Are there any male dancers in the Thousand Armed Kannon

There are many kinds of legendary Guanyin, but the one that is hard to forget is the "Thousand-armed Guanyin" dance performed by 21 deaf and mute people at the 2005 Spring Festival Gala. The legendary "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was performed so movingly that everyone who watched the performance was deeply shocked.

The Spring Festival Gala version of "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was released like this.

"Thousand-armed Kannon" has been produced in 3 versions. In 2000, at the invitation of the United States, the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe performed in the United States with "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands - My Dream" and made its debut to the public. This is the first version of "Thousand-armed Guanyin", with only 12 actresses participating, and the content is relatively thin, and the shape is simple and soft.

On September 28, 2004, "Thousand-armed Kannon" was performed for 5 minutes and 54 seconds at the closing ceremony of the International Paralympic Games in Athens, and this is the second version, adding 9 male actors to the revision of "Thousand-armed Kannon", becoming 21 Kannon.

Attentive viewers may find that the clothes worn by the Spring Festival Gala "Thousand-armed Guanyin" are different from those worn at the Athens Paralympics. The actors' clothes were particularly worn, as they were sewn from silk. We remade Guanyin's clothes, changed the "Chinese yellow" clothes worn at the Athens Paralympic Games to bright yellow, and changed all the sequis on the hem of the skirt to bronze translucent colors, so that the clothes were more cohesive.

The actor's hat was heightened, Guanyin's nails were redesigned, silver sequins were added, and the eyes between each Guanyin's fingers and palms were added with a luminous function that reflected in the dimest light.

Because it is "Thousand-armed Guanyin", it is mainly to make a big article in the hands. What impressed me the most was in the adjustment of a subtle movement, everyone put their hands back to the position where they had just started, shouted to stop, and then left their wrists on a scale, at this time the fingertips of both hands were **, and the actors opened their hands one by one by their little thumbs, and then opened their hands by thumbs one by one, lighting up the eyes in the palms of both hands. Suddenly, I felt that the eyes in front of me were really like Guanyin opening his Zen eyes, which was a great shock.

The movements of "Thousand Hands Guanyin" are rigid and soft, soft and rigid, and the rigid movements are relatively easy for the 9 young men, but the soft movements make it very difficult for the men. Especially practicing orchid fingers. When they were asked to practice orchid fingers, they were rough and stupid no matter how they posed, and the choreographer Zhang Jigang gave them a death order:

You must practice the orchid finger like a girl, and whoever can't practice it well will leave! ”

In order to help these boys find their feelings as soon as possible, we let these boys learn the expressions of girls, and let 9 boys find 9 girls to practice standing, hand posture, dancing posture, foot posture and expression, how you dance, how I dance, how you laugh, I laugh. When I first started to practice male and female eye contact, it was more difficult, and they could easily get distracted. At this time, we teach them to control themselves and not have distractions.

Although these 9 boys are often teased as "Dong Shi Xiaofeng", it is through this method that their smiles and gestures have a little feminine charm. <>

This is a large-scale original music and painting dance drama created by the famous choreographer Zhang Jigang for 7 years: "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands".

The work gathers first-line artists in the field of stage art at home and abroad, and has made unique attempts and explorations in the aspects of **, choreography, stage art, etc., and the ghostly choreography ingenuity, the amazing body language and the invisible inspiring power of great love throughout the whole play highlight the iconic artistic charm and humanistic feelings in Zhang Jigang's works.