Interview with the master of love enlightenment

"That day, I closed my eyes in the mist of the temple and suddenly heard the spell in your chanting. That January, I shook all the prayer wheels, not to cross, but to touch your fingertips. That year, I kowtowed on the mountain road, not to see you, but to stick to your warmth. At that time, I went from mountain to water to stupa, not to repair the afterlife, but to meet you on the road. " The love story about the famous monk Cangyang Jiacuo is finally coming to the stage, and this musical is jointly created by Xinhui Culture and Entertainment under SMG and Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe in Qinghai Province. Yushu National Dance Troupe will come to Shanghai International Art Festival to perform the love story "Enlightenment of Love" of Cangyang Jiacuo III.

Tashi Duoji, 1964 was born in Jiegu Town, a famous Tibetan composer. His work "Mother's Sheep Coat" was all the rage and became another masterpiece of Yushu after "Handsome Kangba Man". Now he is the head of Yushu National Dance Troupe. This time, he took the stage play "The Enlightenment of Love" which he personally supervised and composed to the Shanghai International Art Festival to promote the repertoire. Enlightenment of Love is the first philosophical national song and dance drama adapted from Cangyang Jiacuo's love poems. It is a mysterious and unique fusion of Tibetan culture and Buddhism, and a collision interpretation of love and reincarnation.

Tashi Dorje, the first of the Ten Questions, let's approach him and his enlightenment of love.

Q 1: What are your expectations for the performance of the stage play The Enlightenment of Love, which you and your team have been preparing for a long time?

Zha: Yes, we have been making formal preparations since March, or even longer. To tell the truth, my expectations are too high, and I'm afraid I won't perform well. The biggest expectation is that the audience can be tolerant.

Q2: We know that this drama has a very touching love story and religious culture. What do you want to achieve in this art festival?

Cha: You know that we have endowed the culture of our region with it. There are cultural differences between Tibetans and Han people, which are not as easy to understand as many simple stage plays. I hope more people will watch and understand this performance attentively, and get some insights about life and love from it. This is my goal.

Q3: Did you and your team encounter any difficulties in the preparation process?

Zha: Right. There will inevitably be difficulties in the rehearsal process. But the biggest difficulty is probably the problem of lighting design and clothing performance. Because we want to give the audience in Shanghai a more acceptable and comfortable viewing environment, our team found a professional team in Shanghai for these technologies, but because of cultural differences, we can't perfectly show what we want to show.

Q4: Are there still such problems in the preparation process?

Zha: I don't think it's a big problem, because we will bring a lighting technical team from Tibet to Shanghai these two days to coordinate with the staff in Shanghai. I believe that the results of cooperation and complementarity between the two sides will be very good.

Q5: I can feel that you have put a lot of effort into this stage play. When did you and your team start to conceive and stage such a stage play?

Zha: Actually, I have had this idea since four or five years ago. Because I like Cangyang Jiacuo since I was a child, my team and I put forward this idea. However, due to the problem of money and time at that time, this plan was postponed.

Q6: How did that go on?

Zha: Because I've always had this idea. Later stage plays, the spiritual reconstruction of Yushu and the deepening of Tibetan culture were supported by the provincial government, as well as by teacher Chen. Special thanks to Mr. Chen, whose concern and support for Tibetan culture is a powerful driving force for us to stage a stage play in Shanghai.

Q7: We know that your first musical work, Love Song of Cangyang Gyatso, received a good response. This song was composed when you were young. Does this have anything to do with your current plan?

Zha: You have a keen sense of smell. Yes, the song "Love Song of Cangyang Gyatso" I wrote is the theme song of this stage play. At the same time, all the songs in this stage play are original songs, and half of them come from my personal creation. It feels good to turn love into a career.

Q8: From your first work "Love Song of Cangyang Jiacuo" to this stage play "Enlightenment of Love", I feel that Cangyang Jiacuo has a deep influence on your life. We know that he has a profound understanding of love and life. So, how do you understand and feel the love and life in your life?

Cha: I have been in contact with Cangyang Jiacuo's poems, anthologies and various documents about his life since the 1990s. Since then, more than 20 songs about him have come out one after another. It can be said that his influence on me is really great. So now I put my feelings for him on the stage. From this play, everyone can see my feelings about love and life. I hope you can also feel something.

Q9: Besides writing, do you have any special hobbies?

Za: Besides writing and stage play, traveling and photography are probably my biggest hobbies. Walk on the road and feel the power of life.

Q 10: finally, do you have anything to say to the expected audience about this performance?

Zha: Well, I hope you can understand this drama that we are working very hard on. So I hope to know something about Tibetan culture, and I hope everyone can accept this different culture, and I hope you can have some epiphany on love and life after reading it. My team and I will try our best to do better, thank you. 65438+1October 18, 9, Introduction of the Off-site Performances of Shanghai International Culture and Art Festival. He is a practitioner of "sentimentality" and interprets human love with love poems; She is a clever dancer who interprets the legend of origin with dance. He is Cangyang Jiacuo, an immortal reincarnated living Buddha, who is admired for his love poems and controversial for them. She is Pubuyongcuo, the daughter of Qinghai, the source of the Three Rivers, because of the origin of dance and Cangyang Jiacuo, and also because of the origin of dance and Shanghai.

Originated from the parallel flow of three rivers and the enlightenment of love.

The musical "Enlightenment of Love", a love poem by Cangyang Jiacuo, originated from Sanjiangtou, Qinghai Province, and brought out a thinking question with the love story of the protagonist's reincarnation three times, hoping to help the audience solve the troubles of secular love and realize the happiness and wisdom of love.

Pubuyongcuo is the deputy director of this musical, and she is also a member of Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe. More specifically, she also participated in the choreography of this musical.

As an off-site promotion drama of the Shanghai International Art Festival performance fair, the original version of Enlightenment of Love was directed by Jiang Hanqing. At that time, it was mainly based on modern dance elements. For many members of the dance troupe who lack the foundation of modern dance, it is difficult to express the profound meaning of the play.

As a result, Pubu Yongcuo, who has been in contact with folk dance for nearly 20 years, and his partner Dawa Cairen began to work overtime to modify the choreography, incorporating more Tibetan dance elements into it, and performed a brand-new "enlightenment of love" with the most familiar dance methods. "Although our basic skills may not be as good as those of other dance groups at the festival, we are telling stories with our own national dances, and it certainly feels different!" Pubuyongcuo said.

You can talk, sing, walk and dance.

The story line of the whole drama "Enlightenment of Love" is composed of love poems of Cangyang Jiacuo in series. Referring to the difficulties in choreography, Pubuyongcuo said that it is dance movements that interpret and express love poems. "Some actors can't let go at first," she added with a smile. "Especially on the stage, this performance is more exaggerated and exaggerated." Therefore, there are almost no holidays for the actors in the dance troupe, and even they go to work one hour earlier and get off work half an hour later every day, only expecting to stand on the stage of Shanghai International Art Festival in the most perfect posture.

Yushu in Qinghai is known as the "hometown of singing and dancing" of Tibetans, and even children who say Yushu "can sing when talking and dance when walking". After thousands of years of precipitation, Yushu Zhuo Dance stands out and is listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list. "When you relax, you look like a slow old man, and when you are cheerful, you look like a passionate teenager." Pubuyongcuo describes Zhuo Dance in this way, which is also one of the highlights of this musical.

In addition to religious elements and Tibetan dance elements, Pubuyongcuo believes that the reincarnation of life and death and the twelve karma in the play are also worthy of the audience's expectation. She believes that whether she believes in Buddhism or not, whether she understands Tibetan culture and dance, "because we are all experiencing the same life and death", every audience can experience the true meaning of love in the play.

Tears and sweat start again and never give up.

"We have lost our house, our rehearsal hall and our precious dancers," Pubuyongcuo recalled.

April 20 18 10 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province, and the Yushu National Song and Dance Troupe was also hit hard. In the earthquake, some dancers lost contact, some people were injured, and some people will sleep under the ruins forever. After the earthquake, the dance troupe could not work normally for nearly half a year. The tears and sweat at that time are still fresh in my mind, but the dance troupe has not been "devastated" because of it. In four years, the dance troupe has grown from more than 70 people to more than 100 people, never giving up and never stopping, insisting on bringing wonderful performances to the people in pastoral areas.

"We moved into a new house and built a new rehearsal hall. This is a new beginning, and all aspects are a new starting point." Pubuyongcuo said that although the rehearsal of "Enlightenment of Love" is also faced with the problems of actor illness and personnel turnover, even if we have to rehearse in a rehearsal hall with a thin shirt, "we can overcome these!" She hopes that through this musical, the audience will feel the diversity and unique charm of Tibetan dance, and also hope to lead the dance troupe to go further with Tibetan dance through the platform of the international art festival! The large-scale original song and dance drama "The Origin of Love Poems in Cangyang Jiacuo and the Enlightenment of Love" jointly created by SMG's Xinhui Culture and Entertainment and Yushu Prefecture National Song and Dance Troupe of Qinghai Province will land in Shanghai Zendai Himalayan Center on June 5438+ 10/8 and June 5438+09. The production team behind this audio-visual feast can be described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In their interview, Bian Xiao was surprised to find that although he had an authentic Tibetan name, the screenwriter Jiang Yong Qu Jinima was an out-and-out "Taiwanese scientist".

A trip to Tibet is the road to reason.

The opportunity to come to Qinghai was invited by a living Buddha in Taiwan Province Province in 2006. Different from the romantic imagination of young artists, Jiang Yong's process of understanding and spreading Tibetan culture and his most striking experience in Tibet are full of realism.

In his description, Buddhist knowledge has strict logic enough to convince science and engineering men, and the spread and exchange of Tibetan culture also needs to rely on professional modern cultural industries. "Jiang Yong" means literature and wisdom; Qu Ji, on the other hand, represents Buddhist thought. Perhaps it is thanks to such clear thinking that Enlightenment of Love can finally achieve the effect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.

Become attached to disaster relief and help each other in many ways

It was also a coincidence that I started making this play. During the earthquake, I went to help meet Tashi Dorje, head of Yushu National Song and Dance Troupe. He is a very famous composer. After listening to his works, I feel very good. In addition, the two years of "If You Are the One" and "The Empress in the Palace" made everyone familiar with Cangyang Jiacuo, and I had the idea of doing this drama.

Although this is a brand-new attempt, the theme is also very special, but "Enlightenment of Love" was quickly supported by Yushu Prefecture Cultural Bureau, and the professional team from Shanghai Theatre Academy, the famous director Lai Shengchuan and the guidance of local monks also made this work constantly improve.

Make a joke about philosophy and apply it to reality.

"It is precisely because there is no formal organization to promote the work that things about Tibetan culture are mixed." In fact, the popularity of Tibetan customs in major cities in recent years has often puzzled many interested people. In order to comprehensively and vividly close the distance between ordinary people and Tibetan culture, Jiang Yong Qu Jima plans to launch more follow-up works based on the enlightenment of love, so that secular monks can tell the years in temples, and fortune tellers can't interpret people as well as the sky.