A talented ballet student: Zhang Yijing.

This is a story about a talented ballet student. At the age of ten, she stood out from thousands of young people all over the country and was selected into the ballet department of the middle school attached to Beijing Dance Academy. At the top of the affiliated middle school, she is a zero-mistake player, and she never prepared a plan B for her when she participated in the competition. At the age of sixteen, she was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland to participate in the international ballet competition. She rushed into the finals and won the opportunity to study at the Hamburg Ballet School, and won the gold medal in the "Peach and Plum Cup" dance competition in the same year. At the age of seventeen, she submitted her resume to ballet companies in Switzerland, Germany and Britain. Before graduation, she got a lifetime contract with the Royal Ballet of Birmingham, England.

Before interviewing Zhang Yijing, I thought ballet was extremely beautiful and cruel. When dancers were young, they had to sign a "prostitution contract" with the ballet company; They dance like Youlong, and behind their amazing dance is hard training day after day; Elegant pink ribbon shoes are wrapped in a pair of feet branded or deformed by pain; Most of these handsome and tall actors have to leave the stage before the age of 35; Even if they are active on the stage, their pay is far less than that of the actors on the screen. But Zhang Yijing said: "Although our life looks bitter to outsiders, I enjoy it." The corners of the mouth are blowing, the eyebrows are smiling, and professional ballerinas are always as clear as sunshine.

The Lausanne Grand Prix in 2006 was a turning point in Zhang Yijing's dance career. That year, she was 16 years old. She is a sixth-grade student in the middle school attached to Beijing Dance Academy. Cao and Wang Jian took her and three other students to Switzerland to participate in the competition. Zhang Yijing always said that he was very lucky. "Just in time for the last bus, the school gave everyone some budget." When she arrived in Switzerland, "all our contestants signed up and each gave hundreds of francs." We are so happy that we made a lot of money this time. "

In Lausanne, because none of the six people can speak English, they looked at each other with the list issued after registration and were at a loss. It was not until I saw other contestants dancing on the competition stage that several people asked volunteers who could speak Chinese to translate, only to know that the original list said that contestants could take turns to practice on stage. After listening to this, the four little players immediately applied to the teacher, "Let's go back and get dancing shoes now!" " Ruggedness is the biggest topographical feature of Lausanne, which is built along the slope. Four little actors ran back and forth along the big slope for more than 20 minutes. At the training place, although everyone's calves hurt badly, they put on dancing shoes and began to practice against time.

After the rematch, only Zhang Yijing and another boy entered the final. She said, "Because only those who continue the competition can eat the lunch prepared by the organizer, at that time, every time I finished eating, I would take out a few more chocolates and give them to my teacher and two other students. Our teacher is particularly difficult. In order to save the budget, we didn't eat at noon every day for a whole week, and we went out to eat together after the evening. " Almost every day, six people go to the same Chinese restaurant in groups to order a fried noodles. Girls eat less and leave some for boys. What impressed her most was that breakfast every morning was not slim because of its big skeleton at school. This time, going out to eat with the teacher became a thorn in the side of the teacher, but the female classmates in the same trade had to fatten up in the competition. For breakfast, they must eat some croissants, cheese, hot cocoa and various fruits, but Zhang Yijing can only. "At that time, the greatest happiness every day was to go to the grocery store with my friends at night to buy some snacks after a day of training, and I wiped them out when I was lying in bed. Finally, Zhang Yijing won the American Coast Hotel Award and a scholarship to Hamburg Ballet School for further study.

When asked if there was any trough, she thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I don't think so now, but I was particularly depressed at that time. Now I think it may be because the flight was too high and too smooth. " This low point refers to the CCTV dance competition after the graduation performance of the affiliated middle school. At that time, Zhang Yijing had been informed by the Hamburg Ballet School that Zhang Yijing and her promising mother had enjoyed a few months' trip. "I feel relaxed and I am fat. Suddenly the teacher said to me,' Go prepare for the CCTV dance competition'. " 5438+ 10 June, I was informed that the competition will be held in March. Zhang Yijing is busy practicing and losing weight. The preparation time was only a few weeks. When she was in a hurry, she got sick and had a fever, and her mouth was full of bubbles, adding fuel to the fire. In the competition, Zhang Yijing's performance of in-situ spinning technique failed, and she temporarily forgot the remedial measures. "The teacher never thought I would make a mistake, so she didn't teach me what to do after I made a mistake." Zhang Yijing lingered for a while, and she said, "Because I have never made mistakes in previous competitions, I have always been a top student at school. After the game, the teacher ignored me. I didn't dare to look up when I walked at school, and later I went to apologize to the teacher. "

God is fair. What's the point of living if our world is only peaceful? Because of these disappointments, I also gained close friends around me. They brought me out with their way and love. Ten years later, I am still grateful.

After graduating from Beijing Dance High School, Zhang Yijing went directly to Hamburg Dance School for further study. "I was very happy that year, and suddenly no one cares about you. I used to have ten classes a day, and each class lasted for 45 minutes. After I came to Hamburg, I only had four hours of classes every day. " There, I found that there is no teacher to urge you to study and practice. Three or four hours of professional classes every day are just like playing, and no one asks you to make progress. Everything is on your own. I was not used to this way at first, because I was not ready. Everything was new and untouched. Compared with China, here is more about the study of artistic accomplishment. We will have ballet art appreciation class, music class and German class. At that time, I couldn't even speak English fluently, so I had to listen, and then I went home to look up the dictionary and do my homework. I am not a foreigner, but this aspect will only be involved in China after I enter the university. When the dance company has a performance, we can still spend one euro to buy tickets to watch the performance. I always thought it was because I was too young to understand the program and the real meaning. Now I think it is a frog in the well. Before, I only knew how to practice hard and strive for the first place. As I grow older, I gradually understand that art should not only be specialized, but also be widely used. All arts are interlinked. Only when it is accumulated to a certain extent, it will be more colorful and intriguing when it breaks out.

Half a year later, Zhang Yizhen sent a resume with his classmates, carrying a bag, and went to Europe to take a group exam with friends. "At that time, she joined the dance companies of Switzerland, Germany and Britain, and the third one finally succeeded." At the age of eighteen, Zhang Yijing went from Hamburg to England for an interview. After dancing for a week, she got a contract with Birmingham Royal Ballet on the last day. "At that time, people were picked away every day, and I knew nothing about it. On the last day, I finally got the contract, but my English was not good at that time, so I took a quick look. Later, someone told me,' Congratulations on getting a lifetime contract! Most people are just temporary contracts. ""that experience is vivid in retrospect and a good exercise. I am proud of a child of 17 years old. "

In the seventh year of joining Birmingham Royal Ballet, Zhang Yijing finally got her first and most important performance-playing the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker is Tchaikovsky's famous ballet, which tells a little girl's relaxed and romantic fairy tale dream. The beautiful sugar plum fairy weaves a dream world for the audience with elegant and cheerful dance steps. When asked, is it hard to wait seven years before you can play an important role? Zhang Yijing shook his head and said, "When you stand on the stage, the audience is full and the lights hit you, that moment is really wonderful. The excitement on the stage is to applaud all the efforts under the stage. "

Speaking of the hardships behind the dancer's aura, Zhang Yijing always understates: when I was in the middle school attached to the North Dance, I ran on the playground in winter and summer until my clothes were soaked, and I took them off and wrung them out to continue running; When I was whipped by the teacher, I felt that I would never see the sun of tomorrow again; A big man with a height of 1.7 meters has to work several times harder than a small man when practicing techniques; After taking off dancing socks, my legs were covered with red scars of different sizes; On average, two pairs of ballet shoes were worn out in a week. After the "Storm" tour in London, the cloth and lining of toe shoes were worn out. When others say that ballerinas have ugly feet, they all agree; In order to be thin, you can continue training on the premise of insisting on not eating; You can also learn to dance in seven positions for seven days during the rehearsal of serenade.

From entering the ballet school at the age of ten to working as a solo dancer in Birmingham Dance Company, England, in the seventeen years that she became attached to ballet, Zhang Yijing proved with practical actions that dancers can dance every day and have always been interested in dancing. Next year will be the tenth year for Zhang Yijing to dance on the foreign stage. She said that she wanted to be the heroine, and that the girl was as warm and elegant as the sun, and she could touch her dreams on tiptoe.