Because of the special nature of the square dance performance form, the performance site on three or four sides are the audience, the performance stage and the audience is the whole, the performance site is crowded with firestorm and bustle. This makes most of the square dance performance content must be enthusiastic and cheerful, with the dance terminology is "emotional dance". This form of performance determines that the square dance is not possible to show the content of the sad and sincere or very meaningful works, because the square dance of the special performance environment to decide.
Square dance features:
Collective:
Square dance is a highly participatory performing art form. Performances are in the form of collective dance, as few as dozens of people more than a few hundred people. The scene is red-hot and lively. Square dance must be performed in the square, the performance site is generally broader, the number of performers can not be too small. So the square dance is generally in the form of collective dance to show. In the wide venue to perform most of the single dance, double dance, triple dance form to perform
Casual:
Square dance is an art form performed in the square, while the square dance performance has a great deal of flexibility, the time can be longer or shorter, fully reflecting the subjective and objective wishes and needs.
Self-entertainment:
Since the emergence of square dance, self-entertainment is the main feature of square dance. People do not seek fame and fortune when participating in square dance, it is entirely for self-entertainment. Such as the first fifteen days of the first month of the red fire, the square dance in the morning exercise, most of the people are spontaneous performance. The use of dance to express the art of emotion, so that the dancer's inner emotions can be cathartic, resulting in a spiritually uplifting sense of pleasure, while the viewer also get the spiritual enjoyment, which makes the dancer to get the opportunity to express themselves, resulting in a sense of self-worth. This is the reason why square dancing is so entertaining, and why it has endured since its creation.
Spontaneity:
Many citizens organize their own square dance activities, and even buy equipment out of their own pockets, although there is no formal venue, but they have a full range of equipment such as sound, laser colored lights. Driven by the increasing number of dancing citizens, there are more people who take the initiative to raise funds to buy additional equipment. Many people in the team also took the initiative to watch videos from the Internet to learn dance, and even to the field "to learn", after learning to teach everyone, so that the type of dance has become more and more. Participants admire the people who volunteer to teach the masses to dance, in order to collective health and recreational activities, they do not care about the pay, responsible for the sound equipment with almost no absence, driven by the public and even a city of dance.