Highlight 1: A useful attempt at national ballet

This drama is another bold exploration of the national expression of Western ballet art after the Guangzhou Ballet successfully created the ballet "Mei Lanfang" In this way, it combines national content with Western ballet, and at the same time absorbs traditional Chinese folk dance, opera and other art forms in the dance vocabulary, and uses it with its profound ideological content, distinctive characters, rich national style and beautiful traditional music. , made a useful attempt at the creation of Chinese national ballet. "It should be said that in order to explore national ballet in "Homecoming on a Snowy Night," the creative staff are striving for nationalization, localization, and regionalization in terms of action subjects, music, costumes, and drama structure."

Highlights 2: Create another masterpiece of the brand

The ballet "Homecoming on a Snowy Night" will participate in the 9th China Art Festival in 2010 as a high-quality play in Guangzhou. The Guangzhou Municipal Government has given strong support to the locally created ballet "Homecoming on a Snowy Night". According to reports, the dance drama has brought together top domestic and foreign masters of choreography, music, stage art and costume design, including the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Member of the creative team.

Highlight 3: Newcomers play the leading role

Creating new talents is the foundation of the Guangzhou Ballet’s 15 years of existence. In recent years, many young dancers of the Guangzhou Ballet have won awards in international professional ballet competitions. The important roles in the dance drama "Homecoming on a Snowy Night" are also new talents in the dance company, including Fu Shu, Sun Xin, and Huang Jing. , Wang Zhiwei, Huang Yi, Huang Junlong, etc., their wonderful performances will bring a beautiful ballet feast to the audience.

Staging: Not pursuing luxury

Simple, clean and pure are the effects pursued by the ballet "Homecoming on a Snowy Night" in terms of stage design and lighting. Sun Tianwei, the specially invited stage and lighting designer for the play and a national first-class stage designer, said, "If the scenery is too complex and the colors are too colorful, the audience's attention will be distracted and they will not be able to fully pay attention to the ballet dancer's footwork, and naturally they will lose their focus." ”

Sun Tianwei has been responsible for the stage design and lighting design of dance dramas, musicals and musicals such as “Image of Yunnan” and “Sounds of Yunnan”. This is his first time as a choreographer and lighting designer for a ballet. He believes that how to highlight the individual characteristics of ballet is the key to the success of this dance. "After many discussions with the creative team, we decided to try a 'clean' and 'simple' style." Sun Tianwei said, but this does not mean that it is easy. , "It's like writing Chinese characters. The simpler the strokes, the more difficult it is to write well." In this ballet "Returning on a Snowy Night", Sun Tianwei boldly used black, white and gray as the main color of the stage, and the stage scenery also omitted a lot of With complicated layers, roads and street lights no longer appear realistically on the stage. A slanted board or a roller blind can transform various scenes such as roads, small buildings, doors and windows. Sun Tianwei explained that the use of this "subjectivist symbolic hypothetical method allows the audience to further understand the purpose of the setting during the development of the plot, stimulates the audience's imagination, conforms to contemporary aesthetic tastes, and makes this classic work of the last century shine." Strong modern fashion atmosphere."

Lighting: Participate in the performance

Lighting is also organically integrated into the plot development. There is always a tree in the stage background projection. This tree changes with the development of the love between the hero and heroine. When the two people reach spiritual connection, this old withered tree will grow green leaves. When the two were forcibly separated by evil forces, the two chairs in the projection naturally fell apart. At the end, snowflakes all over the sky dance down from the sky, and the white begonia flowers turn into small butterflies flying all over the sky in the background. This design is to express the director's explanation of the fate of the hero and heroine - Lian Although Sheng and Yuchun did not get married in the world, they still placed people's beautiful expectations for love. Even if they turn into butterflies after death, it is also a tribute to loyal love.