How did Chinoiserie Dance shine at the Chinese New Year Gala

Although the 2022 Spring Festival Gala is over, the powerful after-effects are still immersing people in the beauty of the Chinoiserie dance that they cannot extricate themselves from.

Dance “Zhi Ci Qing Lǜ” performed in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala once again occupying the headlines of major media, with exquisite costumes and makeup, beautiful and elegant dance, and wonderful interpretation, directly to the heirloom painting of talented young Wang Ximeng.

The 1:1 perfect reproduction of “A Panorama of Mountains and Rivers”, the wonderful degree is comparable to the real one.

A New Chinese Dance Drama Depicting the Aesthetics of the Song Dynasty

But it’s not just Zhi Ci Qing Lǜ, the Chinoiserie-inspired dances have received unanimous acclaim at Spring Festival Gala all over China.

2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala

Henan TV has surprised us all year long in 2021, and this year’s dance program, “Exquisite Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance”, will naturally not disappoint.

Hanfu Program & Chinese Dance Gala Collection 2021-2022

Inspired by the Tang Dynasty, the dance uses peonies to find poetic characters and historical culture. 11 top dancers, present the scenes of the blooming world vividly on the stage with graceful, elegant, and rhythmic dance postures.

In the dance, legendary characters such as Bai Juyi, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan’er, Zhang Xu, Yu Wenkai, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang all come back to life, and the fusion of dancer and CG effects is exquisite.

Poems about peonies are interspersed throughout the program, and the historical stories of the characters played are told while dancing, allowing netizens to enjoy the visual feast and learn cultural knowledge at the same time.

Dancing the golden splendor, remembering the great Tang Dynasty, restoring the national colors, grand and moving scenes.

It seems that the entire Tang Dynasty celebrities are accompanying the netizens for the Chinese New Year, seemingly traveling to thousand years ago.

It was never an easy task to complete such a beautiful performance, the opening scene of the Peony Fairy was shot 38 times before the final version was obtained.

The actors shot overnight in the cold winter morning and night, adjusting the angle of a shot over and over again, all to present a perfect performance.

For the frequent production of exciting Chinoiserie dance programs in Henan TV, the team behind the program said with emotion that what they have been doing is “the innovative expression of excellent traditional culture”, spreading the profound traditional culture by drawing on the new trend of audio-visual and choreography around China.

2022 Fujian Spring Festival Gala

Dancer Li Xiang takes the natural landscape as the stage and dances into a painting, letting the beauty of “Spring Day” show.

It is different from the traditional song and dance show, through Li Xiang’s performance, to show the great Confucian Zhu Xi important moments in his life, between the ancient and modern to achieve a dialogue between the space, follow the traces of Zhu Zi in Fujian, to show the aesthetics of the life of the Song people.

The opening clip, is the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi lectured in Wuyi Mountain, built Wuyi Academy, taught apprentices and lecturing, wrote books, cultivating talent scene, a green and white clothes bachelor, and the flow of clouds in the mountains let people feel refreshed.

Elegant to the extreme, the Song Dynasty’s whisking tea skills, which emerge from the eyes, is the aesthetic wisdom of the ancients, but also with the Wuyi Mountain, the birthplace of black tea in the world coincides with the statement.

The entire dance process, no dazzling special effects, only the rhythm of the unity of the human scene, dancers light as a feather, tough as bamboo, clothes move with the dance, will be a fairy fluttering meaning to pass out.

In order to shoot this three-minute dance, Li Xiang and the team behind it faced the ultimate challenge, three days and seven scenes, all live-action field shooting.

In the temperature close to 0 degrees, wearing only single clothing, barefoot in the cold water dance.

Lake dance, ink reflections, just to put the spirit of the long sleeves, with good mountains, good water, good cultural mood expressed.

2022 Shaanxi Spring Festival Gala

Shaanxi Spring Festival Gala really achieved cultural transcendence, winning praise by virtue of its divine choreography + innovative pattern without famous stars, huge funding for production, and no great publicity.

During the gala, the total communication volume exceeded 1.2 billion, connects Chinese civilization with the Silk Road, and tells the “Chinese story” by blending different cultural elements alone.

“Flying Skill Music” presents Dunhuang frescoes through a fusion of dance and musical instruments, and the moment the music starts, the audience can experience an immersive experience.

“Call of the Ancient”, based on the national-level cultural relics unearthed from the Niya ruins in Hotan, Xinjiang, is the theme of the Shu brocade arm guard of the Han Dynasty.

Through instrumental music, song and dance, and other diversified forms of expression, the cultural relics become vivid, reproducing the Han Dynasty Central Plains and the Western Regions together as the Chinese national community of destiny.

“Prince Lanling in Battle” takes you from the world of soft literature to the battlefield of swords and shadows and overbearing grandeur, with a hundred people and a hundred drums and pipa, ensemble the momentum of a thousand armies and horses.

Watching the program, it seems that the camel bells ring in your ears, and the caravans and musicians who made the western region appear in front of you.

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