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"202 1, New Year's Eve, the Oriental crested ibis is coming! Fly into people's families with beauty and good luck ... "

Shortly before the morning of February 1 1, after returning to the hotel from the rehearsal of CCTV Spring Festival Evening, jiejing zhu made such a dynamic in Weibo.

Jiejing zhu's Weibo screenshot

Since starring Zhu in 20 14, she has been with this dance drama for 7 years. On New Year's Eve, the 36-year-old will dance "Zhu" in CCTV Spring Festival Evening, and in 5 minutes and 30 seconds, he will reproduce the beautiful scene of the birds' debut and dance with 24 girls from Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe.

"My real name is Zhu, my birth year, and I am destined to dance for Zhu." jiejing zhu said, "When I meet this work, I want to believe that it is a gift of fate. Zhu is very precious, and people who jump Zhu are very happy ... "

Zhu stills

In 2020 CCTV Spring Festival Evening, a "Morning Song" screened the circle of friends. Alleys, low stools, cattail fans, cheongsam, beautiful women ... 18 girls, led by jiejing zhu, used beautiful body language to show the charm of Jiangnan women and the fireworks living in Shanghai alleys. This dance is adapted from the fragment "Yu" of the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe's "Explosive" dance drama "Never Gone Radio Wave", which means a life full of hope and bathing in the morning.

The "Morning Song" on CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 2020 was once screened in the circle of friends.

In the summer of 2020, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe was invited by CCTV again to perform Zhu Xi at the Spring Festival Evening. At that time, the director of the dance drama Zhu Tong was preparing another work. In June of the same year165438+1October, she flew from Hoh Xil to Xi 'an and joined the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, which was performing "Never Gone Radio Wave". Actors perform at night and rehearse with the director during the day.

202 1 1 At the beginning of the year, the director flew to Shanghai to run in with the actors for two days. In mid-June, 5438+10, jiejing zhu and his friends returned to Shanghai after the last performance of "Never Died Radio Wave" from Shenzhen, took out their summer clothes, put on their winter clothes and went to Beijing with their suitcases.

65438+ 10 month, 14, 15, Zhu passed the first round of examination in the sea dance, and passed four rounds of examination in early February, and finally stayed on the program list of CCTV Spring Festival Evening.

The creative team condensed the best 15 minutes in the first half of Zhu's Zhu's World into 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Twenty-five Zhu with different expressions and postures swam between water and sky with their heads held high, and finally spread their wings and flew under the reflection of crimson glow, which was beautiful.

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Zhu's inspiration comes from the Japan Pavilion of the 20 10 Shanghai World Expo. Under the leadership of the head of the troupe, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe assembled excellent choreographers of domestic dance dramas, which lasted for four years and embarked on Zhu's creative path. The creative team, represented by children, visited Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province and Zuodu crested ibis Nature Reserve, Japan for many times, interviewed crested ibis conservation experts, collected audio-visual materials, gained a deeper understanding of crested ibis' life habits and enriched their creative accumulation.

There is Swan Lake in the west and peacock dance in the east. There are many mature bird images on the stage, which are widely accepted by the audience. When creating Zhu, children's first requirement for themselves is to create a good image in order to gain popular support.

In the rehearsal hall, the main actors are asked to design a special action for Zhu every day. The creative staff constantly screened and overturned thousands of actions, and finally refined the actions that best represented Zhu's image, such as "involving", "dwelling" and "Xiang", starting from scratch.

On the afternoon of February 1 1, Tong uploaded a photo of Yuzhu Zhang and other leading actors in the backstage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening rehearsal on Weibo.

Jiejing zhu is an actor in the role of "Immortality". When she meets Zhu, she often feels lucky. "Not only because I am number one, but also because I met this bird and this gift when everything was just right at the age of 30."

However, when jiejing zhu first accepted the role, he had no special creative impulse. He thinks crested ibis is not as beautiful as a peacock or as long as a swan's neck. After understanding its past life, she found that crested ibis has more humanistic connotation and practical significance than peacocks and swans.

Let "enlighten" and inject his soul into Zhu's body. It was an encounter at the Zhu Museum in Sato, Japan. She saw the last Japanese crested ibis in the museum. After her death, people treated her with flags flying at half mast.

"Is a specimen, won't move. I stared at it for a long time, and suddenly I felt its eyes start blinking, as if to say to me,' We can't fly, you have to fly with our regrets and tell our story to the audience all over the world.' "

"How can there be such a beautiful bird? I really want to touch it and play with it. This is the first time I met Zhu. I was curious and surprised that I had more support in my heart and felt that Zhu was unique. "It belongs to the East and China, which is particularly precious to me."

The crested ibis in Weibo, jiejing zhu.

How can I make Zhu jump vividly? Tong Ruirui explained to the actors that it is necessary to observe birds and life, but we should not just imitate them, but look at their characteristics. "Zhu's most unique place is his head, so we used a lot of short nods and shakes to make it more agile. Unlike the swan's arm stretching and dancing, Zhu's arm is pinched and twisted when it comes out, representing the sensitivity, delicacy, fragility and preciousness of the oriental bird. "

One-man stills released by jiejing zhu in Weibo.

Since the publication of 20 14, Zhu has given more than 250 performances at home and abroad. The group dance around me has changed wave after wave, and jiejing zhu is always a pillar, standing in the center of the stage.

In Tong's view, and Zhu have become one. "With her slender figure and arms, she is very suitable for performing Zhu's image. The experience and accumulation of the stage are becoming more and more mature. How to grasp the discretion, how to grasp the change, she has completely integrated into the role. "

At present, most of the dancers in CCTV Spring Festival Evening and dancing together are "post-90 s", and children put forward strict requirements for them: their figure, shape and image should conform to unified standards, with the highest 174cm and the lowest 168cm. From the expression and breathing, we should also take a good measure.

In order to jump out of Zhu's "fairy spirit" and keep a light posture, the girls never slackened on themselves and entered the CCTV backstage. Few people dare to take the box lunch prepared by the staff.

The girls in the rehearsal hall.

Jiejing zhu seldom eats either. "TV is different from the scene, and it magnifies many shortcomings horizontally, so many dancers are thin with the naked eye, but they are not thin on TV. Moreover, Zhu's clothes are all flesh-colored, just like wearing no clothes, wrapped in thin plastic wrap. As long as you are fatter, it will be indecent on TV, which can't satisfy the audience's imagination of Zhu's cleverness and slender. "

After changing clothes early backstage, the girls are afraid to sit down, because there is a beautiful feather behind the tail, which is wrinkled and textured, and will be deformed after sitting for a long time, so they have been rehearsing to move in the fitting room.

Although it was only 5 minutes and 30 seconds, the girls fully participated in the rehearsal and were often busy until midnight.

For more than ten days in a row, I was rehearsing and adjusting, and jiejing zhu didn't feel complicated. Twenty-five girls are from Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe. In her view, it shows the unique flavor of Shanghai style dance and represents the cultural output of Shanghai. "After the Spring Festival Gala, if someone feels that they haven't seen enough for five minutes, they still want to go to the theater to see the full version. If they can bring such ideas and expectations to the national audience, we will be very satisfied and happy! "

Zhu stills

From Zhu to "Never Disappearing Radio Wave", the production of Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe's dance dramas is not high, but it always creates "explosions" that catch the audience's eye. This year, the two major "explosions" will perform 300 performances, and once again, they will brush out bright transcripts.

"The Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe has a heavy task, not a fast-food or task-based dance drama creation." Jiejing zhu analyzed the cause of the "explosion" like this. "Time is too fast, time is too precious. Everyone can't wait to come up with new achievements and want to keep the audience's eyes with more works. But just like the group motto of Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe,' Time only remembers the best, and art only recognizes the first-class', how can we find a balance between time and the best, and art and the first-class? The Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe gave the best answer to the market and the audience with its works. "

Zhu stills

Proofreading: Ding Xiao