Art, is made up of different varieties of art. Dance, as one of the arts, is likewise a very wide world, and it is also composed of different kinds, styles and styles of dance. According to the role and purpose of dance, dance can be divided into two categories: life dance and art dance.
I. Life Dance
Life dance is a dance activity that people do for their own life needs.
Life dance includes: customary dance, religious ritual dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, educational dance and so on.
1. Customary dance: also known as festivals, ceremonial dance, is many of China's ethnic groups in the marriage, funeral, planting, harvesting and other festivals held by a variety of mass dance activities. In these dance activities, the table view of the customs and habits of various ethnic groups, social customs, cultural traditions and national character traits.
2. Religious, ritual dance: is the dance form of religious and sacrificial activities. Mainly used to pray for divine blessings, remove disasters and illnesses, turn misfortune into good fortune, animal and human prosperity, a bumper crop, or to thank the gods for their gifts; ritual dance, a ritual dance form of ancestor worship. In the past, people used to express their nostalgia for their ancestors or hope that their ancestors and the gods and Buddhas would bless and give blessings to them.
3. Social dance: it is a dance activity for people to have social communication, promote friendship and contact feelings. Generally refers to a variety of social dance in the ball. In addition, many of China's ethnic minorities in a variety of festivals carried out by the mass of the dance activities, mostly young men and women for social interaction, free choice of spouse social activities, therefore, can also be said to be the social dance of the various ethnic groups.
4. Self-indulgent dance: it is a dance activity in which people entertain themselves for the sole purpose of self-indulgence. Dance to express and vent their inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure.
5. Sports dance: is a combination of dance and sports, artistic and aesthetic way to exercise the body, so that the physical and mental development of the new varieties of dance. Such as a variety of fitness dance, rhythmic gymnastics, middle-aged and elderly disco, ice dance, water dance, street dance HI-HOP, as well as China's traditional martial arts in the sword dance, sword dance and symbolic simulation of a variety of animals, a specific image of the Elephantine Boxing, Five Birds, etc. are.
6. Educational dance: refers to schools, kindergartens and other aesthetic education dance activities, as well as the opening of the dance course, used to cultivate and beautify people's ideological feelings, moral character, cultivate people's unity and friendship, strengthen etiquette, as well as to promote physical and mental health, can play a role in the subtle.
7. Square Dance: Square Dance is also known as line dance, square dance. When people dance, they automatically line up in rows and dance in an orderly manner. Square dance can fitness, entertainment, is a good sports program. Square dance, generally used for morning exercise, evening exercise, not subject to age, gender, occupation, position, social class restrictions, can be more than one person, the collective jump, can also be a single person to jump, the venue can be in due to the simple. Square dance in our country in ancient times, after thousands of years. Early square dance is mainly folk dance, which is the most popular rice-planting dance. In China's various nationalities, there are different forms of square dance, is a popular dance.
Second, artistic dance
This refers to the professional or amateur dancers, through the observation of social life, experience, analysis, concentration, generalization and imagination, the creation of art, so as to create a distinctive thematic ideas, emotionally rich, complete form, with a typical image of the art, by a few people on the stage or the square performances to the masses to enjoy the dance works. Because of the many varieties of artistic dance, according to the different artistic characteristics, roughly can also be divided into two categories.
The first category
Based on the different styles of dance features to distinguish, there are: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance, contemporary dance and ballet.
1. Classical dance: it is based on national folk dance, refined, organized, processed and created by successive generations of professional workers, and passed down through a longer period of artistic practice, and is regarded as a dance with certain exemplary significance and characteristics of classical style. Many countries and nationalities in the world have their own unique style of classical dance. European classical dance, generally refers to ballet.
2. Folk dance: a form of dance created collectively by the masses of the people in the long-term historical process, continuous accumulation, development and formation, and widely circulated among the masses. It directly reflects the thoughts and feelings, ideals and aspirations of the people. Due to the differences in the way of life and labor, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits of the people of various countries, nationalities and regions, as well as the natural environment, thus forming different national styles and local characteristics.
3. Modern Dance: It is a dance genre that emerged in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the classical ballet's tendency to stick to the old ways, detach from real life and purely pursue the formalist tendency of skills; advocate getting rid of the classical ballet too rigid action program, in order to conform to the laws of natural movement of the dance movement, free to express people's true feelings, and emphasize that the art of dance should reflect the life of modern society.
4. Contemporary dance (new dance): that is, different from the above three styles of new styles of dance, it is often based on the content of the performance and the need to shape the characters, unconventional, borrowing and absorbing the various styles of dance genres, various means of dance expression and methods of expression, and eclecticism for my use, so as to create a different from the various styles of dance have been formed with a unique new style of dance. Dance.
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Ballet: a kind of highly programmed theatrical dance refined and processed by professional dancers in the court. The word "ballet" is originally a translation of the French word "ballet", meaning "to jump", or "to dance". The word "ballet" is originally a translation of the French word "ballet", meaning "jump", or "dance", and its original meaning was just a general term for the movements of the legs and feet. The French court dance masters in order to rebuild the ancient Hitchcock integration of poetry, music and dance in one of the theater ideals, created a "ballet" such a blend of dance movements, mime gestures, facial expressions, theatrical costumes, musical accompaniment, literary tableaux, stage lighting and scenery and other ingredients in one of the comprehensive form of dance theater in the Western theater dance art dominated. In 1958, the Beijing Dance School was established to introduce Russian ballet, which has been in use for more than 40 years.
The second category according to the characteristics of the dance expression to distinguish, there are: solo, duo, trio, group dance, group dance, song and dance, song and dance theater, dance drama, and so on.
1. Solo dance, performed by a person to complete a theme of the dance, mostly used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal the inner world of the characters.
2. Pair dance, performed by two people **** with the completion of a theme of the dance. It is used to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and show the relationship between the characters.
3. Trio dance, performed by three people to complete a theme of the dance. According to its content can be divided into three different categories, such as expressing a single emotion and a certain plot, as well as showing the dramatic conflict between the characters.
4. Group dance, where more than four people dance can be called group dance. Generally for the performance of a generalized complex or to shape the image of the group. Through the dance formation, the picture of the change, change and different speed, different strength, different amplitude of the development of dance movement, posture, modeling, can create a deep poetic mood, has a strong artistic infectious force.
5. Group dance, a relatively large-scale dance works composed of a number of dances. Each dance has a relative independence, but they are unified in the **** the same theme and complete artistic conception.
6. Song and dance, is a combination of singing and dancing form of artistic performance. Characterized by singing and dancing both long in lyricism, but also good at narrative, can be viewed as a complex, delicate thoughts and feelings and a wide range of life content.
7. Song and dance drama is a singing and dancing as the main means of artistic expression to show the dramatic content of a comprehensive form of performance.
8. Dance drama, dance as the main means of artistic expression, and a combination of music, stage art (costumes, sets, lighting, props), etc., to show a certain dramatic content of the dance works.
Three, other classifications
Distinguished by age level, there are young children's dance, children's dance, teenage dance, adult dance, middle-aged and old people's dance and so on. The above is what I pasted from Baidu encyclopedia, and I think the types of dances with a long history are classical dances (such as Western ballet.) , customary dance and religious dance. If you think my answer is ok, be sure to pick me as the standard answer Oh!