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zhang yashu's choice

it always looks adventurous.

underwater,on the ice,

she continues to expand the possibilities of dance.

“i don’t do those things for the adventure.

i'm just afraid that i have no vitality.

people should do interesting things.

keep yourself alive all the time."

she wanted to take a slow, gradual approach.

the method of accumulating strength and then releasing it gradually,

showing the edge of life.

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zhang yashu had a lively and interesting time on this rare long vacation. every august, the edinburgh international festival, one of the world's oldest and largest international art festivals, kicks off in this city on the east coast of scotland. dance dramas, plays, musicals, and talk shows are all over the streets. zhang yashu will stay here for ten days, walk around and recharge herself. this year, the edinburgh international festival will screen thousands of works.

at seven o'clock in the morning, zhang yashu landed in this city, packed up her things at the hotel, and then went straight into the theater. she watched three plays intensively in one day. the next day, there were still three plays waiting for her. in her daily life, she never limits herself to ballet. she likes drama, drama, and popular physical drama abroad. "i will watch an opera tomorrow," she shared. the vividness of drama will empower people outside the play. offstage, zhang yashu will become a fully engaged audience. she can always feel the most direct information brought by her senses. when people on the stage laugh, she laughs. when people on the stage cry, she cries too. "i will put myself in a very emotional perspective and feel the work purely."

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after the holiday, zhang yashu will return to the stage. this year, she has two dance dramas, dream of red mansions and wing chun, on tour. "be the most beautiful woman and throw the hardest punch" - on the stage, zhang yashu presents another kind of vividness, which is the vitality from the complex appearance of women.

in 2021, she joined the troupe of the dance drama dream of red mansions, playing the role of qin keqing; in 2022, she began training for the dance drama wing chun, playing the role of director and baguazhang master. this was a rare experience of fighting and interacting with different women twice.

when li xing, the director of the dance drama dream of red mansions, approached zhang yashu and invited her to play qin keqing, one of the twelve golden hairpins, zhang yashu once asked li xing: are you sure? in the paper version of dream of red mansions, qin keqing is delicate and graceful, unlike zhang yashu, who has a straightforward personality. li xing said that he would trust him and he would not make a mistake. after getting the role, zhang yashu first approached it from a literary perspective, and after understanding it, she understood it from different perspectives of human nature and women, and then returned to the dance drama itself. in the progressive creation process, she understood qin keqing more and more. she was charming without knowing it, and her innate charm became a bane in a certain era; her controversial ending also gave zhang yashu more possibilities for exploration. "dream of red mansions is a story about a group of women. empathy for them will exist both in the past and in the present. i can easily get into the role and push the empathy point in my heart again and again when performing."

in wing chun, the audience is easily moved by zhang yashu's performance of the female headmaster. within a few minutes, martial arts instantly filled the atmosphere of the stage, presenting a direct violent aesthetic. zhang yashu feels that at this age, it is a blessing to meet the female director in the dance drama. "when i played the role of the female director, i was constantly changing, so she was also constantly changing. this change is due to my constant understanding of myself and how the women around me can stand on their own and withstand the wind and waves." at the beginning, zhang yashu's impression of the female director was stereotyped. in her imagination, she was angular, cold, and strong. slowly, she made the role soft and warm, like a round pearl, shining with soft brilliance, giving the role an inner light and three-dimensional charm. "the reason why women can withstand the wind and waves is because they can bear the wind and waves. this is the touch and change that time and experience have brought to my acting roles."

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in june this year, the two works were performed 200 times and 190 times respectively. repetition does not make zhang yashu feel boring, she can always find a different kind of vitality in it. she danced wing chun for more than 90 times, and set a goal for herself in her heart to dance 200 times. "with each performance, i feel closer to my goal. the closer i am to the goal, the more new ideas i can have. setting a goal does not necessarily mean setting an end point. before reaching this place, you must also accept all the interesting changes in the process."

on stage, zhang yashu releases her nature in her roles, presenting the vitality of women with her graceful body movements; off stage, zhang yashu loves to explore by nature, and her choices always seem to be adventurous.

in order to create underwater dance, zhang yashu obtained a diving certificate and danced underwater more than 400 times; in the volcanic lake deep in changbai mountain, she danced under the frozen riverbed and presented the story of "green lady si shuang". she constantly broadened the possibilities of dance. what others don't know is that zhang yashu couldn't swim before, and she had always been a landlubber. after learning to dive, she found that she could swim. she found that she couldn't swim before because she was afraid of water. when facing the unknown in the water, people will be afraid and can't control their bodies at all. after learning to dive, she also learned how to live in peace with water.

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when zhang yashu was approached with the script for "the blue lady si shuang", she knew that the story would be filmed in the cold changbai mountain. she did not hesitate at all, "i didn't think it was a big deal", until she finished the project and people around her talked about it, she realized, "it turns out that this thing seems so unbelievable to you." zhang yashu remained calm throughout, thinking that since ice diving has always been an item in diving, it means that it is a relatively mature project, and she is not challenging anything.

during training, zhang yashu has been practicing in an eight-meter-deep pool with normal temperature. when she arrived at her destination, changbai mountain, on the first day, she walked forward in a thick down jacket, with snow covering her calves and over her knees. "it was quite scary when i went to see the venue." on the second day, after making all preparations, zhang yashu jumped from the ice into the water in an environment with a minimum temperature of minus 20 degrees celsius. she can still recall the feeling at that moment: when she entered the water, she was blinded, and her hands and feet did not feel like her own. she kept saying to herself, there will be no second time, only this time. everything that happened later, "was completely based on willpower, it was a process of fighting fear." when she got up from the water, zhang yashu felt as if she was cut by a knife. for the first time, she felt, "oh, it turns out that this is how the skin feels after being rapidly frozen." "it's pretty strange anyway," zhang yashu recalled, and she became the insensitive, brave, and fearless person she was. "if it weren't for this shooting experience, i would never know what it feels like to be in the ice and snow at minus 20 degrees celsius. isn't this interesting?"

zhang yashu chooses to think in a simple way. facing every seemingly adventurous journey, zhang yashu never hesitates. "i don't do those things for the sake of adventure. i'm just afraid that i have no vitality. people should do interesting things to keep themselves alive. i don't accept lukewarmness, but the challenges i choose are not necessarily very sharp. they are slow, step-by-step, and accumulated. i have been doing many things with this mood."

zhang yashu is now 36 years old. she is still looking forward to more vivid and adventurous journeys. on her social media, she wrote, "36 years old is the best stage for a woman." she can still say loudly how much she loves dancing, can still dance for herself very purely, and can still try everything new, in life and in dance. this is like the kind of life that the poet eliot wrote about, burning at all times. such a life experience is precious. she said that she would think of the first batch of twelve beauties in the crew of the dance drama "dream of red mansions", all of whom were female dancers with rich stage experience. in one scene, the twelve beauties walked from the back of the stage, step by step, to the front of the stage, without any physical movements, just walking quietly. director li xing said that if it were a young dancer, they would not be able to walk that way. women's experiences, experiences, and knowledge were intertwined at that moment to support such a pace. "only if you have an understanding of yourself and life can you stand on the stage and walk out of a sense of destiny for the role."

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zhang yashu danced on the stage again and again. she felt that she was analyzing the characters and getting to know herself again and again. she felt that this moment was beautiful because she understood herself better than any previous time. "maybe when i am 46 years old, i will feel that 46 is also the best. at that time, i will understand myself better. for every person and every woman, loving yourself and understanding yourself is an incremental process. at every stage of a woman's life, our understanding of loving ourselves will present a new perspective. learn to use love and understanding to create the richness and beauty of your own life, just like pearls, it is precisely its uniqueness and irregularity that show its unique charm and value, and everything will not end here."

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photo by bo zhang

written by alice

styling/cassie liu

makeup and hair/zhang yangyang

styling assistant / x, liu bai

assistant／wang yongqin