A dance through time

Do you know what a "bluish-green waist" is? It comes from Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, a dance drama based on The Vast Land, (previously known as Thousands Li of Rivers and Mountains), Wang Ximeng's famous painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279). On New Year's Eve, after the women's group dance on China Central Television's Spring Festival Gala, it quickly became an internet sensation.

The first stop of the second round of the dance group's national tour was in Haikou, Hainan province. The sold-out tickets revealed their popularity, so consequently, four extra performances were scheduled for Haikou.

Displaying scrolls, finding stones, studying brushstrokes, quenching ink and paintings ... the dance group uses various chapters to allow the audience to travel through time and space, and enter the world of Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng from the perspective of the exhibitionist. The color bluish-green is the soul of the ancient painting, and it is also the visual symbol of the entire dance drama. The eyebrows are sharp, highlighted by red lips and a high bun. The sleeves are neatly rolled, and every move of the dancers merges into painting. Dressed in turquoise long skirts, as if the whole setting is transformed into green peaks and steep cliffs, through the changes of movements, they dance with the "bluish-green waist" to render the scene in the painting in which dangerous peaks and recumbent rocks portray the majestic momentum of the interdependence of mountains and rivers incisively and vividly.