Flower is a high-quality play. With colorful imagination and romantic expression, it tells the faithful love story of Hua Er, a Hui singer, and Yang Ge, a shepherd, in a yellow land in northwest China, highlighting the lofty theme of love, returning to nature and harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The whole play consists of the preface "Flowers bloom", "Flowers are handsome", "Flowers are yellow", "Flowers are red", "Flowers are withered" and the ending "Flowers forever", which realizes the integration and unity of ideological and artistic aesthetic tension in creative ideas and expression techniques. The drama combines Ningxia's "Hua 'er", Hui dance and romantic stories, and through carefully refined dance language, vividly portrays Hui singer Hua 'er who pursues true love and shepherd Yang Ge who is not afraid of violence, as well as loyal "a bunch of blacks", cute lambs, strong and fierce grass and other characters. Some of these dances, such as the purity of the golden soup bottle, the roughness of the Hui people stepping on their feet, the magnificence of the sheep dance, the beauty of the cradle of life and the noise of the "flower" song, left a deep impression on the audience. The three love duets that run through the whole drama have developed and expanded the vocabulary of Hui dance, with simple style and unique rhythm, and played an important role in shaping the characters of the dance drama, becoming an authentic dance drama belonging to Ningxia and China.
Dance language is novel and unique.
As an allegorical national dance drama, the establishment and orientation of its dance language is very important. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Huaer's choreographer made great efforts to innovate and develop on the basis of inheriting the original language of Hui dance. They combine the elements of Hui dance with the forms of modern dance without trace, so that the dance language has both the charm of Hui dance and modern dance, which greatly enhances the tension and appeal of the dance language. Choreography has a strong sense of role and emotion. According to different roles, determine the dance language that conforms to their respective identities. Based on the emotional change trajectory of the role, they look for emotional points, express their emotions in dance, express their emotions in dance, and integrate emotion with dance, thus creating beautiful and beautiful dance fragments.
The choreography, emotional dance language, personalized dance modeling and smooth movements of the duet in the dance drama vividly and delicately show the lingering love with Brother Yang. You can even hear their affectionate whispers and vows of eternal love. You can understand two of a kind's anxiety about who is deeply in love and where you will go. In choreography, I especially appreciate the use of sheep shovel in lifting. Sheep shovel is a labor tool for shepherds to drive, call and shovel sheep dung on weekdays, but it is skillfully used as a fulcrum to carry sheep in duets. Brother Yang holds the shovel in both hands, and when he lifts the flower feet on the shovel forward, the body of the flower leans greatly on his shoulders, and the lifted flower is like a phoenix spreading its wings, symbolizing lovers' longing for happiness. Brother Yang, who stands upright with a big eight-character step, is firm and steady. He moved and turned as if to show the beauty of strength. Feminine beauty and masculine beauty form a flowing sculpture, which has a great impact on human vision. The use of the sheep shovel can kill two birds with one stone, which not only shows the identity of the characters, but also creates a novel and unique dance style and successfully shapes an extraordinary "this one".