以艺术之美建起心灵之桥——记华盛顿“青春中国”舞蹈晚会

文本刊记者 朱虹子 Zhu Hongzi 图严建华Yan Jianhua 译曹宇光Cao Yuguang

演出现场Scene of the Performance

金秋九月，在中国国庆日来临之际，美国首都华盛顿领略了一股来自东方的文化暖流。9月16日，由中国文联、美中经济文化交流协会等联合主办的“青春中国”舞蹈晚会在华盛顿莎士比亚剧院连演两场，来自美国金雨歆舞蹈工作室、北京舞蹈学院等团体的演员和艺术家们表演了精心编排的中国民族民间舞蹈节目，一个个青春中国的舞蹈故事，让这里的观众欣赏到了中国舞蹈的艺术魅力和青春的美好绽放。

中国文联副主席郭运德出席晚会并致辞。他说，艺术是心灵的桥梁。舞蹈，以其兼具力与美的肢体语言为标志，数千年来始终都是人类艺术宝库中最具吸引力的艺术表现形式之一。不同民族、不同文化背景的人们，不约而同地通过舞蹈，来讲述历史，歌颂英雄，赞美爱情，体味生活。舞蹈，以其共性与个性、古典与现代的丰富多彩，折射出人类文明的千姿百态。美国素以“文化熔炉”著称。不同肤色、不同民族、不同宗教背景的人们在此共生共存，繁荣发展，离不开相互间的认知、理解与包容。舞蹈，作为一门人类共有且无需文字的艺术形式，对于推动多元文化背景下人们相互间的认知与沟通，有其独特的优势，举办“青春中国”舞蹈演出就是一个有益尝试。期待此次“青春中国”舞蹈晚会在带给大家艺术之美的同时，也能够搭建起我们之间的心灵之桥，让我们共同为打造一个和谐美好的世界而努力。

晚会上半场以一组精心编排的民族民间舞蹈拉开帷幕。藏族独舞《圣湖的女儿》描述了藏族女子在晶莹剔透的水晶圣湖边翩翩起舞的情景。古典舞群舞《云水》展示了一群古典女子长袖翩翩、云裙飘飘，缓缓漫行在碧云涧水之间的美丽场景。

演出结束后，嘉宾与演员合影Group Photo of Distinguished Guests and Artists after the Performance

傣族舞群舞《船歌》和蒙古舞群舞《鸿雁》等，是侨居华盛顿、年届七旬的金宇和她的金雨歆舞蹈工作室的教学成果。同样致力于传播中国民族民间舞蹈的加州陈进舞蹈学校则带来了获奖作品新疆舞《如月光般美丽的姑娘》和荣获2014年全世界海外华人舞蹈大赛银奖的《梦圆沂蒙》。

晚会的重头戏是北京舞蹈学院青年舞蹈团队带来的藏族舞剧《莲花》，曾荣获第九届中国舞蹈”荷花奖”民族民间舞比赛银奖。舞剧通过主人公艰辛寻莲的历程，以莲花出污泥而不染的精神和信仰，向世人揭示了人的生命价值和生命真谛。

艺术团由中国舞协副秘书长夏小虎任团长，北京舞院民族舞蹈文化研究基地首席专家高度教授担任艺术总监，团队里的青年舞者有的是中国“荷花奖”、“桃李杯”舞蹈大赛金、银、铜奖的获得者，有的是国际舞蹈比赛大奖获得者。他们还表演了第十届”桃李杯”金奖作品古典舞独舞《狂歌行》和古典舞作品《粉·墨》中双人舞片段《伞缘》等。高超的专业水准、超凡的舞蹈技艺，在舞台上演绎出“传统”与“现代”的肢体对话，“诗歌”与“舞蹈”浑然一体的艺术境界，赢得华府观众热情的喝彩和喜爱赞誉。

这一晚的莎士比亚剧院喜庆祥和，观众席上座无虚席。中国驻美大使馆公使衔参赞李鸿、中国文联国际部副主任张锡海等嘉宾，美中经济文化交流协会会长欧世举、主席程云楷等侨界人士，美国里弗代尔市市长威尔农·阿切尔、格林贝尔特市市长艾米特·乔丹与美国各界观众一起共享了这一中国文化的盛宴。

This September, in a golden autumn and on the eve of China’s national holiday, an Oriental cultural fashion came to Washington, capital of the United States of America. On September 16, a dance gala titled “Youth·China”,jointly sponsored by CFLAC and American Chinese Economic &Cultural Exchange Association (ACECEA), was staged on a two consecutive occasions at Shakespeare Theatre in Washington.Performers and artists from Golden Universe Dance Studio(GUDS) in USA as well as Beijing Dance Academy(BDA) presented their Chinese national and folk dance programs of exquisite choreography. Every dance in narration of youth and China brought the local audiences to appreciate the artistic appeal of Chinese dance and blooming vitality of the youth.

GUO Yunde, vice president of CFLAC, attended the gala and delivered a speech. As he mentioned, art is a bridge between hearts while dance, symbolized with the body language of strength and beauty, is always one of the most charming artistic expressions among all the human art treasures for thousands of years. People of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds may unanimously tell their history, sing an ode to their heroes,praise the romantic love and feel about life through dance. With abundant contrast between individuality and common features or classics and modernity, dance reflects colorful presentations of human civilizations. Reputed as a “melting pot”, USA has people of varied colors, nationalities and religions living together in common prosperity, which demands mutual recognition,understanding and tolerance. As a common artistic form of humankind without linguistic limitation, dance has its unique advantage in promoting recognition and communications among people in the multi-element cultural background. As a beneficial attempt in trial, “Youth·China” is expected to set up a bridge between hearts while presenting artistic beauty, and it is our common mission of efforts to build up a harmonious world together.

The first half of the gala consisted of a series of Chinese national dance programs arranged in a perfect order. The Tibetan solo dance Daughter of the Holy Lakes depicted graceful gestures of Tibetan girls by the crystal glittering Holy Lake while Chinese Opera dance Floating Clouds and Flowing Waves showed a fine scene where a group of maids who floated through clouds and over waves in long sleeves and white skirts.

Dai Group Dance A Boat Song and Mongolian group dance Swans were teaching result of GUDS headed by Madame JIN Yu, who now lives in Washington at the age of 70. Similarly, Jin’s Dance Studio from California that was devoted to spreading Chinese national dance in USA brought Xinjiang folk dance As Beautiful as Moonlight and the dance Our Home & Our Dream, that won the Silver Award in the 2014 World Overseas Chinese Dance Competition.

演出现场Scene of the Performance

The focus of this dance gala came as Tibetan dance drama Lotus Flowers by Youth Dance Company of BDA, which won the Silver Award of the 9th“Lotus” Chinese National Dance Competition held by China Dancers Association (CDA). By telling the hero’s difficult pursuit of lotus and highlighting the purity in spirits and faith which were key features of lotus, this dance drama revealed the true value and definition of human life.

The visiting dance company was headed by Mr XIA Xiaohu,deputy secretary general of CDA, and Professor GAO Du, 1stExpert of National Dance Cultural Research Base at BDA, acted as art supervisor. Other members are winners of “Lotus Award”,Golden, Silver and Bronze Awards in “Taoli Cup” and other international dance competitions. This dance company also dedicated Chinese traditional classical solo dance A Free-Spirited Dancer, the Golden Award winner of the 10th“Taoli Cup” and Pas de Deux Lovers’ Umbrella, part of classical dance drama Brush· Ink. With advanced professional standard and superb skills in dance, they provided a body dialogue between tradition and modernity, and their artistic realm in pure integration of poetry and dance won passionate applauses and high appreciation among local audiences.

In a joyous atmosphere, the Shakespeare Theatre was filled to its capacity. Distinguished guests such as LI Hong, minister counselor of Chinese Embassy in USA, ZHANG Xihai, deputy director general of International Liaison Department of CFLAC,and ZHU Hongzi, deputy head of China Art News, overseas Chinese compatriots representatives OU Shiju and CHENG Yunkai, CEO and chair of ACECEA, as well as mayors of Riverdale and Greenbelt enjoyed this cultural feast from China with local audiences from all walks of life.