A dancer turned his back to the audience and slowly walked towards the darkness deep on the stage, and not far away, a row of dancers dressed in police ** stood solemnly, solemnly raising their hands in salute. Seeing this, warm applause rang out in the Grand Theater of Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, and tears in the eyes of many audience members were already bursting out of ......
Recently, the large-scale original dance drama "Breaking the Ice" produced, produced and performed by the Beijing Opera and Dance Theater under the Beijing Performing Arts Group was performed for the first time to the public. As China's first anti-drug dance drama, "Breaking the Ice" moves the story of two generations of anti-drug policemen who are not afraid of hardships and dangers and desperately tear up the underground drug network to the stage, interpreting the life motto of the anti-drug police "I have my back to you because I am facing the darkness".
The 48-episode TV series was reduced to a stage story
The dance drama "Breaking the Ice" is adapted from the hit TV series "Icebreaker", the theme is taken from the real cases of the "Thunder Sweeping Drugs" series, with the anti-drug police officer Li Fei of the Dongshan Public Security Bureau as the main clue, telling the story of Li Fei and his father, the undercover Zhao Jialiang, who are not afraid of sacrifice and jointly eradicate the Tacun system drug trafficking group.
Breaking the Ice is directed by Huang Yunsong and Wang Zhenbing, young choreographers of Beijing Opera and Dance Theater. Wang Zhenbing introduced that the "Icebreaker" TV series has 48 episodes, including countless branches and characters, and the biggest problem encountered by the main creative team is to drastically delete the original work, "It's like only 10 out of 100 pearls can be selected and strung into a necklace." Even if Li Fei's father and son were determined as the main line, the main creative team spent a lot of time selecting side characters, merging characters, and ensuring that the stories of each character could form a closed loop, and finally created 8 characters, which were presented on the stage in the overall style of masculine beauty.
The huge tension between Li Fei's father and son is a highlight of the whole play, and it is advanced together with the cracking of the anti-drug case. When they appeared, Li Fei and Zhao Jialiang stood with their backs to each other, laying a "burden" for the relationship between the two; Zhao Jialiang met his son who was handling the case for the first time, and the momentary ** allowed the audience to capture his complex emotions; And after sacrificing to protect Li Fei, Zhao Jialiang slowly walked to the depths of the stage, turned his back to the audience again, and looked back at his son ......, who was a policemanis like the freeze-frame picture of a blockbuster, the mood of the whole dance drama is pushed to a high point, and many viewers cry with red eyes.
Use body language to paint portraits of anti-drug policemen
Dance is not long in narrative, how to tell the story of cracking a drug production and trafficking syndicate? The main creative team made full use of the freehand characteristics of dance to refine the front-line anti-drug stories learned during the collection into modern and contemporary dance vocabulary and show them in front of the audience.
There is a group dance with a strong style in the play, on the stage that breaks the reality of time and space, Li Fei and the big drug lord, drug dealers and Tacun villagers who participated in drug production appear at the same time, and people keep reaching out in front of Li Fei, blocking his eyes, Li Fei will open one hand, and he will encounter another hand stretched out, he can only continue to remove obstacles in the fog, and grope carefully.
This dance ** is what the main creative team saw and heard when they were collecting style. "* Tell us, sometimes you feel that you are investigating the right direction, but in fact, you are misled by drug dealers, too much information needs to be screened between true and false, and the case handlers can only peel off the cocoon little by little. As a result, this dance segment called "Lost Wall" came into being, and Wang Zhenbing hopes that this highly imagery movement can convey the difficulty of the anti-drug police work.
The main creative team also refined a signature action for Lin Yaodong, the big drug lord in the play, - shaking hands. Whenever he met the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, he bent down hypocritically and flatteringly, stretched out his hand, and wanted to shake hands with the deputy director. "The dance drama can't talk about how the drug lord coerces and lures the police, but we will turn the subtle relationship between the characters into action to show the various risks faced by the anti-drug police. Wang Zhenbing said that this repeated handshake represents the sinister heart of the drug dealer: "I am courting you, because I want to devour you, and once you take my hand, you will also be blackened." ”
The "door" separates the light from the dark for the imagery
I turn my back on you as I face the darkness. "Breaking the Ice" depicts the image of the anti-drug police living to the death and guarding the light, and on the stage, the image of the "door" formed by the flaps perpendicular to the stage has become the biggest highlight of the stage design of the play.
In the play, a large number of chiaroscuro scenes often appear on the same stage. On both sides of the giant "door" that can be flipped, one side is brightly lit and the other is gloomy and dim, and different characters and different side plots are cleverly presented in the same stage space. Under the dazzling lights, the police were constantly sorting out their thoughts and analyzing the case in front of the files; Outside the dimly lit "door", drug dealers whispered and did shady deeds.
The image of "door" is also a metaphor for the door of fate of Li Fei's father, the undercover Zhao Jialiang. Zhao Jialiang is in different states inside and outside the door, in different places of light and shadow, sometimes he is a subordinate of the drug cartel, sometimes he is a calm and profound policeman, and sometimes he is a father who cares for his children. When he decided to go undercover and took that step out the door, the wheel of his fate changed, and he was no longer able to recognize his relatives, and he had to pay great sacrifices. Wang Zhenbing said.
What happened to the anti-narcotics police is unimaginable to us ordinary people, and they have given all their lives to fight against the harm of drugs to society. Wang Zhenbing said, "We want to use this door on the stage to tell the audience that this is the separation of darkness and light, and the anti-drug police guard that darkness and let us always be in the light." ”