Chapter 80: The First Performance
This group of people standing in the background have heard these theories, and more of them are their own personal experience, in fact, what Deputy Zhang said is the truth, and many of them have the cruel truth of reality, but it is difficult for people who fall into the illusion to extricate themselves.
Anyone who loves ballet knows that it's not as beautiful as it seems, but it's fascinating and can't help it.
Ballet schools recruit a large number of students every year, but there may be less than 20 really good seedlings; After seven or eight years of professional training, less than two-thirds of them successfully graduated, and less than three of them were successfully admitted to the ballet company; And being admitted to the dance company does not mean success, it can only be regarded as a general entry.
These lucky people join the troupe, and they must start from the intern group dancer and step by step into the career of a ballet dancer, and the hardships can be imagined. Among them, there are many people who are injured unexpectedly, or who leave the scene in the middle of the game, fierce and cruel.
Some people sighed: I love ballet, but ballet doesn't love me. These are the words of many people who love deeply but are helpless.
It is said that ballet dancers have a common problem, that is, self-love and looking in the mirror. This is not true or not, it is just a habit that has been cultivated for a long time. In the usual training, the real audience is actually yourself in the mirror.
They are extremely familiar with and rely on mirrors, repeating the same movements countless times in the practice hall almost every day, examining their every move in the mirror. In fact, the mirror is their most faithful companion.
The applause at the front desk interrupted Beibei's cranky thoughts, and also made her nervous when she was about to go on stage, after all, it was the first event after moving to a new house, and everyone attached great importance to it.
Zhou Jing broke away from talking and laughing with other actors, looked at Gu Beibei, who had been keeping her head down in the mirror, and said, "Beibei, don't be nervous, just have the same mentality as you usually practice." You who are sitting at the bottom don't want to be in the audience at that time, they are all big radishes that can move and talk. ”
"Haha, today is not only a big radish, but also a group of small radish." Someone joked.
Gu Beibei reflexively turned her head in the direction of the sound source, and what she saw was the back of Zhou Jing's head. She turned her head and focused on Zhou Jing in the mirror. replied: "Got it, I'm not nervous. ”
She's a little unaccustomed to this pattern, which is a group of people who don't look at each other as long as there is a mirror. Communicating and responding to the other person in the mirror is a unique habit of theirs.
"The little actors are getting ready to go on stage. Gu Beibei came to the front. "Shouting from far and near.
"Sister Fang, here." Zhou Jing checked Beibei's makeup and patted her shoulder: "Go ahead, your stage is waiting for you." ”
"yes, I see." Gu Beibei's heart suddenly surged with unprecedented fierce emotions and hurriedly went on the field.
The uplight music played. Bei Bei changed her expression and looked much smarter. The muscles of the whole body are perfectly coordinated, and the expression is vivid and aura.
Zhou Jing's nervous heart also fell, and she said to her teacher: "I was worried that her facial expression was not in place, but I didn't expect this little girl to be a two-faced person, and there was so much difference between her and her on and off the stage." Alas, if only he could stay in our regiment forever. ”
Zhang Ming also looked melancholy, and said with emotion: "There is no doubt that she was born for ballet and the stage, and we can't keep her." That's fine. The outside world is wider and more suitable for her. We should be happy for her. ”
Zhou Jing's heart throbbed, yes, she should be happy. But she still didn't give up.
Wang Renhao looked at Gu Beibei, who appeared on the stage, and his eyes didn't blink, as if he didn't know him. He suddenly became interested in ballet, and at the same time felt that ballet dancers were much more pleasing to the eye.
Gu Beibei's repertoire is to practice for a period of time "Don Quixote Cupid Variations", although this piece is not long, but lively and brisk, upright bounce is particularly special, very test people's endurance and strength. The most error-prone thing is the coherence of small turns and double circles. There are also frequent jumps, upright stop-and-go jumps. This made Gu Beibei's toe and endurance a little unbearable, after all, the training time was not long, and the physical fitness was not as good as that of ordinary children.
Thankfully, she made it happen. Not to mention the quality, she is still quite satisfied. Bang bang, the audience burst into fierce applause. Gu Beibei's formal salute and curtain call.
Wang Renhao only felt that his eyes were not enough to see, why was it gone so quickly, this etude was too short. So he shouted, "Jump a little more." Skip a little more. ”
Gu Beibei gasped, her eyes widened, and she looked at the corner where she was speaking. If the eyesight of the people in the audience is good enough, they can definitely see Gu Beibei rolling his eyes.
I didn't expect this haunting person to come, is this revenge? Didn't you see that she couldn't breathe, and what was she dancing? If she allowed, she would have rewarded him with another punch.
Zhang Ming heard a chaotic commotion from the audience backstage, and Gu Beibei's chest had been rising and falling, and he immediately came on stage: "Today we have a tight schedule, if you like this little actor, you can let her perform for everyone a few more times in the future." Now let her go back to rest first, okay? ”
Liu Wenshuo ignored the head teacher's warning and said loudly: "It's not good, we only have such an activity in a semester, how rare it is." One come, one another, another one. ”
Gu Beibei had a headache from the noise, it seems that these little radish heads are here to seek revenge, and they will not give up if they don't agree. She walked up to Zhang Ming and whispered, "Recently, Aunt Zhou has been practicing "Lilac Fairy Variations", and I pestered her to learn some. My music is a little slower, and it's only a soothing half, so I should be fine. ”
Zhang Ming saw that her breath had stabilized, and reluctantly agreed, and explained uneasily: "If you can't bear it, you will immediately look at it, don't be reckless." ”
Bei Bei was grateful: "Okay, I know. ”
She glanced at the most ferocious corner, and obviously saw Wang Renhao, who had been paying attention to this side, with a fierce light in his eyes. At this time, Wang Renhao didn't notice it at all, and was glad that Gu Beibei had been staring at him, and the deer in his heart was bumping, never expecting that he was blacklisted.
Barely finished dancing the etude, she left the stage without a curtain call, and the speed was so fast that the people in the audience couldn't see the figure before they could react. As soon as she arrived backstage, she was spread on the ground motionless, and she tried to regulate her heartbeat and breathing.
She didn't notice that the eyes of those young actors had changed when they looked at her, you must know that when they couldn't complete an etude, there were people with younger qualifications than them who could already know famous ballet songs, and the impact was like a deep-water torpedo explosion, setting off layers of waves. Shock is more than jealousy and indignation, and there is a difference between people.
At this time, they deeply understood what Gu Beibei meant by what she said before, some people are really born to dance ballet, such as her; And they can only work hard to close the gap, if they only know how to gossip, then sooner or later they will be eliminated.
On the other side, Wang Renhao, who finally found a reason to sneak away from the teacher's sight, also appeared in the background, he looked around with a camera, and finally saw Gu Beibei who was leaning on the side and gasping at the corner of a staircase. (To be continued.) )
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