10 Tips for Learning Square Dancing

The 10 tips for learning square dance are to arrive at the venue in advance, warm up sufficiently, eat a small amount of food before the dance, wear the right dance clothes, tie up your hair, clear the distractions, find a good position, take care of the injured parts, learn at your own pace, and do the soothing exercises.

Square Dance Introduction:

It is the largest system in the art of dance, named for the many gathered in the square, integrating self-indulgence and performances as a whole, with the group dance as the main form of performance, to fitness as the main purpose. Including Jiamusi dance, dam dance, sailor dance and so on.

Square Dance is a rhythmic dance performed by residents spontaneously for the purpose of fitness in squares, courtyards, dams and other open spaces, usually accompanied by high decibel, rhythmic music.

Square dance in public **** place by the masses of spontaneous organization, the participants are mostly middle-aged and elderly people, of which the majority of the big mother. Square dance is a non-professional dancers to create the dance, is exclusively for the general public of the dance, because of the different nationalities, different regions, different groups so the square dance dance dance form is also different.

Characteristics of dance:

Square dance is not performed in the theater, theater performances stage curtains to isolate the audience and the actors; divided into the stage performance area and the audience to appreciate the area, so that the audience and the actors are separated. Square dance is performed in the audience, at least three actors face the audience directly, actors and audience can communicate directly.

Square dance classification:

1, the original

Mainly distributed in the countryside, mainly in the form of Han performances, generally in the first month of the 15th red fire appeared, the masses of spontaneous performances as the main body, which only refers to the Han. Minorities will be reflected in all aspects of life. But the Han nationality square dance form a wide range of numerous types is the main body of China's square dance.

The original square dance is a Chinese cultural treasure with the longest history and the most cultural connotations, as well as the basis for the creation of the dance. In the square art festival in shuozhou "kick drums rice-planting song"

2, processing dance

This is in the original ecological dance on the basis of organizing some innovative square dance. The history of this square dance is not long, from the Yan'an new rice-planting movement, there are more than 60 years of history. But this square dance has retained the original essence of the most things and give the dance a new sense of the times. It can synchronize with contemporary culture to become a work of art that is easily accepted by the people.

This is also the square dance in the square dance is the most difficult to do a good job in the square dance, because the old and the new is not good fusion, the creation of the difficulty, but the emergence of more fine works. For example, in Shanxi Province Square Culture and Arts Festival appeared in Yuncheng "Gao Tai flower drums"; Liulin County's "Shengshi Huazhang"; Xinzhou Yuanping's "phoenix rice-planting song"; Jiangzhou's "drum dance" and so on.