Watch the dance (Bing Xin)
-Dedicated to the sisters of Indian dancer Kalama
How to describe the dance of Indian Karama sisters?
If I were a poet, I would write a long poem to describe their various dances.
If I were a painter, I would use all kinds of colors to show their clear eyebrows and gorgeous clothes.
If I were a composer, I would use notes to convey their light dance steps and ringing bells.
If I were a sculptor, I would simulate their slim, agile and energetic figures on jade.
But I'm nothing! I can only describe this amazing dance art with my own poor words.
My friend, on an unforgettable night-
The curtain slowly opened and Karama Lakshman came out. What a brilliant moment! She bowed her head to the audience, folded her hands deeply and looked up. She has a beautiful face, long eyebrows and eyes that can speak thousands of words.
She stood stiffly.
The flute sounded, the tambourine sounded, and Sansong and Karama began to dance.
She uses her long eyebrows, eyes, fingers and waist; She has flowers in her bun and a pleated skirt around her waist; With light steps and ringing bells, she slowly danced the joys and sorrows of the poem like a light cloud and a whirlwind.
Although we don't know the content of the story, our emotions can sing with her movements! We saw that she suddenly frowned, showing infinite sadness, and suddenly blushed with laughter, showing infinite music; Suddenly the eyelids droop to the side, showing the arrogance of turning back; Suddenly, I looked at it angrily, showing all-powerful anger; Suddenly, I touched my arm gently, drew my eyes, smoothed my eyebrows and made a delicate and decent dress. Suddenly stand up, press the arrow and pull the bow, so that people can almost hear the clank of the strings! In the carnival of dancing, she forgot the audience and herself. She just tried her best to tell the beautiful poetry story of ancient India with flexible and skilled limbs and facial features!
A dance performance (little sister Rada, sometimes dancing alone, sometimes with her sister, she is a chick! We found that they not only represent gods and people, but also represent animals and plants: for example, the lotus flowers tremble, the deer gallop and jump, and the peacock strut, which can be described incisively and vividly. The most wonderful thing is the "snake dance", the gentle shaking of the neck and the trembling of the shoulders: a series of flexible peristalsis, from the fingertips of the right hand to the fingertips of the left hand!
After watching the dance of the Kalama sisters, people deeply realized the beautiful and long-standing culture and art of India: dance, music, sculpture, pictures … are all like branches on the same banyan tree, hanging down and rooted underground. These branches are closely connected in the earth, absorbing the food provided by Mother Earth, which is the vast people of India with a long history.
Karama and Rada are just two soft branches on this big banyan tree. Although Karama spent her twenty-two years on the stage for seventeen years; Twelve-year-old Rada also has four years of performance experience, but we know that India's great Mother Earth will continue to raise them.