The next day, the Moscow International Ballet Competition officially kicked off. The competition categories were divided very carefully, including: youth group and youth group; according to the number of dancers, there were: solo dance, duo dance, group dance; according to gender, there were: men dance solo dance, women dance solo dance... just like different events in the Olympics.

lina signed up for the Youth Group’s Women’s Solo Dance Project.

There is only one game for solo dance, which means a game determines the outcome. In this way, the players' game pressure will be much greater.

Lina is not just the one who brought the accompaniment. There are 34 competitors in total, half of whom have their own accompaniment companions, but they are all pianos or accompaniment superimposed by a piano and an orchestra. Piano and ballet are recognized as the best and most official combination.

Because the Moscow Piano Competition encourages contestants to bring their own accompaniment, the contestants also set up a special award for the "Piano Accompaniment Award". Even if the contestant did not win the ballet performance, his piano accompaniment companions may win the award.

lina is the only contestant who has used Chinese instrument accompaniment in the seventy years since the founding of this competition.

As early as when Lina reported her participation in the competition and accompaniment instrument to the event, she confirmed to her three times, "Are you sure you use this instrument?"

"Yes, I'm very sure."

It was because of her unusual accompaniment that the contestants and judges paid special attention to her. It happened that there was a Chinese ballet dancer Zhao Wenting among the judges. After her popular science, everyone learned what "guzheng" is.

Zhao Wenting is a Chinese living in Russia and is over 50 years old. She is the first Chinese to win the first prize for women's solo dance at the Moscow Ballet Competition, creating a historical legend. Since then, more Chinese people have participated in this competition and won the award.

Now she has retired, but she still has a high reputation in the industry and is a master. She often serves as a judge in major ballet competitions in various countries around the world and is very experienced. She has participated in so many competitions by herself or seen others participate in so many competitions, but this is the first time she meets someone who uses Chinese musical instruments and Chinese-style music to compete. What's even more strange is that this person is not Chinese yet!

lina    atkinson,

Zhao Wenting kept this name in her heart.

She also noticed the name of the accompaniment: Shen Mozhen.

Just like major sports championships, the entire ballet competition is broadcast live to the world.

Zhang Pei, Peter and Alan, Luke, as cheerleaders, came to the Bolshoi Theater early and sat in the audience. They were all looking forward to Lina's performance.

Liu Lan is in the backstage and Miao Xiaomei helps lina and Shen Mozhen look.

After nearly a month, Miao Xiaomei took another extremely long job, from New York to Moscow overnight, and she didn't even have time to breathe, so she put on makeup for the two protagonists as soon as possible.

This time, Lina asked Miao Xiaomei to help her make-up. She said, "I myself, or the makeup artist I know, don't even know Chinese style makeup. I don't want to use a perfunctory face to perform "Transfer and Thousands of Returns"."

Lina's style is completely different from other contestants wearing traditional ballet tutus. Her costume was designed specifically for her performance by Zhong Jiangnan. The two elements of ballet performance show dance postures and show her figure. The complex Hanfu is definitely not suitable. Therefore, the flesh-colored skirt is only above the knees, not as complicated as ordinary Hanfu, simple and light. Zhong Jiangnan used silk fabrics, which are skin-friendly and slightly sagging. The skirt, even the hem of the bottom edge, perfectly fits the skin and outlines her graceful and slender figure. Moreover, this skirt has no sleeves. In this way, when Lina holds her hands high, she will not be able to resist any resistance on her shoulders.

Miao Xiaomei combed her a seemingly simple but very complicated bun. Her golden hair was meticulously combed together, and then a golden hairpin was inserted. The bun was very tight, and Lina's scalp was a little deformed, just to prevent one from falling off during the performance. If she jumped and her hair was loose, it would be a major mistake in the performance! Miao Xiaomei could not bear this responsibility.

Lina's outline is very deep, so Miao Xiaomei tried to blur her outline as much as possible, so that her eye shape would be softer, so that her brow bones would not be so protruding, and her nose would be smaller, and everything would be oriented towards the characteristics of the Eastern people.

Although it is different from the real ancient costume style, when foreigners who don’t understand see lina’s style, the first thing they think of is the East and China.

A Russian ballet lady in the same dressing room said curiously, "The first time I have seen such a performance costume, it's so beautiful!"

Shen Mozhen's style is relatively easy. She still follows her usual Chinese classical beauty style. With Lina, she wears flesh-colored Hanfu, which is more like rubber powder to be precise. She is a zither and cannot steal Lina's limelight. Her makeup and hair accessories are very elegant. Overall, she is similar to the white zither in "War North Wind", both of which are bland and cold.

Shen Mozhen felt that she seemed to like this style more and more. She felt inexplicably immersive and consciously held a cold and cold look, like a fairy who was not as good as the world.

In the waiting area, they were definitely the two brightest stars in the audience. Ballet contestants from all over the world were studying their clothes and looks.

Liu Lan and Miao Xiaomei watched the performance in the background.

The 34 players were divided into two days and two games, with 17 players in one game. Lina's luck was not as good as Li Xiaoru. She was assigned to the first game and she drew the 7th place herself. She appeared too early, so the judges could have the chance to suppress the score.

The first six contestants in lina performed traditional repertoire, standard academic, Liu Lan didn’t know ballet, she thought everyone danced beautifully and very well.

There is a black piano on the left side of the stage. If you bring piano accompaniment, you will sit and play live. If you bring a band, there is enough space on the stage to accommodate the entire symphony orchestra.

The sixth contestant brought a small orchestra, playing the main melody of the piano and combining other instruments, perfectly interpreting the famous song "Swan Lake".

The performance ended, and the audience applause was warm.

After everyone finished the scene, the lights on the stage dimmed, but the audience sitting in the front row could still find that the staff were laying something on the right side of the stage, wooden piano tables, wooden chairs, guzhengs, and strange musical instruments appeared in everyone's sight.

Everyone was talking about it,

The lights on the stage slowly lit up, but the brightness seemed not very strong, and there was a hint of dimness.

A graceful figure appeared in the middle of the stage at some point, with her back facing the audience, her toes on her tiptoe, and she showed a ballet-like posture, and she seemed to be holding something in one hand.

The audience suddenly talked about it.

"What kind of skirt is she wearing?"

"A skirt that is so long (not long, relatively short), can you dance ballet like this?"
Chapter completed!