On Chinese New Year's Eve, Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" landed on the stage of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and the wonderful performance of a few minutes won the applause of the national audience.
What preparations did the Wing Chun team make for the Spring Festival Gala? What kind of visual feast did "Wing Chun" present to the national audience this time? "Wing Chun" appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, what kind of development results has been achieved in Shenzhen's literary and artistic creation?
In this regard, Shenzhen Satellite TV's "Evening Report" column invited Ding Zhongyuan, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, to interpret the dance drama "Wing Chun".
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Excerpt from Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun".
Appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon.
At 11:20 p.m. on February 9, excerpts from Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
The dance drama "Wing Chun" is more than 120 minutes long. On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala this time, the main creative team condensed the most exciting clips in the play into a performance of about 5 minutes.
Different from the drama version wearing black fragrant cloud gauze costumes, this time the female dancers changed into more festive red cloud gauze costumes made of treasured old materials. Although Chang Hongji still wears black, the cuffs are also spliced with red cloud yarn, showing the charm of "double intangible cultural heritage" from Lingnan.
As soon as the excerpt from the dance drama "Wing Chun" appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, it was swiped on the Internet, and related topics rushed to the Weibo hot search list and received rave reviews. The official Weibo of the People's ** posted that ""Wing Chun" is as powerful as a rainbow and breathtaking."
Compared with the theatrical version, how is the Spring Festival Gala version of the dance drama "Wing Chun" different? Ding Zhongyuan, member of the party group and deputy director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, introduced that for the presentation effect of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, there are differences in terms of the number of people and stage performance.
In terms of numbers, there are 2 lead dancers and 14 group dancers by Chang Hongji and Zhang Yashu; In **, makeup, costumes and stage scheduling, the actors have made a lot of innovative choreography, so as to conform to the festival atmosphere. ”
In Ding Zhongyuan's view, since receiving the invitation to the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, the team has maintained a long rehearsal every day, and cooperated with the beautiful stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to synthesize, modify and polish.
What does the dance drama "Wing Chun" mean for Shenzhen's original dance drama or literary creation?
Ding Zhongyuan said that Shenzhen's original dance drama appeared on the stage of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, which fully demonstrated the confidence, determination and strength of Shenzhen's literary and art workers to climb the peak of art.
Over the years, the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee has attached great importance to cultural work, and has done a lot of work in terms of deeply cultivating the soil of literature and art, cultivating the ecology of literature and art, building literary and artistic troupes, and cultivating literary and artistic talents. "Wing Chun" is an excellent literary and artistic work, and it is also a concentrated embodiment of cultural work over the years. ”
Dance drama "Wing Chun":
Chasing dreams and chasing light, walking non-stop.
Since its premiere at the end of 2022, the dance drama "Wing Chun" has started from Shenzhen, step by step, to the whole country and the world, chasing dreams and light, and not stopping.
On December 22, 2022, "Wing Chun" made its debut at Shenzhen Poly Theater and won a full house. Taking this as the starting point, "Wing Chun" started a national tour, and successively traveled through Changsha, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other cities.
In June 2023, "Wing Chun" was unveiled at the "Shenzhen Story" theme promotion event held in Beijing, and received strong feedback from the envoys of 29 countries in China and representatives of many international organizations.
In the first week of the 2024 New Year, "Wing Chun" was performed in Hong Kong for 5 consecutive performances, creating a hot and enthusiastic scene, and announcing the launch of the 2024 global tour. Up to now, the dance drama "Wing Chun" has traveled to 34 cities and presented 142 wonderful performances.
From the 2023 New Year's Eve Gala of Station B to the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Shenzhen's original dance drama "Wing Chun" once again warmly accompanied the people of the whole country on New Year's Eve, "singing" Chinese culture, and welcoming the new "Spring". Starting from Shenzhen, in just over a year, "Wing Chun" has won unanimous applause from audiences at home and abroad, and the box office has been popular.
At the beginning of 2024, when the dance drama "Wing Chun" was performed in Hong Kong, it was announced that Shenzhen and Hong Kong would jointly produce a special Hong Kong version of "Wing Chun" in the future.
In this regard, Ding Zhongyuan revealed that he plans to cooperate with Hong Kong at the end of this year to launch the 2The 0 version will be adjusted and innovated in terms of actor arrangement, performance content, etc., and have a new meeting with the audience.
Ding Zhongyuan believes that in the future, facing a broader world stage, the vast number of literary and artistic workers in Shenzhen should base themselves on the world and launch more literary and artistic works suitable for the context of different civilizations, so as to achieve exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations.
Evening observation: one step at a time, one stroke; One move, one style, both rigid and soft. The enthusiasm and strength of "dance + martial arts", the joint appearance of Wing Chun boxing and Xiangyun yarn "Double Intangible Cultural Heritage", and the excerpt of the dance drama "Wing Chun" appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, showing the essence of Chinese culture, bringing a hot wind from Lingnan to the people of the whole country, and once again showing a strong "circle-breaking force" and extraordinary charm.
Following the direction of "spring", the "Made in Shenzhen" of literary and artistic boutiques will adhere to integrity and innovation, so that the footsteps of "spring" will not stop and cross the peak.
Writer: Xiao Jun.
Editor-in-Chief: Lv Yubin, Yin Meng.
Reporter Xiao Jun, Liu Fengxuan, Liu Meijia, Du Yifan.