In Xue Hongquan's Shadow Play Theater in Huazhou District, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, three young shadow play actors grabbed "xi 'er" with bamboo sticks, hands and feet, and made "Xi 'er" dance a ballet. This modern shadow play "Dancing for Spring" adapted from the musical "White-haired Girl" makes the audience feel refreshed.
Accompanied by high-pitched and passionate background music on the Loess Plateau, American pop musician Jackson's classic "Mechanical Dance" and "Space Walk" are vividly presented on the screen under the operation of shadow puppeteers. This is an international mixed shadow play "Michael Jackson" with China characteristics, which was newly created by Xue Hongquan.
Xue Hongquan, a 49-year-old inheritor of shadow play in Huazhou District, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, fell in love with shadow play in his teens. On the basis of inheriting the traditional shadow play, he innovatively blended China's shadow play, European ballet and American pop music, which made the shadow play with strong local flavor fashionable and elegant, and opened up a new road for the development of this traditional folk culture.