Being together is either love or hate. If he doesn't love you, let him hate you. "Love and hate end in death and dance. This is a love story of extreme love. Carlos, the director of the play, once said, "What interests me more is Salome's passion for love, her excessive love for John, and her struggle between sensuality and spirit. It was this kind of struggle that led to the story's ultimate destruction of the people she loved. "Throughout the ages, dance has always been the best product of the unity of human spirit and body. Looking around the world, dance has always been the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty. Because of this, many ancient peoples thought that only those who knew how to dance could be with God. Because of this, many contemporary audiences believe that people who can excel in dance must have the face of an angel and the figure of a devil. In fact, a dancer who can really go down in history must have the passion to dance and the will of steel! 165438+1October 1 1 2. On the big stage in poly theatre, the film director of Wang Zhongwang and the "first dancing star" will stage a dance in the dance and a play in the play. -flamenco dance drama Salome.
Friends who are familiar with European film history will be familiar with the name carlos saura! His feature films, such as Camilla, Biography of Goya, Carmen and Tango, have impressed fans all over the world, especially his two dance-themed sister films, Carmen and Tango, which not only show the spirit of Spanish flamenco and Argentine tango incisively and vividly, but also make great efforts. The light and shadow effect of the film and the dynamic stimulation of the dance, the daily life of the dancer and the characters of the dance drama, personal emotional experience and the spirit of the times are perfectly integrated into a great realm, thus pushing the popular art style of dance film to a new height. Tango 1998 was nominated for the best foreign language film at the Oscar, and 1999 won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Salome is a large-scale flamenco dance drama with Spanish flamenco dance as the genre and ancient Bible legends as the theme carefully directed by Saura. It is mysterious, charming and gripping. It can be seen that the film director's empathy for dance is by no means a whim of Zhang Yimou, but an international cultural phenomenon!
People who know the history of European dance will certainly understand the importance of the Spanish nation! The men and women here can sing and dance well, the folk customs here are passionate, the culture here is diverse, and the dances here are extremely rich. In this vast dance, flamenco is famous for its crisp and melodious guitar plucking, cheerful jumping castanets, high-pitched tap dancing and gypsies' wandering national nature, which has always made audiences at home and abroad feel restless and even tachycardia, so it is called "Spanish national dance". In the flamenco dance drama Salome directed by Saura, Ada Gomez, who is known as "the first jump of flamenco women", is the heroine. It is not only her relaxed stage tension and quick kicking skills that day, but also the contemporary legend she created as early as her childhood. At the age of three, she could believe that the love of her life was dancing; At the age of ten, she was in full swing, but she suffered from a rare "scoliosis" and was sentenced to death by all doctors for her dance career! However, Gomez's stumbling block happened to be that at a young age, with her obsession with dance and iron will, she overcame the pain that adults could not bear: in five rounds of spring, summer, autumn and winter, she wore orthopedic metal brackets from her neck to her hips every minute, lived a life of purgatory with food, clothing, housing and dancing, and with the miracle of being the first in all subjects in the school when she graduated, she entered the Spanish National Dance Company as she wished.
For thousands of years, Salome, a woman who combines love and hate, has always been the theme of European and American male artists. Salome, a new classic of Spanish dance drama, which was performed by Saura and Gomez at Scala Grand Theatre in Milan in 2003, once again proved the immortality of this theme. In the story, Salome lost her mind because her passionate love for St. John the Baptist could not be realized, and finally she turned from pain to hatred, which led to the tragedy of the latter's head falling to the ground. This extreme story of "if you don't get married, you will become an enemy" is still creepy enough. The visual miracle we will witness with our own eyes is that Saura, the great Spanish film director, skillfully constructed a continuous movement with the help of the abstract, freehand brushwork, symbolic and virtual features of stage dance, which is clear and easy to understand, man and woman, sun and moon, day and night, and only used the strong contrast between red and blue, light and dark. When the world of light, shadow and color changes with the development of the plot, the emotional changes of the ballet characters and audience enter a typical environment at the same time, thus having a natural and accurate understanding of the overall development of the plot and the fierce conflict of the characters' personalities.
The kinesthetic miracle that we are about to know for ourselves is that Spanish dance master Gomez is extremely obsessed with dancing, and ballet figure Salome is extremely obsessed with John the Baptist. In particular, Gomez Salome's private tryst with the male dancer John the Baptist in the deep blue moonlight was fascinating, but it was also the fact that this fiery love like magma could not be satisfied. This laid the groundwork for the subsequent tragedy: Salome then hugged the head of the unrequited lover and kissed it, jumping into his ghostly arms to enjoy tenderness ... When it comes to the most famous dancer in the West, some people's first reaction is Duncan, the founder of modern dance. In fact, the most famous dancer in the West is Salome in the Bible. Her fame lies in that she directly led to the death of John the Baptist who baptized Jesus.
The description in the Bible is basically as follows:
Herod, the tetrarch of Galilee, committed many sins. He committed adultery with Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and later married her. Massage western law, which is not allowed. John went to see him and accused him of a crime. Herod was furious and put John in prison. It is not that Herod hated John, but that Herodias, his wife, was bent on getting rid of John. But because John is a respected figure and enjoys high prestige among the masses, even Herod sometimes wants to listen to John's sermon and dares not kill him easily. So Herodias had to wait for an opportunity to kill him with a trick. One day, Herod celebrated his birthday. He held a banquet for the guests. All the people present at the banquet were government officials, military leaders and local dignitaries. During the dinner, Herodias asked his daughter Salome to dance to please Herod. Seeing that Salome's dancing was really pleasing to the eye, Herod said to her,' I swear, you can have anything, even half the country.' So Salome ran to ask her mother what she wanted. When Herodias saw that it was time to ask for John's life, he said to Salome, "The head of John the Baptist." Salome answered her father in her mother's words, "Please put John the Baptist's head in a basin and bring it to me." Herod was very unhappy, but he swore an oath in front of all the guests. He couldn't refuse any more, so he had to send a bodyguard to take John's head. The guards were ordered to go to the prison, cut off John's head, put it on a plate and gave it to Salome, who gave it to his mother. Herodias finally achieved his goal. "
This is just a story in the Bible. What really makes Salome a famous dancer in the West is the result of the unremitting efforts of various artists. Richard Strauss (1864- 1949) Richard Strauss wrote Salome based on Oscar Wilde's play in 1903. Synopsis: The story happened in an ancient Jewish country in the early years of AD. The prophet John bluntly accused Herod of ignoring ethics, marrying his sister-in-law Herodias as the queen and being imprisoned on death row. Salome, the daughter of Herodias, loved the prophet very much, so she went to visit him in prison. John flew into a rage when he learned that the beautiful girl in front of him was the daughter of Herodias, and that she married Herod only to satisfy her own selfish desires and disregard any morality. He made a solemn statement, spurning the shameless behavior of the impudent queen. At this time, Salome was not only agitated but also eagerly listening to her loud voice, openly claiming that she wanted John's kiss. After being reprimanded by John, Salome threatened not to stop until she reached her goal. Herod liked his stepdaughter Salome very much. At a banquet, he asked Salome to dance for him and said, "If you want to dance, I can give you anything you want." Salome asked, "Is this true?" After the local government got the guarantee from Herod. Let the maid wear a seven-faced veil and start dancing. In Salome's crazy dance, layers of dance gauze slipped to the ground. Herod was very satisfied and said to Salome, "You can get what you want." Salome was not interested in the mountains of diamonds and jewels, but said coldly, "I want the head of the prophet John." Herod was shocked and wanted to refuse her request, but he had to reluctantly agree and ordered the executioner to execute it. Salome got the head of the Prophet John. She was beaming. She confided on John's head, "I can finally kiss you now. Your head is mine." Herod looked at Salome's psychopathic smug expression from a distance and was disgusted. He turned and took a few steps, suddenly turned around and ordered Salome, "Kill that woman quickly." So the soldiers ran to Salome and killed her under the shield.
The tense atmosphere, mysterious tone and wild strangeness in this large-scale one-act play can give people a strong impression, all of which are reflected by the composer's bold, novel and eclectic methods. The morbid beauty and weird beauty of international communication are fully displayed here. The most famous play is Salome's dance music "Seven Layers of Dancing Yarn". 1. The most famous painter is the French painter gustave moreau (1826- 1898). Some monographs introduce him like this: "As a modern painter, he cultivated fauvism and was also the pioneer of surrealist painters such as Dali and Devall;" In the field of literature, he also influenced writers such as Wilde, Proust and Youseman. Throughout the history of modern art, what we see at the junction of light and shade is such a painter: a lonely, daydreaming painter who loves to dream. "Moreau painted many paintings with Salome as the theme.
In this painting, Salome, wrapped in gauze and jewels, points to the beheaded head of John the Baptist, bleeding profusely. The radiant head and Salome Leng Yan's body set each other off, creating a strange atmosphere: Salome's face was portrayed solemnly and sternly; This lewd dance is bound to awaken the numbness of old Herod. Her eyes were fixed, staring like a sleepwalker, but she didn't look at the trembling little monarch and her mother, the cruel Greek Rorty. She was staring at Salome coldly at this moment, while Salome acted as if nothing had happened. The painter strangely combines the beauty of the senses with the horror of the soul. This painting is described in great detail. Salome's ornaments and tulle are very textured, and the environment is both real and full of gloomy and mysterious atmosphere.
2. Austrian painter gustav klimt (1862- 19 18) also painted works with the same theme.
The image of Salome in the painting is placed in a long composition, surrounded by two obvious arcs, and the bare breasts on the upper body suddenly appear, full of sensuality and rigidity.
Her hands are full of terrible murderous look, but her beautiful face implies remorse, which is a contradictory and complicated artistic image. Half of John's head loomed at the bottom of the photo. The painter depicts Salome Leng Yan's face and bare chest and shoulders with realistic modeling, while the rest of the pictures are full of patterns of various shapes and colors. There is a tragic impact hidden in this decorative painting, interwoven with the sadness of love and the contradiction between life and death. Enchantment, death and dreams fill this decorative space. The German painter Stark (1863- 1928) also painted Salle.