Approaching the artistic conception of Song Dynasty aesthetics, Shen Yun dance poetry drama “Only Green” unveiled the mystery for the first time_Dongfang Performing Arts Group

Original Title: Approaching Song Dynasty’s Aesthetic Artistic Conception Shen Yun Dance Poetry “Only This Green and Green” reveals the mystery for the first time

“Thousands of calls began to come out, still holding the pipa half-hidden.” On July 27, the dance poetry drama “Just This Green”, created on the background of the Song Dynasty blue and green landscape painting masterpiece “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” was rehearsed for the first time in China Oriental Performing Arts Group The hall is open for media exploration, which is also the first time that the much-anticipated drama has unveiled its mystery. The reporter discovered at the rehearsal site that “Just This Green and Green” uses the technique of interweaving the past and reality, is romantic and beautiful, full of poetry, and contains rich traditional cultural connotations.

It is reported that the first round of the play will be staged at the Beijing National Grand Theater from August 20th to 22nd.

“Only This Green” poster Provided by China Oriental Performing Arts Group

In Chinese history, the artistic achievements of the Song Dynasty can be called an insurmountable peak. The historian Chen Yinke once said: “The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved over thousands of years, and it has been created in the Zhao and Song dynasties.” That is to say, the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty is the peak in the history of the development of Chinese classical aesthetics.

Song Fengyayun, poetic and scholarly, Zen in ethereal, profound artistic conception… The reporter noticed that these unique symbols of Song Dynasty aesthetics were well explained and explained in the rehearsal process of “Just This Green and Green”-“A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” Performance. The play is co-directed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, co-produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group and the Palace Museum, and co-produced by Yushang Hemei Cultural Development Co., Ltd.

Dance poetry drama: “Soundless is better than sound”

Poetry drama and literary history are in the same vein. The “Nine Songs” in the pre-Qin period of our country can be regarded as the earliest prototype of poetry drama, and Yuanqu can also be regarded as a readable and performable poetry drama. As a poetic drama, poetry drama not only has a strong poetic sentiment, but also has dramatic plots and scenes. In addition to the stage prompts in the poems, the characters’ lines all use poetic sentence patterns, emphasizing poetry and strong lyricism, giving readers a broad space for artistic reconstruction. “Dance Poetry Drama” uses dance as a vocabulary and uses the poetic expression of the body to create a comprehensive stage presentation in the realm of “silence is better than sound”.

The dance poetry drama “Only This Green and Green” takes “poetry drama” as the genre and chapters such as “show scrolls, ask seals, sing silk, find stones, learn brushwork, temper ink, and enter painting” as the outline. The audience will follow a modern Palace Museum. The perspective of the researcher, the exhibitor, wanders in the legendary Chinese traditional aesthetics.

“A Thousand Miles of Countryside Map”: “A Thousand Years A Thousand Years of Stars and Lonely Moon”

Pu Guang in the Yuan Dynasty praised this picture in the postscript of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”: “I can walk alone for thousands of years, almost the lonely ear of the stars.” He believes that in the green landscape, this is a painting of the stars holding the moon. unprecedented. Wang Ximeng’s “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” has a long-lasting charm thanks to the developed political economy and literature and art of the Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Ximeng painted “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”. All the painting materials came from the court of the Northern Song Dynasty. The high-quality materials bestowed by the imperial court provided an important material basis for the birth of the painting, and were also the wisdom of traditional Chinese craftsmanship. In the cultural atmosphere of the Northern Song Dynasty, The craftsmanship of silk weaving, pen-making, and ink-making have all reached their peaks. The azurite and stone green used in coloring are also mineral pigments with extremely high cost. When the results of these top craftsmanship were assembled on the drawings of an eighteen-year-old young painter, Wang Ximeng expanded the new possibilities of blue and green coloring with subtle techniques, and pushed the blue and green landscape painting to the pinnacle of its extreme development.

Time and Space Interlaced: National Treasure Cultural Relics and the Spiritual Resonance of Modern People

The dance poetry drama “Only This Green and Green” adopts a narrative structure of interlaced time and space. The time of the plot is set at the time when “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” is about to be exhibited in reality, and when the young painter Ximeng is about to complete the draft a thousand years ago, the exhibitors have entered Ximeng because of their concentrated research on “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”. His heart, accompanied by the precious time that he has spent painstakingly drawing the “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, and this “genius boy” who has only a few digital records, explored the accident and necessity of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” “A Thousand Miles of Destiny”. Understand the emotional connection between ancient cultural relics and modern people.

The stage will outline a rich painting environment: a bright moon shines for a thousand years, and the exhibitor faces Ximeng’s eyes under the moonlight; the conscientious and diligent ancient artisans of the Palace Museum and the diligent ancient craftsmen join together. A picture scroll of humanities that blends scenes.