2023-11-16 05:38:00
Original title: After four years, Cloud Gate Dance Theater will present its new work “Xia” at the National Center for the Performing Arts
China News Service, Beijing, November 15 (Reporter Gao Kai) In December, the internationally renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theater will return to the National Center for the Performing Arts after four years to appear at the 2023 National Center for the Performing Arts Dance Festival, bringing with it a dance company Art director Zheng Zonglong’s new masterpiece “Xia”. On the 15th, the founder of the dance company Lin Huaimin and the current artistic director Zheng Zonglong attended a media meeting to share the journey of the company’s 50th anniversary and the story of the creation and arrangement of “Xia”.
In 1973, Lin Hwai-min founded the first contemporary dance company “Cloud Gate Dance Theater” in Chinese-speaking society, named after China’s oldest dance name “Cloud Gate”. The dance company has roots in the local area and tours internationally. It is known as a “world-class modern dance company” and won the “Outstanding Dance Company Award” at the British National Dance Awards in 2018. It has been 50 years since the company was founded. Cloud Gate Dance Company has traveled all over the world, introducing the world to Chinese modern dance art with its traditional artistic conception and philosophy.
Talking about his feelings about the dance company since its establishment, Lin Hwai-min said, “The biggest feeling is the audience. Cloud Gate Dance Theater has performed in many places around the world, not just in theaters, but also in the fields. There once was an old man The woman suddenly held my hand in the field and said with a smile on her face: “Teacher Lin, thank you for your beautiful art.” The hands she held were rough, but her understanding of art was delicate. The old woman This sentence is the best meaning of the 50th anniversary. Many things are fleeting, but our audience stays.”
In 2009, Cloud Gate Dance Theater visited the National Center for the Performing Arts for the first time. The elegant and dynamic performance of “Walking Grass” made Cloud Gate Dance Theater a hot topic in the dance world. It also became the relationship between Cloud Gate Dance Theater and the National Center for the Performing Arts. A work of bonding. So far, the dance company has performed its classic repertoire “Song of the Wanderer”, “Nine Songs”, “Pine Smoke”, “Water Moon”, “Rice”, “White Water Dust”, as well as Cloud Gate 2’s “Cloud Gate New Voices”, “Fragments” and “Come”. “, “Thirteen Voices” and so on have performed here successively, impressing the Beijing audience time and time again. It has been four years since this visit. Lin Huaimin said with emotion that day, “Not seeing each other for one day is like three autumns, and the passing of three autumns is like a lifetime ago. When I was busy in the past, I didn’t have time to miss it. In the past few years, after I have been free, I have recalled a lot of interesting things with the Beijing audience. The story. From 2009 to 2019, Cloud Gate Dance Theater came to the National Center for the Performing Arts almost every year for 10 years. With such intensive visits, it feels like we are growing together with the audience of the post-80s and post-90s generations, and the audience is becoming more and more popular. As we become more mature, memories like this make people feel very warm.”
In 2020, after Lin Hwai-min served as the company’s artistic director for 46 years, Zheng Zonglong took over as the artistic director, introducing a new generation of observation and thinking to Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. Previously, Zheng Zonglong visited the National Center for the Performing Arts many times as the artistic director of Cloud Gate 2. This time as the artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Zheng Zonglong said about the change in status, “The biggest change after becoming the artistic director is that I no longer have a life. For me at the moment, the most important thing is creation. It took about three years from taking over to this year. I made three different works in three years. I almost started thinking about the next one before I finished it. I have been creating. I hope I can share more and better dance with everyone. For the future of Cloud Gate, the most important thing is to continue to maintain the energy of the dance company, so that everyone can encounter dance in life and see dance in the theater.”
It is reported that in “Clouds” to be performed at the opera house from December 7th to 10th, Cloud Gate Dance Theater uses saxophone to perform Bach’s cello suite into the dance, through four-time Grammy Award winner Marcelo Arnez The created surround sound field brings the audience into a bright and wide world. World Theater Design Award winner Zhou Dongyan teamed up with animation master Wei Heting to create a colorful and smooth fantasy projection with interlaced projection patterns and lines in response to Bach’s music and dancers’ movements. The dancers swim leisurely, sink, and leap in the undulating music waves. They shuttle through the illusory and colorful stage with difficult movements of opening and closing, which is transformed into a pleasant, moving and dream-like dance “Xia”, just like the rising sun. Get up and cut through the dark sky.
Regarding the creation of “Xia”, Zheng Zonglong said, “In previous creations, I started with a wild imagination, but this time I handed over the creation to the dancers. “Xia” actually tells the story of 13 dancers themselves , there are beautiful memories and lonely moments. Each dancer’s costume is also different. Different colors represent different emotions, just like we have different moods every day. The stage images corresponding to each dancer are also different. These images are actually They all drew it according to their mood. I hope this work can be like a light, illuminating our dancers and all the audiences, creating more colorful ‘xia’.”
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