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After the pas de deux choreography was completed, Ye Cike and Qiao Zhihuan had calculated the difficulty score, with 5 out of 4.6 points.

The average difficulty score of previous champions is only 4.5, which is actually quite considerable difficulty.

"This level of difficulty is not stable enough." Qiao Zhihuan said, "Don't forget that this is the first year that Chinese classical dance has been selected as a dance that can be registered. Can the judges understand the beauty of Chinese dance? If so, how much can they understand? It is unknown, we cannot use the completed scores of previous ballets to predict the scores of Chinese classical dance."

"I specifically checked the session when Indian classical dance was selected into the WCDG dance category. The completion score of Indian dance was conservative. After two sessions, the completion score gradually stabilized."

He was right, and Ye Cike had no choice but to agree: "But I have one request. Don't pursue difficulty too much. If it is too difficult, it is easy to make mistakes. Completion points are equally important."

The next day, Igor helped them find an empty practice room to try their moves.

Qiao Zhihuan made almost all the action combinations more difficult, and wanted to add more difficult actions at the end.

He designed a two-stage lifting movement, a section where Qiao Zhihuan took off on the spot. After the successful lift, Ye Cike took the lead, and after adding deflection, let him rotate in the air for a circle, and then catch it firmly, showing the second section of Yan style lifting.

After hearing Qiao Zhihuan's idea, Ye Cike shook his head one after another: "No, it's too dangerous."

If this action can be completed smoothly, it is indeed gorgeous and beautiful, but there are several dangerous points in the action. During a lift, Ye Cike exerted force to make him idling and then completely let go. Qiao Zhihuan will have a very short vacuum when idling During this period, without any protection and buffer, if any accident happens at this time, it will be a fatal blow.

The second danger point is that Ye Cike catches it after the spin is over. During the throwing process, if the distance between the two is too close, it is easy to beat hands and feet and cause the action to fail, but if the distance is too far, it will increase the difficulty of catching , and the time from high throw to catch is too short, if there is a problem with the distance, it will not even be easy to adjust.

Qiao Zhihuan persuaded him: "I calculated according to the method of adding up the difficulty. After completing this set, the difficulty score is at least 0.5. With this set of movements, we have already got 5.0 in difficulty alone."

Before Ye Cike participated in WCDG as a choreographer, he knew exactly what the difficulty value of 0.5 meant.

As Qiao Zhihuan said, each of the WCDG is a top dancer, and it is difficult to widen the gap between the degree of completion, and the difficulty value of most people is distributed between 4.2-4.6, with a difference of only 0.4 points. If you increase the difficulty 0.5, as long as the performance is stable, it is equivalent to locking half of the championship in advance.

"Mr. He didn't say anything, but since he wanted us to come, he obviously came for the championship." Qiao Zhihuan said softly, "Mr. Ye, please accompany me to try it, what if I can finish it?"

As soon as he spoke, Ye Cike's ears softened.

What's more, it was rare for him to soften his tone, Ye Cike agreed very unprincipled: "Then...let's try first."

When designing difficult movements, in order to avoid injury to the dancer, usually someone will be found to stand aside to assist, and after finding a suitable point of force, gradually withdraw from the assistance.

Afraid that he would be hurt, Ye Cike called five people from the Erba training room next door to help. Three people assisted in completing the movements, and two people maneuvered with the cushions. The exaggerated battle made Qiao Zhihuan dumbfounded.

However, after entering the working state, everyone was serious for a second.

According to the plan, Qiao Zhihuan stood up straight on the spot, and Ye Cike followed his turning direction to catch the person, steady and accurate.

The onlookers immediately burst into applause.

They haven't seen Chinese classical dance much, and it's even more shocking to watch it up close, just like a neat martial arts movie.

It was not difficult for them to get up and catch this part, the problem was next.

Ye Cike took a deep breath, and tossed Qiao Zhihuan up slightly with a deflection angle. Qiao Zhihuan gathered his core and rotated in a very short time. He looked like he was flying, and the Oba actor exclaimed!

Ye Cike was worried that he had no support, so he caught it a little faster. As a result, Qiao Zhihuan's rotation margin was not exhausted, and the center of gravity suddenly lost balance. Duan held up.

"Don't worry." After landing, Qiao Zhihuan put his shoulders on his shoulders to comfort him, "I rotate faster than ordinary people, 0.5 seconds is enough for me to make two laps, and as long as my whole body is tense, I will stay in the air longer. It’s too late to pick up after the transfer.”

"Don't do two laps." Ye Cike frowned, "One lap, you'll be in the air for too long without protection, let alone two laps."

"Let's try first."

He couldn't hold back Qiao Zhihuan, and for the second attempt, he planned to follow what Qiao Zhihuan said, and then make a move after completing two turns.

Qiao Zhihuan was still jumping on the spot. After he caught it, he quickly deflected and threw the person into the air. Qiao Zhihuan spun rapidly in a very short time. After two laps, Ye Cike immediately made a move, but his fingertips slipped suddenly. Qiao Zhihuan's loose white shirt slipped away in an instant!

If he didn't catch him, Qiao Zhihuan would fall heavily on the floor. At the very moment, Ye Cike went all out and grabbed him into his arms suddenly, but he lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground.

After a whirlwind, Qiao Zhihuan bumped into something suddenly. He got up and realized that Ye Cike was protecting his head and shoulders, and the Oba actor reacted quickly, and the cushion was laid on the ground in time, which also blocked a lot of impact.

However, the fall was sudden and hard. Even with the cushion and Ye Cike, the fall was not light. He didn't care about himself. He turned over and touched Ye Cike's shoulder bones and back first: "How are you? Are you hurt?"

Ye Cike sat up from the cushion covering one shoulder, and said in a cold voice, "I won't practice this movement anymore."

You just fell once, so you don’t practice anymore?

Qiao Zhihuan was a little surprised, Ye Cike didn't seem like a person who quit in spite of difficulties?

Ye Cike regained his composure and regained his composure: "This action is too dangerous. From the perspective of choreography, I suggest canceling it."

"Is this cancelled?" Qiao Zhihuan was surprised. He thought that maybe Ye Cike really hurt from the fall, and quickly said, "Next time I'm going to fall, don't pick me up, just let me fall, so as not to implicate you .”

Unexpectedly, this made Ye Cike even more angry. He stood up suddenly, but he accidentally pulled his shoulder and unconsciously covered his left shoulder.

"Does it hurt?" Qiao Zhihuan hurriedly raised her hand and folded it on the back of his hand to cover her shoulders. She wanted to turn around and call the doctor, but she suddenly faced several actors from Oba.

By the way, the language is still not understandable.

Qiao Zhihuan was impatient, and said "doctor" to them in English and French with gestures. One of the Oba actors knew a little French and was about to go out, but Ye Cike suddenly waved his hand and said "no need" in French.

"I have no problem." He said to the actor, "We will not train this action for the time being, thank you for your help."

Several Oba actors confirmed that he was indeed fine before leaving the practice room.

The door of the practice room was closed again, and Qiao Zhihuan sat beside him, rubbing his shoulders for help: "...I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for." Ye Cike said, "It's normal to have injuries during practice—I've almost never seen a dancer who is completely uninjured."

Qiao Zhihuan whispered, "But if it's possible, I really hope that it's me who hurts, not you."

Ye Cike was silent for a moment, then whispered: "I hope so too."

The hands rubbing and pressing on the shoulders paused, and Qiao Zhihuan finally understood: "You said you don't want to practice anymore, because you are afraid that I will hurt?"

Ye Cike didn't speak.

It took a while for him to speak again, this time his tone was much softer: "Change your movements, Huanhuan."

The two were silent for a moment, and the only sound in the room was the rubbing of the clothes during the massage.

"I know you love me." After a while, Qiao Zhihuan said, "But I really can't listen to you about this matter."

Ye Cike turned his face away and his eyes fell on the ground.

"Ci Ke." Qiao Zhihuan sat closer, "Why is dance beautiful? Because it is rare, and it is different from people's usual body language. Dance is actually an art of resistance."

"We fight against gravity and make various volleys; against the idle and comfortable body habits, controlling the strength to the smallest detail; against the limit that is impossible to reach-this is the charm of dance."

"...I told you before that maybe I don't like dancing, but now I feel that what I said was wrong. Looking back carefully, I still enjoy dancing very much, especially the unparalleled sense of satisfaction after breaking through the limit. "

"Ci Ke." Qiao Zhihuan took the initiative to cover his wrist, "This time, can I invite you to challenge with me?"

Ye Cike was silent for a while.

Finally, he sighed softly: "You know I can't refuse you."

Qiao Zhihuan's eyebrows and eyes gradually curved, and he understood that Ye Cike agreed: "Actually, the two failures just now are not completely useless. The first time was picked up early, but the second time is actually not all a matter of timing, but The height of the throw does not match the speed of reaction. You should just do this."

He leaned close to Ye Cike's ear and explained softly, Ye Cike was surprised: "Isn't this more dangerous?"

Qiao Zhi smiled happily: "I believe in you."

"trust it completely."

There was a huge crowd in front of the National Center for the Performing Arts. Contestants from different countries held their national flags and lined up to take a group photo with the National Center for the Performing Arts. The WCDG officially kicked off.

The first competition event to be played is pas de deux, on the same day as the opening ceremony.

The office at the entrance of the Grand Theater was temporarily changed to a Chinese classical dance newspaper. Qiao Zhihuan opened the door to report. The staff first glanced at the two casually, and then immediately stood up and greeted warmly: "Ci Ke! Long time no see!"

After the face-to-face ceremony, she kindly reminded: "It will start four days after the group reports."

Seeing that she understood English, Qiao Zhihuan said, "No, he and I are both contestants, men's doubles."

The staff looked at Ye Cike in surprise, and then pointed in another direction: "The ballet pair is registered over there."

"It's not ballet." Qiao Zhihuan pointed to the stand on her desk, "It's Chinese classical dance, for men and women."

There were quite a few duo contestants who came to her to report this morning, but all of them were men and women. She raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure?"

"determine."

"Okay." After confirming in the computer system, she handed the printed number plate to Qiao Zhihuan: "Good luck."

Qiao Zhihuan stared at the number plate, on which was written the full name of WCDG in Chinese, French and Russian, as well as their order of appearance, No. 15.

Eight groups were selected for the double event, and eight groups were selected from the preliminaries to the finals, with a total of 15 groups. Drawing No. [-] means that they will appear in the penultimate place, which is not a particularly good order.

There was still enough time. Qiao Zhihuan and Ye Cike entered the hall and sat in a remote place, intending to watch the opening ceremony.

The National Center for the Performing Arts is magnificent, and the walls on both sides are all hollowed out to form separate stands. During the game, the referees will be divided into two groups, sitting in the first row and the stands on both sides, and scoring in real time with the help of the review system.

After everyone was seated, the representative of the International Dance Federation took the stage to deliver a speech, announcing the official start of WCDG.

Starting with the excerpts from "Swan Lake" by Oba, the presentation programs selected by various countries appeared one after another.India showed the group dance of the Bharat priests. It was the first time for Qiao Zhihuan to watch Indian classical dance, and he found it very novel.

"Before Chinese dance was included in the scope of dances, we could only choose ballet for this session. Liaoning Ballet, Guangba Ballet, and Shangba Ballet have all sent programs." Ye Cike tilted his head and said, "Since there is Chinese classical dance this year, it should not be I will choose ballet again."

As soon as the words were finished, the heavy and distant chime sounded, and Qiao Zhihuan was excited: "Ours! Our show is here!"

More than a dozen dancers in light gray robes came to the stage. After the rapid drumming, the guqin played, and dozens of dancers danced at the same time. Praise".

Huge calligraphy floats on the screen behind, the dancers on the stage are full of Wei and Jin style, the music is becoming more and more powerful, and several celebrities are throwing their long sleeves, like clouds flying into the sky.

The dancers in the venue probably rarely saw Chinese dance, and they were all fascinated by it. Qiao Zhihuan had a contestant in the front row exclaiming in a low voice: "My God, I guess they all can fly!"

"It's just so dreamy."

"Look at the lights in the front row, that's a lotus! But why is it a lotus?"

Ye Cike explained in a low voice in fluent English: "This dance drama comes from a poem written 1700 years ago. One of the successors of the separatist regime dreamed of the god in charge of the river and wrote a poem to praise it. The lotus in the front row we call it 'Palace Lantern' ’, the reason for using lotus is because of another famous poem of the poet "Fu Rong Pond", "Fu Rong" means lotus in Chinese."

"It's so beautiful." The contestants in the front row turned their heads and when they saw Ye Cike, they immediately lay down on the back of the chair and whispered in an exaggerated tone: "Ye Cike! I like your works very much, and I like "Limbo" very much. "."

Her voice was still due to the attention of the surroundings, and two or three people came over to praise "Limbo", and Ye Cike had to whisper hiss to signal everyone to return to the performance.

As soon as "Song of Ya" ended, the Xiongnu in narrow-sleeved short clothes and the Central Plains soldiers in iron armor and black clothes immediately appeared on the stage, and the two confronted each other to the tense drumbeat.

This is an excerpt from the dance drama "Zhaojun's Outing of the Fortress". The Xiongnu visited the emperor of the Han Dynasty. The Han soldiers danced with their swords at the banquet, and the Xiongnu warriors drew their swords. The banquet was full of undercurrents until Zhaojun in red made a stunning appearance.

Her face was covered by a golden curtain, her long clothes were elegant, her footwork was smooth, and her charm was refined. As soon as she appeared on the stage, the audience was filled with awe.

Even if the language is different and the culture is different, the audience can overcome all barriers and experience the most primitive and simple aesthetics.

It wasn't until Zhaojun left the stage that the audience seemed to wake up from the big man's dream and burst into warm applause.

On the way to the backstage to wait for the show, Qiao Zhihuan still told Ye Cike that this was a competition, but also a cultural exchange. It was the first time he knew Indian classical dance, and more people also saw Chinese classical dance.

After the opening ceremony, the spectators who bought the tickets for the match will enter the arena, and the pas de deux competition will begin immediately.

Different from the two-round knockout system of solo dance, 16 groups of pas de deux will draw lots to determine the order, perform in sequence, and finally determine the ranking by scoring.

During the competition, all the duet dancers are waiting in the background, and they can also watch the live broadcast of the competition through the screen to understand the status of other people.

Qiao Zhihuan pushed open the backstage door, and immediately heard Ming Liang's "Ms. Ye!"

The exquisite and light female dancer flew like a swallow: "You really came to compete!"

Immediately after she noticed Qiao Zhihuan, she shyly hid back and asked hesitantly, "Qiao Zhihuan?"

Qiao Zhihuan nodded, and she smiled brightly: "I look better than on TV! Our dormitory likes you so much!"

However, she went on stage with her partner without exchanging a few pleasantries.

According to Ye Cike, this girl is a student of the High School Attached to Beijing Arts. Ye Cike taught her a few classes when she was studying for a master's degree. She was the second to play, but she was not nervous at all. , The completion score is 4.6, and the total score is 4.4, temporarily ranking second.

Qiao Zhihuan noticed that after the girl's performance, the audience applauded very little.

"This girl's performance is not bad, why is the response so-so?"

A person from the Emperor Ballet next to him joked: "How should I put it, welcome to Russia."

Qiao Zhihuan was puzzled, and an actor from Russian Ballet answered: "The audience of classical dance in Russia is the most picky audience. Conquer Russia, and you can conquer the world."

Qiao Zhihuan watched a few more sets and deeply understood the meaning of this sentence.

Whipping the whip and jumping, the Russian audience had a familiar expression, and it took more than a dozen laps of the whip to win some stingy applause.

After thinking about it, Qiao Zhihuan could understand, after all, they were used to seeing Oba's lead performance.

The sequence of appearances was getting closer and closer, and he became more and more nervous. When he arrived at the No.13 group, the staff led them to stand on the sidelines and wait.

The huge music made people's bodies vibrate. The side of the stage is different from the backstage, and the sense of presence is particularly strong.He suddenly touched Ye Cike's heart and asked, "Are you flustered?"

Ye Cike smiled slightly: "I'm starting to panic now."

Qiao Zhihuan couldn't care less about joking with him, the two contestants passed by them, and the No.14 group appeared.

The two contestants, like them, were male pas de deux, dancing excerpts from Proust.

The two actors of Oba are strong and powerful, and the first pair appeared in action. They were frozen in a posture obliquely begging the sky, perfect like two Greek sculptures.

After the performance, the critical Russian audience gave the first round of applause since the game.This section got a difficulty score of 4.6 and a surprisingly high completion score of 4.9, temporarily ranking first with 9.5.

After hearing the score, the two contestants of Oba clapped their hands vigorously.

The current No.2 is a full 0.2 points behind them. As long as the latter two groups are not upset, they will become the champions of the WCDG double event.

The audience also seemed to be unsatisfied, and there was a lot of discussion in the audience.

"Group No.15, Chinese Classical Dance Men's Pair, "Li Huo"." The announcer's voice was a little tired, "Basic difficulty——"

The announcer was visibly stuck.

The audience in the audience also noticed his mistake, stopped discussing, and the audience was silent.

"Ahem, sorry, I just checked with the staff. The basic difficulty score for this group." The announcer's voice suddenly filled with enthusiasm, "5.0! We will usher in the first top difficulty score in the audience!"

The audience exclaimed in low voices.

5.0, top difficulty!What is this concept? !

In order to encourage them to challenge bravely, Qiao Zhihuan and Ye Cike were the first to receive a wave of admiring applause before they made their debut.

There was a bright light on the stage, and Qiao Zhihuan stood in the shadow left by the curtain on the side of the stage, separated from the light by a thin line.

"Ms. Ye." He squeezed Ye Cike's hand quietly, "I am already very happy to be standing here with you."

"So, what kind of difficulty score, whether you get a prize or not, let's put it aside for the time being." He handed Ye Cike his hand as an invitation gesture, "Let's enjoy it together."

The announcer dragged out their names: "Let us welcome, Qiao Zhihuan—Ye Cike—!"

Qiao Zhihuan clenched his hand tightly, pulling Ye Cike and cheering, and ran into the light.