Seeking an essay on how to appreciate dance

Dance appreciation is a kind of spiritual activity produced when people watch dance performances, and it is the whole process of feeling, experiencing and understanding dance works, therefore, it is essentially a cognitive activity. But it is different from the general awareness activities, but a special awareness of the dance works. Dance appreciation, that is, the audience through the dance image portrayed in the dance works, specific knowledge of the social life it reflects, the thoughts and feelings of the characters, as well as the dance author of this life phenomenon of aesthetic evaluation. Audience in the process of appreciating the dance works will often be linked to their own life experience, causing emotional ****ming, stimulate the memory of the relevant impressions, experience, and a series of imagination, association and other image thinking activities to enrich and supplement the dance image of the dance works to make it more complete, vivid and distinctive, so that in the process of watching the dance works to appreciate the broader life and the deep ideological meaning. In the process of watching the dance works, people can realize the broader life content and deeper ideological meanings. People carry out this kind of aesthetic activity of dance appreciation, first of all, we must have certain subjective conditions, that is to say, we must have certain knowledge of dance, dance appreciation level and cognitive ability, dance appreciation activities can be carried out normally and smoothly. Therefore, it is very necessary for us to understand the characteristics of dance art, the relationship between dance and other arts, the various factors that make up the image of dance, and the process of generating. Dance is after, refined, organized, beautified human movement as the main means of expression, expression of people's feelings and thoughts, reflecting the social life of a kind of art. From the point of view of the sensory characteristics of the dance works to the appreciator, it is a synthesis of auditory (temporal) and visual (spatial) performing arts. Dance is in a certain space (stage or square), mainly through the continuous movement of dancers and changing dance formations, images, and music, stage art (costumes, sets, lights, props) and other means of expression to shape the artistic image of dance. Therefore, it is important to examine and understand how the various means of expression in the work are closely combined together to form a complete artistic image, the thoughts and feelings of the characters, and how the thematic content of the work is expressed, so that we can deepen our understanding of the dance work and better appreciate the dance. The process of dance appreciation can not be separated from the image, its rational activity is always combined with perceptual activity, therefore, dance appreciation is also the process of image thinking of the dance audience. However, the image thinking of the dance audience appreciation and the specific process of image thinking of the dance author's creation is exactly the opposite: the author's creation is firstly from the beginning of the feeling of life, with the subjective emotional excitement, in order to obtain the subject matter, the formation of a clear theme, and then the application of various means of artistic expression to shape the artistic image, while the audience to appreciate the dance works, but the first from the beginning of the image of the dance perception, through the characters on the stage, the movements and the emotions expressed. The audience appreciates the dance works, however, firstly from the perception of the image of the dance, through the character's movements on the stage and the emotions and thoughts expressed, the audience is infected by the art, and produces the emotional excitement, and then they can realize the life content and the theme of the works reflected. That is to say, the author creates by grasping the reality of life and the essence of meaning to create an image, while the audience appreciates the work, but by grasping the image to recognize the reality of the life it reflects, and then appreciate and understand the essence of its meaning. In short, dance appreciation is no mystery, more contact with the dance, see more, familiar with the dance, understand the dance, will gradually improve the level of appreciation of dance. This is just as China's ancient literary theorist Liu Feiqiao said: "Where copy a thousand songs and then know the sound, watch a thousand swords and then recognize the instrument, so the image of the garden photo, it is necessary to first Bo Guan." The meaning is that will play thousands of tunes and then know the music, observe thousands of swords and then recognize the sword, so the comprehensive observation method, it is necessary to do more observation and research. One's ability to appreciate "the sound" and "the sword" comes from one's own artistic practice and its comprehensive and repeated observation and comparison of things. Therefore, we say, for excellent dance and dance theater works, only more than once to repeatedly appreciate, thorough experience and understanding, to be able to fully feel the dance aesthetic appreciation of the artistic pleasure, but also can continue to improve the level of dance appreciation and strengthen the dance cultural literacy. Appreciation of ballet, broadly speaking, there are two lines of thought. One is traditional and one is modern. Generally speaking, it is advocated that the method of appreciation and the object of appreciation should be unified: i.e., to use the meticulous traditional thinking to appreciate the three traditional periods of "early", "romantic" and "classical". Ballet, musical ballet and pure ballet. The traditional way of appreciating the ballet requires the audience to arrive at the theater half an hour or so in advance, so that they can leave all the trivialities and worries of daily life outside the door of the theater or in the checkroom in that earthly space, and then calm down and devote themselves to the theater as a very special aesthetic field that has nothing to do with the crowded road, the noisy market, the disputes in the unit, or the trivialities in the family, and enter the "Nymphs", "Giselle", "Giselle", "The Nymphs", "The Nymphs", "The Nymphs", "The Nymphs" and "The Nymphs". , "Giselle", "Gerberia" such an artificial fairyland, into "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake" such a dream world, a few hours in a row to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and the pressure of the spirit. Next, we can also attentively study the program, read the synopsis of the plot, reviews, a brief history of the company, choreographers and dancers, and other related materials, looking for a recognized ballet star, imagining another intoxicating musical masterpiece, looking forward to the lavishly ornate costumes and magnificent sets ...... modern! The idea of modern appreciation does not have any harsh requirements for the audience, but provides them with the philosophy of taking things as they come, because the rhythm of modern life simply does not allow the audience, especially the professional audience to arrive at the theater half an hour in advance, but rather emphasizes that the audience does not need to have any preconceived notions in the process of appreciation, and that they only need to use the rational knowledge that they carry with them, which varies from one to another, to understand, and to participate with the perceptual experience that they have from their life, with its many and varied colors. This is all that is needed. In this way of thinking, the program is simply a trap set by the choreographers or a panacea peddled to compensate for the incoherence of the choreographers or ballet choreographers themselves, which can be seen but not watched, or even better, not watched! Plot in the end is how to "write" is insignificant, the success or otherwise can only look at his stage how to "dance". Ballet in the final analysis, or to dance as the main, to play as a supplement, otherwise, it will not be able to explain the ballet in the leading actors in the dance after the pas de deux, and even after jumping in which the variations, they will be to the audience frequently salute the phenomenon. If the play is more important than the dance, this behavior is not out of the "play", and how can Western audiences and critics tolerate it for a whole century? This appreciation of the idea that the stars can be appreciated, but do not need to worship to the ground, the trend of star worship really seems too classical! The most important thing is to follow one's own aesthetic standards, not to follow the opinions of the critics; to look for the stars in one's own eyes and heart, not to follow the trend. The first is to appreciate modern dance works with a tolerant mindset. We have said that modern dance is to be new and different, serious exploration as the ultimate goal, so first of all, we should be able to accept it with a normal mindset, and at the same time, we need to have a keen thinking and judgment when appreciating it. In the eyes of the general public, since it is a dance, it must be always dancing, but in modern dance, this concept does not exist at all, because the concept of modern dance is very broad, in the eyes of modern dancers, everything in nature can not be danced, and every kind of behavior and every movement of human beings are not dancing. Secondly, it is necessary to grasp the creative background and motivation of the creator of the work, in fact, a work, to a large extent, on behalf of the inner world of the choreographer and the creation of the mentality at this time, and these phenomena are often manifested in the work, therefore, mastering the background and motivation of the creator of the work will help to better appreciate and understand the work. Third, look at the "dynamics" and "structure" of the work. Modern dance is an art with strong sense of form, therefore, no matter what kind of modern dance performance, the most basic thing is to start from the action, and the formation, continuation, development and change of the action, the most important thing is to look at the action of the method of borrowing power, and the second is to look at the structure of the work, the modern dance breaks the classical aesthetic principle of harmony and ideal, and pays attention to the people in the real world and pursues the true beauty of the nature, therefore. Therefore, it pays special attention to the contrast in the structure, the contrast between movements and movements, the contrast between dance sections and dance sections, the contrast between rhythm and rhythm, the contrast in the emotion and the contrast in the composition of the dance, etc. The fourth thing is to try your best to see more modern dances. Fourthly, we should try our best to see more modern dance works, and in the process of appreciation, we should feel the works wholeheartedly with the six senses that we are born with. In modern dance works, the emphasis is on the weight of the dancers themselves rather than ballet-like lightness, the process of space is emphasized in the movement rather than the movement itself, the rhythmic staccato is emphasized in space rather than smoothness, the imbalance is emphasized in the composition rather than the balance, and the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the process of the revelation rather than the cover. After understanding all these, we can then think rationally and analyze the work comprehensively. Having said that, I think there should be a preliminary concept of modern dance, in fact, no matter what, the dance is still a sensory process, even if the rationality of modern dance as the first, but also to the first characteristics of the sensibility of the appearance, if too purely rational thinking to understand the work, it can only make themselves into a misunderstanding of modern dance. Therefore, under the condition, because of an excellent modern dance to see a few times.