The CCTV Monkey Year Spring Festival Gala has received mixed reviews, but there is one program that is almost free of bad reviews, and it is the dance Jasmine Flower, which is brought by children from the Morning Star Dance School in Atlanta, GA. In the ongoing "CCTV Spring Festival Gala my favorite program" selection, the dance "Jasmine" has been ranked first.
Wenzhou Chen Xiao is the school's principal, but also the creator and artistic director, so people in the circle used to call it "Chen Xiao dance school". The day before yesterday, the reporter contacted Chen Xiao by phone, he told the reporter about the Spring Festival Gala stage before and after the story. He said, "Jasmine" is their overseas travelers to the motherland New Year's gift.
The dance "Jasmine Flower" combines Chinese fan dance with Western ballet. In the program, the teenage dancers use the fans in their hands to combine a pattern of flowers in full bloom, the rhythm of the second, the most amazing one shape in a 8 beat within 49 people in turn to unfold the fan to pose a large flower shape. Netizens praised the program as comparable to the "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy".
In the CCTV Monkey Spring Festival Gala program ratings list, "Jasmine Flower" ranked fourth with 34.99 percent of the ratings. In the "CCTV Spring Festival Gala my favorite program" selection, "Jasmine" so far ranked first.
"Jasmine Flower" is the work of Liu Tingting, the famous choreographer of Liaoning Ballet, and in 2013, Chen Xiao, with Liu's permission, brought the program to the American stage and made it more suitable for foreign performances.
In 2014, the adapted Jasmine participated in the most prestigious Youth American Ballet Competition (YAGP) in the U.S., winning the first prize in Atlanta, and in 2015 was invited to perform at the closing ceremony held at New York's Lincoln Center for the Arts, which was a sensation.