Actually, when I was writing this review, I couldn’t finish writing it because this may be the first modern dance drama I have watched live in my life. Of course, I don’t know whether to call it “modern dance drama”. Accurately, or is it "creative modern dance drama"?

I would like to call "Out of Xiaogang" a "period drama" on the stage. It starts from the land reform in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province in 1978, using the big and small figures on the stage as "points" to connect the "lines" of the timeline and the "surface" of the country. In an Anhui village 40 years ago, after 18 farmers put their fingerprints on a land contract, the Chinese countryside was once a place where food was not enough and clothing was not warm. Starting from the point of reform and opening up, the color tone of the entire era changed from bleak gray to white. Became beautiful. A wide variety of delicacies were constantly scrolling on the big screen on the stage. The actors' clothing changed from all-patched linen shirts to colorful shirts and bell-bottom pants. In that era, this was called "modern" and it was like "city". people". The subsequent timeline slowly unfolded in the background of the screen and the soundtracks with a sense of the times: the Chinese saw for the first time "Coca-Cola" that bubbled and tasted strangely; more and more railway lines were built, and there were It attracted more and more crowded people who came to the city to work or return to their hometowns to visit relatives; factories and textile factories were everywhere, attracting a large number of migrant workers; in 1977, the college entrance examination was resumed, scores were published, some were happy and some were sad; pop music became popular, and Hong Kong The film instantly became popular all over the country; while children in rural areas in the mountains were still envious of their peers who could go to school in the city over the mountains; with the advent of the millennium, slowly, the society that was once filled with the passion for traveling in the world became anxious, depressive, and the atmosphere Pollution, trust crisis, medical troubles, and endless express delivery... Of course, this is the society of the great era. Every era has its own gray side, but those who have witnessed these thousands of changes from the beginning will be very Don't get used to it. The dance drama uses a scene-based approach, interweaving depression and humor, to make these 40 years fuller. Everyone who has experienced it will find their passion in different eras.

Interestingly, it was the few scenes with dialogue that impressed me the most. "When will the rain stop? What's on the other side of the mountain? Will we go to school there?" This was said by a group of children from "this side of the mountain". It seems that you can see that they sit there every day. In the classroom at the edge of the village, I watched the rain outside the window. The teacher went to the other side of the mountain and has not come back yet. I heard that children on the other side of the mountain can wear red scarves and go to school in bright classrooms. A few simple lines were repeated three or four times, and the emotions of expectation and envy could overflow the stage.

This dance drama is a breakthrough in my personal aesthetics and an attempt to better understand the connotation of dance.