Excerpt from the dance drama Wing Chun.
Cover news reporter Xun Chao.
Wing Chun is flowing and flowing, and the fragrant cloud yarn is restrained and bright. From Chinese New Year's Eve on February 9 to the first day of the New Year on February 10, excerpts from the dance drama "Wing Chun" appeared in the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala and the 2024 Henan Spring Festival Gala special programs. This kind of innovation that skillfully combines martial arts and dance shows the combination of rigidity and softness of "martial arts" and the same root of "dance", bringing an unprecedented visual feast to the audience, and netizens have praised it: ""Wing Chun" is like a rainbow, breathtaking" "Ip Man played the Spring Festival Gala, it really brought us a dance feast!" "It's soft and powerful, and it's back to "The Grandmaster"! ”
Talking about the inspiration for the creation of "Wing Chun", the play's choreographers Zhou Liya and Han Zhen said: "Macroscopically, it is inspired by traditional Chinese culture, especially the combination with kung fu, which allows us to appreciate the breadth and profundity of traditional culture again. The body language of kung fu and the dance itself have a lot in common, and this fusion of martial arts and dance makes us feel the kinship behind the body language. The driving force behind the two of them is also their love for traditional culture. "We hope to use the current way of expression to spread traditional culture more openly. ”
Excerpt from the dance drama Wing Chun.
Chang Hongji, the actor of "Ip Man" in the play and a young dancer, said bluntly: "When it comes to Wing Chun, everyone naturally thinks of intangible cultural heritage, Ip Man, and the spirit of Chinese martial arts. In the new era and new culture, we, as literary and artistic workers in the new era, carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture through our own strength, and be performers who are not defined by tradition through creativity and innovation. ”
As a special program of "2024 Henan Spring Festival Gala", the dance drama "Wing Chun" presents two wonderful dance segments of "72 Tenants" and "Five Great Party Showdowns" through more than 12 minutes of film and television expression, telling the story line of Ip Man breaking into Hong Kong, "opening a door to Wing Chun" on Wuguan Street, and finally inspiring ordinary people to learn martial arts and promote righteousness.
Excerpt from the dance drama Wing Chun.
The biggest feature of this dance drama is the 'integration of dance and martial arts', and these action elements provide a lot of creative space for film and television shooting. Many difficult martial arts skills can bring a stronger visual impact through the use of lenses and changes in the editing rhythm. Lu Hongli, the chief director of the 2024 Henan Spring Festival Gala, introduced. The 72 tenants section uses the "one shot to the end" shooting technique, showing the colorful scenery of Hong Kong, China and the various human situations in the streets and alleys in a flowing long shot.
The program team also specially came to Foshan, Guangdong Province, Ip Man's hometown for real-time shooting, so that the audience can not only enjoy the antique traditional Lingnan architecture, but also enjoy the combination of rigidity and softness in the stylized scenes such as snowy days, rainy nights, high platforms made of stools, and light arrays surrounded by candles. The 360° shooting highlights the ultimate moments in the fight, presenting the moves of various martial arts schools and the beauty of dance postures.
In the end, when the dancer Chang Hongji played the role of Master Ip Man Yip led 72 tenants to practice Wing Chun, he shouted in unison in Cantonese the Wing Chun ancestral motto of "practice skills diligently, cultivate righteousness and avoid indiscriminate disputes, be gentle in life, and help the weak and the weak with Wu Furen", which is very heroic and makes people's blood boil. Some netizens said: "Movie-like texture", "Accurately captures the spiritual core of the dance drama "Wing Chun", "This dance drama "Wing Chun" is not only wonderful, but also like a visual feast, making people feel like they are in a movie. Every movement, every expression, is full of emotion and power, and people can't help but be moved. ”
Lu Hongli said bluntly: The line "Heroes stand in the light, and we wish to be the light" in "Wing Chun" also inspired her and the team to become the light that spreads and displays Chinese martial arts and Lingnan culture. "Every ordinary dreamer is his own hero. We respect and are curious about Cantonese cultural themes, and we hope that through this show, more people will understand and love Wing Chun and Lingnan culture. ”
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