[She is the best dancer in Taiwan] Xu Fangyi is an internationally renowned dancer. She was born in Yilan, Taiwan. She is 2 years old this year, but her body is still like a girl. She started learning dance at the age of 19. Five years later, she joined the New York Martha Gram dance company. She was called "the successor of Gram, the mother of modern American dance" by the New York Times, and was named one of the "25 most eye-catching dancers in the world".
If Xu Fangyi had his legs that could speak, who would still need words? - New York Times
Boston Global News: Xu Fangyi is one of the most beautiful dancers in the world
Xu Fangyi's typhoon is full of power and subtle details. ——Wall Street Journal
I didn’t learn dance since I was a child, nor did I have an artist’s family atmosphere. Before the age of 19, Xu Fangyi felt that she was the “most expected” among the brothers and sisters in the family, “and “the homework is very bad”, so her parents predicted that, “If you continue like this, you can only work as a female worker in the factory, then marry a male worker and have another small worker.”
My childhood performance commemorative photo
Xiaofangyi doesn't like this "useless Xu Fangyi in real life". She found that the stage allows herself to play any role except herself. As long as the lights are turned off, she can live in another world. Until the age of 19, Ross Parkes, a famous Australian dance teacher, saw her performance and said, "This girl has great potential in her body."
This is the first time in such a long time that someone has told her so confidently, "You are favored."
Xu Fangyi described that encounter as "in my ordinary life, I pushed open the thick door with one hand and let a light shine straight in. At that day, my life changed." In order not to disappoint the teacher, Xu Fangyi decided to become a professional dancer. It's 19 years old, it's still more time than it is 20 years old.
Perhaps it is the sense of urgency of age that has allowed Xu Fangyi to develop the habit of "rewinding". Because she was wasting her life because she made the same mistake repeatedly. So even if she is lying on the bed, she will practice in her mind and can even feel the movements of a certain part of her body.
does not need to describe how difficult it is for a person whose bones are basically formed to learn dance. Xu Fangyi always talks about it in an interview in the future and never complains. We can imagine the taste of it, but it is difficult to understand.
Xu Fangyi's dancer's journey was not smooth. She went from being an intern dancer to becoming a solo dancer two years later, and became the chief dancer for another two years. It has occupied the center of the newspaper's page and has also received unreasonable criticism. When her dressing room moved from the basement to the closest to the stage, and when she opened her mouth to pick the stage, the show, and enjoyed good treatment, she chose to leave the Gram Dance Company in 2006.
Because she suddenly felt that she was not satisfied, but she didn't know what to do. So she cut off her position as a leading actress in this way. Putting aside her stable salary, she was worried that the warm support behind her would dissolve her willpower to go out and make a living. Only by forcing yourself to a desperate situation can desire find an outlet.
The subsequent development was not what everyone imagined and was born in a Jedi. After Xu Fangyi returned to Taiwan, she founded the dance troupe, but failed for a full 3 years. People like her who are so good at cheering herself up have had the idea of "forget it" many times. But after compromising once or twice, it is easy to forget what she insisted on at the beginning. Fortunately, she met director Li Ang at that time.
Internationally renowned director Ang Lee once asked Xu Fangyi, "What do you do the best?"
She said, "I don't know what to do next."
"What do you do the best?"
"Dancing."
"Then go and dance."
was enlightened. Yes, why not dance? If you think too complicatedly, it is better to return to the simplest answer. It took Xu Fangyi 19 years to decide on his life goals, and another 19 years to figure out whether he should continue to follow this path. After making a decision, you will move forward.
Someone asked Xu Fangyi, "When do you want to dance like this?" She replied, "Maybe at the last moment of my life, my hand will be raised to the sky, and you still think I am still dancing."
