The red scales leaped, and those who saw it were happy
If you get a fish in water, your good luck will be doubled
Last night (9th), * original dance of Radio and Television Station"Koi".Ascend to the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon. The dancers performed an elegant and beautiful underwater picture scroll with the agility of the koi, and gave the beautiful meaning represented by the koi to the audience. Many netizens swiped the screen and shouted:"Amazing! ”
CCTV News interviewed the head and director of the dance team of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala of the main stationLiu Huizi,Lead dancerHua Xiao Yito take you to understand the creation story behind this dance.
Koi Carp" began to be created and rehearsed in September last year, and it is an original dance created for the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon. Director Liu Huizi wanted to create a dance program related to fish four or five years ago, "The agility of fish is very suitable for expression through dance".
This time they chose to use itfaçade spaceto present a school of fish"We put the whole surface of the water up, and the audience can watch these 'fish' swim as if they were in the underwater world. ”
How do you get the dancers to represent the fish in the façade space? The first thing that came to mind for the main creative team wasWia。But they soon found that WIA's tightrope had no elasticity, and the actor could only move straight up and down, unable to present the light and graceful posture of a school of fish.
After repeated research, the main creative team borrowed the spring rope of the yoga studioThe spring rope is combined with WIA to create a WIA device with bouncing performance. Liu Huizi said, "The dancers can not only express the rippling feeling of the fish through the spring rope, but also be carried into the air in an instant with the help of Weiya." From a technical point of view, the spring rope Gavia is the first innovation. ”
Koi Fish is a freehand expression that combines a variety of elements such as modern dance and classical dance. Since there were no reference cases, the main creative team experimented with many movements when choreographing the dance in the early stage"I tried more than 1,000 movements, and finally presented dozens of movements in the dance. ”
Some people will think that they are a group of girls after watching this show, and some people think they are a group of fish, I don't think there is a fixed answer, I just hope that the audience will see it and feel the beauty and receive this beautiful meaning on the occasion of the New Year. Liu Huizi said.
Yu Lei (left), the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, and Liu Huizi (right), the dance director, reviewed the show at the scene.
The cast of Koi is composed of lead dancer Hua Xiaoyi and 10 freshmen from the Beijing Dance Academy. Liu Huizi introduced that they chose first-year students because they hoped that the slenderness of the actors could give the dance a fairy effect.
The dancer's center of gravity is usually on the left foot, right foot or both feet, and "Koi" is due to the use of spring rope and wiaAll the points of force of the actor are in the waist and abdomen,This places high demands on them.
Hua Xiaoyi recalled, during the rehearsal process,They practice for 8 to 12 hours a day, and hang up to a dozen meters in the airThis places high demands on the actors. "Everyone's height, weight, and strength are different, and the tension of the spring rope is also different, and we have to cooperate with the staff in charge of WIA every time we rehearse to make the 11 actors move neatly. ”
In order to simulate the koi, the actors will also observe the posture of the fish, and Hua Xiao said that there is one kind of fishInspiration"Sometimes you swim and swim and then turn and swim away." We will also be like fish in the performance, and the two people will suddenly meet and separate, showing a feeling of swimming dragons. ”
Hua Xiaoyi was interviewed.
In addition to the meticulous craftsmanship of the dance movements, the stage effects of "Koi" and the costumes of the actors are also full of ingenuity.
The length of the actor's skirt is nearly 2 meters, and 20 materials were tried before and after, and the lightest costumes were selected to create a graceful effect in the water.
The stage chose a large screen with the texture of oil paintings, and the blue-green color of the background and the red and white of the actors' skirts produced a contrasting effect.
The water ripples on the soles of the actors' feet use real-time interactive technology, and the water wave particles on the ground screen follow the changes of the actors' movements.
Hua Xiaoyi said that she hopes to convey good sustenance to the audience through "Koi"."I hope our 11 little koi fish can bring you good luck and wish you all good luck in the new year. ”
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