Fantasy linkage! When Sui Wenjing and Han Cong choreographed Genshin Impact

At noon on September 13, figure skating grand slam team Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, inspired by the "Ice Wind Suite", a powerful enemy in Fengdan area in "Genshin Impact", performed a figure skating duet video "screen brushing" among game players. "Double kitchen ecstasy", "MiHoYo knows how to collaborate", "Real people actually dance in the game scene"... barrage after barrage reflect the surprises of players and netizens. When sports and art are in harmony, and when professions and hobbies go both ways, the boundaries of the game are further opened, demonstrating stronger cross dimensional attraction.

In figure skating, athletes dance to music, showcasing coherent technical movements such as lifting, spinning, sliding, and throwing, while also balancing dance and skating skills. Due to its high artistic and athletic value, figure skating is known as "ice ballet" and has attracted much attention in ice and snow sports. It is also a top rated event in major world competitions.

Chinese athletes have achieved remarkable results in the field of figure skating. This time, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who are linked with Genshin Impact, are the only pair in figure skating history that have ever won a "Super Grand Slam". In their daily lives outside the ice rink, both of them are experienced players in the game. Sui Wenjing likes animation culture, and the popular character of Walnut in cosplay, Genshin Impact, is highly reductive. Han Cong is a traveller and veteran player who has come to the "mainland of Tivat" of Genshin Impact since 2020.

The new Fengdan area scene of Genshin Impact

When the 4.0 version of Genshin Impact was updated, Fengdan, a new area based on Britain, France and Italy, appeared. The "Ice Wind Suite", a distinctive rival of the Fengdan region, which debuted with the new version, is inspired by figure skating. Players have found that the material for this collaborative work comes from the "Ice Wind Suite", and its music and appearance settings have been meticulously restored. The iconic figure skating movements such as lifting, spinning, sliding, and throwing in the game have brought stronger visual impact and artistic expression through the performances of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

Screenshot of Sui Wenjing, Han Cong and Genshin Impact

Sui Wenjing was invited to undertake choreography work, which was the first time that the two of Sui and Han performed together on an ice piece created by Sui Wenjing. "Figure skating is very inclusive, which requires athletes' aesthetic and musical perception. In competitions, players often choose performances with different styles. Each set of programs has different characters' psychology. It can be said that there are 10000 or 20000 words in the heart to hold up the performance of four or five minutes. In fact, it is very similar to the character setting in the game. Each character in Genshin Impact has a distinctive personality and rich shaping. This cooperation is unexpected and reasonable, which is a bold attempt for me." Sui Wenjing introduced, "In addition to repeatedly studying the action of the ice wind suite and designing suitable pace according to the rhythm of music, I also spent a lot of time thinking about how to The mechanical sense of Ice Wind Suite is added to our dance to achieve the best effect."

The seemingly simple actions and coordination in games are not easily achieved in reality. "Through constant practice and adaptation, we gradually found a state on the ice skating rink, and felt the resonance of the Boss setting, music and dance from the game. The feeling of beauty is interlinked, and figure skating can express art across languages, immerse people in it, and infect the audience at the same time." Han Cong said, "There are relatively few characters and music scenes in the game on the figure skating arena, and the main direction is classical music and classical dance. This cooperation combines the creative content of Genshin Impact and the artistry of figure skating. Maybe it is a good direction to appear on the figure skating arena in the future."

"Chinese traditional culture is vast, profound, and full of charm. Our performance has won the love of the audience and players, which is a recognition of our creative content and a deeper recognition of Chinese culture. In the future, I hope to showcase more Chinese power in program scheduling and showcase more programs with cultural charm on the international stage," said Sui Wenjing.

Comments from overseas users on this collaboration

It is reported that a few months before the launch of the new version, the Genshin Impact team has started preparing for this cooperation, hoping to show the charm of figure skating and ice sports to young people around the world through joint creation with the world's top athletes. The two athletes also expressed their hope that this choreography cooperation could be taken as an opportunity to make more people like figure skating, let more players go to the ice rink, experience the feeling of standing on the ice rink, and attract figure skating fans to pay attention to Genshin Impact and Chinese games.

Genshin Impact is an open world game launched by Shanghai enterprise Mihayou. It was awarded the Best Mobile Game Award in 2021 by The Game Awards, known as the "Oscar in the game industry". In August this year, the first large-scale offline exhibition of Genshin Impact, "Genshin Impact FES", was held in the National Convention and Exhibition Center for four consecutive days. The first large-scale offline open competition of Genshin Impact, "Shadow Cup", with a bonus of more than one million yuan, will also be held in Shanghai.

The first Genshin Impact large-scale offline open competition "Shadow Fantasy Cup" is about to start in Shanghai