Wang Chaoge is regarded as the most innovative director in China. She was one of the core creative members in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. She pioneered the live performance, and a series of works, such as See Pingyao Again, Impression Sanjie Liu, and See Chinese Music Again, are well-known at home and abroad and become successful models of cultural and creative industries.
In the eyes of the public, she is a charming woman who is spontaneous and witty. In the eyes of friends and partners, she is a "madman" who is never tired and demanding. In the eyes of team members, she is an omnipotent and creative "Wang Dao". But behind the screen, she said she was a quiet tree, with no sharpness and aggression.
She fell in love with the class teacher regardless of the secular vision, but she has been trying to prove herself because of her father-in-law’s identity; In the education of children, she is also different from other women, thinking that she came to this world not to be anyone’s mother or wife, but to be an artist. What kind of life experience has created such a talented and wanton female director? Now, I’m going into Wang Chaoge, the dialogue director of the dialogue program "Shede Wisdom Lecture Hall" jointly launched by Shede Liquor and Phoenix.com, to understand the story behind her growth.
Because of directing the stage play, Zhang Yimou took a fancy to form the iron triangle of impression.
In 2002, Wang Chaoge was attracted by Zhang Yimou because of a stage play directed by her. She and her partner Fan Yue and Zhang Yimou formed the iron triangle of impression, and created seven live impression performances in ten years, which was well received and brought billions of industrial scale to the local area. In Yangshuo, the place where Sanjie Liu performed, 100,000 people depended on this performance, and then Wang Chaoge brought her original large-scale situational experience drama See Pingyao again, which once again subverted the imagination of the audience and once again made people lament Wang Chaoge’s artistic attainments.
In July 2018, Wang Chaoge directed the first overseas series See Malacca Again, which opened its first performance. So far, more than one million tickets have been sold, attracting 1.2 million tourists to Malacca every year.
After Wang Chaoge took "Seeing Chinese Music Again" to perform at the Kennedy Art Center in the United States, their posters were permanently hung on the glorious wall of the Kennedy Art Center. Washington post in the United States used a whole page to praise it. At that time, Wang Chaoge felt that his greatest glory was being recognized as an artist. This art was China’s art, and it was about China, using our China’s aesthetics.
After reading her See Pingyao again, See Dunhuang again and See Chinese Music again, you will understand what is the foundation of Wang Chaoge’s works?
She admits that the last thing she wants to see is the veil that her children say is the most beautiful one with the seven dwarfs and Snow White. The last thing she wants to see is China’s erhu and pipa. The elephant is invisible, loud, freehand and blank, with red walls and green tiles, which has become insignificant and broken all over the floor. She hopes that her works can make Chinese’s values and Chinese’s aesthetics recognized by the world. And this is exactly the values she advocates.
Thank the people around you for allowing yourself to grow freely.
Wang Chaoge once described Zhang Yimou as a tiger and Fan Yue as a leopard, but when asked if he described himself as an animal, Wang Chaoge said, "I’m not an animal, I’m a plant, I’m a tree."
Because to outsiders, Wang Chaoge has thorns and sharp edges, but in fact, she feels that her heart is never a fierce animal, but very quiet, like a tree.
The luckiest thing about this tree named Wang Chaoge is that she can grow in the way she wants. "I feel particularly lucky that they spared me. They allowed me to grow into my original appearance. They allowed me to live and work in my own way, instead of having to repair me and repair me into what they want."
Wang Chaoge owes her luck especially to her father. According to Wang Chaoge’s description, her father was the kind who was very satisfied only when she failed in math and physics, and was the kind of father who praised her as the future Ai Qing when she saw her childish first poem. In a word, he is the one who made Wang Chaoge think that he was "gifted" since he was a child. Growing up in such a family environment, Wang Chaoge was a person with abundant emotions and flamboyant personality since childhood.
Especially when Wang Chaoge was widely criticized for falling in love with his head teacher, the attitude of his family has always been the backing of Wang Chaoge’s unbridled love.
Fall in love with the class teacher regardless of secular vision during school.
In the 1980s, the love between teachers and students was still a very shocking thing. Wang Chaoge, a junior in Beijing Broadcasting Institute, talked about love with her head teacher Xu Dong.
In 1988, 20-year-old Wang Chaoge was admitted to the director performance department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute. Xu Dong has just graduated to teach in the Broadcasting Institute, and happens to be the head teacher in Wang Chaoge. On Teacher’s Day in freshman year, Wang Chaoge planned and arranged a party with his classmates. Xu Dong’s impression of Wang Chaoge is that this beautiful girl is very talented! Xu Dong didn’t know, and Wang Chaoge was secretly watching him. Xu Dong is one meter tall and elegant in appearance, which makes Wang Chaoge in seed of love adore him.
Wang Chaoge described the small details of their budding love to Shed Shed Wisdom Lecture Hall. At that time, they went to the theater at Renyi and went out to buy popsicles at halftime. As a result, they found that their habits of eating popsicles were similar. Later, when I went to Xu Dong’s home, I found a three-drawer table with the traditional Central Academy of Drama written on it, while the traditional Ministry of Higher Education was written on the table of Wang Chaoge’s home, even the layout of the table and the division of drawers were exactly the same.
Too many similarities make Wang Chaoge and Xu Dong feel very happy. They both feel that they have found the other half of their lives.
Under the pressure of Xu Xiaozhong’s daughter-in-law, I tried to prove myself with my works.
However, the atmosphere in those days was very conservative, and if a few more words were said between female students and unmarried young male teachers, it would cause rumors. Especially Xu Dong’s father, Xu Xiaozhong, was very famous at that time. He was not only the dean of the Central Academy of Drama, but also an outstanding director. As a student of the director department, he fell in love with Xu Xiaozhong’s son, and everyone’s views on Wang Chaoge were even different.
So, she desperately explained to people, "In fact, my mom and dad are also bureau-level, my mom is the president of a magazine, my dad is the president of a newspaper, the same level as his dad, and my dad is quite famous." Looking back now, this is a somewhat ironic explanation, but it was a hard hurdle for Wang Chaoge at that time. She was burdened with such pressure, which lasted for a long time in her life, even when directing works, she never asked Xu Xiaozhong’s opinion.
As she once said, "You can be a princess by your parents, a queen by men, and a queen by yourself." She hopes to tear off the label of "daughter-in-law Xu Xiaozhong" with her own efforts and prove herself with her own works.
In her junior year, Wang Chaoge and Xu Dong co-produced the TV series "Stories in Summer Vacation" for the first time, which further confirmed that Xu Dong was her significant other. What they did together also made Wang Chaoge change from caring about other people’s opinions very much to facing his heart and figuring out what he was after.
The alternative view of education has long been a choice between affection and art.
Wang Chaoge spends almost half a year away from home, and sometimes needs to be stationed in the theater for three months or more, so the way for her to accompany her family is to pack up and take them with her.
She said, "I don’t want to play the mother you think is right." Many women are trying to be a good wife, a good mother and a good daughter, but they don’t care to be a good self. Wang Chaoge has never been troubled by such problems.
She often says to her daughter, "I didn’t come to this world to be your mother or your wife. I want to be an artist first, and then your mother. Do you understand?" Wang Chaoge’s choice is very clear. She knows what she wants and where her value lies.
Wang Chaoge became Wang Chaoge precisely because she had a clear understanding of herself, a clear pursuit of goals and a decisive choice of values.
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