Dance is a kind of art form that takes the refined human movement as the main means of expression, and utilizes a variety of basic elements, such as dance language, rhythm, expression and composition, to shape a dance image with intuition and dynamics, and to express people's thoughts and feelings.
21 young deaf and mute actors and actresses performed "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy", which is really mind-blowing. Structure: The value of modernizing the movement of "Thousand-Handed Goddess of Mercy" is a successful attempt to recreate the artistic image. It changes the singularity of movement, breaks the traditional logic of connecting movements, and focuses on multi-directional and small-angle changes. In the direction of movement and lines, modeling also choose more asymmetry, multiple processing method, breaking the original dance combination of regularity, strengthen the dance movement changes in the inexplicable and fluidity.
Characteristics of discourse: First: the art of speaking in the round.
The 21 performers, through different hand gestures, have drawn full circles, half circles, three-quarter circles, four-quarter circles, as well as the process of transformation between various circles.
Second: the beauty of curves.
In the curvilinear dance posture of Chinese classical dance, the most significant feature is to pay attention to bending, crossing and twisting. Dance movements such as the three bends and the rebound pipa fully reflect the beauty of female curves.
Thirdly, the dance emphasizes the combination of strength and flexibility.
The dance is often "rigid and soft, static and dynamic unity", the action is about the ups and downs, dynamic and static.
"Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy", I think the actors just started to stretch out their hands one by one, the Oriental kind of traditional implicit classical beauty "soft" show very well, out of the hand a bit in place and fast-paced arm movement, but also a very good interpretation of the "just".
Finally, the "form and spirit" is emphasized. Do: hand to, eye to, step to, body to". When the camera closes in, we can see the changes in each actor's facial expression and eyes, and the actors express their feelings to the fullest.
Social background: With a Buddhist background, in Buddhism, a thousand hands means infinite power, can save people in danger. Thousand eyes means infinite wisdom, can universally observe the world, and understand the situation. After the Tang Dynasty, the Thousand-Handed Goddess of Mercy was gradually enshrined as the main statue in many temples in China.
The image of Thousand-Handed Goddess of Mercy is often symbolized by forty-two hands, each with one eye. Artistic Achievements: The Thousand-Handed Goddess of Mercy utilizes the elements of Chinese classical dance and Han-Tang music and dance in an ingenious way, re-creates and organically composes them, establishes the basic, continuous, and distinctive rhythm of the dance, and combines the gestures, dynamics, and rhythmic dance movements in perfect harmony with the audio-visuals and unity of the aesthetics to form the unique language of the dance.
This work expresses love and salvation, life and sublimation, the love of heaven and earth and the beauty of heaven and earth, and has reached a very high level.
Thoughts: The dancers in "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy" are all deaf and mute, and their experiences are difficult compared to those of healthy people. I think that a person, whether they are able-bodied or not, through their own unremitting efforts, can eventually make themselves more beautiful. It's just that in dance, no matter what you do, you won't get anything if you don't put in the work.
Finally, I would like to end with a poem written by Wang Guozhen, "Since I have chosen the faraway place, I only care about the wind and rain," even though the road ahead is long, as long as we walk perseveringly in the right direction, the success will be at the next intersection.