I remember that the special martial arts performance at the Eighth Beijing Opera Festival last year caused a sensation. Even the aisles of Jiangnan Theater are crowded with people. Martial arts dramas such as "Towards the Golden Summit" performed by China Theatre Academy deeply touched the audience in Nanjing, and cheers and applause almost overturned the roof. This time, the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre arranged Sizhou City as a cushion in front of Yu Boss's Fenhe Bay, and there won't be much excitement. But no one expected that Yang Yanan, a young actress who plays jellyfish, brought an unexpected surprise to opera fans: she not only performed well, but also showed that there were successors in Peking Opera and Wushu.
The plot of Sizhou City is very simple: the banshee jellyfish thinks that the officials and people of Sizhou City have given her too little, and wants to make waves and drown Sizhou City. Guanyin ordered the Monkey King to lead the gods to arrest her and kill the people. The Monkey King first turned into a poor woman crying on the side of the road to see the jellyfish. It happened that the jellyfish was carrying two buckets of water to make a flood. When she saw the poor woman crying, she put down her burden and asked her why she was crying. The poor woman replied that she was thirsty and had no water to drink. Jellyfish sneered and asked her to drink water. In an instant, the poor woman finished drinking a bucket. When she drank the second bucket, the jellyfish found something was wrong, so she snatched it back in great shock and fought with it. The Monkey King changed back to his original shape, led the gods to fight against jellyfish, and finally surrendered them.
When the drama started, the audience just watched silently, and the atmosphere in the theater seemed a bit dull. Fortunately, Yang Yanan has a voice and looks. When she plays a village girl in human form, it makes people shine; When I open my mouth to sing, it's all tunes, high and crisp; Gently move the lotus step with a bucket and walk gracefully in the circus; This is a standard image of Hua Dan! As an opera fan, I can't help worrying about her: Can such a beautiful "Hua Dan" be completed in the later martial arts?
With the gradual development of the plot, Yang Yanan won the audience with her excellent "stuff", and the applause in the theater began gradually, and then became more and more enthusiastic. From the initial fight in the Monkey King, the jellyfish played by Yang Yanan suddenly changed from a beautiful and sexy village girl to a vicious and cruel banshee. I saw her waving a knife for a while, holding a gun for a while, playing with a stick for a while, and punching her fists for a while; Or fight, or fight, or triumphantly play with guns after defeating the gods. Sometimes it turns a dozen turns in a row and then stops to play steadily. Sometimes it throws the gun high and then takes the gun in the backhand impartially. Sometimes it jumps over Galand's head and falls lightly. Sometimes it spins the stick like a naughty child. As for tumbling, falling, dodging, splitting, etc. That is even more important.
What fascinated the audience and caused the audience to boil was her "boxer". I saw the jellyfish surrounded by gods, attacking her all around. Eight guns of the four magic soldiers were thrown all over the table, and she solved them one by one with such difficult actions as shooting, picking, kicking, kicking before, kicking after, kicking with a tiger jump, kicking with an own goal and jumping continuously. The Vietnam War became more and more brave, and sometimes she even blocked two shots in different directions with one hand and one foot when she jumped. The tense band set off a tense and fierce fighting atmosphere, and the actors cooperated tacitly on the stage without any mistakes! When the jellyfish appeared, gongs and drums rang, and the atmosphere of the whole theater reached a climax. Cheers rang at the same time, and prolonged warm applause broke out.
After graduating from the fifth postgraduate class of China Opera Academy, Yang Yanan practiced hard for more than ten years and often participated in performances. The accumulation of "quantity" finally ushered in the outbreak of "quality" in the performance of Jinling Jingkun Qunying Club. The teacher's guidance in those days has become a performance that she can use freely, so she performs smoothly on the stage. For her, it can even be said that every performance is completely immersed in artistic creation, which is an artistic enjoyment.
"One minute on stage, ten years off stage" is not bad. As a young actor in wudan, Yang Yanan's sweat and energy are probably beyond our imagination. The revival of martial arts drama is not a one-off event. A few years ago, due to the decline of Beijing opera market and the lack of talents in Beijing opera and martial arts, many traditional outstanding martial arts dramas were on the verge of extinction. Under the situation of great cultural prosperity and development, it is urgent to rescue and excavate the excellent dramas of traditional Peking Opera and martial arts.
Therefore, 20 16? 165438+ 10, the China Peking Opera Art Foundation held a seminar on "Promoting Peking Opera Art and Revitalizing Peking Opera Martial Arts", which conveyed the concern and support of the leaders of the Ministry of Culture for the inheritance and revitalization of Peking Opera Martial Arts, and hoped that all academies and troupes would seize the opportunity, take various effective measures, perform on stage and show the infinite charm of Peking Opera Martial Arts.
In August of 20 17, Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre planned to launch the "Jingwuhui" martial arts performance season, and invited nearly 30 martial arts elites from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Fujian to gather together and perform 12 drama for four consecutive days. China Peking Opera Art Foundation specially organizes young and middle-aged Peking Opera teachers and Beijing-Tianjin-Shanghai-Zhejiang-Guizhou Peking Opera artists to watch, which promotes the cultivation of Peking Opera Wushu talents and the revitalization of Peking Opera Wushu.
Last year, the Eighth China Peking Opera Art Festival held in Nanjing specially arranged five performances of 22 Beijing opera martial arts dramas, which provided a platform for martial arts dramas to be displayed. The second Jinling Jingkun Heroes' Club also gave martial arts a lot of weight: On June 5438+00, the wonderful performance of "Noisy Heaven" in Fujian Peking Opera Theatre made a good start, and the atmosphere in the theater was warm; Sizhou City on 13, and Elvis Presley on 14 are all dramas that pay equal attention to civil and military arts. There will be a martial arts show on 17. China Theatre Academy will bring a new drama, which will definitely set off a new climax.
This time, Sizhou City can be so brilliant, which should be said to be the result of revitalizing China Wushu, and of course it is also the result of Yang Yanan's efforts. As she said, for more than ten years, she spent almost all her time and energy practicing acting except eating and sleeping. It is precisely because of her persistent practice every day, not even afraid of the common pain of martial arts actors, and her persistent pursuit of inheriting and revitalizing Beijing opera martial arts that she can be recognized by today's audience.
Together with "Noisy Heaven" in June 5438+0 1 and "Elvis Presley" in June 5438+04, I enjoyed several artistic feasts of Peking Opera and martial arts. While congratulating them on the great success of their performances, we also want to thank Fujian Peking Opera Theatre and Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre for their efforts in training young actors to inherit and revitalize Wushu, so that the inheritance and development of Peking Opera and Wushu can be succeeded by others. I look forward to the wonderful performance that China Opera Academy will bring soon.
I hope that the road of Beijing Opera and Wushu in China will be wider and wider, and more and more outstanding plays will be excavated and sorted out, so as to shine more brilliantly on the stage!