Describing street dance in words is a difficult but not necessarily a favorable thing. There are four basic ways we express emotions: language, sigh, song, and dance. When describing dance in words, there are three levels of emotion. Often, thousands of words are worse than one s

Describe street dance in words is a difficult but not necessarily pleasing thing.

There are four basic ways for us to express emotions: language, sigh, song, and dance.

. Using language to describe dance is emotionally separated by three layers.

is often worse than a single sentence: Just read it and it’s over.

But I am still willing to take a risk for this street dance variety show.

How to become an outstanding street dancer? After watching the latest episode of "This! After "It's Street Dance", I had one more answer - please read "Actor's Self-cultivation" more if you have nothing to do.

Why?

Because there are many dancers in this issue, their acting skills conveyed by body language and facial expressions, I once suspected that they are competing for street dance champions, or are they competing for the Oscars and best actors?

Moreover, many street dance works in this issue have twists and turns, carefully designed costumes and makeup, and scenes full of cinematic sense. The experience of watching

for the whole issue is very similar to watching one micro-film after another, or a high-end production that cost money. For example, Wang Jiaer's "Watching Wang Here" team's "TEAM WANG Virtual World" sets the work in the future era of advanced artificial intelligence, which can be called a science fiction action movie.

The difficult somersault that Captain Wang performed at the last moment and his domineering and fierce eyes were simply telling you: If you want to shoot a kung fu movie, please contact me, you don’t need a substitute at all.

Wang Yibo's "Desire" team, accompanied by Jay Chou's "In the Name of Father", staged an unexpected gangster melee with the ending, which is very interesting to Johnnie To's "Gun Fire" and can be called a street dance version of "gangster sketch".

also comes from "A wave of kings", "Adventure Journey", which is a tense and exciting tomb robbery theme, and restores "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on the costumes and props.

The mummy played by the French master Bubu is undoubtedly the "king bomb" of this work.

The last BadEnding, I have been savoring it for a long time.

Zhong Hanliang's "Wow Wakubao" team "Phoenix Nirvana" is a Chinese style mythical blockbuster with the scenes that are extremely gorgeous. Su Lianya's performance is also very exciting and eye-catching.

Considering that her previous performance was full of dark style, but in this episode, she successfully transformed into a dazzling phoenix, which undoubtedly proved that she had a wide range of acting.

But I still have a small wish - if "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is filmed again, the director must invite her to play Mei Chaofeng. Xiao Jie, who also comes from the "Wow Wakubao" team, performed at the level of the actor in this episode. The moment he "scamds" he successfully deceived everyone.

And his humorous expression when he drove a motorcycle to pay tribute to Stephen Chow, even Wang Yibo, who won the ZIC motorcycle racing championship, had to sigh: I am not so sexy when I drive a motorcycle.

As I wrote this, I suddenly had a suggestion: those actors, screenwriters, and directors who are always criticized for their poor business ability, may as well open "This! "Just Street Dance" to learn how others successfully get into the role and conceive a novel plot. In order to help you save your energy to think, I have even sorted out the notes for you. Let’s go—

1. How to have a sense of advancedness?

How to make your works have a "high-end" sense and stand out from the competition is a long-standing problem that has plagued many film and television workers. And this problem has been successfully solved by a choreographer in this issue.

Do you still remember the "Little White Boat" that echoed in your ears this summer?

I never expected that even though I was chasing a street dance variety show, I relived the fear of being dominated by it. This wonderful mix and match experience of

was created by Zhang Yixing's "Nuclear Dancing Device" team. During the Battle session, Huang Xiao, who was in charge of choreography, decided to use street dance to tell "The Secret Corner".

How to present the main plot of the 12-episode TV series in just a few minutes, and also express the character's personality. This problem is a headache to think about. But the four dancers succeeded in doing it. The beginning scene is that "Zhu Chaoyang" is sitting alone in the corner, while "Yan Liang", "Pu Pu" and "Lao Chen" are all lying on the ground.

Then, the song of "Little White Boat" sounded, "Zhu Chaoyang" stood up and woke up "Old Chen", "Yan Liang" and "Pu Pu" lying on the ground. The four of them struggled to escape from the furnace.

From the perspective of action design, the relationship between "Zhu Chaoyang" and the three people had obvious conflicts after the beginning of cooperation.

When they were almost desperate, accompanied by the opening music of "The Secret Corner", they found a rope ladder on the high ground, which was the only hope of escape. But just when "Pu Pu" was about to grab the rope ladder with the help of "Yan Liang" and "Lao Chen", the plot took an amazing reversal -

"Zhu Chaoyang" took out a lighter and ignited the rope ladder, and all the hopes of survival were burned to death by him. After realizing "Kill them all", "Zhu Chaoyang" ignited the lighter again and showed an evil smile.

Please note that the ending picture is consistent with the beginning, forming a closed loop in the plot. It also indicates that the evil "Zhu Chaoyang" will be trapped in an endless cycle of sin in a purgatory furnace.

and the opening animation of the TV series "The Secret Corner" also perfectly echo.

This is the advanced plot structure.

, and the four dancers did not pursue high difficulty, and did not deliberately show off their skills. But under this restraint, it is full of carefully designed "high-end" and successfully creates a depressing atmosphere full of calculations and struggles, immersing the audience in a suffocating atmosphere. This is a high-level performance - learn to leave blank space so that the audience can't help but reminisce.

is responsible for the choreography of Huang Xiao, who can be called the "director" of this work.

When talking about conception, he said: In the TV series, it is not the plot that touches you, but this person. touching people does not rely on actions, but on the atmosphere and environment to make them immersive. I think if screenwriters all have this level, then the number of dramas worth watching will definitely surge, putting us in the dilemma of choice.

2. How to have the acting skills of the experiential class? The dancers in this issue of

can not only play people, but also play the divine beast phoenix and beast black panther. During the show of the captain of the

, the work of the "A Wave of Kings" team is "Black Panther". A summary of one word is fried .

It is the standard configuration for movies and TV series today, and the same is true for Wang Yibo's team. Before this episode started, the video of Wang Yibo hand-painting the team's vest was popular first.

However, there are two problems that make the "A wave of king bombs" the most troublesome. If you want to break out of the momentum of the leopard group, the most basic requirement is to "equality". But the team has 11 people, including six dance types: Breaking, Popping, Locking, Jazz, Hip-Hop and Urban, and it is not easy to dance together. What to do if

? There is only one word for the method: practice. Yang Wentao, who is in charge of choreography, said: Since the end of the last round, our team has not had a day off. But another problem is that practice alone cannot be completely solved - how to find the feeling, the wildness of performing leopards.

cannot find the feeling, and it is also the number one problem that has troubled countless actors.

The process of finding feelings with "a wave of kings" is worthy of reference by all actors. From the beginning of rehearsal to the official stage, their acting skills have shown a change that is visible to the naked eye. During rehearsal, either the leopard was played as a cat or the leopard was played as a dog.

When the captain's show, they successfully transformed into cruel leopards.

What exactly happened in the middle? Why did you find the right feeling?
The funny role of "a wave of kings" is that the quintessential trick - to eat steak .

He said that in order to find the feeling of the leopard biting raw meat, the team members went to have a steak meal. Usually they ordered all-cooked ones, but this time they ordered five-point-cooked ones.
, this steak is eaten, which not only supplements high-quality animal protein, strengthens muscle and restores physical strength, but also enriches facial expressions and improves acting skills. It is worth it.

Of course, considering that Xiao Ji is full of tricks, it is not ruled out that eating steak is a slut. However, their idea of ​​finding feelings from daily life is absolutely reliable. is a typical experiential performance method .
I suggest that when teaching relevant skills between the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Film Academy, you can consider it as a teaching case and analyze it carefully.
3. Find the story from the reality
In recent years, the popularity of the word "floating drama" represents the people's spiritual needs - Those soap operas that are covered in the cloak of reality but are separated from reality can no longer survive.
A basic mistake made by the screenwriters of the floating drama is to forget the creative principle of "art comes from life".
Don’t look at “This! The contestants of "Just Street Dance" dance, but by measuring their works by this creative standard, it is enough to make the screenwriters of the floating drama feel ashamed. Since the third season of
has been broadcast to the present, many dancers have used their works to tell us that they are very concerned about the present, and that they can dig out stories worth remembering from ordinary people of this era that can resonate with the public.
For example, the couple Yang Wentao and Cici, the work "囍" that they took out before, told a sad and beautiful love story in just 3 minutes.

's work is based on a true story of a young couple's separation of yin and yang due to the epidemic. It can be called the Chinese version of "love in the period of cholera".

And in the latest issue, we once again saw a very humanistic work - "Wang Here to Watch" team "Fire Ambition". The protagonist of the work

is a firefighter played by Chunlin. The other three dancers play the escapee trapped in the sea of ​​fire. The most infectious scene happened in the last 30 seconds of the work -

After the firefighters successfully rescued the escapees, they did not leave with them, but turned around and walked towards the sea of ​​fire again. There, perhaps there are people waiting for him. The last picture of

is frozen in the moment when he stops before entering the fire again. The whole audience was silent at that moment. The
shot gives Chunlin a close-up of his facial expression. His expression is not pure fearless, but complicated, with a little sadness.
With this expression, Chunlin stood on the stage for a long time without moving.
Even Su Lianya, who was fighting with him, could not help but cover her face and cry.
I don’t want to use words like “completely embeddled in the show” and “extreme acting skills” to describe Chunlin at this moment. For a moment, he was no longer a dancer or an actor, but a real firefighter. The real event behind this work
was not far away. On March 30 this year, a wildfire broke out in Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, endangering important facilities such as the city and gas stations. Civil firefighting teams in Ningnan County and other places provided support. During this period, 19 of a team of 22 people died and 3 were injured.

While watching the video at that time, a firefighter's hands were shaking constantly while eating instant noodles, which touched Chunlin a great touch.
Perhaps, this is also the key to his ability to become a real firefighter on stage - because everything he performed with dance is real.

I was even more touching. It was Chunlin's remarks after the performance and expressed his views:
We pay tribute to the most beautiful retrogrades, but we do not advocate sacrifice.
uses real deeds, devotes true feelings, artistic expression, and is rich in humanistic care. "The Ambition of Fire" teaches all the screenwriters who have their feet off the ground in just a few minutes.
4. The scene is not just a decoration for
. After watching this issue, I also have a very strong feeling:
for the stage scene, "This! "Just Street Dance" has an extremely persistent pursuit.
Similarly, in the film and television industry, many first-class filmmakers are obsessed with the scenes. In order to perfect the artistic expression of their works, they do not hesitate to "go to the mountain of swords and fall into the sea of ​​fire."

For example, George Miller, the director of the "Mad Max" series, was almost 70 years old when filming the fourth part.
But in order to perfectly express the speed and passion in the desert, he never considered using green screen, but went to the world's most terrifying coast - Namibia's Skeleton Coast for real-life shooting.
And such a hard-core place also allows actors to quickly find a wild feeling. Finally, he took out the most shocking doomsday wasteland movie to date, which made the movie fans feel addicted to it.
The golden age of Hong Kong movies is not short of similar stories.
Tsui Hark was filming "New Longmen Inn", he went to Beibao, Yinchuan Town and Dunhuang, Gansu to shoot, allowing big brands such as Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, and Tony Leung to eat a lot of sand.

But without the persistence of the scene, this martial arts classic with the artistic conception of "solate smoke in the desert and round sunset in the long river" would not have been born at all.
If Maggie Cheung, who had never filmed a martial arts film before, was separated from the vast and lonely desert, she would probably not be able to create a golden jade with a distinctive distinction between love and hate, and would enter the memory of a generation.

So the scene is definitely not an embellishment for creators and actors, but a key factor that inspires them to create inspiration and allows them to find the perfect state. The logic of
is also applicable to street dance. Challenging and innovative scenarios can push them out of their comfort zone and find new inspiration. Use the characteristics of the scene itself to break the rules and produce more shocking works.

In the previous issue, the scene of Zhang Yixing meditating in the water with his naked body fully utilized the characteristics of the water stage to create a picture like a martial arts movie. The dancers' use of this hot stage has reached a new level of street dance variety shows in terms of audio-visual language.

For example, the work "Soul of the Nation" uses fire elements and huge divine bird totem to build the entire stage into an altar of the Yi people, creating a mysterious atmosphere that was thousands of years ago, perfectly in line with the theme of the Torch Festival.

is also very visually impactful, successfully helping dancers and making the celebrity captains lose their expression management again and again. What else can you say?
I hope that Chinese film and television workers can also spend more time on the scenes, so that their works will not be savored at first glance.
5. Love is the prerequisite for all good works
The above discussions that call on film and television workers to learn business from street dancers can be taken seriously or used as a joke. But it must be said that among all the variety shows I have followed, the only one is "This! "Just Street Dance" has two of the most scarce words in this era - purity.
is pure, whether it is difficult or not, or whether it is simple or not.
First, we must respect dancers. Their love and persistence for street dance will naturally make them shine. What the program team needs to do is to create conditions for them as much as possible;
second, we must not play with character designs and routines, and speak with strength in everything, so that we will not overdraw the contestants and audiences’ love for street dance.
is precisely because of purity and love that these dancers who are not actors seem to have extremely moving "acting skills" and have produced works that are long-lasting.
If it weren't for the purity and love -

We wouldn't have seen Han Yu and Tian Yide's wonderful championship battle in the first season. The 22-round Battle created history. The two fought until they were overdrawn, and they were extremely Underground.

We can't see the "memory kill" showdown between Feng Zheng and Gao Bo in the second season. These two people have been teammates for 20 years. Their story is the history of Chinese street dance, carrying the youth of a generation of dancers.

We can't see the eliminated Waacking dancer Sanjin dancing with a bright smile and proud eyes, and then hugged Zhang Yixing and said goodbye. It is also because of this show that I can see the celebrity captains have flesh and blood and vivid sides.

Who would have thought that Wang Yibo, who seemed to have only one expression in "The Untamed", seemed to have become the 13-year-old street dance boy again in this show, contributing countless emoticons. Who would have thought that the person standing at the top of the Chinese crazy dance pyramid is Zhang Yixing, who has been questioned countless times.

The passionate state that the four star captains showed during the Battle in the second period was something that could not be played by any acting skills. And all these scenes performed by street dance make this show more than just a high-scoring variety show for Chinese street dance.
, at the public level, continues to be the incense of Chinese street dance.
Chinese street dance once had a very good momentum.
At the end of the last century, street dance culture took root in cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai. In the first decade of this century, the emergence of stages such as the National College Students’ TV Challenge Competition in the Dynamic Zone and the CCTV Street Dance Competition has brought street dance to the first wave of craze. But the subsequent suspension of mainstream platform events and KODs has put Chinese street dance in a low point.
until "This! With the birth of "Story Dance" in 2018, Chinese street dance also ushered in the "Renain".
The appearance of a large number of OG dancers such as Feng Zheng, Shi Tou, Gao Bo, Aya, Wang Ziqi, Yang Wenhao, Xiaohai, Liangliang, Han Yu, Lin Meng, Xiao Jie proves that Chinese dancers have never stopped their persistence in street dance.
Because of this program, I even hope that China can also become one of the centers of street dance in the world.

on Youtube, every issue of "This! "Just Street Dance" has hundreds of thousands or even millions of views, and in the comments, it is a language from all over the world.

Some people say that the world is sinking. I don't care about this statement. Because I know that as long as the music sounds, there will be people dancing.

The purity, love and freedom in the dance steps will tell you that the future of this world will eventually be better.