I. Characteristics of Folk Dance
The theoretical knowledge of teaching folk dance includes the characteristics of folk dance. Folk dance originated with the folk, is the people's own creation of art, by the geographical factors and customs and cultural influences, folk dance in a variety of ways, but there are unified characteristics.
(a) the inheritance of folk dance
Folk dance can be passed down to the present day, it all depends on the inheritance from generation to generation. The dance movements reflect the life atmosphere and humanistic characteristics of the time, retaining the image characteristics of the times and accumulating a rich life connotation. And the inheritance adds new elements to the dance, giving the folk dance new life characteristics, the inheritance of folk dance can be reflected.
(2) The mass of folk dance
Because the folk dance started in the folk, it is loved by the masses, so it has a strong supporter. Folk dance is the art of collective creation of the people, is the crystallization of their wisdom.
(C) the folk dance of self-indulgence
Folk dance is the people's creation of the people in the spare time of labor, and its main purpose is to relax themselves, to please the public, and to enrich their lives. The performance process, the most can reveal the pure and true emotions, because it does not need to overly modify each action, do not need to have too much standardized action, it is just to play the effect of self-indulgence.
(4) Regionality of folk dance
The main reason for the colorfulness of folk dance is the influence of the region. Due to the different regions, resulting in different climatic conditions, ecological environment and so on. The human body type and thought by the environment 's influence, so the creation of the dance will naturally be different. Like the northern folk dance on a larger scale, we are familiar with the rice-planting songs, such as Shandong's drums rice-planting songs, Jiaozhou rice-planting songs and Haiyang rice-planting songs three big rice-planting songs, as well as Shaanxi rice-planting songs, Hebei rice-planting songs, and so on, and more than with the characteristics of the rugged and strong, passionate and unrestrained; the south has a lotus lamp and other folk dances are famous for their soft postures; the grasslands on the Mongolia and other ethnic groups strong and strong; Uyghur upright, rich in action, delicate expression; the Tibetan folk dance to dance on the Kham-Tibetan Plateau Tibetan folk dance to dance "sleeve" as the highlight, different styles. In short, different regions of the dance appeared a hundred competing scenes.
Second, the characteristics of folk dance teaching
The many characteristics of folk dance also led to its teaching and other dances are different, and the unique features are reflected in the following aspects:
(a) the teaching of the emotional
Dance with the emotional inside, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion, the folk dance has a sense of emotion. The folk dance is characterized by emotion. Here the "love" includes many, such as a desire to survive, the joy of the harvest, the desire for a better life and so on. These emotions are infiltrated into every movement of the teaching, in order to let the learners also have emotional integration.
(II) teaching folk
In folk dance performance, all aspects of planning and organization. And these need to take into account the local customs, history and culture, beliefs and other aspects, so as to more truly reflect the life inside the dance, so that the teaching should be based on folk life.
(3) The complexity of teaching
Folk dance has developed over a long period of time and has become a dance system with strong theoretical support. The variety of dances has led to different dance teaching materials. Previously, the focus of the dance textbook is on each movement, but now is to emphasize the comprehensive performance, adding a variety of combinations, such as performance combinations, skill combinations, ethnic native combinations, etc., a variety of combinations step by step, the difficulty of the sequential increase, which reflects the complexity of the content of the teaching.
(4) Teaching of the times
Folk dance has been passed down because it has the times, the teaching should be based on this characteristic, has the corresponding characteristics of the times. Teaching the characteristics of the times is to retain the original spirit of the times under the premise of the modern culture of life, aesthetic interests into the dance, so that the dance more vitality, more sense of the times.
Expanding the Artistic Characteristics of Folk Dance
Sending love to an object
Sending a wish for a better future with an object to symbolize good luck and happiness is the traditional aesthetic psychology and aesthetic interest of the Han people. Among the objects, there are legendary beasts and sacred objects, religiously colored magic weapons and supplies, and real-life artifacts and handicrafts. In terms of artistic techniques, there are real objects, combination of real and virtual, virtual writing, etc. In form, there is anthropomorphization. In the form of anthropomorphic techniques to perform the props dance, such as the dragon, phoenix symbolizes the desire for good luck, wealth and prosperity, the unicorn has the intention of having more noble children. Han folk dance in the most widely used folding fan, is made of physical objects, small and beautiful, easy to open and close the props, the actor through it in the dance to virtual writing or a combination of real and virtual techniques, skillfully delineate a variety of characters, expressing the delicate emotional changes. It can also show a specific environment and plot, such as the garden butterfly, spring breeze in the wind and so on.
Songs and dances
Widely circulated rice-planting songs, lanterns, flower drums, most of which belong to this kind of folk dance, is the Han folk dance commonly used artistic techniques. Lyrics have a traditional part, there are also improvisation part, such as Anhui flower drum lanterns in the flower drum song, are very beautiful and beautiful oral literature, and in the form of song and dance, so that the song and dance both can be fully realized. Folk songs and dances trace their origins back to the ancient tread songs. The rise of the Song and Yuan Dynasties theater, and by the influence of theater performances, especially in the Qing Dynasty, when the local opera prevailed, Han folk dance absorbed the plot twists and turns of the opera, opera music, beautiful costumes, props, and other advantages, to strengthen the performances and artistic effects. Folk dance and local theater are closely related, the former focus on dance, the latter focus on theater, each has its own strengths. There are many forms of props dance while singing and dancing.
Technique refinement
A variety of folk art is mostly in the prayers, ancestor worship, temple fairs, meet the gods in the performance, the performers in the battle of the wonderful competition, each new tricks, in order to Bo praise. As artists continue to collect from local theater, acrobatics, martial arts, instrumental music, folk songs, the original form of the content is richer, technical excellence, to become a large-scale program in the square performance. Such as flower-drum lanterns from the performance will develop into a form of performance, including song, dance, technology, theater, good singer's song with the night wind can be far away from one or two miles away, good dancer's heel more and more strange, artists also form their own specialties for the masses are familiar with and love. The Han folk dance is constantly developing in this kind of skill.