Chapter 700 About Dance

Naturally, there are also people who scold this training class for being blind. It’s okay to promote Western dance for money, but insulting their own traditional culture is an outrage to both humans and gods.

As for foreign ones, without paid promotion, the number of views is not large. Most of them are Chinese comments, some are in traditional Chinese, some are in simplified Chinese, and there are wows.

Occasionally, there are foreign comments, some are amazed, some are confused, and ask if it is dance from Japan, South Korea, India and other countries.

And under these foreign comments, there are always people who correct that this is traditional Chinese dance.

The next reply is that I have learned something. This is the first time I have seen such Chinese dance.

Yang Lingyue and Liu Xiaoli looked at each other and understood each other’s eyes: there is a long way to go, and the plan must be adjusted.

For this matter, the government has to take the blame.

The Zhongni Academy, which first went to the world and even today, promoted Chinese culture with fans, opera, cheongsam, martial arts, lion dance, etc. In the past fifty years, a very stereotyped impression has been formed. How difficult is it to change?

Some people would say, can it be changed when the comprehensive national strength is improved?

Yes, but it will take a long time.

At least for a long time, they just saw it and took it in their eyes, because before that, just like the current "Beauty Walk", they didn't even watch it.

By 2020, all, remember, all dances performed in Western opera houses, the image of Chinese women is generally either cheongsam + oil-paper umbrella, or White Haired Girl; men are either coolies wearing shorts, or Qing Dynasty costumes + pigtails.

It is undeniable that there is a certain degree of discrimination, but this is a stereotype and it is extremely difficult to change.

In the following time, the three came to the living room. Yang Lingyue and Liu Xiaoli discussed it deeply. Liu Yifei served tea and water, and then listened silently. She could only listen, and she couldn't interrupt.

The more the problem was discussed, the clearer it became, but there was a deep sense of powerlessness.

Yang Lingyue pretended to be relaxed and said: "Auntie, the original purpose of doing this is for you personally, so even if we don't talk about the grand narrative, will we not do it?"

Liu Xiaoli said very calmly: "Of course not, the way you told me was right, but I was impatient. Now I am not in a hurry, I enjoy dancing, do things slowly, and I will always change. I am not short of money now, even if I achieve nothing, it is worthwhile to have fun for ten or eight years."

Liu Yifei was very surprised. Is this still the mother she knows?

"Mom, you are so amazing."

Yang Lingyue said with a smile: "Xixi, now it is okay to describe our sister Xiaoli as open-minded."

Liu Xiaoli said with a smile: "Thank you, Lingyue, let's talk about the three issues we just summarized."

Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose. She still wanted her boyfriend to rub her belly, but he and his mother were talking in high spirits, and it was a serious matter, so naturally he couldn't say anything inappropriate, and she couldn't say it.

Then she said, "You guys chat, I don't understand, I'm going upstairs, I want to lie down for a while."

Yang Lingyue stretched out her hand and pinched her little hand.

"Go ahead, I'll find you later."

"Yeah."

At this time, Liu Xiaoli said, "Let's talk tomorrow, you two go upstairs."

Yang Lingyue shook her head: "I have some ideas, I might forget them tomorrow."

"That's right, that's right."

Liu Yifei left with a smile.

Seeing her daughter's back disappear in the escalator, Liu Xiaoli glanced at Yang Lingyue, quite charming.

"You call me auntie so smoothly."

"You're not bad either. You call me Lingyue like my mom."

"Go to hell, okay, let's talk about things."

After a few words, the two did not move their positions, still in the living room, sitting in the same position, still facing each other diagonally.

Liu Xiaoli mentioned the three issues just summarized, which are:

1. The barriers between traditional Chinese culture and European and American culture, which currently has absolute discourse power;

2. Which kind of dance can represent China?

3. The popularization and dissemination of classical dance.

If you know a little about these three issues, you will know why you feel so powerless.

The two quickly reached a consensus that they no longer cared about the comments of foreigners, nor would they take the initiative to contact foreign opera houses, and would not go abroad to participate in competitions, because it was useless.

Just like the comments of the dance training room just now, the words were very unpleasant, but that was the judging standard of existing foreign dance competitions. No matter how beautiful Chinese classical dance was, it was useless. It couldn't even pass the preliminary round unless it was sponsored...

Occasionally, Chinese dancers won awards abroad, but they were also dancers who won awards, not the types of dance.

Just like Chinese people won awards in relevant competitions in Japan, South Korea and other countries with Taekwondo and Sumo. Does that make sense? It only represents him personally, not Chinese martial arts.

As for the issue of representation, this is even more difficult, there are too many things.

Is ethnic minority dance Chinese dance? Of course it is.

As for the Han nationality, which dynasty can represent China, and which dynasty's clothes should dancers wear?

There is no way to determine it. Let alone dance, the national costumes during the Republic of China were all Zhongshan suits and cheongsams. Now, there is no definite definition, but this matter depends on the official, um.

For example, when attending state banquets in other countries, especially those hosted by Western European royal families, see what the head of the family wears.

After chatting for a while, Liu Xiaoli was overwhelmed. After thinking for a while, she said: "Why don't we not worry about the grand narrative, just talk about us, let's take the Han and Tang dynasties as the basis, supplemented by the Song and Ming dynasties, and bite off more than we can chew."

"Okay, let's take the traditional Chinese paintings and classic poems as the theme, which is the direction of our choreography."

"Well, that's it."

Following the discussion about popularization and dissemination, Liu Xiaoli wanted to gather some experts and old friends to compile an enlightenment picture book of Chinese dance. You read it right. China is such a big country now, but there is not even an enlightenment picture book about Chinese dance. How unimaginable is this?

All the mainstream dance types you can see abroad are available, and they were available 50 or 60 years ago.

It can be seen that the so-called attention is just superficial. When people talk about street dance, jazz, belly dance, Latin, and ballet, they have impressions and some fixed movements in their minds. What about Chinese classical dance?

But the discussion of this topic made Yang Lingyue figure out some problems. Some things really can't be rushed.

"It's great that you want to compile a booklet. I hope you have patience. As you defined the word enlightenment, it's just laying the foundation, and we must involve the government.

For the Chinese people nowadays, learning dance, especially classical dance, is not only too difficult, but also too expensive. After all, they only have a few years to make a living.

There is also a cognitive problem. Too many people think that dance is only for women, and subconsciously they think that men who dance are "feminine".

There is also the problem of self-righteousness. Today's dancers love to show off their skills, and their music is too high-brow, which subconsciously distances them from the people.

It's better not to do this. We can compile some simple and practical ones and promote them slowly. When square dances are performed instead of classical dances, we can say that it is popular among the people."