In my impression, the Oriental Sunset Red Art Performance Team was formally established in June 5438+February 2000. Eight retired teachers, including Wang Zufen and Luo Wuzhen, volunteered to form a group to attract more middle-aged and elderly people to participate in the activities. At first, the performance team had nothing, so the players spontaneously invested in tape recorders, waist drums and other equipment, and used the evening time to learn to play waist drums and learn to dance. Wang Zufen was the literary backbone of the school when she was a teacher. After retirement, she was elected as a member of the special committee of Dong Lao Sports Association, and everyone unanimously recommended her as a coach. She lived up to expectations, tried her best, carefully organized everyone to try to figure out the basic play of waist and drum, and learned to dance yangko, Lianxiang and square dance.
In Lianxiang dance training, she pays attention to integrating theory with practice. She told everyone that the dancers of Lianxiang Dance Department used small bamboo sticks about 1 m long, with long holes at both ends and small copper coins in the holes. During the performance, they beat all parts of their bodies with small bamboo poles. It is named after the repeated ringing when hitting the bamboo stick. Its basic steps are forward progress, eight-character step, forward step, lunge step, forward step, etc. The bamboo stick can rotate up and down and left and right. You can sing and dance alone or perform in groups of dozens of people. In multi-person dance, you can exchange sticks with each other to form various patterns and shapes. After mastering the basic play and footwork, actual combat training will get twice the result with half the effort. In the square dance training, she first searched online, followed the video to learn all kinds of square dances, and then taught others what she had learned and shared her happiness with everyone.
The youngest of the players is 50 years old and the oldest is 69 years old, but they encourage each other, overcome difficulties and persistently participate in training. Zhou Xianzhen is old and frail, but she has a soft spot for dancing. Whenever she trains, she can take an active part. When she was unwell, she moved a chair and sat on the court to watch others train. She also said optimistically and humorously, "As long as I can hear the training music, I will be happy and I will be much better!" The players all think in one place, work hard in one place, and show great enthusiasm for the same hobbies and careers. Tang Tiancui is nearly seventy years old. She learned waist drum when she was young. She took the initiative to give advice to coach Wang Zufen, and went to Yichang City and Madian City in zhijiang city to study modern waist drum performances, and then passed on the skills she learned to other players without reservation, so that the performance level of waist drum was continuously improved and she performed waist drum performances in large-scale activities many times.
Gradually, the number of performance teams increased from 8 at the beginning to 60, and the performance equipment can be described as "shotgun for cannon". The original small tape recorder was replaced by a large tape recorder, and a DVD player and power amplifier were added. Performance props are mainly equipped with swords, colored fans and fitness balls. The content and form of the performance are not limited to the performance of waist drum, square dance and national dance, but also extended to the training of health qigong such as six-character tactic, eight-segment brocade, Yijinjing and Wuqinxi. The scope and influence of the performance have also gradually expanded. On August 20001year, the sunset red art performance team represented the East Community Neighborhood Committee to participate in the art performance organized by the Town Committee and Town Government to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party. Self-written and self-performed Yangko, Lianxiang Dance and other programs became an instant hit and were well received by leaders. From June 5438 to 10, 2004, the art performance team assisted the urban family planning department to perform in the countryside, and the song and dance "China Folk Songs" was widely welcomed by the masses. Since 2006, the Sunset Red Art Performance Team has gained fame in dongshi town and even zhijiang city by virtue of its own strength, and won many awards in square dance and sports fitness dance competitions. August 8th every year is the National Fitness Day, and they are invited to participate almost every year. In particular, the fitness qigong "Ba Duan Jin" performed in the Olympic Games in 2008 won applause and cheers from the audience for its softness, continuity, smoothness and movement.
The most noteworthy are two square dance competitions. One is a 20 10 square dance competition. Their square dance "Sky Blue" won the third prize. More than a month's training, from overall conception to action arrangement, from queue change to final shape, from costume makeup to formal performance, is closely linked, which embodies the hard work of directors and actors. The other time was 20 12 farmers' square dance competition, and their square dance "Love with Fire" won the first prize. First of all, I carefully selected the songs. After listening to it again and again, I found Love on Fire cheerful, affectionate and charming, so I chose this song. Secondly, carefully rehearse, carefully design and render the scene of the dance, repeatedly train the basic movements, pay attention to the proper transformation of the queue, emphasize the coordination of the actors' expressions and movements, and deeply study the dance modeling and appearance; Finally, it is to boost morale, increase confidence and officially start. These necessary preparations provide a prerequisite for the complete success of the performance, so that the team members can take the lead in the square dance competition. The Oriental Sunset Red Art Performance Team also performs more than 30 performances every year, achieving a win-win situation for both economic and social benefits.
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"The most beautiful thing is the sunset, warm and calm. The sunset is a flower that blooms late, and the sunset is an aged wine ... "The song" Sunset Red "rang again, interrupting my erratic thoughts and bringing me back to the dance scene from a vivid story. I was deeply infected by the wonderful music, intoxicated by the playful dance, and moved by the elegant taste of middle-aged and elderly people. I couldn't restrain my inner passion any longer, and naturally moved my steps.