Aggregation and Dedication of"Academic Style"of Dance Drama Creation:Commentary on the Dance Drama Creation at Beijing Dance Academy(2000-2009)
From the mid-and-late 1980s to 1990s,the choreography major graduates of Beijing Dance Academy participated in the large-scale dance drama creation across the country,gradually achieving the intergenerational transition of choreographers.Since the beginning of the 21st century,the graduate Wang Mei,who later became a teacher at the Department of Choreography,has taken the lead to create large-scale dance dramas with her students,making dance drama creation at Beijing Dance Academy a trend.Although in the mid-1980s,Zhang Minxin led the first junior college class(1982-1984)of choreography students to create the graduation work dance drama Qu Yuan,and in the mid-1990s,Deng Yijiang led the teaching class(1994-1998)to create the dance drama Elegy for Love;the most influential ones were the dance dramas and dance theaters We See the River Bank,Thunder and Rain,A Record of Swan Lake,and The Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River created by the modern dance classes of 1998 and 2004 taught by Wang Mei.Looking back at the first decade of the 21st century,Beijing Dance Academy has produced a variety of dance dramas:Zhang Jianmin's 2000 choreography class created the dance drama Wilderness;Zhang Yunfeng's 2002 class created the dance drama Flower Wreath;Wu Bei's 2006 class created the dance drama Half-Life Fate.There were also Wan Su,who did not teach at the Department of Choreography,created dance dramas such as Tang Wan and Song of Everlasting Sorrow for the Youth Dance Company and the Department of Social Dance respectively;Sun Ying,who taught Chinese Han-Tang classical dance,once again created the representative dance drama of this discipline,Sorrows of Tongque Stage.It is because of the aggregation of the aforementioned dance works and the dedication of choreographers that a cultural landscape of"dance drama creation of academic style"has been formed.
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