Two works show the style of ballet superstars

On the evening of May 25, the curtain of the Beijing Art Center Opera House opened and closed three times, and the cheers were higher and higher. It was a passion that could not be extinguished by the rain all day. All the applause belonged to Svetlana Zakharova, the principal dancer of the Bolshoi Theater who came from afar. She stood in the center of the stage, facing the camera and praise, shining. The lights came on, and the dancers stood in a row, dancing hand in hand, weaving complex and changing lines with their flowing limbs. The "MODANSE" dance special opened with "Like Breathing". The music of Handel's "Suite No. 4 in E Minor" fell like pearls, and the rhythm of the music echoed with the dancers' breathing.

"Like Breathing" has no specific plot, but the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti's creativity is quite brilliant. The solo dance, duet, and group dance are cleverly connected and linked together. Many movements are the first time for the dancers.They use their powerful control to precisely use the ups and downs of their bodies. The pauses are often like sculptures, but also geometrically abstract and delicate. The subtle atmosphere needs to be captured and guessed by the audience. In the second half, the "Legend of Chanel" with clearer clues was performed. A beam of light fell, and Zakharova sat quietly in a corner of the stage wearing a classic Chanel suit, thinking and reminiscing. The concise passage unfolds in the black and white tones. Gabrielle Chanel, who created the fashion of the times, talks about her fame, love, loneliness and eternity. Zakharova has elegant manners, but under her calm demeanor, she has full tension in both skills and emotions.

The courage to innovate boldly, the pain of losing a loved one forever, the inspiration that never extinguishes... In just one hour, Zakharova took the audience into Chanel's half-life ups and downs. Finally, Chanel's photo appeared in the center of the stage, looking back. At that moment, the two outstanding women resonated with their souls across the long river of time."In fact, I don't think I have much in common with Chanel," Zakharova joked. A few days before the performance, she arrived in Beijing for rehearsal and stage walk. When she was interviewed at the hotel where she stayed, Zakharova had a low ponytail and a pair of beautiful and deep gray-blue eyes. From the outside, there really wasn't much overlap with Chanel. She told frankly that when preparing for the work "Legend of Chanel", the main creators including composer Ilya Demsky, choreographer Yuri Posokov, director and screenwriter Alexi Frandetti were all very nervous.

The music and choreography all started from scratch, "no one knew what it would look like". Zakharova also did a lot of preparation work. She went to Paris to visit Chanel's former residence, read film and television and books, and learned Chanel's sitting, standing, and every move, in order to find and get close to her. "In Chanel's era, she completely changed the female aesthetic and liberated women from some constraints," Zakharova said.Such innovation obviously requires courage and faith to support it. This "unremitting commitment" is a major match between Zakharova and Chanel in character. In her decades of dancing career, as a People's Artist of Russia and a winner of the Russian National Award, she has won many honors, and Chinese audiences have witnessed many of her highlights on the stage. "I first came to Beijing in my 20s.