Stylistic characteristics of Mongolian dance
Dance is a cultural phenomenon, each ethnic group has its own national dance, the following is the stylistic characteristics of the Mongolian dance that I shared with you, take a look together.
Mongolia is a horseback riding nation. Riding a horse galloped on the vast grasslands, so that the Mongolian people formed a unique style of grassland culture. Because of the long-term horseback riding, the Mongolian dance movements are mostly shoulder and arm-based. Such as hard shoulder, soft shoulder, round shoulder, throw shoulder, broken shake shoulder, hard hand, soft hand, pressure wrist, flick wrist, turn the wrist and other movements, plus round, twist, horizontal swing twist, twisting and tilting and other four main rhythms. These different body movements form the unique style of Mongolian dance.
1. Saerdan
Saerdan is the most important folk dance of the Mongols in Xinjiang, which is widely circulated in the areas where the Mongols live and loved by the people. The Mongolian people of Xinjiang, both men and women, young and old, almost everyone will jump Saerdan. Sa'urdun is both the name of the Xinjiang Mongolian folk dance and song and dance song, but also the folk dance of the general term. Saerden often in the festivals, men and women married, welcome guests to send guests to the family feast and other entertainment activities jump.
2. Andai dance
Traditional Mongolian folk song and dance. In ancient times, it was used to treat "devil possession" disease, infertility after marriage, etc. It has the function of driving away ghosts and epidemics, and seeking rain and good fortune. In modern times, it is mainly used for festivals and entertainment. The dance is mostly held in the late summer and between the fall harvests. The main dance leader is "Bo", who holds a drum whip and a single drum and presides over the ceremony. It is mainly characterized by singing and dancing, dance has a warm and unrestrained, bold and robust style, dance movements are mainly "footsteps", "footsteps", "flinging scarf" and circle formation composition.
3. Top Bowl Dance
Ordos Mongolian traditional folk dance inherited from the Yuan Dynasty. It has a novel form, beautiful movements, elegant temperament, unique style and strong national characteristics. It occupies an important position in the development history of Mongolian folk dance. Ordos Mongolians, who can sing and dance well, dance in the wedding banquet and festive party with one or two people holding teacups or bowls of small oil lamps or bowls full of water or milk wine, holding two wine cups or a bunch of bamboo chopsticks in their hands in the sound of song and music. Top lamp, top bowl dance action is not a fixed number of sets, master the basic movements, playing chopsticks after the law, the dancers improvise on the spot, emotional, action, dance changes colorful, fully demonstrated the dancers' skills, wisdom and folk dance rich, flexible, versatile characteristics.
4. Chopstick Dance
One of the representative traditional folk dance forms. The Chopstick Dance is a form of dance performed by a male performer alone at weddings and festivals, accompanied by stringed music and vocals. The Chopstick Dance is performed with the right hand grasping the chopsticks, lifting up and pressing down with the power of the bowl, striking the hands, legs and shoulders, and then striking the feet on the ground. With the changes of the bowl turning around, sometimes the shoulders are shrugged lively, sometimes the legs jump flexibly, sometimes the body is twisted and leaned forward on the left to face the left side down, sometimes the body is twisted and leaned forward on the right to face the right side down. The various movements essentially maintain a semi-squatting . Dance posture. The dance has a strong sense of rhythmic movement around the circle and a full flavor around the shoulder, and the hand movements and shoulder movements of the whole dance are very prominent, with a joyful, beautiful and athletic style, reflecting the warmth and boldness of the Mongolian people, and the emotional characteristics of the love of life. Chopstick dance own unique artistic infectious force, get Asia, Europe, the United States, many countries and national favorites.
5. Taiping drum dance
"Taiping drum" is made of donkey skin with a copper ring, round or oval, the drum skin painted mountains, water, flowers or people, decorated with pom-poms, flowers, spikes, small circles in the handle Department of the small ring tied with a small iron ring. Most of the festivals in the abundance of women's performances, divided into collective and single dance two forms of performance. When dancing, the left hand holds the drum handle horizontally, and the right hand holds a wooden stick with spikes, dancing while striking. The names of the movements include "worshiping the drum", "running the horse", "pulling the big saw", "fighting the battlements", "playing the cotton flower", "playing the cotton ball", "playing the horse", "playing the horse", "playing the saw" and "playing the battlements". "Playing Cotton Flower", "Rolling Lanterns", "Catching Birds", "Rolling Show Balls" and so on. etc. As the name suggests, the many and varied drumming movements are closely related to the daily lives of the working people. The body movements are generally exaggerated, and the basic dance postures are mostly tilting, leaning, tilting and sideways with the waist as the axis. The dance is open and powerful, elastic, mixed with jumping, turning and other skills, there are skilled people can dance at the same time play four or five drums, in different parts of the body circling back and forth, with acrobatic colors.
6. Circle dance
Mongolian folk dance. The two feet alternately swaying step, rough and tumble jumping step, bright and dashing lower body or side running jump step and several other movements. The upper-body movements include shaking hands, holding hands behind the back with others, holding hands with others, and dancing in a circle, which is why people usually call Buryat folk dance a circle dance. The slow dance is lyrical and soft, and the fast dance is cheerful and agile, with strong jumping. The folk style is simple, with ancient colors, warm and bold feelings.
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