What kind of acrobatics education do we need?

    The mode and quality of talent cultivation is one of the key factors that determine the development potential and space of acrobats, and is related to whether acrobats can smoothly transform in the "post-golden period". In an interview with the reporter, some experts said that in order to improve the training level of acrobatics talents, promote the smooth transformation of acrobatics talents and promote the long-term development of acrobatics, our acrobatics education is also facing the important task of transformation.

Education of acrobatics must change from "emphasizing skills over skills"

Sun Lili (Art Director of Beijing International Art School) :
　With the improvement of the audience's level of artistic appreciation, traditional acrobatic stage performances have been unable to meet the needs of the audience, which requires that the education of acrobatics should not stop at pure technical training and pure body performance training, and the comprehensive performance ability of stage is the key to assess a qualified acrobat.

Compared with foreign countries, most of the acrobats in Europe and America choose acrobatic art according to their personal preferences after graduation from middle and high schools. Their cultural education completed in advance makes them have high cultural literacy, solid cultural foundation, strong sense of art on stage and easy to attract the audience's attention. However, Chinese acrobats have been training their skills since they were young. In many places, there is still a phenomenon of emphasizing technology over culture. This concept needs to be changed.

The demand of modern market for acrobatic art is not only good-looking, artistic, but also breathtaking and exciting. Only the technical performance, will appear on the stage "double difficult" performance - difficult to practice and ugly. Difficult practice means that the technique is complex and the practice is difficult. Ugly is the performance lack of artistic sense, can not resonate with the audience, but will cause audience hate. Acrobats should emphasize a few comprehensive qualities: acrobats' difficult skills, dancers' bodies, martial arts actors' spirit and spirit, athletes' bodies, but also opera actors' magical eyes, in addition to the most important should have high school education. Acrobatics is a kind of silent art, without connotation of performance, it is difficult to achieve the sense of dialogue with the audience, no spiritual communication, will be a failure of the performance.

The current education of acrobatics should start from several aspects: first, attach importance to cultural education; Second, pay attention to ideological and moral education; Third, comprehensive quality improvement; Fourth, in the process of training, we should bring the training mode of sports athletes into the basic training of acrobatics, and add auxiliary training into the curriculum, so as to improve the foundation of acrobats and let children get all-round development.

In addition, what needs to be paid attention to is that the education of acrobatics should pay attention to Chinese characteristics and cannot completely copy the training methods of foreign actors. Although foreign actors have good comprehensive quality, the lack of skill training makes it difficult to reach the level of Chinese performers. The strong points of Chinese acrobatics are risk, high and difficulty. We must insist on artistic performance and acrobatics. At the same time, we also need to improve the comprehensive ability of performers and improve the level of acrobats in an all-round way.

Avoid premature "specialization"

Cheng Haibao (Principal of Shanghai Circus School) :

At present, there are two kinds of acrobatics education, which mainly include acrobatics troupe training and professional acrobatics school education.

The students in charge of the team are usually trained for a certain skill, but they have no time to cultivate other abilities. Such talents are easy to get on the stage early and leave the stage early. The children who come out of school are systematically trained and educated in the comprehensive ability of acrobatics. More students should receive systematic training in schools.

There is no precedent for academic acrobatics education, and even acrobatics schools lack of research on modern acrobatics education theory. At present, the teaching syllabus and teaching materials of acrobatics schools in different regions are governed independently, which greatly restricts the development of acrobatics. The country should standardize the training of acrobatics talents and systematically promote the reform of the training mode of acrobatics talents.

Don't push the students to the stage too early, too early focus, also easy to leave the stage because of the decline of the popularity of the program. A single skill can easily trap an actor in limitations.

With the development of acrobatics, we need to build more schools to train acrobatics talents. At present, there is not a college or university of acrobatics in the mainland. Without institutions of higher learning, the future development of acrobats will hit a bottleneck.

Innovative personnel training mechanism

Li Yannian (former deputy inspector of the art department of the ministry of culture) :

At present, the total number of acrobatic troupes in China is more than the total number of troupes in the world, reaching more than 200. At present, the main difficulties are enrollment difficulties, the number of students reduced; Secondly, the personnel training mechanism still needs to be innovated, which should pay attention to the improvement of comprehensive quality, and change the teaching mode such as league leading class and folk workshop. Third, establish the mechanism of talent guarantee and flow of Chinese acrobats, change the disorder of the flow of acrobats, and standardize the mode of the flow of acrobats. Fourth, we should pay attention to the cultivation of acrobatic operation talents and acrobatic stage art research talents. After all, the development of acrobatics not only depends on technical talents, but also depends on the development of many affiliated art talents, such as scriptwriters, directors and marketing personnel.

To construct the scientific theoretical system of Chinese acrobatics

Bian Faji (President of Chinese Acrobats Association) :

First of all, acrobatics is a kind of hard work. It takes a lot of time to practice and even face the danger of disability. For example, aerial programs are facing the danger of disappearing on the world stage due to huge risks and excessive requirements on personnel. Therefore, the government should strengthen the security guarantee for acrobatic talents. Secondly, while developing stage acrobatics, we should pay attention to the theoretical construction of acrobatics and the exchange with foreign acrobatics, so as to establish a scientific, systematic and normative acrobatics theoretical system belonging to China. Unfortunately, at present, there are not many people who are interested in the research and translation of acrobatics and the construction of acrobatics culture beyond the form of performance. So far, there has not been a specialized acrobatics research institution or even a professional organization of acrobatics researchers in China. Similarly, at present, there is no higher education institution for acrobatics in China, and the construction of acrobatics higher education system is weak. These status quo will not change for a long time, will greatly restrict the development and prosperity of contemporary Chinese acrobatics.