"On that day, I closed my eyes in the incense mist in the temple, and suddenly I heard the truth in your chanting. That January, I shook all the prayer wheels, not to cross over, but to touch your fingertips. That year, I kowtowed on the mountain road, not to see you, but to stick to your warmth. At that time, I turned from mountains to water to pagodas, not to repair the afterlife, but to meet you on the way. " The love story about Cangyang Jiacuo, a well-known monk, will finally be put on the stage, and this song and dance drama is jointly created by Xinhui Culture and Entertainment under SMG and Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe in Qinghai Province. Yushu National Dance Troupe will come to the Shanghai International Art Festival to perform the love story "The Enlightenment of Love" of Cangyang Gyatso III.
Tashi Dorje, born in Jiegu in 1964, is a famous composer in Tibetan areas. His work "Mother's Sheep Coat" was popular for a while, becoming another masterpiece in Yushu after "Handsome Kangba People", and now he is the head of Yushu National Dance Troupe. This time, he took the stage play "Enlightenment of Love", which he personally supervised and composed, to the Shanghai International Art Festival performance fair to promote the repertoire. The Enlightenment of Love is the first philosophical national song and dance drama based on Cangyang Jiacuo's love poems. It is a mysterious and unique fusion of Tibetan culture and Buddhism, and a collision interpretation of love and reincarnation.
Tashi Dorje, head of the Ten Questions, let's approach him and his "Enlightenment of Love"
Q1: What are your expectations for the two-day performance of the stage play "Enlightenment of Love" that you and your team have been preparing for a long time?
Zha: Yes, we have been making formal preparations since March, or even longer. To tell the truth, I expect too much, and I am afraid that the performance will not be good. The biggest expectation is that the audience can be tolerant.
Q2: We know that this drama has a very touching love story and religious culture. What do you want to achieve in this art festival?
Zha: You know that we have endowed the culture of our region with it. There are cultural differences between Tibetans and Han people, which are not as easy to understand as many simple stage plays. This performance, I hope more people can watch it with heart, understand it, and get some insights about life and love from it. That's my goal.
Q3: Did you and your team encounter any difficulties during the preparation?
Zha: yes. There are inevitable difficulties in the rehearsal process. But the biggest difficulty is probably the problem of lighting design and clothing performance. Because we want to give the audience in Shanghai a more acceptable and comfortable viewing environment, our team has sought the professional team in Shanghai for these technologies, but we can't perfectly show what we want to show because of cultural differences.
Q4: Is there still such a problem in the current preparation process?
Zha: I don't think it's a big problem, because we will bring a lighting technical team from Tibet to Shanghai these two days to coordinate with the staff in Shanghai. I believe that the results of cooperation and complementarity between the two parties will be very good.
Q5: I can feel that you have put a lot of effort into this stage play. When did you and your team begin to conceive and show such a stage play?
Zha: Actually, I have had this idea since four or five years ago. Because I have liked Cangyang Jiacuo since I was young, my team and I put forward such an idea. However, the plan was delayed because of the problems of money and time at that time.
Q6: Then how did it continue?
Zha: because I have always had this idea. Later, the stage play and the spiritual reconstruction of Yushu and the deepening of Tibetan culture were supported by the provincial government, as well as Mr. Chen. Special thanks to Mr. Chen, whose interest and support for Tibetan culture is a powerful thrust for our stage play to be performed in Shanghai.
Q7: We understand that your first musical work, Love Song of Cangyang Gyatso, which was written when you were young, received a good response. Is this related to your current program?
Zha: You have a keen sense of smell. Yes, this first piece of music I created, Love Song of Cangyang Gyatso, is the theme song of this stage play. At the same time, all the songs in this stage play are original songs, and half of them are from my personal creation. It feels good to turn your love into a career.
Q8: From your first work "The Love Song of Cangyang Jiacuo" to this stage play "The Enlightenment of Love", I feel that Cangyang Jiacuo has a deep influence on your life. We know that he has a deep understanding of love and life, so how do you understand and feel about love and life in life?
Zha: I've been in contact with Cang Yang Jia Cuo's poems, collections and various documents about his life since the 199s. Since then, more than 2 songs about him have been written one after another. It can be said that his influence on me is really great. So now I put my feelings about him on the stage, and from this play, everyone can see my feelings about love and life. I hope you can also feel something.
Q9: Besides writing, do you have any special hobbies?
Zha: Besides writing and stage play, traveling and photography are probably my biggest hobbies. Walk on the road and feel the power of life.
Q1: Finally, do you have anything to say to the expected audience about this performance?
Zha: Well, I hope everyone can understand this play that we are very attentive to. So I hope to know something about Tibetan culture, and I hope everyone can accept this different culture, and I hope you can have an epiphany on love and life to some extent after reading it. My team and I will work hard to do better, thank you. On October 18th and 9th, we will wait for you to introduce the repertoire outside the performance fair of Shanghai International Culture and Art Festival. He is a "sentient" practitioner who interprets human love with love poems; She is a smart dancer, who uses dance to interpret the legend of origin. He is Cangyang Jiacuo, an immortal reincarnated living Buddha, admired for his love poems, and controversial for them. She is Pubu Yongcuo, the daughter of Qinghai, the source of the Three Rivers, because of the origin of dance and Cangyang Jiacuo, and also because of the origin of dance and Shanghai.
The Enlightenment of Love originated from Sanjiangtou
The song and dance drama Enlightenment of Love originated from Sanjiangtou Qinghai Province, and brought out a thinking question with the love story of the hero's reincarnation for the third time, hoping to help the audience solve the troubles of secular love and realize the happy and intelligent love.
Pubuyongcuo is the deputy director of this musical, and she is also a member of the Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe. More specifically, she also participated in the choreography of this musical.
As an off-site promotion play of the Shanghai International Art Festival performance fair, the original version of "The Enlightenment of Love" was directed by Jiang Hanqing. At that time, it was mainly based on modern dance elements. For many members of the dance troupe who lacked the foundation of modern dance, it was difficult to express the profound meaning in the play.
Therefore, Pubu Yongcuo, who has been in contact with folk dance for nearly 2 years, and his partner Dawa Cairen began to work overtime to modify the choreography, incorporating more Tibetan dance elements into it and performing a brand-new "Enlightenment of Love" in the most familiar dance way. "Although our basic skills may not be as good as other dance groups at the festival, we are telling stories with our own national dances, and it certainly feels different!" Pubuyongcuo said.
If you can talk, you can sing, and if you can walk, you can dance
The story line of The Enlightenment of Love is composed of love poems of Cangyang Jiacuo in series. When referring to the difficulties in the choreography, Pubu Yongcuo said that it is the dance movements that interpret and express the love poems. "Some actors can't let go at first," she added with a smile. "Especially on stage, this kind of performance is more exaggerated and exaggerated." Therefore, the actors of the dance troupe almost have no holidays, and even go to work one hour earlier and leave work half an hour later every day, only expecting to stand on the stage of Shanghai International Art Festival in the most perfect posture.
Yushu in Qinghai is known as the "hometown of singing and dancing" of Tibetans, and it is even more said that Yushu's children "can sing when they talk and dance when they walk". After thousands of years of precipitation, Yushu Zhuo Dance stands out and is listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list. "It is like a slow-moving old man when relaxing, and like a passionate teenager when cheerful." Pubuyongcuo described Zhuo Dance as such, and it is also one of the highlights of this musical.
In addition to religious elements and Tibetan dance elements, Pubuyongcuo thinks that the cycle of life and death and the twelve karma in the play are also worthy of the audience's expectation. She believes that no matter whether she believes in Buddhism or not, whether she understands Tibetan culture and dance, "because we are experiencing the same birth and death", every audience can appreciate the true meaning of love in the play.
Tears and sweat start again and never give up
"We have lost our house, our rehearsal hall and our precious dancers." Pubuyongcuo recalled.
Yushu earthquake in Qinghai province on April 14th, 21, so Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe suffered heavy losses. During the earthquake, some dancers lost contact, some were physically injured, and some of them will sleep under the rubble forever. The dance troupe could not work normally for nearly half a year after the earthquake. The tears and sweat at that time are still vivid in my mind now, but the dance troupe has not been "devastated" because of this. In four years, the dance troupe has grown from more than 7 people to more than 1 people, never giving up or stopping, insisting on bringing wonderful performances to the people in pastoral areas.
"We have moved into a new house and built a new rehearsal hall, which is a new beginning in all aspects." Pubuyongcuo said that although the rehearsal of "The Enlightenment of Love" also faced the problems of players getting sick and personnel replacement, even if we had to wear thin shirts to rehearse in the rehearsal hall with low temperature, "we can all overcome these!" She hopes that through this musical, the audience can feel the diversity and unique charm of Tibetan dance, and she also hopes to lead the dance troupe and go further with Tibetan dance through the platform of the international art festival! The large-scale original song and dance drama "The Origin of Love Poems in Cangyang Jiacuo and the Enlightenment of Love" jointly created by SMG's Xinhui Culture and Entertainment and Qinghai Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe will land in Shanghai Zendai Himalayan Center on October 18th and 19th. The production team behind this audio-visual feast can be described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the interview with them, Xiao Bian accidentally found that although he has an authentic Tibetan name, the screenwriter Jiang Yong Qu Jinima is a pure "Taiwan Province science and technology man".
A trip to Tibet is a rational road
"The opportunity to come to Qinghai was invited by a living Buddha in Taiwan Province in 26". Different from the romantic imagination of literary youth, Jiang Yong's process of understanding and spreading Tibetan culture and his most striking experience in Tibet are full of realistic colors.
In his description, Buddhist knowledge has strict logic enough to convince science and engineering men, and the communication of Tibetan culture also needs to rely on professional modern cultural industries. "Jiang Yong" means documents and wisdom; And "Qu Ji" represents the Buddhist thought. Perhaps it is thanks to such clear thinking that "Enlightenment of Love" can finally achieve the effect of entertaining and appreciating refined customs.
Get attached to disaster relief and help each other in many ways
"It's also a coincidence that I started making this drama. During the earthquake, I went to help meet Tashi Dorje, the head of Yushu National Song and Dance Troupe. He is a very famous composer. After listening to his works, I felt very good. In addition," If You Are the One "and Empresses in the Palace made everyone familiar with Cangyang Gyatso in those two years, I had the idea of doing this drama."
Although this is a brand-new attempt, and the theme is also very special, The Enlightenment of Love has been quickly supported by Yushu Prefecture Cultural Bureau, and the professional team from Shanghai Theatre Academy, the famous director Lai Shengchuan and the guidance of local monks have made this work constantly improved.
Joking about philosophy and applying it to reality
"Just because there is no formal organization to promote it now, there are a lot of things about Tibetan culture outside." Indeed, the popularity of Tibetan customs in major cities in recent years has often puzzled many interested people. In order to comprehensively and figuratively close the distance between ordinary people and Tibetan culture, Jiangyong Qujinima plans to launch more follow-up works with Enlightenment of Love as the starting point, so that secular monks can tell The Years in the Temple, and fortune tellers can interpret The Man is not as good as Heaven.