2022 version of dance drama “Peacock”

“Peacock is a dance drama that makes people feel wonderful. It tells a story about nature, life, growth, humanity and love. It surges and flows in my body and is expressed with emotion.”

——Yang Liping

“Peacock” is a classic stage image created by the famous dance artist Yang Liping. For many years, Yang Liping has been insisting on telling the story of “Peacock”, hoping to make this thing perfect and irreplaceable. In the 2022 version of the dance drama “Peacock”, Yang Liping not only performed the winter chapter in the dance drama “Peacock”, but also positioned herself as a “convener”, handing over the stage to a new generation of dancers, allowing more young dancers to take on the role of Starring, discovering your own energy on stage. The tour will start in September 2022, and the “peacock style” will immediately spread across the country. By the end of 2023, it will have visited more than 40 cities and performed nearly 200 performances.

Yang Liping personally participated in the “Winter” chapter

In 2022, the grandly restarted dance drama “Peacock” brings together the essence of Yang Liping’s dance art and her years of accumulation and speculation. In the changes and development of the seasons, it tells a story about growth, humanity, life and love. As a special appearance, Yang Liping personally participated in the “Winter” chapter. In the four-season cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter, she presented the beauty of life when all things wither and become silent, the peacock dances in the snow, and is reborn in Nirvana.

Winter is the last chapter of life in the story of the dance drama “Peacock”. When it comes to this choice, Yang Liping’s answer seems to reflect her own meaning, “I clearly feel that the dust will settle, and no matter how beautiful it is, it will pass away. Young people Life is like a flower blooming, and some people have reached the stage of flower falling, so we must recognize this, it is a natural law.”

Gathering the essence of Yang Liping’s dance art
Gathering a super lineup

In the 2022 version of the dance drama “Peacock”, in addition to “Peacock”, one of the representative symbols of oriental aesthetics, Yang Liping also integrated more oriental aesthetics into stage art creation. She positioned herself as a “convener” to let more young people The dancers take on the starring role and discover their own energy on stage, giving each dancer their own identity. “I saw a very good mental and physical state from the actors in this version. Whether they are actors playing peacocks or crows, they all fit the characters very well,” Yang Liping said.

In order to better present the story of “Peacock”, in addition to Yang Liping serving as the chief choreographer and director, the 2022 version of the dance drama “Peacock” also invites a powerful lineup such as Academy Award winner for Best Art Director and famous visual artist Ye Jintian. The whole play brings together the essence of Yang Liping’s dance art, and is the ultimate questioning of life by a generation of dance gods.

Four Seasons
Showing Oriental Aesthetics in the Cycle of Four Seasons

The story of the dance drama “Peacock” revolves around the two eternal themes of life and love. It uses the stage form to interpret the common feelings of mankind and convey to the audience the artist’s thoughts and insights on art and life during his personal growth. The “peacock” in the play is a bird, a human being, and a living being in the sentient world.

The whole play is divided into four chapters: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It tells a story about growth, humanity, life and love, as well as the mutual integration of life and nature. It presents a kind exploration of the world through stage art form. , as well as the questioning of life and human nature, projecting the humanistic sentiment of the integration of life and art.