Dance is an art that expresses people's thoughts and feelings and reflects social life with the human body as the performance tool and the refined, organized and artistic human body movements as the main performance means.
Dance originated from labor. Ancient dances mainly imitated hunting or celebrated harvest. With the development of society, it becomes more and more important to express people's thoughts and feelings. Dance always vividly reflects people's different thoughts, beliefs, ideals and aesthetic requirements. It is not only an art form for people to enjoy and entertain, but also has the social function of publicity and education.
Dance can be divided into self-entertainment dance and performance dance according to its purpose and function; According to different styles and characteristics, it can be divided into classical dance, folk dance and modern dance; In addition, there are dance dramas that combine other artistic factors.
Self-entertainment dance is a kind of dance that does not take the theater stage as a performance place, does not seek appreciation, and takes dancing as its own entertainment. Its movements are meaningless, simple and regular. The formation changes simply, and the number of people can be increased or decreased at any time. Some are accompanied by musical instruments, while others dance to the rhythm of drums or songs. Dancers can improvise within a certain rhythm and regularity. All ethnic groups in China also have their own traditional dance forms, such as yangko of Han nationality, string dance of Tibetan nationality, Diane dance of Mongolian nationality, swing dance of Tujia nationality, drum music of Miao nationality, ballroom dance and youth group dance, which have enriched the cultural life of the masses.
Performance dance: a dance with theater and stage as the main performance places, which is specially for people to watch and has the functions of understanding, education, beauty and entertainment. This kind of dance is created by the artistic processing and arrangement of the dancers, so the theme is distinct, the image is typical, the movements are complex, regular and standardized, and the dancers can't play freely. The performance process is bound to be restricted by certain stage space and time. At the same time, there are also artistic means such as music, dance beauty, lighting and clothing.
Classical dance: a traditional dance with typical classical style handed down from ancient times. Many nationalities in the world have their own unique classical dances. For example, the magnificent Irish tap dance and the classical dance in China are mostly kept in the traditional Chinese opera. Every move of a character when singing is dancing in common English, and there are also complete sets of dance combinations. In the performance, the close coordination of hand, eye, body, method and step is the traditional feature of China classical dance.
All ethnic groups in the world have unique dance styles, among which folk dance plays an important role. Most of the folk dances in China are combined with folk songs and take the form of singing and dancing, so they are also called singing and dancing. Folk dance has distinctive national style and local characteristics, and is widely spread in the form of folk dance. From people's labor and struggle life. Due to the differences of people's life, customs, working methods and historical and geographical environment in various ethnic groups and regions, the styles and characteristics of dance are also obviously different. In the process of being handed down from generation to generation, it has become a precious national cultural treasure through the continuous processing and creation of the people.
Ballet is a general term for European classical dance dramas. The word "ballet" comes from the Italian word "ballet" Ballet art was born out of 15 and 16 th century Italian aristocratic drama performances. It was formed in France in17th century, introduced to Russia in18th century, and developed into an independent and complete art at the beginning of19th century. It created the skills of dancing with the toes of actresses, and developed various skills of jumping and spinning in the air. Now many countries have different styles of classical ballet and famous ballet works. At the beginning of the 20th century, modern ballet schools appeared. Ballet art was introduced to China around the May 4th Movement, and a professional ballet company was established after the founding of New China.
Modern dance breaks away from the routine and bondage of classical ballet, and emphasizes the dance of freely expressing feelings and life with natural dance movements.
Dance drama takes dance as the main means of expression, integrates music, pantomime, stage art and other factors, and strives to shape characters and express contradictions and conflicts in life. Dance in a dance drama with a complete drama structure is generally based on classical dance or folk dance, which can be divided into plot dance and performance dance according to the character and plot development of the characters in the drama. Plot dance shows stories and characters. Performance dance mainly describes the characteristics of the times and the environment of the plot development.
Dance has great artistic charm in revealing people's hearts and expressing inner feelings. "Preface to Mao Poetry" said: "Emotion moves in the middle and is in words, but words are insufficient, so mourn it, mourn it, chant it, chant it and dance without knowing it." This shows that people can't help but express their feelings by dancing only when they are very excited and their inner feelings are difficult to fully express in words. Dance is that people use this special form to express their feelings, which constitutes its unique artistic expression. Its way of expressing feelings is the combination of mind and matter, which leads to body movement with emotion and conveys feelings with body movement, giving people a vivid and intuitive image.
Appreciating dance is not only a cultural aesthetic activity, but also a spiritual activity. In terms of appreciation methods, we can first understand the content, theme, form and actors of the dance works through the program and explanations, and then further understand and appreciate the content and significance expressed by the works in combination with the atmosphere and scenes expressed by the actors in the performance, so as to achieve the unity of form (the actors' actions), meaning (the scenery and significance expressed by the actions) and emotion (the feelings expressed). Secondly, we should learn and understand the basic characteristics of dance art, which is a combination of literature, music, art and other artistic factors to shape the artistic image. Having a certain knowledge of dance will be beneficial to appreciate dance works. Besides, we should learn to understand music. Dance music and dance are closely linked. Clear and accurate musical images, beautiful and moving melodies and varied textures will better guide us to deeply understand and appreciate dance works.
When watching a performance, you will gradually enter the artistic conception created by the work on the basis of your initial impression of the work during the viewing process, with the in-depth expression of the characters' emotions, and then associate and think about life according to your own life experience, thus producing a * * * sound with the work. At this time, we not only enjoyed the dance, but also enjoyed the artistic beauty.
In order to encourage China's outstanding new dance creation, discover and cultivate outstanding talents, and improve the level of choreography and performance, the National Dance Competition and the China Dance "Peach and Plum Cup" invitational tournament were set up in China. Thus, China's dance career will be prosperous and powerful.
The development of any art is inseparable from the concern of society. I hope more people can participate, pay attention to dance, pay attention to this art and give it a new interpretation from a new angle. I think you will be as shocked as I am. I believe that the dance art with China characteristics, which we are also proud of, is going to the world, and dance is everywhere.
Art is made up of different kinds of art. As one of the arts, dance is also a very broad world, and it is also composed of different kinds, styles and styles of dances. Today, we study and introduce the types of dance in order to have a deeper understanding of the characteristics and development rules of dance art, and to be familiar with and master various styles and methods of dance art reflecting and expressing social life.
According to its function and purpose, dance can be divided into two categories: life dance and artistic dance. Life dance is a dance activity that people carry out for their own life needs; Artistic dance is a dance for the audience to enjoy.
Life dance includes: custom dance, religious sacrifice dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, educational dance and so on.
Folk dance, also known as festival dance, is a variety of mass dance activities held by many ethnic groups in China on festive festivals such as weddings, funerals, planting and harvest. In these dance activities, the customs, social features, cultural traditions and national personality characteristics of all ethnic groups in various places were displayed.
Religion and sacrificial dance are the dance forms of religion and sacrificial activities. Religious dance is a vivid representation of supernatural and supernatural mysterious power-God, which makes the invisible God become a tangible body that can be perceived and a personification of mysterious power. Mainly used to pray for the protection of the gods, drive away disasters and diseases, turn evil into good, prosper people and animals, harvest crops, or thank the gods for their gifts; Sacrificial dance is a blessing to ancestors and gods.
Social dance is a kind of dance activity that people engage in social communication, enhance friendship and connect their feelings. Generally, it refers to all kinds of ballroom dancing at the dance. In addition, the mass dance activities carried out by many ethnic minorities in various festivals in China can also be said to be social dance of all ethnic groups.
Self-entertainment dance is a dance activity with the sole purpose of self-entertainment. Use dance to express and vent one's inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure.
Sports dance is a new dance that combines dance and sports, exercises the body in an artistic and aesthetic way, and makes the body and mind fully healthy. For example, various fitness dances, rhythmic gymnastics, discos for middle-aged and elderly people, ice dances and water dances, as well as sword dances, knife dances, pictographic boxing symbolizing the simulation of various animals and close-up images, and Wuqinxi in China traditional martial arts.
Educational dance refers to the aesthetic dance activities in schools and kindergartens, which can play a subtle role in cultivating and beautifying people's thoughts, feelings and moral sentiments, cultivating people's unity and friendship, strengthening etiquette and improving physical and mental health.
Artistic dance means that professional or amateur dancers make artistic creation through observing, experiencing, analyzing, concentrating, summarizing and imagining social life, thus creating a typical artistic image with distinctive themes and rich emotions, in which a few people perform on dance platforms or squares for the masses to watch. Due to the variety of artistic dances, according to different artistic characteristics, they can be roughly divided into three categories.
Each category is divided according to different styles and characteristics of dance, including: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and choreography dance.
Classical dance is based on national folk dance, refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties, and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to be a typical dance with classical style characteristics. Many countries and nations in the world have dances with certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics. Many countries and nations in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance. European classical dance generally refers to ballet.
Folk dance is a dance form created, accumulated and developed by the broad masses in the long historical process and widely circulated among the masses. It directly reflects people's thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations. Due to the labor mode, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits of various countries, nationalities and regions? What about a fat car? Hey? The weft is flashing and flashing? Seize the opportunity to teach you something. Modern dance is a dance genre that rose in Europe and America at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalistic tendency of classical ballet at that time, which was conformist, divorced from real life and simply pursuing skills; It is advocated to get rid of the shackles of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, and to express the true feelings of people freely with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and it is emphasized that dance art should reflect modern social life.
Newly created dances, that is, dances different from the above three styles, are often eclectic based on the needs of expressing content and shaping characters, drawing on and absorbing dance expression means and methods of various styles and dance schools, and eclectic for our use, thus creating a unique new style dance different from the various dance styles that have been formed.
The second category, according to the characteristics of dance forms, includes: solo dance, duet, threesome dance, group dance, song and dance, musical, dance drama and so on.
Solo dance is a dance performed by a person to complete a theme, which is often used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal their inner world.
Double dance, two people perform the same theme dance. It is often used to express the exchange of thoughts and feelings between characters and to show the relationship between characters.
Three people dance, three people perform together to complete a theme dance. According to the content, it can be divided into three different categories: expressing a single emotion, expressing a plot and expressing dramatic conflicts between characters.
Group dance, any dance with more than four people can be called group dance. Generally speaking, it is to express some general emotions or shape the image of the group. Through the change and transformation of dance formation and pictures, as well as the development of dance movements, postures and shapes with different speeds, strengths and amplitudes, a profound poetic artistic conception is created, which has strong artistic appeal.
Group dance is a relatively large dance work composed of several dances. Each dance is relatively independent, but it is unified in the same theme and complete artistic conception.
Song and dance is a form of artistic performance that combines singing and dancing. It is characterized by being good at singing and dancing, being good at both lyricism and narration, and being able to express the complex and delicate thoughts and feelings of the characters and a wide range of life contents.
Musical drama is a comprehensive performance form in which song and dance are the main artistic expression means to express the drama content.
Dance drama is a dance work with dance as the main artistic expression means, which combines music and stage art (clothing, scenery, lighting, props) to express certain drama content.
The third category can be divided into lyric dance, narrative dance and drama dance according to the methods of reflecting social real life and the characteristics of shaping dance images.
Lyric dance, also known as emotional dance, is characterized by using vivid and vivid dance language to directly express the thoughts and feelings of body dancers in a specific environment, thus expressing the dancers' feelings and evaluation of life.
Narrative dance is also called plot dance, and its main artistic feature is to shape the characters and express the theme of the work through the plot events formed by the actions of different characters in the dance.
Drama and dance, that is, ballet.