Introduction of the Dance "Rain Lane in a Small Town" in 2007 Spring Festival Evening

In the 5th National Lotus Cup Dance Competition, Rain Lane, a female group dance work of Nanjing Military Region Cultural and Art Troupe, stood out in the fierce competition, winning three gold medals in creation, music and dance beauty and a silver prize in performance at one fell swoop, which made the audience fondle admiringly and was highly praised by judges and experts. It was considered as a rare masterpiece in recent years.

The success of Rain Lane in a Small Town reflects the creator's profound understanding of China's traditional cultural spirit and poetic expression of the beautiful south of the Yangtze River. The beautiful picture scroll slowly unfolding in the rain lane of the small town makes us read a long-lost poem. After watching the dance of Rain Lane in a Small Town, it reminds me of Dai Wangshu's famous poem Rain Lane. But the dance "Rain Lane in a Small Town" is not the reappearance and description of the poem "Rain Lane". Here, we can't see Dai Wangshu's hesitant personal emotions, but we have preserved and deepened those humanistic and poetic emotional elements, which are gentle, elegant, euphemistic, soothing, vague, moist, beautiful and pure. Coupled with music and performance, the three sighs are spread out and explained, which magnifies and strengthens a charm and atmosphere in the image of poetry. From a certain point of view, Dancing in Rain Lane in a Small Town shows a more appealing and expressive poetic world with the help of the emotional channel of this poem.

It seems that everything is showing the creator's obsession and attachment to China's traditional culture and poetry. Along the channel provided by traditional culture, they found the best way to communicate freely with the objective things in their hearts, so that every object and prop on the stage can show more profound significance and radiate spiritual light. For example, white walls and black tiles, oil-paper umbrellas, silk cheongsam and so on. What is abstracted by time has the characteristics of typicality and cultural symbols. There are both Jiangnan and China; Both concrete and ethereal; It not only contains the inherent characteristics of life, but also is very symbolic and full of life tension. In people's empathy for the history and reality of Jiangnan, white walls and black tiles may represent a kind of homesickness and cultural identity. When the white wall is inlaid with handfuls of colorful paper umbrellas, the girl's delicate face in the drizzle, when simple light music floats over the roof, slips down from the cornice and bounces off the white wall more and more euphemistically, we will find that the white wall is like a blank sheet of paper, which has unlimited possibilities and is a beautiful landscape grown by culture. Oil-paper umbrella reminds us of the characteristics of Jiangnan water town. There seems to be some change in the wet feeling. Life emerged from the darkness and eyes began to focus. People are surprised to find that a beautiful paper umbrella can make the world suddenly bright and vivid. And cheongsam can be said to be the expression of an era. In the process of promoting women's figure, it seems exaggerated and romantic, which reminds us of the old-fashioned monthly card, phonograph and Zhou Xuan-style sweet singing. However, the use of these cultural symbols is not to complete a complete nostalgia. When a girl with lilac-like sadness becomes a group of lovely and pure girls, when the girls' dance melts in the light green and pink of that season, everything changes. At this time, you will find that white walls and black tiles, oil-paper umbrellas, cheongsam and stone bridges in the distance are so appropriate in this rainy day. They create prescribed situations and constantly strengthen the theme. In this case, the director designed many details. In the ever-changing time and space, girls accurately and delicately express their feelings of liking rain, sheltering from rain, having fun and playing in the rain through seemingly ordinary and trivial actions, such as going out to open an umbrella, carrying skirts across the bridge, splashing water to collect umbrellas, and taking a walk with umbrellas when the weather clears up. Together, we see a fantastic picture. This is the creator's poetic narrative of the story of the rainy lane in the small town. No time to define, full of experience and discovery, let us feel the rhythm and rhythm of life in the immersive appreciation, and read a personalized and even feminine Jiangnan.

In recent years, our stage art, especially dance art, is really colorful. Impression of Yunnan and Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Hands have brought this art to a new height. But on the whole, we still seldom see works with profound connotation and beautiful poetry. Due to the intervention of TV media and new sound and light effects, people seem to pay more attention to the display of skills and external formal expression, because they take catching the eye in time to win applause as an important criterion to measure a work of art, which is a very strange phenomenon. In TV competitions, those works with rich connotations and profound artistic conception are often thankless. People seem to regard the stage as a pure arena, and whoever turns more circles and somersaults is the winner. The role of this guidance cannot be underestimated. In this way, some works are big and empty, get high marks and a lot of applause, but they can't enter the classic ranks and give people more spiritual enjoyment. In the final analysis, this is also the result of commercialization. Now, dance art, like many other arts, is more and more stylized, more formal, more and more purely entertaining and more like disposable consumer goods in the face of commercial strength. There is no doubt that the appearance of Rain Lane in a Small Town is an insistence on the traditional artistic spirit and a call for the poetic return of contemporary dance.

The high materialization of modern society and various convenient ways have changed our original basic judgments on space and distance, reality and psychology, but they have also kept us away from the poetic life experienced by Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, Shakespeare, Pushkin and Montaigne. However, the world has changed, but we can't lose our poetic life, the aesthetics that can talk to the soul, and the comfort of beauty to the soul. If real life is missing, we can still look for it in literary and artistic works. By reading history vividly, we can cultivate our temperament, enlighten our hearts and realize our life. In this way, literary and art workers can't give up their mission.

Rain Lane in a Small Town makes full use of the characteristics of dance and modern expression techniques to show a beautiful situation. It doesn't seem to show the current fashion life. There are not too many ups and downs, not too many difficult skills, no grand scenes and so on. , but moved us again and again, reminding us. Inadvertently, it is like spring breeze and rain, moistening things silently. This gives us such enlightenment: we must find ways to enter the depths of human emotions and pluck and play the strings of people's hearts with poetic hands; We must pay attention to the deep excavation of China traditional culture, so that contemporary art can be rooted in the deep soil of traditional culture. You should learn to speak, not that kind of melodramatic speaking. When we give up utilitarian and secular expression and speak from the standpoint of life ontology, it must be the sound of nature.