Hoang Yen was born in 2000, now 23 years old, but this girl has had some great moments in her acting career. Looking at her skillful and amazing moves in the Army Games in Russia or her participation in domestic dance talent competitions, few people know that she started learning dance when she was 17 years old. That is, to be so skillful, to enter this harsh and selective subject, in addition to having a suitable physical condition, learners need to start at an ideal age, from 7 to 12 years old. And in the process of becoming a real dancer, in addition to passion, there must be a serious training attitude, regardless of pain, time and weather. Dance has no place for lazy people! The hard training path of Hoang Yen - lecturer of the Dance Faculty, University of Military Culture and Arts is a proof.
People's Artist Hong Luu said that Yen loved dancing since she was little. Every time she followed her mother to the performance troupe, instead of paying attention to the lines like her mother did when she was little, Yen only paid attention to the physical scenes, and always said "I will become a dancer in the future". However, People's Artist Hong Luu did not want that. She and her husband analyzed for their daughter that dancing is a cruel profession and has a very short career span. Even if she had the aura of following the profession, it would quickly fade away. But Yen still pursued her dream. Then, one time, when the Military University of Culture and Arts came to recruit dancers, the scout saw Yen's qualities and immediately told People's Artist Hong Luu: Your body is very suitable for dancing, let me follow you! Hearing that, Yen immediately tried to convince her mother to let her practice dancing to compete.
Needless to say, the painful training of an older girl with dance like Yen had to strain her muscles, bones, and joints to practice dancing. Sometimes Yen had to cry out loud. Her father and mother, Meritorious Artist An Ninh and People's Artist Hong Luu, looked at their daughter in tears, not daring to take her to dance, lying down at night not daring to touch her. "I felt sorry for my child but didn't know what to do, because she was so passionate about it. In such pain and hardship, I thought she would give up, but just one day later she woke up and said: I'm still determined to dance! Her perseverance made her parents give up!"... Ms. Luu said.
Then it passed, Hoang Yen passed the entrance exam to the Military University of Culture and Arts in the indescribable joy of the whole family. Sweet fruit will surely be reserved for those who know how to cherish it from hardship. In 2020, with the encouragement and motivation of her direct teacher, Yen participated in the Vietnam Dance Talent Competition with the work "Hoa Vang" by Meritorious Artist Tran Ly Ly. Participating in the competition was a big challenge, requiring courage and rigorous training, because the contestants were dancers who had practiced since childhood. "Dancing the same work as me, but there was a friend in Ho Chi Minh City who entered the dance school at the age of 7, he performed many extremely difficult movements, with skillful techniques. At first, I was a bit lacking in confidence, but my teacher told me that I could do it because my storytelling and expressive nuances were very difficult to mix." Hoang Yen said. And "Hoa Vang" was performed by Yen like a trance. Yen's performance was rated by the judges as outstanding in performance and won second prize overall.
Every time there is a new dance play, Yen comes home to share with her mother and father about the way she chooses to convey it. Her father and mother always take the time to discuss the literary meaning and stage image so that she can visualize and come up with ideas. “There are times when she listens to me and Ninh, but there are also times when she moves on her own, following her own way of thinking and personality. I think that once you have absorbed the literary essence of the play, the way you move is the ego of each person. And to perform well in any subject, you must have literary knowledge to be able to express it well,” said People's Artist Hong Luu.
After the work "Because it's Mom" won second prize at the Army Games in Russia in 2022, which was also an excellent graduation performance, Yen continued to win two more second prizes at the Army Games in Russia before being trusted by the school to continue teaching. In the early winter, she received the decision to study choreography in China, a great reward for the tireless efforts of a Vietnamese dance talent.
However, that was not enough for People's Artist Hong Luu to think that the tree had borne sweet fruit. She thought her child needed more months of training. But the next impression of Hoang Yen, according to her mother, was the "hat-trick of confidence" in her child's maturity, when she received the nod to play Ho Xuan Huong on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of her death.
When accepting this program, director Vu Hai wanted to recruit a dancer who could perform a long passage about poetess Ho Xuan Huong from the age of 11 to 50. During that long period of her life, the dancer had to transform into each life and identity in the work. “There were some scenes that surprised me, she acted playfully when she was a child, acted tenderly and flirtatiously when she interacted with Chieu Ho and Nguyen Du, and was bitter, humiliated, sarcastic, and painfully proud when she exclaimed, If I could change my fate to become a man/ then how heroic would that be, when witnessing the hardships of life. All the lengths of life through poetry that were stylized on stage, Yen carried them all,” said director Vu Hai.
When asked if there is any pressure when participating in the arts while being born into a famous artistic family? Yen said that the pressure is only something she has to create for herself every time she performs in a program, on a stage and takes on a new challenge. "Success is still ahead, but we always know how to cherish the past because it is only with it that we can see the sweet fruits of today", People's Artist Hong Luu said as a confiding message to her daughter.