There is also spring for passers-by

It tells the story of the heroine Li Niang's father who was framed and exiled. She followed her mother all the way to trace her father's footsteps, hoping to reunite with the family. Her mother fell ill and died on the way. In order to survive, Li Niang followed a folk song and dance troupe to Chang'an to participate in Emperor Xuanzong's Tang Palace Banquet, and perform their shows at the banquet.

Wen Wan will play the heroine Li Niang this time. The movie will show the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and restore court dances.

Tang Lan was worried, so she followed Wen Wan and left her son Wang Jun in the care of her mother-in-law. Her husband Wang Ming would go home whenever he was free.

Several dance artists of classical Chinese dance came together to study these two stages. It is not easy to restore and choreograph them. The Los Angeles Art Troupe had studied these two dances earlier, but they still needed to be refined.

Because Wen Wan had to go back to school, her scenes were filmed first, and the two dances were left to the end.

Wen Wan was busy filming a movie all summer. After the filming, she followed Tang Lan back to school. It was not until around the Mid-Autumn Festival that the film studio notified her to come over. She danced these two dances, and because she had been practicing all the time, she passed them both in one go. Several choreographers were very satisfied.

"See? This is a true dance artist. Not only is he good at Chinese traditional dance and classical Chinese dance, but he also won an international gold medal in ballet..."

They seemed to see a rising star.

In 1983, Wen Wan participated in the Paris International Choreography Competition in France. She modified and re-edited the "Rainbow Skirt Song" to create the "Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat Song". This time she prepared very classical music herself, took out a supercomputer from the space in the storage ring, and found matching lighting and scenery pictures. These were all completed with later special effects. If matched with the atmosphere created by her editing, it would definitely be more beautiful.

In these large-scale competitions abroad, people have already been able to enhance the stage effects. She has observed many international dance competitions. From the previous single stage settings, some people have used film projection and lighting technology. So it is not too unusual for her to record the special effects of later generations into a video for use in a movie.

She did it as soon as she thought of it. After she finished cutting and producing, she found Han Changqing and followed the lighting engineer to learn lighting design and production. After studying for a few days, she used movie recording tape to record the stage background picture for herself.

When she brought the finished film back to the academy and tried it out in the dance studio, all the teachers and students in the dance department were attracted to it. It was difficult for individuals to get a film player at that time, but she did it. No one knows how she did it, but she made the background dreamy and gorgeous, enough to bring a visual feast. In this era, it is definitely the best stage lighting design even abroad.

Wen Wan was aiming for the gold prize this time, which is why she invested so much money and energy.

After that, the Central Art Troupe and the Beijing Art Academy will select group dancers, a total of twelve people are needed.

In order to support Wen Wan, Tang Lan ran between the art troupe and the art college, and finally selected 18 people for training, and another 6 as substitutes. Once the competition is approaching, if someone withdraws, someone will be needed to fill in.

The number of twelve corps de ballet dancers cannot be changed.

During this period, some actors withdrew due to foot injuries, while others withdrew due to being unable to withstand the high-intensity training. In the end, only fifteen people were left.

But the enthusiasm of all dancers was aroused. Although they trained from morning to night every day, no one quit. Stepping onto the international stage is the dream of many artists. It is also a window to prove Chinese art to the world and let the world understand Chinese dance art.

However, when a young girl with strong skills and artistic talent fell down the stairs and was injured, Tang Lan became angry.

"For this international competition, the art troupe and the academy's leadership have given strong support, providing costumes, props, and even substantial financial assistance. I don't care what some of you think, but bringing these calculating and framing tactics into this is unacceptable! Whoever pushed Yao Yiyi down the stairs? Come forward!"

No one moved, but that didn't mean Tang Lan didn't know.

Tang Lan said loudly, "If you don't want the leaders to know, then come forward yourself. If I catch you and report you to the leaders, you will bear the consequences. I hope this person will come to me on his own initiative during training."

Wen Wan didn't know who had done the harm, but everyone soon found out because one person was missing the next day. Yao Yiyi, who had been pushed down the stairs earlier, only suffered some minor injuries. Tang Lan asked her to rest, but she disagreed and went back to training with everyone else.

There was only one backup dancer now, and they trained almost identically to the regular dancers. The competition was divided into several sections, with six- and seven-person groups performing other dances, and "Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat" was the dance they would use to sprint to the finals.

The international choreography competition kicked off, and Tang Lan led the team to fly abroad. The dances that passed the preliminary and semi-finals were still led by Wen Wan. She privately prepared two solo dances, "Phoenix Rising from the Ashes" and "Red Plum Blossoms in the Snow" to prepare for any eventuality. The stage design and lighting were also based on "Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat". After entering the top 15, when the 15 to 10 competition began, Tang Lan looked at the superb dancing skills and performances of other teams, and her heart was a little nervous.

However, when the dancers from the island nation appeared with the same stage setting as the Chinese team's performance of "Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat", Tang Lan and all the participating team members were dumbfounded.

The lighting engineer gasped, "Teacher Tang, our stage background tape is lost!"

"How could it be lost?" The twelve dancing girls were all very angry because the other party had stolen their background video tapes.

Wen Wan was wearing an ancient costume of a court dancer and smiled, "Whoever steals the tape will be the laughing stock."

"Teacher Ji, this is the dance we've been practicing for half a year. It was fine when we were rehearsing yesterday..."

Wen Wan nodded and said, "Let's take a look."

When the person who stole the background video tape was halfway through the dance, subtitles appeared on the tape, explaining the dance in both Chinese and English, as well as the historical origins of the dance. Choreographers: Tang Lan, Ji Wenwan; Lighting Designers: Qin Long, Ji Wenwan; Costume Designer: Wu Fangping; Makeup Artist: Tan Jun.

At the end, there was an eye-catching "Contestants: Huaguo Dance Team (all contestants are: full-time actors of the Central Political Department Song and Dance Art Troupe, and professional students of Huaguo Jingshi Art College)" followed by a list of all the dance team members, even the names of the alternates, but her name was placed at the end.

This time the thieves were dumbfounded. When they watched it yesterday, there were no subtitles at all. Why did they change now?

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. What else was there to say? Everyone knew that their lighting design and videotapes had been stolen. There was text on them, and that was the proof.

Tang Lan asked, "When will the subtitles be available?"

Wen Wan said, "Didn't Uncle Han tell Teacher Tang? When we were making the background video, we originally made one set for daily training and one set for the competition. The Chinese team is not an honor for one person, but for everyone on our team. Uncle Han hired a professional subtitle artist to engrave the subtitles on this set. I originally wanted to use official script, but Uncle Han chose regular script. He's the elder, so he has the final say. The subtitle artist works for free, so we can't be picky..."