"Flowers" is a high-quality play. It is a colorful imagination and romantic expression, tells a great northwest of the yellow earth, Hui singer flowers and shepherds sheep brother's loyal love story, highlighting the spirit *** love, back to basics, man and nature in harmony with the noble theme. The whole play by the order of "flowers bloomed" and "flowers Jun", "flowers yellow", "flowers red", "Flowers are thankful" and the epilogue "Forever Flowers", in terms of creative concepts and expressive methods, it achieves the fusion and unification of the tension between ideology and artistic aesthetics. The play combines Ningxia "flowers", Hui dances and romantic stories into one, and through carefully refined dance language, it vividly portrays the Hui singer Hua'er, who pursues true love, and the shepherd Yang, who is not afraid of violence, as well as the loyal "a handful of black" and the cute little sheep, The characters of the strong and ferocious Cao Da, and so on. Some of the dances, such as the purity of the golden soup bottle, the ruggedness of the Hui foot-stomping, the spectacular dance of the sheep, the beauty of the Cradle of Life, and the clamor of the "Flower Children" Song Festival, have left a deep impression on the audience. The three love duo dances throughout the play develop and expand the Hui dance vocabulary, with simple style and unique rhythm, which play an important role in shaping the characters of the play, making it an authentic dance drama belonging to Ningxia and China.
The dance language is novel and unique
As a folk dance drama with some allegorical colors, the establishment and positioning of its dance language is crucial. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the choreographers and directors of "Flowers" have tried to innovate on the basis of inheriting the original language of Hui dance. They integrate the elements of Hui dance with the modern dance expression methods without any trace, so that the dance language has the charm of Hui dance and the breath of modern dance, which greatly enhances the tension and infectiousness of the dance language. Choreographers have a strong sense of role and emotion, according to different roles to determine their own identity of the dance language, based on the trajectory of the role of emotional changes, looking for emotional points, emotional in dance, dance lyric, emotion and dance blending, and thus there is a beautiful and pleasing to the eye dance section.
The duo dance in the drama is exquisitely choreographed, with emotive dance language, individualized dance styling, and smooth movements, which delicately and vividly show the life-and-death love between Hua'er and Yang's entwined feelings. You can even hear their affectionate whispers and oaths, can interpret the depth of their love for each other, and can appreciate the heartbreaking parting of life and death. Dance choreography, I especially appreciate the use of sheep shovels in the lifting, sheep shovels are shepherds in the daytime to drive the sheep, calling sheep, shoveling sheep dung labor tools, the duo dance but cleverly put the sheep shovels as a lifting pivot, when the sheep brother hands hold shovels will feet on the shovels on the flowers forward lifted up flat, the flowers of the body tilted sharply in its shoulders, lifting the flowers like spreading their wings want to fly the phoenix, a metaphor for people in love with the longing and yearning for happiness! and yearning; the big eight step-like upright sheep solid and steady, he moved to turn, seems to show the beauty of the power. The beauty of femininity and masculinity form a flowing sculpture, giving people a great visual impact. The use of sheep shovels can be said to kill two birds with one stone, not only to explain the identity of the character, but also to create a novel and unique dance modeling, successfully shaped the extraordinary "this one".