[Phoenix Pen Club] Huiming: Every gesture is like a painting, graceful and graceful but not easy to understand

[Phoenix Pen Club] Huiming: Every move is like a painting, graceful and charming but not easy to understand. The American Tucson Huazi Dance Troupe’s pursuit of the soul...

American Tucson Huazi Dance Troupe’s Journey in Pursuit Tucson Shang Huiming Tucson in the southwestern United States is a city located between high mountains, hills and desert highlands. In addition to its bright blue skies and rugged cowboys, this city is also known for its multicultural fusion. Just as immigrants from various countries love local culture, there are also a group of guardians here who love Chinese culture. If you see them in American schools and companies, they are ordinary professors, engineers, researchers, and accountants and lawyers. If you are willing to talk to them about medicine, engineering design, or even beauty, makeup, and family education, they are all experts in a certain field. But people in Arizona know that they have a common name: Huazi Dance Company. They like to use Tibetan hada, Dali skirts, palace fans and the beautiful silent body language of the East to interpret beauty and convey the essence of Chinese national culture. Restoring the beautiful scenery Xinjiang dance is their first attempt to dance together. Among China's national dances, Xinjiang dance has very local characteristics. Due to the Silk Road, Xinjiang dance has an obvious West Asian ethnic style. When the gorgeous girls raised their eyebrows, shook their heads and moved their necks, using unique and exotic beautiful shapes to represent the snow-capped mountains, pastures and Gobi desert seas, the audience couldn't help but be delighted: from their graceful dancing, they not only appreciated the scenery of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also smelled the fit and graceful bodies and temperaments of women in western China. Even the actors themselves were intoxicated - it turns out that beautiful scenery and feelings can be expressed in this way!

The happy rhythm of Xinjiang dance is also unique. To the sound of Xinjiang dance drums, the shy image of Chinese women who "come out after a thousand calls, half-hiding their faces with their pipa in their hands" was subverted by the cheerful and cheerful smiling faces of the actors. Even those Americans who have been exposed to drum and percussion music since childhood can't help but shrug their shoulders and shake their arms, being conquered by the rhythm of the East.

The first successful performance gave Huazi Dance Company a sense of artistic achievement and also gave them a vague new thought. Dance steps are a kind of body poetry with rhythm and rhythm. This special form of poetry expresses the joy of life and inner joy, but what is left to the audience, especially the American audience, is a new image of oriental women and Chinese people. How meaningful it would be if we could use our dance to let overseas audiences see the spirit of China's 56 ethnic groups! Then, Tibet's blue sky and white clouds and their beautiful long skirts and hada came into Hua Zi's sight.

The Tibetan people, like other ethnic groups in China, have their own unique national habits and customs. On festive days, their enthusiastic and free tap dances and string dances allow people to fully appreciate the Tibetan people's ability to sing and dance, their clear love and hate, and their passionate and unrestrained national character. The Tibetan people worship white and blue very much. They believe that white represents purity of heart, and blue symbolizes the blue sky and eternity. As long as they recognize you as their friend, no matter whether they meet for the first time or meet old friends again, they will offer you a white or blue hada to express their sincere feelings. The girls from Huazi captured this detail and used blue tube skirts and snow-white khatas to show their joy and love on the stage. At the end of the dance, the songs dedicated to loved ones gradually faded away, but the image of the happy Tibetan girl outlined by the white and blue hada was forever fixed in the hearts of the audience.

Mongolian girls singing and dancing on the grassland have also become the favorites of Huazi girls. The distinctive feature of Mongolian dance is that its steps are not only bright and light, but also its rhythm changes quickly. Often when the audience is still immersed in the fierceness of waving and raising whips, the girls have dismounted and come to the sheep, stroking the lambs, showing the unique simplicity and tenderness of the Mongolian people.

Different from other ethnic dances, Huazi's actors also expressed the indissoluble bond between Mongolian dance and wine. Among Mongolian folk, wine is almost always accompanied by singing and dancing, and singing and dancing must be accompanied by fine wine. Scenes of life are often reproduced in dances through the intoxicating effects of wine. Aren't the actors' dancing and dancing postures a true portrayal of grassland herdsmen?

is derived from the joy in life scenes, and amplifying and beautifying this normality is the special function of Chinese dance. Northeastern Yangge probably originated from the work of transplanting rice seedlings. After bending down and working hard for a long time, the girl will become graceful and charming when she stretches her waist, and the feeling comes. Although rice transplanting is not the main work in the Northeast, catching this beautiful moment in life and performing it with the cheerfulness and humor of the Northeast people has created today's Northeast Yangko dance.

Festiveness and joy are indispensable elements of Northeastern Yangko. In the Northeastern Yangko, the Huazi girls put on red and white Yangko costumes and waved colorful handkerchiefs. The joy infected every audience, and the image of the enthusiastic and cheerful Northeastern girls was instantly accepted by people.

The sexy beauty of Northeastern girls is also fully displayed in Hua Zi’s Yangko. Northeastern Yangko is famous for its "steady waves, waves, stems, and raised stems, stepping on the board and twisting around the waist", which refers to the sexy beauty of the dance. Different from the implicit beauty of Chinese classical style, Northeastern Yangko expresses the expression of emotions that can be released and controlled: even if the red apricots are exposed and the world is turned upside down, the beauty will be instantly frozen to the rhythm of a drum, leaving people with infinite reverie. The drum beats have a different charm when sounded by the Wa people in Yunnan. The Wa people are mainly distributed in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of Cangyuan, Ximeng, Lancang, Menglian, Shuangjiang, Gengma, Yongde and Zhenkang counties in southwestern Yunnan Province. They are known as the "people who live in the mountains". Before the 1940s and 1950s, the Wa people basically practiced slash-and-burn farming. After the 1950s, rice cultivation from the interior was introduced, and modern civilization and technology were also introduced into the mountainous areas. The industrious, kind and hospitable Wa people celebrate the arrival of new life with their traditional lamu drum. "Awa New Song" is a song and dance produced under this background. The hard work was dissolved by the stretched arms, the sweat evaporated with the flowing hair, leaving only the infinite love for life. The joy of the mountain girl's gratitude for her new life was also restored by the girls of Huazi with rhythmic drum beats and broken steps.

The United States is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, and traditional dances of native Indians are not uncommon. What puzzles the audience is why the North American dances, which also express the styles of ethnic minorities, are always so mysterious and heavy, even depressing, while the Eastern Wa dances are so joyful. The Huazi girls themselves love dancing, and the joy that overflows in every gesture may be the answer, but perhaps their joy is in line with the heartfelt gratitude of the Wa people. A bright smile of gratitude comes from the heart and cannot be imitated deliberately. In addition to expressing the joy and joy in life, Hua Zi also has a special affection for nostalgia. The rural scenery may be crude and unsophisticated, but due to the distance, it becomes nostalgia, and everything becomes a beautiful, delicate and elegant memory in people's hearts. Hua Zi's dances that represent hard work in southern China often reveal this inseparable emotion. Beautiful mountains and clear waters have always been the temple in people's hearts, and Xishuangbanna, China, where the Dai people live, is such a beautiful place. The Dai girls there are not only slender, with pure and delicate faces, but also like to wear narrow-sleeved shorts and tube skirts to fully display their slender figures. Whether they are crimson, tender pink, light yellow, light green, snow white, sky blue, etc., they can show their graceful, chic and elegant style. Hua Zi's dance "By the Pond" magically reproduces the beauty and elegance of southwest China. The dance of "Little Pond" originated from the fish dance of the Dai people. It is said that when the Dai people were catching fish, they discovered the agile and lively lines of fish, sometimes swinging and sometimes jumping, and then imitated it into today's dance.

The dance of "Beautiful Place" also shows the joy of Dai girls singing and dancing to praise their hometown: two groups of Dai girls from different tribes gather together at the foot of the bamboo house and the palm trees. The scenery of their hometown, whether it is the rippling green river or the flat dam, the green pastures and salt cloth and flowery clothes are all the content of the girls singing and dancing to show off. You wore a green long skirt and blew the melodious cucurbit flute; I wore a black short skirt, a straw hat on my head and a ribbon around my waist, and danced gracefully. The rich Dai countryside style curls up from the edge of the calm pool as the sun sets. Overseas audiences, especially non-Chinese audiences, have not been to Yunnan, China. They rarely have the opportunity to understand the beauty and elegance of enjoying themselves in the mountainous areas of southern China. But when they saw the green skirts of the gorgeous girls swimming softly on the undulating steps, like fish swimming in calm water, the American audience was moved. There are Native American Indians in the United States who gather around a fire and beat drums to celebrate the art of capturing prey and conquering nature. However, compared with the dance of Yunnan, China, where the hands and upper body are swayed from side to side to express the harmony and elegance of fish playing in the water and the unity of nature and man, they are completely different realms.

Although the realms are different, nostalgia is such a beautiful ribbon. Even if it floats silently, it will evoke the same feeling of homesickness among people of different nationalities and ethnic groups. No matter how far you drift, there is always a wanderer on the other side caring about you. The Huazi girls used their own special language to touch the hearts of American and Chinese audiences. If this elegant streamer of nostalgia comes to entangle the lotus flowers in the lotus pond, then there will no longer be dangerous mountains and mountains in this world, let alone flying sand and rocks. Hua Zi's dance "Sinking Fish and Falling Wild Geese" tells the scene of a group of women from the south of the Yangtze River paddling a boat, looking for lotus seeds through lotus leaves. Although the girls were blocked by lotus leaves and could not see each other, the pond and river were filled with the girls' laughter and singing. The Tang Dynasty Wang Changling's poem "The lotus leaves and skirts are cut in one color, and the hibiscus blooms on both sides of the face. It's as chaotic as a pool and you can't see it. When you hear the song, you feel someone is coming." was vividly reproduced by the actors, especially when the girls lined up in a row, and the skirts and lotus leaves complemented each other. The modern literary master Zhu Ziqing's "Lotus" The artistic conception of "Moonlight over the Pond" also vaguely appeared: those leaves "like a graceful dancer's skirt", those "flower buds" that "opened gracefully, and some shyly opened their flowers, moved with the breeze," and "there was a trace of trembling, like lightning, that spread across the lotus pond in an instant." In the eyes of the audience, the nostalgia of southern China is indeed "more charming".

Southern nostalgia is always related to water, whether it is a small river or a spring rain. In the dance of Huazi's "Small Town Rain Alley", all I saw was an umbrella, and she was dressed in a green dress. I didn't even see the beautiful face of the beauty, but the wonderful feeling of "there is a beauty from the south, dancing with a light green waist", "as graceful as an orchid and green, like a swimming dragon" suddenly came out. Even Xu Zhimo's artistic conceptions of "I left as gently as I came" and "waving gently to bid farewell to the clouds in the western sky" suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. What made the audience have mixed feelings was that the actors covered their affection behind their umbrellas. Even if the girls waved their sleeves and not a drop of water was visible, it made people feel like they were integrated into the nostalgia of the white walls and black tiles of the rainy Jiangnan water town! For overseas Chinese, the scene where elegance and nostalgia are combined has always been an irresistible tear-jerking complex, not to mention the drizzle in their hometown is so affectionate——- No one knows how many overseas Chinese were moved by the tender nostalgia of the Huazi girls at that moment, but the tears born of nostalgia could not be wiped away no matter how they rolled in their eyes.

Lingering Oriental Style When the beauty of life and the dreamy nostalgia are entangled in the singing and dancing, the style that is more beautiful than the scenery and more than family affection quietly appears in the graceful appearance of the gorgeous girls. The ancient dance form "Ta Ge" originated from the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and became even more popular in the Tang Dynasty. It depicts the scene of ancient girls chasing, playing, singing and dancing while outing in the suburbs in spring. In the dance, the gorgeous girls let their moods fly freely: sometimes they are as tender and shy as young leaves, wanting to be exposed but covering them up; sometimes they are charming and carefree like green seedlings; sometimes they are like birds flying into the clouds, and then falling straight into the woods and grasslands, letting their silver bell-like songs echo in the air. Yadian said that "Ta Ge" is a flowing Chinese painting and an ancient poem that is sung, but in the eyes of the audience, the dance is like a youth drama that is performed around them every day: they don't know what the besieged city is, but they infinitely look forward to the unknown and beautiful future in the besieged city.

and "Ta Ge" show off their beauty without hesitation, and "Daughter's Love" shows another kind of youthful scene. Just like girls who dress up in countless beauties and have enough fun, they suddenly look back and realize that although the spring scenery in the garden is intoxicating, the right way for a daughter is to have mandarin ducks and butterflies flying together. She ignores the royal power, wealth, and rules and regulations, and stays with her beloved forever and ever.

This beautiful period is very common in the West, especially after you have found your true love. But this is never a patent of the West. The East also has such enthusiasm. It is just that because of the reservation of Eastern women, the unrestrained passion is diluted by the reserve of covering their mouths and faces, which makes people misunderstand the beauty of Chinese women. Huazi girls who have lived in the United States for many years are not willing to bear such grievances. They use their eyes, figures, long skirts with swinging sleeves, and the story of the country of daughter in the traditional Chinese play "Journey to the West" to show the different styles of oriental women. It is not an exaggeration to say that Huazi actors and actresses are the beautiful messengers of Oriental women. This fiery feeling is more fully reflected in Hua Zi's "Kangding Love Song". The unique alpine environment not only gives the Kham people the opportunity to have the closest contact with nature and the sky, allowing them to always maintain a pious love for life and nature, but also provides a good geographical barrier for them to retain their national habits. Outside Kham in southern Sichuan, can you see women wearing gold and silver, with red corals rippling in the wind, soft and yet lively and shy, but walking with long strides, their belts catching the wind, and a string of hearty and wild laughter? If it weren't for the shadow of a tall and powerful man from western China with a deep gaze, a felt hat and a sword behind him, would they have such a casual, free and charming style? With such a beautiful Hengduan Mountains as the background of the dance, the Huazi girls put on golden dresses and dark felt hats, just like a group of festive Kamba women who dare to love, hate, sing and laugh! The joy is for the American audience: It turns out that the western style is the same bold, passionate and compelling all over the world, riding horses and whipping their whips straight towards you! The exaggerated techniques of modern dance are used to express the endless charms of Kham men and women, but what is passed on to the world is the graceful and bold beautiful elements of the Chinese national tradition. How can the girls not smile brightly!

The palace dance with the style of Oriental women in the elegant hall has a different scene. Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty once used the poem "a song of neon clothes climbed to the top of thousands of peaks, and the dance broke down and the original came down" to describe the singing and dancing that brought peace to the people at that time. This shows the influence of dance in the Central Plains at that time. After folk dances entered palaces and palaces, although they would abide by certain rhythms and rules and adhere to the tolerance of the society at that time, they would also produce a special beauty and charm. "Song of Colorful Feather Clothes" is such a mythological dance that describes the dream of human beings yearning to see fairies in the moon palace. Although this dance is almost lost, after the discovery by later generations, it has become an ancient dance classic and is praised by future generations. Huazi's Fan Dance restores the essence of this ancient dance. Although the Wan Fan Dance shows scenes from the Qing Dynasty palace, it presents an image of thinking about beautiful dreams. This is related to the customs and habits of the time. People who live in the prosperity of singing and dancing often like to pursue the life of the moon palace, jade rabbit and fairies far away in the horizon, but the seemingly casual dance reveals the true feelings of traditional and reserved Chinese women who pursue elegance and long for beauty. With the beautiful girls covering their faces with their fan, they are still shy and silent, and the image of Chinese women who do not understand amorous feelings and lack romance is suddenly overturned by the illusory fairyland and the image of dancing fairies represented by the fan dance. The beauty of the East was revealed in the traditional music of bells, chimes and drums, and the graceful girls turned around to add a unique symbol of amorous feelings to Chinese women.

When it comes to elegance, people like to focus on Russian classical ballet and music, but they ignore that elegance was a status and a social fashion in ancient China, but there was no chance to express this emotion during the hard work all day long. In elegant halls and family banquets, the respect for the elders, the affection for relatives and the care for children are all revealed in the blink of an eye, especially when the audience is an elder superior or even the emperor. With the subtle swing of the fan, elegance and elegance quietly appear on the stage. Different from the elegance of running and jumping in Western ballet, ancient Chinese beauties are so light and beautiful even if they wear high-soled shoes and walk gracefully! Elegance suddenly becomes a unique symbol of traditional oriental culture. Although I still want to categorize Hua Zi's dance to provide an interpretation for more overseas audiences to understand Chinese culture, any words are pale and outdated in front of the elegance of the long-sleeved dance. Because in all of Huazi's dances, including the programs they perform in the future, their personality, nostalgia and style are always entwined and sublimated in the beauty of "I am in you, you are in me". I originally wanted to use Chinese folk dance to become a group of guardians of Chinese culture, but unexpectedly I became a disseminator of Eastern culture, making the United States and Arizona remember that there is such a group of beautiful Oriental girls in Tucson. This may be the biggest gain for Huazi people. British philosopher Ellis once said: "If we ignore the art of dance, we will not only fail to understand the highest expression of physical life, but also the highest symbol of spiritual life." Yes, if we ignore those gorgeous girls who use dance art to display Eastern culture, then what we miss is not only the appreciation of elegant body language, but also a dialogue with China's profound culture and an embrace of the beauty of the East! .