Chief reporter of Shenzhen Business DailyWei Peina
On the evening of February 9, excerpts from Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" appeared on the "2024 Spring Festival Gala" of ** Radio and Television Station, which received great attention and praise. Wang Qing, a member of the Shenzhen Dancers Association and a member of the Shenzhen Literary and Art Critics, pointed out in an interview with reporters that "Wing Chun" uses martial arts to dance and ask about the martial arts spirit of Guangdong's traditional "martial arts and virtue", and shows the multi-faceted cultural connotation of Shenzhen dance drama with the aesthetic measures of constructing "urban imagery" from multiple aspects; The great tension of body discourse calls on the audience's cultural imagination that resonates with it at the same frequency; A series of intangible cultural heritage symbols such as martial arts, props, costumes, and stage skills are metaphors for the creator's contemporary aesthetic pursuit of "Wing Chun" based on geographical advantages; With the unique art form of dance drama, it vividly interprets that "greatness comes from the ordinary, and the ordinary creates greatness".
Wang Qing introduced that the artistic expression of "memory of the times" has always occupied an important position in the development of contemporary Chinese literature and art, especially under the proposition of the times to tell Chinese stories well, various art categories compete with each other, often with grand narratives and emotional rendering as the core, covering a variety of art categories and language forms of large-scale stage works, which have become the output carrier in full swing for a while. Under this ecology, the dance drama "Wing Chun" has changed the creative logic of gradual patterning and high-profile praise, and instead focuses on the "ordinary", bringing small people from all over the world to sing about spring, forming an innovation in the form of stage symbols that integrates "memory of the times" into "individual narrative". Moisturizing things silently calls for people's collective memory and heroic complex, and skillfully writes the people-oriented concept of dance drama with the technique of "individual narrative", which opens up a more profound space for speculation and gains higher artistic value and ornamental significance.
Wang Qing believes that the dance drama "Wing Chun" is based on the situational strategy of "individual narrative", and has become a creative exploration of the "memory of the times" theme dance drama to tell Chinese stories well. This not only reflects the concept of dance drama that sees the big from the small, the soft from the strong, and the small from the small, but also highlights the aesthetic concept of historical materialism that "the people are the force that promotes the progress and development of society".
Wang Qing said that at present, high-quality creation is still the standard of dance drama creation in the new era. Excellent literary and artistic works not only shape the image of national culture and art in the new century, embody the national strength of artistic production and the orientation of socialist core values, but also embody the artistic standard of the unity of profound thinking, exquisite art, and excellent production, so as to create a literary and artistic peak in the new era. Therefore, the dance drama "Wing Chun" is full of the urban cultural connotation of Shenzhen dance art with its unique symbolic significance, and satisfies the audience's cultural imagination of Shenzhen urban art. Shenzhen dance drama is also developing with the wave of the new era with the aesthetic consciousness of maintaining a unique urban temperament and the fashion of the times, so as to build the vivid characteristics of "urban imagery", inherit the tradition and look forward to the future.