" White-Haired Girl " and "Floating Life A Dream" Stills
Recently, after the performance of " Shining Red Star " in , the Shanghai Ballet Troupe, started the second round of national tour in 2022 of Shangba. The entire troupe is divided into two crews "Floating Life A Dream", and performing in various places. Under the leadership of the Shanghai Dance Association Chairman and the leader of the Shangba Troupe Xin Lili , Wu Husheng, the chief actor of Shangba and director of the Art Creation Department, wrote, directed and acted by "Difficult Goodbye" and "Floating Life A Dream", and co-created "Blue and Blue Purple" with the young director of Shangba Chen Qi. Among them, "Floating Life A Dream" focuses on displaying the original works of the Shanghai Ballet in recent years. They strive to show the "present" of Shangba: the artists who are brave in exploring have sowed the seeds of dreams, and the inheritors use the source of wisdom to water the flowers of inspiration, and fully display the charm and vitality of "Saipai Ballet" in front of the audience.
can restart the performance so quickly, which is also due to the persistence of "stop acting and continuous efforts" and the actions taken every day. On May 3 this year, during the epidemic lockdown period, Xin Lili brought 6 actors to form a "command team" and returned to the troupe to implement closed-loop management of the troupe. At the same time, starting from May 9, all actors at home will start online basic training classes on time every day through online meeting software. In addition, Shangba also started the online live broadcast of "Art Starts and Moves forward", including 19 Shanghai-style ballet representative works, ballet master classes taught by Xin Lili, etc., with more than 40 episodes online, with a total of more than 40 million views. Since the "cloud classroom" was broadcast in February 2020, the "mask ballet" and the spirit behind it "the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold" have continued to infect a large number of netizens. Xin Lili said that she hopes that through live broadcast, more people can see the ordinary daily life of ballet stars and the newcomers under the age of 25 in the camp. They are the future of the dance troupe.
Professional dancers vs slash youth
Let young power shine and heat
A dance troupe needs to develop, and it is inseparable from generations of talents. Since 2011, Xin Lili has served as the leader of the Shangba Group. From the front to behind the scenes, from dancers to creators and managers, while committed to exploring the artistic style of the dance troupe, she has also invested a lot of time and energy to cultivate the next generation. "For them, I am a teacher, family, nutritionist and psychological counselor. In 2000, Fan Xiaofeng participated in the 19th Varna International Ballet Competition. The psychological pressure was too great, so I hid in the room and retreated. I was more anxious than her, but I could only patiently guide her. She finally won the women's gold medal in the youth group of the Varna International Ballet Competition that year. In the same year, Ji Pingping participated in the 9th Paris International Dance Competition. She was 26 years old at the time. Maybe it was the last time she participated in the international competition. But the person I liked would never give up. She finally won the women's gold medal in the youth group. Wu Husheng won the 9th New York International Bag in the United States in 2007. In 2007, she won the 9th New York International Bag in the United States. The special award of the Igo Yuskovic Jury in the lace competition and the first place in the men's group in the competition. This award is even more difficult for him. He is too tall and lacks strength. After joining the troupe, he has been practicing hard for three consecutive years. Every year, except for the first day of the Lunar New Year, he has not had a day off, and no joint has been injured. This is how ballet is. The beautiful flowers are watered with hard sweat. Only persistent efforts can bring rewards. "
Xin Lili directed the actor
In fact, when he won the award in 2007, a top ballet troupe twice extended an olive branch to Wu Husheng, but he simply refused, "I can play a more important role in staying in Shanghai." This is exactly the case. From group dance "jumping" step by step to the center of the stage, to becoming the most important male protagonist in nearly 20 large-scale ballet , the successive experience of rehearsals and international competitions has allowed Wu Husheng to grow rapidly. As the leader of the group, Xin Lili was relieved, and began to consider how to allow "Little Tiger" and many young people like him in the group to achieve the greatest significance of "sustainable growth" - at the same time, this is also related to the sustainable growth of the Shanghai Ballet. The iron-clad stage and the flowing dancer are not what Xin Lili wants. She hopes to break this "destiny", so she began to encourage Wu Husheng to try a new role - the dance director.
In 2017, Wu Husheng tried his first attempt at creating a medium-sized ballet work - "Difficult to Say Goodbye". When he was thirty years old, he set sail from scratch. This process was obviously not so easy. Now, whenever he thought about this "first time", Wu Husheng would still sigh, "It's too difficult." "As an actor, I just need to pay attention to my own role, but as a director, I need to know too much to learn. The experience of choreography really makes me feel like I have re-recognized myself." Stills from
"Difficult Goodbye"
But the harvest follows. "As the deepening of the creation, I enjoyed this challenge more and more, from the formation of ideas, to the selection of music, to the determination of actors, despite experiencing all kinds of confusion and hesitation, day after day, this work gradually became fuller and formed under my own hands, and I felt an unprecedented sense of accomplishment." After creating "Difficult Goodbye" in 2017, Wu Husheng has created works such as "Thorns", "Awakening of Insects", "Unreachable", "Floating Life A Dream", and "Blue and Blue Purple", and has won many awards...
"Floating Life A Dream" Stills
"My creative path is just beginning, but I want to go wider to influence more young dancers and tell them that as long as you are willing, this industry can still go far. Even if I can't write very excellent works in my life, I can still make some accumulations to lay the foundation for younger and more talented people in the future." Wu Husheng said. This is also the original intention of the group leader Xin Lili. Even though the stage life of the dancer is limited, in Shangba, everyone's artistic life can be colorful and evergreen.
Ballet Star vs Young Leader
Make "Youth Out" the pursuit of Shangba
In 2014, Wu Husheng became a part-time Youth League cadre and served as deputy secretary of the Shanghai Ballet Group General Branch. In 2021, he became the secretary of the Shanghai Ballet Group General Branch and the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Shanghai Grand Theater Art Center. While doing a good job in basic League affairs, Wu Husheng actively integrated the resources of the center and led the Youth League Committee to work with universities to create a series of activities "Young Artists Entering Fudan " during the epidemic, and organized the League members to actively participate in the "Shanghai Cerebral Palsy Children's Ballet Training Camp" project, etc., extending the power of art beyond the stage. Last year, under his leadership, the Shanghai Ballet Group General Branch proposed the "Qinglan Plan" for the youth talent service action, which helped young actors improve their professional abilities in their spare time in the form of "passing on helping and leading", and also provided an opportunity for the Youth League organization to further understand what young people think. Now, this activity has been launched to the 11th phase, and Wu Husheng has also become the leader and reassurance in everyone's mind.
Shanghai Cerebral Palsy Children's Ballet Training Camp
When talking about why the "Qinglan Plan" was proposed, Wu Husheng said shyly that this was not his pioneering move, it was just a tradition of Shangba. Xin Lili deeply agrees with this: "The current chief actors of the troupe, Fan Xiaofeng and Wu Husheng, both of whom were the top international top ballet competitions just after they turned 20 years old. At the same time, they gradually grew from "Star of the Future" to "Ballet Star". Cultivating from "Reserve Talent" to "Top Talent" is a long and arduous journey. In this extraordinary artistic journey, Shangba has always strived to provide them with a large number of excellent ballet works, even for him We tailor-made stage roles, allowing them to work with world-class directors and artists teams to help them form an open artistic horizon in rehearsals and practices, and ultimately become the most dazzling chief stars on the stage. "In addition to protecting the "Today's pillar" to the greatest extent and allowing the frontline, especially the most outstanding leading actors to shine on the stage as much as possible, Shangba also tailored the stage role for "Yesterday's pillar", giving full play to its advantages of rich stage performance experience and the role of "passing and helping".
"Blue Plan" - Volunteer Ballet Foundation Training Course
The young actor Qi Bingxue, who is now emerging, is undoubtedly a beneficiary of Shangba's talent training system. In 2014, Qi Bingxue, who had just graduated from a dance school, was confused about where her career was going. As soon as the Shanghai Ballet troupe was recruiting, she signed up with a try-out attitude.It was this crucial choice that allowed Qi Bingxue's dream to slowly unfold. In the first year of joining the troupe, she participated in the third Beijing International Ballet Competition and won the first place in the women's youth group. In 2015, Qi Bingxue, who had only been in Shangba for one year, ushered in her own opportunity and stage. At that time, the drama "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" of Shangba was about to start, but the original heroine was suddenly in an emergency, so Qi Bingxue, who was participating in the competition in Beijing, was urgently recalled. An 18-year-old newbie is the first play to join the dance troupe. Although Qi Bingxue is a newborn calf, he is not afraid of tigers, but he shows more courage and confidence in making this decision. Because only by daring to give young people a stage can Shangba truly have a group of strong and fresh blood and successor strength.
"Actually, I was quite surprised when I got this opportunity, and on the other hand I was very nervous. But the trust of the leaders and seniors really gave me a lot of motivation. I think I still have to force myself to face the difficulties, and then, as I force myself, I think I have really grown up quite fast in the past few years." Today, Qi Bingxue is still a sweet little girl when she smiles, but she already has the calmness and confidence of the "pillar", and these confidences come from the "group soul" behind her, a group of vibrant groups: "Although the training is very hard, I will definitely not leave the ballet stage, because I know that at that moment, it is not only me on the stage, but also the love and ideals of generations of people who go to the bar!"
◀ Stills of "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" ▼ Stills of "The Girl of Camellia"
is not just Qi Bingxue. In fact, in the Shanghai Ballet, there are many young dancers like her. Through more than 100 performances every year, the training system of using old to lead the new and opera to lead people, they are gradually growing into excellent new forces. Those predecessors burn the light they shine on them, and finally let them shine themselves and light up the stage together.
editorial | Liu Lina
aesthetic editor | Guruhua
picture source | Shanghai Ballet Troupe
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