Today, great news arrives from the fierce 8th Lotus Award Folk Dance Competition: A Touch of Red and Swan from STA won Golden Prize for the works and Silver Prize for the performance.
A Touch of Red takes a touch of red from the face of a Miao Minority girl as the clue and shows the touching marriage scenes. The choreographers, Li Dan and Li Yun, referred to their investigation in Miao Area and dig out many original gestures from the Miao Minority Dance. Then they made brave innovation on the movement language to get well with the plot and motion in their work. The inspiration is from the Miao folk custom. The dance expresses the happiness and shy feelings from a girl who is going to be married soon, as well as the mixture feelings of blessing, envy, expecting and missing from her close friends. A Touch of Red is both the best wish to the bride from friends and the expression of their inner feelings.
In dancing language Swan associated the gesture of the swan with Mongolian Dance, and in arrangement it showed the beauty of the line and the circle of the swan team. It shows the handsome gesture when swan are circling in the air and the passion when they are high in the sky. The shape of the swan, the feelings of the swan and the feelings from human are mingled together. They are so tangled that it is difficult to identify the animal and the human.
The dance won the New Works Award in professional section of 2011 Shanghai Dance Performance of the New Talents and New Works. It was a new dance, and new choreographers Liu Jainqiang and Tang Wen found some flaws in the creation and performance in this show. After the first victory, they and the students are busy not only with the daily teaching and learning in university, but also with the polishing and rehearsal of the dance. After some bottle-necks in play-writing, the dance finally won the shining glamour in spite of all the difficulties.
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