, just five lessons, can follow any tune, improvised a ballet.
The key thing is that there really is a "ballet temperament" in their temperament and demeanor.
Because of the love, so the heart. He puts twelve points of energy in the dance classroom, and naturally it is fruitful.
Teaching more than 20 years, Guo Leng brought out of the students, there are many admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy, such as the country's first-class dance school, from the trajectory of life has changed significantly.
Because of his outstanding achievements in the dance training industry, Guo Leng quickly became the best teacher in the field of ballet in Wuhan.
More and more parents came to him, and in order for their children to attend his dance classes, many parents had to drive dozens of kilometers to and from the class, and some even took their children to rent a house near the classroom for a month or two during the holidays for the convenience of the class.
It's rare for a top dance master of his caliber to teach his students in person.
Now, he has achieved the first in Wuhan in his field of specialization, mentioning ballet, no one knows "Guo Leng".
His classrooms are often overcrowded, and he has a full schedule of classes, so he earns a lot of money, up to millions a year.
After losing his wings on his beloved stage, Guo Leng quickly found another outlet, which was to transfer this love to the new "stage" of the dance classroom.
However, Guo Leng, who was like a king in his own dance world, immediately became a "giant baby" who needed to be taken care of.
He can barely take care of himself, can't do laundry, can't cook, hasn't boiled a bowl of porridge, hasn't changed a light bulb.
And he can't spend money. There is no place to live, so he lives in a fast hotel near the dance studio all year round. Other people always want to change the taste of dinner, and he only went to a restaurant every day to eat lunch, hard to eat into the gold card users.
Because he immersed himself in dance for a long time, he rarely communicated with the outside world, almost disconnected from society.
A lot of trivial things in his own life, he will not deal with, are the parents of students to help care.
Most of the time, parents take turns taking care of Guo Leng's life while waiting for their children to go to class, washing his clothes, helping him with his bedding, and sometimes cooking meals for him to take to the dance studio.
Some of the girls who adored his talent were "discouraged" after realizing that he was an "idiot".
The reason why Guo Leng, who is now 46 years old, is still single is because "no one dares to marry him".
Without a love life, Guo Leng's need for material enjoyment is almost zero.
His life is as simple as eating, sleeping, and dancing.
In order to dance, he deliberately kept in shape, and ate only one meal a day. 177cm tall, weighing less than 120 pounds, there is almost no excess fat on his body.
Because he is too thin, he has prominent cheekbones and sunken cheeks, and looks older than his actual age. Combined with his scruffy attire, he gives people a very haggard feeling, and doesn't look like a dance master with outstanding strength at all.
No face, no fun, and even zero ability to live. Such a person does not seem to have much attraction to the outside world, but for this Guo Leng does not seem to care, his world has dance is already enough.
Perhaps the real everyone, never is not crazy, not live.
Guo Leng is like a man born to dance. I believe that in his eyes, dance is a lifelong companion.
In an interview, he said: "Even if you haven't slept for two days, you can get into the mood as soon as the music starts."
No matter how tired he was, as soon as the music started, it was as if his whole body was illuminated, with light shining in his eyes, and his hands and legs dancing lightly, immediately transforming into a beautiful and elegant swan.
Years of non-stop teaching and dancing, his old injuries would often recur, but he never went to the doctor.
Because he knew better than anyone that the best way to treat leg injuries was to rest, and a day without practicing was killing him, he simply could not stop.
For the future, Guo Leng also has his own plans. He said, "For so many years, I haven't given up every single movement." "If I can, I want to dance until I'm 80!"
It feels like in his eyes, as long as he has dance to lean on, any problems he faces in the future will not be a problem.
In his world, dance is the only thing left.
Although it is a bit unrealistic, but for a person who loves to dance, doing what he likes to do is the greatest happiness in life.
Someone said: "It's not easy to do one thing well in one's life, and it's even harder to do only one thing."
Guo Leng is just such a person, preferring to be a "giant baby", all the possibilities of his life all blocked, only to do a good job in the "dance" this one thing.
From this point of view, his life is a success.
This article is written by: grass
Editorial responsibility & planning: willow leaf chatter