Peacock dance dancer Yang li Ping has always been able to get along freely with the outside world, but recently she announced the dissolution of the "Yunnan Image" team. After all kinds of ups and downs in life, she felt sorry for the dissolution of the team.
She said: "This epidemic is really cruel and there is no way to survive."
She watched her precious dancer leave the Yunnan Statue. Yang li Ping once used his own strength to get them onto the stage from the countryside, and now he can only look at their backs and cry.
Helpless. Disappointed. Don't give up.
"It has been two years, more than two years, and we have been insisting ... I don't want to give up. I know many people are more difficult than us. They lost more, and some even lost their lives. "
Saying goodbye to her favorite stage made her sad.
Of course, she knows that the stage is short and life is short, and she can only overcome her fragile self.
Yang li Ping has been following an odd path. She is on the verge of loneliness in the group. When she was a child, grandma drew an eye on her palm and told her that "dancing is talking to God".
This sentence remained in Yang li Ping's body and spirit, and Yang li Ping knew that his dance would never die.
However, things are changeable and the epidemic is cruel-not only dancers are leaving, but many people are also bidding farewell to their own stage.
Perhaps, see you later; Maybe, there will be no future.
"Twenty years ago, I brought our people from the field to the stage with my dreams. Now I want you to leave, but I believe that the stage in our hearts has been sticking to it."
Last time, Yang li Ping dissolved the team during the SARS in 2003. At that time, the dancers of Yunnan Image organized the first dance, but there was no audience, only three cameras were recording.
The rehearsal site of Yunnan image during SARS in 2003
There is no way to return the celebration dinner originally ordered by the hotel. Yang li Ping sobbed with a microphone, which was the first time she showed her vulnerability in public.
Yang li Ping was forced to disband the team.
The children and villagers returned to their village. 19 years have passed. What she didn't expect was that the same story happened because of the epidemic.
Yang li Ping is not a person who is afraid of difficulties, but the epidemic failed to hold her up, and they lost the stage again.
Yang li Ping, who has been performing on the stage for a long time, has his own strong opinions and requirements on details such as scenery, lighting and location.
20 12 years, on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, before Yang li Ping performed "Love Birds", during the rehearsal, she would let people perform for her on the stage, while she stood behind the camera, looking for the most expressive angle and scenery.
People who live in high places are not really isolated from the world. It doesn't matter what she eats on weekdays, just let her eat pickles, sit first class or not, and live anywhere. She has no requirements for these, but as long as she can dance, she must do her best in everything.
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On the stage, she is the one who dominates everything. Yang li Ping has been demanding better. She is very self-conscious and serious, and her paranoia is puzzling.
Such a person with high requirements for perfection is bound to cause dissatisfaction among * * * people, and people in the team will complain to her and even lose their temper. Yang li Ping is a hothead. She thinks that hothead is very suitable for being an artist and full of passion.
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She respects her gift.
Caiqi Yang is the daughter of Fourth Sister Yang li Ping. She has been learning to dance with her since she was one and a half years old. When the little girl was five years old, she performed "Yunnan Image", which showed her amazing talent.
From the outside world, Caiqi Yang has amazing talent, and she is only awed by menstrual Yang li Ping. "I want to dance in front of her, but I can't jump out. Once menstruation made me improvise, and finally I cried. "
Yang li Ping is very paranoid about dancing. She is strict with her niece's every dance movement. If she can't dance well, she must keep dancing. For Caiqi Yang, her existence is stressful-"In my heart, she is a master".
Caiqi Yang and Yang li Ping.
People who are not familiar with Yang li Ping will find it difficult to get along with her as an artist, but in fact, she is not only focused on herself, she is just immersed in her artistic feelings about the world and is sensitive and concerned about every detail of the outside world.
This concern is an aesthetic instinct.
Yang li Ping's personality is straightforward. When she danced "Love Birds" in the Spring Festival Evening, some people said that only male peacocks can open the screen. She replied like a child, "then I like it." What should I do? "
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Yang li Ping has her own unique aura. She doesn't take the usual secular road, but lives for dancing.
She was born in the Bai nationality and grew up in the countryside. In Eryuan, Yunnan, Yang li Ping dances with adults to sacrifice to the gods during harvest or festivals. She can perceive the dance track in everything.
In his childhood, Yang li Ping observed how the water flowed and the clouds fluttered, and then turned what he saw into a dance.
Growing up in the countryside and fields, she loves peacocks best. She described that when it was as green as a peacock and proudly flew over the bodhi tree by the lake full of lotus flowers, it gave off a little light, which deeply touched her.
At the age of thirteen, Yang li Ping was elected to Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe while doing exercises at school.
Her first days as a dancer were very difficult. The chorus sent the dancers to the countryside. Yang li Ping is in the country for most of the year.
Many young people can't stand it, but Yang li Ping can't. She likes living with land and livestock.
It was the experience of that time that gave her the spirituality of a dancer. Every day, she observes how peacocks open their nets and make noises.
At that triumphant moment, Yang li Ping burst into tears, and she felt that her spiritual world had reached a supreme experience.
She was fascinated by the breathtaking and shocking scene. Since then, Yang li Ping has determined the theme that she will participate in all her life: Peacock.
"Why do you want to dance, not for anything else, but for the needs of your life. You have this feeling in your life. "
Her peacock dance is getting more and more proficient, and she just needs one chance.
The turning point occurred at 1979. Princess Peacock, a large-scale national dance drama starring Yang li Ping, has a beautiful dance and is seen by more people.
Countless people in China saw the beautiful image of Yang li Ping on TV.
That kind of abstract and concrete body language allows her to construct the aesthetic experience of the dance audience as a dancer.
A year later, 22-year-old Yang li Ping was transferred to Beijing by the Central National Song and Dance Troupe. She doesn't like a lot of routine training.
At that time, everyone was dancing ballet. She thinks that these trainings suppress the spirituality of dance and are too far away from feelings and life, so she refuses to participate in group rehearsals, so she can't get training clothes and subsidies.
Yang li Ping felt the injustice of the world for the first time.
In the evening, after everyone went back, she went to the training room alone to train in her own way and often danced all night. With the memory and imagination inherited from childhood, she arranged the solo "The Spirit of Sparrows".
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When the dance company dances collectively, Yang li Ping is always half a beat slower than others. She firmly believes that every movement must be full to feel it, and she can't dance mechanically-this will inevitably lead to the untidiness of the team.
She also thought about it or perfunctory, but when she heard the music, she forgot everything.
It was a difficult time. She is considered to be too self-centered and isolated by the group in the dance company. Yang li Ping has no doubt, but she practices dancing firmly.
At that time, no one had seen any special dance style, and Yang li Ping had begun to think about his own dance style.
She has been taking a different path.
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In the atmosphere of that era, it was not easy to be different from others.
1986 the second national dance competition collected works, but her solo program was not selected by the group. Yang li Ping sent the video to the organizing committee by bike.
Finally, 28-year-old Yang li Ping ushered in the highlight of her life. She won the first prize in the performance and choreography of the National Dance Competition with "Sparrow Spirit" and became famous overnight.
This program was staged in the Spring Festival Evening and became one of the most classic memories of the Spring Festival Evening in the past 30 years.
After Yang li Ping's performance, someone said, "She is not a human being, but a refined fairy."
All the light is focused on Yang li Ping. She has become a high-profile "Peacock Princess", and her face is full of pride and self-confidence.
It was in Beijing that they first met. It was already dark when Xiaoquan arrived, and Yang li Ping went to the airport to meet him.
When they shook hands, Xiao Quan felt that he was holding an extremely strange hand. Yang li Ping's dance, the most famous peacock dance, was performed by this hand.
Yang li Ping and Xiao Quan.
They went to the imaginary scenes: Tiananmen Square, Jinshui Bridge, the walls of the Forbidden City and the Great Wall.
1992 In the spring, they climbed the Mutianyu Great Wall, where Xiao Quan found the secret source of Yang li Ping's dance.
On that day, the Great Wall was quiet, the sky was blue, and the mountains were rolling in the distance.
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I saw Yang li Ping take out a huge piece of white silk and wrap it around himself. She couldn't help dancing and then stood on the beacon tower.
At that moment, Xiao Quan felt a breath running from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and he was taken to an irresistible aura.
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The sun was shining, and Xiaoquan knelt on the ground and subconsciously pressed the shutter, enjoying it.
He looked up at the fairy from the lens and was breathless by this spectacle. He thinks Yang li Ping is going home.
When Xiaoquan lifted Yang li Ping from the beacon tower more than ten meters high, the two men hugged each other tightly and he patted her on the shoulder. They didn't say a word, but they both understood each other's thoughts.
Yang li Ping and Xiao Quan.
In Beijing Central National Song and Dance Troupe, Yang li Ping fell in love with a very talented dancer. They admired each other, shared the same artistic pursuit, and soon got married.
However, the married life of the two artists is not happy. Just because people can dance together doesn't mean they can live together. No one wants to leave the stage for a while and touch those daily necessities.
In the face of trivial marriage, the two quickly decided to divorce.
Yang li Ping's second marriage took place in the spring of 1995. At a friend's party, she fell in love with Liu Chunqing, a businessman, at first sight. It was the last time that Yang li Ping was willing to show his love to men.
That year, Yang li Ping was 37 years old and Liu Chunqing was 45 years old.
Liu Chun Qinghe Yang li Ping
This marriage made her feel safe enough. No matter where Yang li Ping performs, Liu Chunqing fully supports, accompanies and takes care of her.
When Yang li Ping had insomnia, Liu Chunqing took her as a child and told fairy tales over and over again until he put his wife to sleep.
It's a pity that seven years later, because of the "children", the two will be separated.
When Yang li Ping and Liu Chunqing returned to Taiwan for the New Year, their in-laws said earnestly, "We are old and we are looking forward to having grandchildren in our dreams. Work hard. "
Yang li Ping loves her husband very much and wants to have a child for him.
She went to the hospital for various tests, and the results were not satisfactory. Because of dieting all the year round, body fat is extremely low, which is not suitable for childbirth. If she wants to have children, she must gain weight and stop dancing.
Yang li Ping chose her own dance career. "Others dance, I dance." .
In 2002, Yang li Ping came to her husband with a divorce agreement. She resolutely divorced, and didn't want to delay Liu Chunqing.
Seven years of marriage is over.
Yang li Ping, who has been married twice, is becoming more and more indifferent to love. Her life is completely occupied by dance, her marriage is broken, and there is no one else.
So far, Yang li Ping has made two important decisions to bid farewell to her dancing career.
In China in the 1990s, the Spring Festival Evening was the biggest stage for an actor, and there were the most performance opportunities in Beijing, while Yang li Ping made an important life decision in the golden age:
Give up life in Beijing, leave the Central National Song and Dance Troupe and return to my hometown in Dali, Yunnan.
In the eyes of others, this is not a wise decision.
It is Yang li Ping's destiny to go from Xishuangbanna to Beijing and back to Yunnan from Beijing after becoming famous.
In 2003, she returned to her hometown completely, and spent more than a year traveling around the villages of various ethnic minorities in Yunnan, selecting rural young people one by one in the depths of the mountains, forming a song and dance troupe, moving folk musical instruments to the stage, and letting the villagers perform in their own way.
Yang li Ping named this large-scale dance "Yunnan Image". The original ecological picture is shocking and has become China's "phenomenal" dance work. This is the exploration and expression of the body. She hopes that dance can bring people to a spiritual world through action.
Yang li Ping doesn't want dancers from her dance company to do the same folk dance. She wants them to show how ants walk and how men and women fall in love in dance.
Jump to God, jump to everything in the world, and show the most primitive way of life.
Many investors think this performance is too old-fashioned and refuse to invest. Yang li Ping decided to support the dance company alone. She began to shoot commercials and even sold her house to pay for dancers.
Many friends think that Yang li Ping is not worth losing everything for dancing.
She just smiled and didn't respond.
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On August 8, 2003, SARS ended, the members of the dance troupe returned to the team, and the official performance of Yunnan Image was successful.
The fields in Yunnan and the dancers in Shan Ye create a harmonious beauty with original ecological pictures, love for life and awe of nature. They perform for ordinary people, including national stories and memories.
Yang li Ping once again used his own strength to let the dance prove that he was right.
The second important life decision she made was:
Don't have children in this life
"Love and marriage are not the life that people like me have to go through. Why do we have to possess it? "
Yang li Ping knew very well that his decision would bring many problems and storms to his long life.
Two years ago, she was heckled the most and even became a topic phenomenon. At that time, Yang li Ping, who was in her 60 s, was questioned by netizens that "a woman without a family and children is a failure."
Yang li Ping, a dancer in her 60s, is still dancing. The public is still most concerned about why she is a woman and why she doesn't get married and have children.
Yang li Ping responded to this:
"People will always be old and die, and no one can save you, but your spirit is young and your breath is beautiful. As long as you feel that you have a good life and don't hurt others, you can. I hope we can all live comfortably, like me. "
Ten years ago, Chai Jing interviewed her at her home in Yang li Ping, Yunnan, and talked about that for most women, getting married and having children is a must and the most important part of their lives.
Yang li Ping replied:
"Their sustenance object is different. My sustenance object may be dance. Perhaps a flower is also my daughter and a tree is also my son, such a family happiness. Some people live to carry on the family line, some enjoy it, some experience it, and some watch it.
I am a bystander of life. I came to this world to see how a tree grows, how rivers flow, how white clouds float and how dew condenses. "
Every day without dancing is a disappointment to life.
Ten years later, Yang li Ping is still single, with no lover and no children. She said she was too sweet, but things that were too sweet were too boring.
Yang li Ping said, "Childlessness is not all about sacrifice for dancing.". I just chose not to have children. The stage is short and life is short. "
She's not that kind of victim. She just enjoys herself. Yang li Ping built his own home, cultivated his own land and became a cultural group. Such people will not lack and have no regrets.
The outside world thinks that Yang li Ping is too lonely, but she actually has the life experience of raising the next generation.
Caiqi Yang grew up beside her. Like many mothers in nature, she taught her dance to the next generation, making herself confused and finding a way out.
For Caiqi Yang, menstruation has taught her that the most important thing in dancing is emotion and devotion.
The two of them observed each other and understood each other. Two women, two generations of dancers, talk to the world with their bodies.
Yang li Ping and Caiqi Yang.
Gao and the director of the ballet Peacock have known each other for many years. He remembered Yang li Ping when he was young and clearly distinguished him from the people around him.
She is always dressed in plain black, with a big braid and long black hair hanging down, walking on the streets of Beijing in 1970s and 1980s, which is very charming.
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Whenever I talk about my youth, there is a yearning color on my tall face.
"She is different from others, very special. Only real people can make real art. "
On 20 12 Spring Festival Evening, Yang li Ping danced "The Love of Marquees" again, which was regarded as the immortal spirit by the public.
This year, she is 54 years old.
People are surprised that her shoulder, hand and waist movements are as accurate as they were 20 years ago, and she has no sense of time.
Gao, a good friend, said, "The condition of her upper limbs is unparalleled and absolutely natural."
In this regard, I laughed at myself: "Teacher Gao mainly thinks that I have not practiced hard enough, that is, I am lucky."
In fact, she has invested more in dance training than young dancers, and her demand for perfection is accompanied by every performance in her life.
Behind the talent in the eyes of the outside world is her hard work day after day and her willingness to give up some happiness.
She strictly controls her diet and presents every dance at her best. Lunch is just a small piece of beef, an apple, an egg, insist on not eating a grain of rice, and strictly control the length of fingernails to 5 cm all the year round.
When rehearsing the program, she can only sleep for one hour a day in her fifties. High-intensity training is unbearable for young dancers, but she said that as long as she has a little strength, she will not fall.
She objected to overemphasizing dance skills. On the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, Yang li Ping asked Wang Di, a modern dance partner, to put down her figure and express it with her heart.
It's hard to let go of the temptation to show off your skills, especially on big scenes, where performers can't wait to exaggerate their actions to attract the attention of the audience.
In Yang li Ping's view, art is not performance, but life. She has been practicing this sentence herself.
For her, dancing is not a profession, but an observation and dialogue about the world.
Yang li Ping is crazy.
She feels that she is a part of nature and the embodiment of a peacock. This is her belief.
Time is always ruthless. When Yang li Ping, 63, recalled the past, she felt that she was graceful when she danced peacock dance in her twenties. Now her personality is more and more perfect and her feelings are more and more sincere. Standing on the ground is detached.
Yang li Ping's figure in his 60s is very similar to that when he left his hometown of Dali at the age of1/kloc-0.
The back of 60-year-old Yang li Ping
She always remembers an old lady in the village of Eryuan County. Her face is vicissitudes of life, covered with yellow spots, her back is bent, and she is dancing under the clouds with a leaf in her hand.
Yang li Ping once said that if she hadn't left the countryside, she would be the best woman in the village. Now she wants to dance forever.
It is a kind of human dignity. Even if she is too old to act, she will dance silently in her heart. She doesn't want to live without knowledge. She wants to feel and express something.
No one can beat epidemics and years.
Fortunately, life itself is a dance-
No one can dance all the time, but there are always people dancing.