The woman on the screen is Yang li Ping, a famous dance artist today. This is the video "The Soul of Sparrows" released by Yang li Ping on 1986.
"The source is clear and the waves are wide" is Lin Gufang's evaluation of Yang li Ping.
Living a hard life since childhood, she likes the fresh breath of nature. A white-haired girl completely inspired Yang li Ping's yearning for art, and entered the song and dance troupe twice. A letter from 1972 revealed the discomfort and hardship of the song and dance troupe, which evoked her deepest memory.
Living in a warehouse far away from home, she was photographed by reporters as "Peacock and Her Nest" and "Peacock Spirit" became her label.
Both love experiences were defeated by her pursuit of "awakened love"; I almost got a slap when I visited my mother many years later. For the sake of dance art, she didn't cut her nails or eat rice for many years, and even had two ribs removed once, just to keep her body flexible.
My childhood experience, unique artistic thinking mode and real life experience have created this unique dance artist.
The Peacock and Her Nest
"The blade comes from sharpening, and the plum blossom is bitter and cold." 1958 Yang li Ping was born in eryuan county, Yunnan province in a burst of crying. As a Bai girl, she has been accompanied by singing and dancing since she was a child, and any wedding ceremony, festival or performance is inevitable to dance on stage.
13 years ago, the living environment in Yang li Ping was relatively difficult. Since childhood, my mother has raised three sisters on a meager salary. Yang li Ping is also restricted by the family environment. She loves dancing and has not received professional dance training. She often comes home from school, chopping wood and cooking, digging wild vegetables and helping her mother take care of her two sisters.
But it is this environment that shapes the natural art in Yang li Ping. There is a river in front of Yang li Ping's house, which is the birthplace of Erhai Lake. People often go to the river to wash vegetables and wash clothes.
Yang li Ping likes to herd cattle by the river, and then he goes into the water to feel the fish swimming at his feet, lying on the grass and watching the changing clouds in the sky. The beauty of nature deeply attracts young Yang li Ping. In nature, Yang li Ping likes the movements of some animals, such as mantis, peacock and snake.
One day, the film "White-haired Girl" was shown in the village, which completely aroused Yang li Ping's artistic perception. Since then, Yang li Ping has set his own goals in life. "I firmly believe in my dance ideal. When I was sensible, I decided that I had to dance. I must dance. "
/kloc-at the age of 0/3, Yang li Ping entered Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe. Because the folk song and dance troupe advocates "practice makes true knowledge", Yang li Ping began to perform on the stage the day after joining the troupe. It was a pleasure to be able to dance on the stage, but once the program group Art Life found a letter written by Yang li Ping at that time.
The letter said that Yang li Ping didn't like the performance style of the choir, and even wanted to leave the choir at one time, because she was not suitable for the formal performance of the choir since she was a child, which made her feel physically bound and lost the essence of performance.
After that, Yang li Ping was transferred to the Central Folk Song and Dance Troupe, where her dancing career really began.
The training of the Central National Song and Dance Troupe is more advanced and strict, but after a period of training, she found that she lost her original soul and felt that her body was bound, so she found a teacher to train herself. Today, Yang li Ping recalls that it was a very abnormal exercise, and the coach and teacher were very unhappy, but she insisted on training herself in order to find her original feeling.
Also in the Song and Dance Troupe, Yang li Ping wrote The Sparrow Soul. As the saying goes, "two words for three years, a song with two tears." The creation of The Spirit of the Sparrow is hard-won. At that time, Yang li Ping only spent 100 yuan a month, but it took at least 2,000 yuan to make The Spirit of the Sparrow. Yang li Ping is very stubborn. She enjoyed her own production without asking the song and dance troupe for help. To this end, she also sold her beloved watch.
However, when Yang li Ping braved the heavy rain to send the video to the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department, he was told that the competition time had passed. Confused, she met a teacher on duty. The teacher promised to help her show it to the jury sometime. Unexpectedly, the judges and teachers were dumbfounded as soon as this video was released. No one has ever seen such a dance, but Yang li Ping, who imitated the peacock perfectly, was lucky to enter the final, and then he sealed his throat and won the first prize in the national dance competition. It was with the Spirit of Sparrows that Yang li Ping's name became a household name and became famous.
At that time, Yang li Ping still lived in the warehouse. Mr. Zheng Ming, a reporter from China Youth Daily, took a photo of Yang li Ping practicing martial arts, entitled "Peacock and Her Nest". Since then, Yang li Ping has become the "peacock spirit" in people's minds, and "Peacock and Her Nest" has also become the life label of Teacher Yang li Ping.
Awaken "love"
Yang li Ping once said that he yearns for "awakened love", which is not limited to love, but also includes affection and passion for dancing.
Yang li Ping once had two love affairs, the first one was in Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe, and the second one was a dancer, but in the end, they were separated because they were not suitable. The most unforgettable thing is the second relationship. The second is a Taiwanese businessman. After four years of love, they got married in Las Vegas on 1995, and then went back to Taiwan Province Province to make up a big wedding banquet.
In 2002, they returned to Taiwan Province Province for the Spring Festival. The man's family urged him to have a baby quickly, but at that time, Yang li Ping had no food for dancing. After the examination, his body fat was too low to get pregnant. So between gaining weight, having children and dancing, Yang li Ping chose to dance, and the two ended the relationship. Later, Yang li Ping said in an interview: "This is just a different object. The object of my sustenance is dance, which is also quite good. "
Not only in love, but also in affection, Yang li Ping yearns for "awakened love". Yang li Ping once participated in "An Appointment between Shandong and Henan", and her mother, who had not seen for many years, also left tears when she saw Yang li Ping. But I didn't expect Yang li Ping to speak, and her mother slapped her. Lu Yu, next to her, thought her mother was angry, so she wanted to go up and hug her, but Yang li Ping seemed to be used to it, and her body naturally hid her palm.
Later, Yang li Ping also explained to the camera that this is a family model.
"Without lofty aspirations, we must be firm. Do men have leisure and peace? " Although Yang li Ping is not a man, she did do her best for her career.
In order to better play the role of animals, she often drinks soybean milk and Pu 'er tea. If there is no performance, she will eat less, and in order to keep fit, she never eats rice. As always, she insists all the year round. In order to make the performance more vivid, she didn't cut her nails all the year round, so that it is now 5 cm long.
The most important thing to play an animal is its unique softness. When she was young, she was fine. Keeping fit and practicing can solve it. However, with the increase of age, the softness of the body decreased. In order to show better visual effects, she did not hesitate to remove several ribs.
"Snow presses pines and cypresses, and pines and cypresses are tall and straight." Everything Yang li Ping does is for the dance art she pursues. When she was a child, she missed the taste of nature. Nature and people have always been the source of Yang li Ping's creation.
For a long time, people called this mysterious dancer who came out of the mountains "witch", a person who is good at talking with his body.
So far, childless, she dances the purest dance, the most special artistic image and the most unique existence in the world.
In people's minds, she is a real artist, creator and practitioner, and a truly passionate dancer.