Lyrics of Sabine's "soybeans - fighting for your own opportunities"(sa bei ning huang dou dou wei zi ji zheng qu ji yu ge ci )

I'm very happy and nervous to be here today. I'd like to start with the fate of dance.

I remember my parents told me from the beginning that "you must finish the dance road we haven't finished for us." So from the age of ten, I have been taken by my parents to take part in various dance schools, professional colleges and art schools. In two years, I have experienced two setbacks, one is the Affiliated High School of Beijing Dance Academy. All the children, please stand in line, and I'll ask you to come in. Then the teacher said, "OK, let's go home and study hard." The second time my father accompanied me. The teacher said, "well, this child's congenital ratio is not good, because his legs are too short. This child will not grow very high in the future." I was also very shocked, so I ran away for some time, as if I would walk away when people mentioned dance. That day, I remember my father was very sad, with a slightly heavy heart. My father is a worker. He likes dancing very much. When he came back, he put two iron rings on the crossbeam of our old house. Then when he cooked dinner every day, I did my homework. He put my little foot in the ring and took out the chair. I was hanging upside down. In three months, my legs have really grown by three centimeters. But at that time, the proportion of students in the upper ten to the lower ten had already reached the standard of six majors. Every day, the whole family is thinking about how to make up for this one centimeter, and we rehearsed many times at home, and this method worked. When the examiner measures the proportion of my upper body, I will habitually collapse my waist, and then when measuring my lower body, you will pout a little bit, and finally use this method to win the last centimeter. So I left home at the age of 12 and went to Shanghai dance school.

In 1993, we began to prepare for a national peach and plum cup competition. I'm really short, I'm not very impressive, but I wanted to take part in the competition. At that time, I felt that I must win a prize in the competition. I wanted to use this to prove that even a small man, I can win a role of my own on the stage. One day, I walked down the corridor of my school and suddenly saw a choreographer giving us a dance rehearsal to a student of the art troupe of the Political Department of the air force. There was a Baxian table on which an actor was dancing with a drum. When I saw the rehearsal, I thought, I must learn that dance. After a lot of ways, I finally got a message that he can't teach you, so you follow him. So I'm very excited, very excited. As soon as I enter, there is a table with a drum. The person standing on the table is corner a, then corner B stands in the corner of the classroom, corner C stands here, D, e, F, G, and then I stand in the back corner. I would like to stand on that table with a drum, but there is no chance, I just wait at the door of that classroom. Those students are gone, they turned off the light, I ran to the classroom, dare not turn on the light, hold the drum in the corner of the classroom, climb to the table, look in the mirror, a few times, furtively, also dare not let others see. So wait until one day, Deng teacher said, "Doudou, you come to jump." I said excitedly, "is it true, OK, OK." Then I started to dance as soon as the music started. After dancing, Mr. Deng looked at me and didn't speak. The next day, I went to the classroom with a very uneasy mood. Later, the teacher said, "come here, Doudou. I saw your dance yesterday, and I think there are many mistakes. But you turned my original choreography of a dance with Chinese folk dance style into a Chinese classical dance, but I think it's also good to dance like this, so would you like to join me? I'm sorry Let's dance the program "drunk drum" into a regular Chinese classical dance. " After listening to it, I was very excited and could only say "OK, OK", so I went to participate in the taoli cup on behalf of Shanghai dance school that year, and I was lucky to win the first gold medal in my life. Fortunately, the director of that year's Spring Festival Gala sat down to watch the final of the peach and plum cup dance. He thought the solo dance was very good. He suddenly told a child, a 17-year-old, that he was going to prepare for the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV, and I was totally fooled. So what I want to talk about is why it is so important to strive for opportunities. When we strive for an opportunity, we actually strive for more opportunities for our own future. So in 1994, he won a gold medal in the peach and plum cup. In 1995, he went to participate in a national dance competition in Guangzhou and won a gold medal. Because the two gold awards, according to the regulations can be exempted from entering the University Department of Beijing Dance Academy, so I am very, very happy.

Finally, in 1995, when I was 18 years old, I became a student in the University Department of Beijing Dance Academy. At that time, I wanted to throw my luggage on the ground and run to hold the school board in front of the dance academy. My heart wanted to say, "Beijing Dance Academy, I'm here at last." Of course, the day of admission is exciting, but it's hard to start learning. I have a very good friend. When we competed in 1994, I was the first in the junior group and he was the third. He was usually a very good friend. But when we two entered the classroom, we had a strong smell of gunpowder. Then he has a habit that he talks in his sleep. There was a classmate in Northeast China, who was also very funny. He went to him and said, "what's your score in this year's taoli cup competition?" The classmate said, "me? I won the gold medal. " "You get the gold medal" then what position does Huang Doudou take? When he thinks about Huang Doudou, "third place.". Then he woke up and I said, I said that you are too bad. You see you have won the gold medal. You don't even give me the second prize. You have to give me the third prize. So we can see that the competition in our class is very fierce. Of course, at that time, many friends advised me, very pertinently, that is to say, from a previous result of the taoli cup, it might be better not to participate, because if your junior group won the gold medal and the adult group didn't, it would have a side effect on you. But it's the kind of rebellion in my character, and I thought, why can't I accept the challenge again.

One day, there was a performance in our school's salon. There was a four person dance called "Qin Emperor's order of soldiers" and a terracotta army performed by four people. At that time, I was firmly grasped by the momentum of the Chinese terracotta warriors and horses. I think this is too manly, this is too Chinese. So I said who choreographed the dance, they said teacher Chen Weiya, so I often go to their house and knock on the door. "Is Mr. Chen in?" "Oh, Mr. Chen rehearsed today" "I said OK, thank you, thank you, I'll come again next time" and then knock on the door in two days, "is Mr. Chen here today? Oh, he went to Italy today. "Go again, that's it, you go again and again. Finally one day, I met, "Mr. Chen, I saw the" order of the Qin emperor "you made up. I especially like it. Can you arrange a solo version of the terracotta warriors and horses according to my situation?". Mr. Chen said, "Oh, Doudou, your basic skills are really good, but your height and your image are really hard to play the terracotta warriors and horses." Then I was very disappointed when I went home. I felt that I couldn't give up this opportunity. Then I went to find the information, watched the videos of the four people, learned by myself, and knocked on the door a week later, "Mr. Chen, I watched the video, you see, I put these two shapes, you see, I can actually do it." "Oh, the shape is OK, but the charm seems to be not enough. Watch the video again and learn again.". "Mr. Chen, I've practiced the charm here myself. Have a look." "It seems better, but it's not enough.". Anyway, you are looking for it again and again, and finally one day, Mr. Chen finally agreed to say, let's try to arrange it.

In 1997, when we went to participate in the taoli cup competition again, when we first said that Huang Doudou would play the terracotta warriors and horses, everyone didn't believe how such a small man could play the tall terracotta warriors and horses, but after the performance, they won the gold medal again. Today, many of us are college students. In fact, when I got to the back of my practice, I found out very realistically that on the stage of dance, every dancer has to face his own stage life is limited. The students retired, changed careers, got married, fewer people day by day, and finally one day, I found that today's classroom is left with me in the piano and mirror. I suddenly felt that I should have some thinking and pursuit. At that time, I had a desire to let myself return to the state of a student, to learn again and start from scratch. My biggest dream at that time was to be a choreographer. I was eager to look at Chinese dance from the perspective of world culture. I wanted to learn the latest choreographer concepts and techniques in the world.

So in January 2005, after my wife and I had a wedding, we didn't have a honeymoon. We went to New York with our luggage. She would get up 20 minutes earlier than me every morning to prepare breakfast for me, and then she would rush back to her apartment after class at noon every day. The braised spare ribs, braised oxtail, Chinese rice and some vegetarian dishes were prepared in advance in the evening Together. In the cold climate, the two young couples were eating their own warm food, which is especially warm in retrospect. Then I am very ashamed. I have never seen a regular opera before 2005. The Metropolitan Opera House is full of performance reports every year. Fortunately, we have student ID cards because the tickets for the opera are very expensive. The student tickets are at the end of the first floor of the Metropolitan Opera House. They have two rows of seats. I suddenly one day I sigh, I said, "wife, when I have money, I must buy tickets for the opera, and I want to buy the front and middle tickets. We two sit comfortably and watch the opera." Then my wife said, "actually, I hope one day you can stand on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House and dance Chinese dances." Then I said that the distance is too far, this is really a dream. But I really met an opportunity. Mr. Tan Dun and director Zhang Yimou opened an opera called "the first emperor of Qin" in the Metropolitan Opera House of the United States. Finally, they said that we were sure you would be the choreographer of the opera "the first emperor of Qin". At that time, they felt that the back of their T-shirt was all wet, and excitement and pressure existed at the same time. In fact, my English is very poor. When I applied for a scholarship for the first time, I went in for an interview in 25 minutes. I said four of the five words I knew, namely Hello, yes, thank you, byebye. I know five in all, I only use four in 25 minutes! Another word is me

Chinese PinYin : Sa Bei Ning Huang Dou Dou Wei Zi Ji Zheng Qu Ji Yu Ge Ci