What does leg work mean?

"Leg work" refers to the fact that actors need to use certain makeup or props when performing.

Especially when learning to sing opera, legwork is often required, such as the actor wearing a turban on his head and holding a fan in his hand. Or place the table in the middle of the stage to serve as the opening door or entry door. Legwork can often be seen in "Fenhewan", "Dou Gongxunnu" and "Wu Zhuizi".

In the process of the formation of cross talk, we extensively absorbed the advantages of ventriloquism, storytelling and other arts, blended solemnity with humor, used satirical jokes to express truth, goodness and beauty, and made people laugh as its artistic characteristics. ” as the main artistic means. There are three types of performance: stand-up, dialogue and group speaking.

Stand-up comedy is performed by one actor and tells jokes; stand-up comedy is performed by two actors who laugh and laugh, and there are usually two types: "one head deep" and "zimu 叏"; group comedy is also called " Group activity", performed by more than three actors.

Traditional repertoire mainly satirizes various ugly phenomena in the old society and reflects various life phenomena through humorous narratives. After liberation, in addition to continuing to carry forward the satirical tradition, there are also works that praise new people and new things. Traditional cross talk lingo (terminology) Leg work belongs to the category of Liu work (learning to sing).