Ballet dancer Yu Chuanya: There is no shortcut in art to be a down-to-earth dancer
Yu Chuanya starred in the ballet “Eight Women Throwing the River”.
Ballet, a European classical dance, flourished during the Renaissance. Watching a ballet performance, it seems that the mind also follows the light figure through the long river of history and returns to the past. Some echoes always come from the depths of the years.
On June 19th and 20th, the ballet “Eight Women Throwing the River”, starring Liaoning Ballet Principal and young dancer Yu Chuanya, was staged at the Sichuan Grand Theater. The soul-stirring heroic stories are intertwined with elegant classical ballet, telling the stories of eight heroines of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation who bravely sacrificed their lives for the motherland and the people, and carry forward the “Chinese spirit”. On the eve of the performance, Yu Chuanya was interviewed by West China Metropolis Daily and Cover News, and shared the story behind the character creation.
break traditional cognition
Playing Back History with the Delicacy of Ballet
The tall and straight birch forest, the ripe yellow wheat ears, and the flying red handkerchiefs. The figures of eight female warriors fell and stood up again, giving each other energy and courage at the juncture of life and death. The Anti-Japanese War ballet “Eight Women Throwing in the River” created and arranged by the Liaoning Ballet combines the solemn and solemn stage design with soft music, delicately depicts the nobleness and greatness of the anti-Japanese female fighters, and tells the touching stories of martyrs with smart dance. .
As the actor of the heroine “Leng Yun” in the play, Yu Chuanya said frankly: “This dance drama has broken our perception of ballet.” She introduced that traditional ballet requires dancers to always maintain the “nobility” of princes and princesses. “The temperament has always been shown in a posture of holding up your chest. But in “Eight Girls Throwing the River”, the dancers not only need to add dramatic performances to their dances, but also show a heroic spirit, which also became a major problem for Yu Chuanya when she first came into contact with the dance drama.
In order to get close to the role, she really worked hard – she had no experience in holding a gun, and she only trained for a week to carry a gun; she knelt down and carried a stretcher for the performance, and the silicone pads of the knee pads were all ground. It is precisely this kind of “devil training” and the performances of Yu Chuanya and others that made “Eight Girls Throwing in the River” into the hearts of the audience and allowed the historical details to “reappear”.
From “the most beautiful swan” to heroic female warrior
“Exchange life” with each character with sincerity
As a young ballet dancer, Yu Chuanya has starred in many Chinese and foreign classic repertoires and modern works, including world classic ballets “Swan Lake”, “The Nutcracker”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Spartak”, “Giselle” and “Pirates” “Fairy”; original Chinese ballet “Erquan Mirroring the Moon”, “The Last Emperor”, “Eight Girls Throwing in the River”, “Mulan”; modern ballet works “Song without Words”, “Partner”, “Elegy”, “No Desire and No Care”, etc. . She has won the special award of the 7th Vienna International Ballet Competition, and the performance award of the Wenhua Award of the 9th Arts Festival of Liaoning Province.
Because of her performance in “Swan Lake”, Yu Chuanya was rated as “the most beautiful swan” by the world-renowned Russian ballet master Malakhov. Yu Chuanya, who has created many classic roles on the ballet stage, believes that although she is walking the road of roles on the stage, she is lucky to grow her life. She is willing to build bonds with each character and perform the soul behind the characters.
It was the first time she met “Leng Yun” in “Eight Women Throwing in the River”. Yu Chuanya was only 24 years old. With her admiration and reverence for heroines, she first conducted a large number of data inquiries, and then repeatedly watched the movies and TV shows with revolutionary martyrs as the theme. data, to try to figure out the character’s heart. “During the rehearsal process, the director will also talk to us about the play, analyze the hearts of the characters and the way of performance.” Yu Chuanya said.
Feel the role
Resonance of the mind, making the characters come to life
In Chuanya Yu’s opinion, the uniqueness of “Eight Girls Tossing the River” is also reflected in the way of narration. “We need to incorporate a lot of performance content in the process of dancing.” For example, she played “Leng Yun” when she learned that her husband had sacrificed After the news, there was a performance of no action, no lines, and no dance for more than a minute. “During this period, all I can do is stand with the characters and use my sense of belief to convey the pain, struggle and powerlessness of the characters.” Yu Chuanya said, “If the actor’s heart is not rich enough, the performance will be pale and powerless. The audience can’t feel the hero’s mood, and can’t be moved.”
In order to protect the child’s integrity, “Leng Yun” in the play made the decision to “send the child”. Going back to the last night she spent with her child, “she was tenacious and determined at that time, and she also harbored thoughts of her husband and desire for victory in the war.” Yu Chuanya said bluntly, “The drama of this scene The expression performance is very rich, a look, a raised hand, the trembling of the fingertips, all need to be handled delicately.”
In terms of crying scenes, Yu Chuanya also has her own way of dealing with it. “When performing the crying scene in “Eight Girls Casting in the River”, it is not allowed to erupt directly. Because ‘Leng Yun’ is the instructor and the core of the entire team. Maybe the ‘soul’ of the whole team is gone. So when I cry, I have to go back and hold back.” In the past eight years, Yu Chuanya, who has performed “Eight Girls in the River” for nearly 100 times, feels more and more deeply.” Every stage performance is to feel the heart of the character and let the soul be baptized. Only by resonating with the soul can we ‘reproduce’ the historical story of that year and bring the characters to life.”
love ballet
I just want to be an ingenious dancer
Since she started her dance career at the age of 4 and a half, Yu Chuanya’s dance path has been fruitful. She has won the special award of the 7th Vienna International Ballet Competition, the performance award of the 9th Liaoning Arts Festival Wenhua Award, and the promotion of the ideological and cultural youth of the Central Propaganda Department. Yingcai, etc., the dance dramas he starred in have also won the Wenhua Award and the “Five-One Project” award. Despite being honored, Yu Chuanya understands that “art is endless, and any honors and medals become a thing of the past as soon as they are obtained.” In her opinion, “the stage is a manifestation of self-worth, dance is a manifestation of self-worth. It’s part of my life. Half of my life is for my dance career.”
In front of and behind the scenes, light and shadow are intertwined, leaving sweat marks on the stage and rehearsal field, it is Yu Chuanya’s hard work day and night. “Ballet is a ‘cruel’ art. As a ballet dancer, my physical condition is not so good, so I have to pay more than others.” For the stage, she returned to the rehearsal room a month and a half after giving birth, 10 Lost 36 pounds per month. “Because I love this stage so much, when I gave birth, I already thought about when to return to the stage.”
In a year, Yu Chuanya performed outside for most of the year, and spent the rest of the time on rehearsals. Although she is ashamed of her family, she is also very grateful to her family for their support. “When I was young, I liked to run outside very much. As I got older, I felt more and more regret about the absence of my family because of my career.” Yu Chuanya said helplessly, this is unavoidable, “For artists , if you want to walk this road well, you can’t worry about so many gains and losses, just be an ingenious dancer down-to-earth.”
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