-Kazuo Xiao Ye.

We did not live in the heroic Italian opera era of 17 and 18 centuries, nor did we live in the so-called upper class of the Republic of China. In fact, opera is too far away from the lives of ordinary people, let alone ballet, let alone more national ballet.

Which of China's operas, operas, ballets and dramas is not for you or the times?

There are many operas in China, and there are countless operas in small places. I can name five major operas: Beijing Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Pingju Opera and Henan Opera. If we say that the origin of traditional Chinese opera is a bottom-up folk performing art form, it is the product of the continuous integration of the characteristics of the times. Just like Yuan Zaju in Yuan Dynasty and Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu in Ming Dynasty, China's opera is not only a performance of people's life and entertainment, but also a "mirror" that can only reflect normal life ~

Of course, the protagonist I want to talk about is not China's opera, but Japanese Butoh. What was Japan like after World War II? After World War II, Japan was defeated. They lost all the rights and opportunities that the winner might have. At this moment, everything in the United States began to flood into all aspects of Japan.

Japan and the United States have changed from former allies to enemies.

1. American street culture, rock music, bikinis and various western-style art performances are popular, and this aggressive cultural product is constantly accepted by young people. Behind the seemingly prosperous, Japan still has to lick the wounds after the defeat in the corner.

Hiroshima's atomic bomb is the center of Japanese-American hatred. There is no living thing under the atomic bomb. The moment the mushroom cloud exploded, it left not only a few seconds of death, but also a hundred years of pain. More than half a century later, Japanese products in nuclear radiation areas can only be exported by threats and inducements (like Taiwan Province Province).

Japanese Butoh was born under this background. Compared with the tall and smooth people in the west, Asians want to dance ballet, waltz, etc., but they are unable to do so. But our Chinese opera is a very good development direction. )

At this time, under the influence of the problems left over from the war and the infiltration of western drama and other cultures, Japan created a Japanese national dance: Butoh. The expression of Butoh is different from the dance in general aesthetics. It does not pursue elegant posture, gorgeous costumes and grand background music. Interpret the "emotions" in life with the most primitive breath and body, which is the product of Japanese history and culture.

"Original ecology" not only means roughness and nature, but also the dance of Xiao Ye and his husband means the normal state of life's rise and fall.

When it comes to Japanese Butoh, we have to talk about the earliest founder, Lady Xiao Ye.

The first time I saw his dance, it was not his dance, but his people and his feet that left traces of time, times and dance. People who study art always draw shocking things. Yoko and Kazuo's gesture is exactly what a cloth painter often has, and it is also what a painter wants to contact most.

Thorpe? Aeternus？ -? That? Curse? Yes? That? Mummy (Lonely Song-Mummy's Curse translated from Baidu, I don't know whether it is accurate or not, please forgive me ~)

When you finish painting a posture full of fatigue and vitality, your eyes will unconsciously follow and want to see more things rushing into your soul.

This dance gives you goose bumps at first sight, not scared by white powder, but shocked. There is a saying in The Good Voice that evaluates the songs sung by singers: people stand upright without hair. This is a physiological reaction stimulated by intuition, and it is also the first sensory experience that Kazuo Xiao Ye gave me.

(1.) Dance tells you stories. No reward, no wonder. The best reward is tears:

Aside from the unknown translation, there is only one person dancing in the whole dance, but it makes people feel that there are two souls stirring. At the beginning, there was a vintage hand-cranked music box that was fiddled around. Then, a man dressed as a woman kept dancing and surrounded a doll. Like a controlled doll in a hand-cranked music box.

She timidly tried to get close, but she seemed too shy to cover her face and kept peeking at her sweetheart between her fingers. Gradually, the girl turned into a woman, her body wobbled and declined day by day. She no longer revolves around her sweetheart. She seems to be looking for, looking for, what makes her so flustered?

This woman has become an old lady again. She has a mirror and a picture of her sweetheart in her hand. Finally, her life seems to have come to an end. She threw herself on the ground and took off her tacky clothes, leaving the most primitive taste of life. And she stood up again, shy of girlhood, reunited with the dance of life at this moment.

Bing Xin has a saying: "The way to go is the way to go, and the way to go is also the way to go." Xiao Ye's dance expresses his position from his inner feelings, but what is left to the audience is that he stole a dancer's "original ecological" power from his position ~

(2) Speaking of dancing, it is better to say that it is a shock of the soul;

95-year-old Xiao Ye and his husband still insist on dancing. Long-term abstemious dancing and eating make his body like pine branches, with clear joints and strong bones. However, the normal state of life made him unable to devote himself to dancing, so he was in Sopor? Aeternus？ -? That? Curse? Yes? That? In The Mummy, you can see that his hands are flourishing and dancing like vines, expressing something.

When you enjoy the opera, you are in high spirits, and when you enjoy the ballet, you are relaxed. However, when you watch ballet, there is not much sadness and little plot. You can't laugh, you will cry. Why? Because, after other people's emotions penetrate your heart like a sword and disturb all your cognition of life, you will only be shocked, so why not smile easily, noble and elegant?