Dance can be divided into two categories: life dance and artistic dance.
Life dance is a dance activity that people perform for their own life needs;
Art dance is a dance performed for the audience to appreciate.
1. Life dance, including six categories: custom dance, religious sacrificial dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, and educational dance.
Custom dance can also be called festival and ritual dance.
Religious and sacrificial dance is a form of dance for religious and sacrificial activities.
Social dance is a dance activity for people to communicate socially, enhance friendship, and connect feelings. Generally refers to various social dances danced in dance parties.
Self-entertainment dance is a dance activity for the sole purpose of people's self-entertainment. Use dance to express and vent your inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure.
Sports dance is a new type of dance that combines dance and sports to exercise the body in an artistic and aesthetic way and make the body and mind healthy. Such as various fitness dances, aerobics, middle-aged and elderly disco, traditional martial arts sword dance, knife dance, symbolic model Xiangxingquan, Wuqinxi, etc.
Educational dance refers to dance activities for aesthetic education in schools, kindergartens, etc.
2. Art dance refers to artistic creation by professional or amateur dancers through observation, experience, analysis, concentration, summary and imagination of social life, thereby creating distinctive themes and ideas. It is a dance work that is rich in emotion, complete in form, and has a typical artistic image. It is performed by a few people on a dance stage or in a square for the masses to watch. According to different artistic characteristics, they can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first category is divided according to different styles and characteristics of dance, including: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new creative dance.
Classical dance is based on national folk dance, refined, organized, processed and created by professional workers of all generations, and has been passed down through the test of long-term artistic practice. It is considered to have certain exemplary significance. Dance characterized by classical style.
Folk dance is a dance form that is collectively created, accumulated, and developed by the masses in the long historical process, and is widely spread among the masses. It directly reflects the thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations of the people. Because each country, each ethnic group, and each region has formed different national styles and local characteristics.
Modern dance is a dance genre that emerged in Europe and the United States at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalist tendency of classical ballet at that time to be conservative, divorced from real life and purely pursuing skills; it advocates getting rid of the constraints of classical ballet's overly rigid movement programs and freely expressing human emotions through dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement. True emotions, emphasizing that dance art should reflect modern social life.
Newly created dance, that is, dance that is different from the above three styles, is often based on the needs of expressing content and shaping characters. It is eclectic and draws on and absorbs various styles and styles of various dance schools. I use an eclectic mix of dance expression means and methods to create a unique new style of dance that is different from the various dance styles that have already been formed.
The second category is distinguished according to the characteristics of dance expressions, including: solo dance, duet dance, trio dance, group dance, group dance, song and dance, musical, dance drama, etc.
The third category is divided according to the method of reflecting social real life and the characteristics of shaping dance image, and can be divided into three categories: lyrical dance, narrative dance and dramatic dance.
Lyric dance, also known as emotional dance, its main artistic feature is to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters - the dancers - in a specific environment with distinctive and vivid dance language. Dancers' feelings and evaluation of life.
Narrative dance, also known as plot dance, its main artistic feature is to shape characters through plot events composed of the actions of different characters in the dance, and express the theme content of the work.
Dramatic dance, that is, dance drama.
3. The difference between life dance and art dance:
1. Life dance is directly and closely related to people’s various lives, has a clear utilitarian purpose, and everyone can participate A dance activity with a wide range of mass appeal. Including: custom dance, religious dance, religious sacrificial dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, educational dance, etc.
Artistic dance is performed by professional and amateur dancers through the observation, experience and practice of social life. Analyze, concentrate, summarize and imagine, and create art to produce dance works with clear themes, rich emotions, complete forms, and typical artistic images, which are performed by a few people on the stage or in the square for the masses to watch.
2. Life dance is random, while artistic dance is meticulous and artistic.
3. In terms of expression methods, life dance uses the human trunk and limbs as tools, through the coordinated activities of the head, eyes, hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, body, hips, knees, feet and other parts. , forming rhythmic dance movements, postures and shapes, directly expressing people's inner activities and reflecting social life. Performative art dance uses dance movements, dance movement combinations, shapes, gestures, expressions, compositions, pantomime and other expression methods to create typical dance images, express the characters' thoughts and feelings, and reflect the complete beauty of content and form.
4. In terms of performance occasions, life dance is mostly combined with specific life events, while art dance is generally a specialized performance venue with specialized and various auxiliary means. Such as stage, lighting, sound, fireworks, etc.