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<div id="read_tpc" class="f14"><!--Begin 踩楼--><font size="3"><font size="3"><font face="宋体 ">亚特兰大报纸AJC和亚特兰大官方芭蕾舞博克（Atlanta Ballet Official
Blog）同时报道了亚特兰大芭蕾舞团特邀华人芭蕾舞大师魏东升加盟国际著名的编舞家詹姆斯•库德拉的The Four
Seasons演出的消息。<br>亚特兰大官方芭蕾舞博克:<br><a href="http://atlantaballetblog.com/2011/08/29/artistic-director-john-mcfall-and-other-ab-alumni-to-perform-in-four-seasons/" target="_blank"><font color="#0070af">http://atlantaballetblog.com/2011/08/29/artistic-director-john-mcfall-and-other-ab-alumni-to-perform-in-four-seasons/</font></a><br>AJC多次报道并盛赞亚特兰大芭蕾舞团The
Four Seasons演出，AJC记者Howard Pousner 专程到<span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(250, 137, 27); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; cursor: pointer;" id="rlt_1" onclick="sendmsg('pw_ajax.php','action=relatetag&tagname=APDA',this.id)">APDA</span>舞校采访了魏东升先生并撰文Whatever
happened to ... Atlanta Ballet star Wei Dongsheng， 发表在AJC Monday October 17
2011上，这是文章的电子版：</font></font><br><br>Wei Dongsheng, the popular Atlanta Ballet
dancer who retired in 2004 at age 38, doesn’t feel he’s getting older. But as he
prepares to return to the company where he was an audience favorite for 14
years, he notes that the dancers with whom he’s sharing the rehearsal studio
sure seem to be getting younger.<br>Now 45, Dongsheng will portray a harbinger
of death in “The Four Seasons,” as part of the Atlanta Ballet’s season-opening
performances Friday through SundayOct. 21-22 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts
Centre.<br>Dongsheng, though, is filled with life, still in top condition as the
result of running the Atlanta Professional Dance School in Johns Creek that he
founded with his wife, Jenny Chen, in 2000.<br>“The dancing, movement part is
really not a challenge at all,” he said in his still-strong accent. “The
movement to be with the company, I think, that is the most treasure for me. I
really enjoy every single minute.”<br>Appreciated for his flawless technique and
commanding presence before his retirement, Dongsheng has kept those honed
through his work at Atlanta Professional Dance School, which teaches classical
ballet to 250 students from 4 to Adults.<br>“When I teach, I don’t like to sit
down and just talk and use my hands,” he said. “I love to be physical. I have
to use my body to explain things. I think that helps me keep in
shape.”<br>Dongsheng sometimes takes a class at his school taught by another
teacher, but doesn’t otherwise have a workout routine. He credits his good form
to the strict training he received as a young student at the Beijing Dance
Academy from 13 to 20 years old.<br>During his years at Atlanta Ballet, where he
started as a company member in 1991 with tremendous dance knowledge but no
English, the 6-foot-fall dancer never weighed more than 150 pounds. Today, he’s
at a sleek 148.<br>At his annual checkups, he’s routinely told he needs to gain
weight.<br>“I say, ‘This is my weight!’” he recounted with a laugh. But he said
the message has started to worry him a bit. “The nurse told me if I got sick, I
have nothing to burn.”<br>So he eats ice cream every night after a late dinner,
a habit that goes back to his professional days when many dancers ate after 10
p.m. whether they were performing that night or not.<br>But Dongsheng said as
much as he loved that life, he didn’t look back after he retired — in part
because he had no choice but to look forward.<br>“It was up to point that I had
to retire, because my wife couldn’t continue to run the school by herself,” he
explained. “That was the good thing: I right away started to help, and she said,
‘You do this, you do that…’ It was really intense.”<br>He said it’s highly
rewarding to help bring up a new generation of classical ballet artists at his
school, which is 90 percent Asian, a majority of the students Chinese, but also
including Caucasians, African-Americans, Latinos and Jamaicans. He has taken
many of them to China on yearly educational tours, and, through his parent
company the T.M. Culture & Arts Center, has hosted students from the
National Ballet of China School.<br>Visa problems have made that latter kind of
exchange more difficult in recent years, to his frustration. “Humans made these
national things to stop the art,” Dongsheng said. “Basically I think the earth
is an international village. Everybody has their own culture, and we need to go
to go view what our neighbors’ culture is and exchange things.”<br>At the
moment, he’s focused on the chance to mix it up again with Atlanta Ballet
dancers, where he is also a guest instructor at its Centre for Dance
Education. <br>James Kudelka’s “The Four Seasons” marks his second performance
with the troupe since his retirement, the last one coming in February when he
danced the role of King Florestan XXIV, father of Princess Aurora, in “The
Sleeping Beauty.” He was asked to return in part because it marked the final
starring role of his long-ago partner, Kristine Necessary Loveless, who was
retiring at 28 to pursue her master’s on her way to becoming an elementary
school teacher.<br>“Wei was a mentor all the way through,” Loveless recalled.
“He just has this presence. Literally when he would walk on stage, you couldn’t
help but look at him, even by just walking. Something about him, your eye was
immediately drawn to him. Always perfect technique. So disciplined about
everything.”<br>Loveless will be one of many with fond memories in the Cobb
Energy audience this weekend watching Dongsheng under the spotlight once
again.<br></font><!--End 踩楼--></div></div>
作者：山人 时间：2013年06月04日 20:46 查看全文