Life dances include six categories: customary dances, religious ceremonial dances, social dances, self-entertainment dances, sports dances, and educational dances.
Artistic dances, in turn, can be divided into the following three kinds:
I. According to the different stylistic characteristics of the dance to divide, can be divided into four categories: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new style dance.
Second, according to the genre and style of dance expression of the characteristics of the division, can be divided into solo dance, duo dance, trio dance, group dance, group dance, song and dance, song and dance theater, dance drama and other eight categories.
Third, according to the method of reflecting the social reality of life and shaping the characteristics of the dance image to divide, can be divided into lyrical dance, narrative dance and dramatic dance three categories.
Section III, the artistic characteristics of different kinds of dance
I. Life dance
Life dance generally refers to a variety of people's lives have a direct and close contact with the utilitarian purpose of a clearer, everyone can participate in a wide range of mass dance activities.
Life dance includes the following categories:
1. customary dance (festivals, only dance)
Many ethnic groups in our country in the marriage, funeral, planting, harvesting, and other festivals, often have to hold a variety of mass dance activities. In these dance activities, the expression of the customs and habits of each ethnic group, social style, cultural traditions and national character traits. It is an important and indispensable part of the spiritual life of people of all nationalities.
For example, the "Marriage Dance" in Hunan Province is a farewell activity in which the female partners accompany the bride before she gets married. It is usually performed two nights before the wedding and ends at midnight. The last night to sing and dance all night, until the next day after dawn, the female companions to dance with the marriage, the bride on the sedan chair, the bride to the groom's home until. The wedding dance consists of the "Jiaozhan Dance", "Walking Horse", "Walking Fire", and "Changing the Letter of Incense", The "Mother Calls the Daughter Back", "Spinning Cotton", "Boat Rowing", and "Water Dance", The dance consists of 12 dances, including "Selling Wine and Liquor", "Pushing the Mill", "A Rhythmic Star", and "Song and Dance". The dancers sing and dance, reflecting the labor life of the women and their rich thoughts and feelings.
The Tujia's "Funeral Dance" is a form of dance in the funeral ceremony of the Tujia in Hunan and Hubei. There is no limit to the number of dancers, and they can be freely combined. Most of the dancers dance in front of the funeral hall of the deceased: first, the drums are beaten by the singer to call for a song, and the dancers follow the rhythm of the drums in order to express their condolences.
Circulating in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan and other places of the "jumping spring cow", more in the annual "spring" period activities. Generally by two people in the shape of a cow props, performing various movements of the ploughing ox, another person plays the role of a farmer, the performance of ploughing, ploughing, sowing and other labor, dancing and singing, the lyrics are mostly to welcome the spring, to advise the ploughing, and praying for a bumper harvest and other content.
In China, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and other provinces inhabited by the Korean people, every fall after the harvest, people will be in the street plaza dance "agricultural music dance". Generally by the "small drum dance", "dance children dance", "elephant hat dance" and other components, when the dance to the climax, the ( ) dance team and the crowd of onlookers into the dance **** dance, express the joy, joy and happiness after the harvest. When the dance reaches its climax, each ( ) dance team and the crowd of onlookers enter the dance field*** and express their joy and happiness after the harvest. The "four-face drum dance" of the Miao people living in Hunan and Guizhou is also a kind of dance performed during the harvest season. The dancers stand on the four sides of the four drums, each holding a drum in both hands and dancing with the drum ****. The main movements are: "starting the drum", "combing the head", "round hand", "back sword", "Wiping", "Turning", "Plowing", "Harrowing", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", "Planting", and so on. rice-planting", "pulling grass", "picking grain", "collecting drums" and so on. The movements are large in amplitude and unrestrained in style, showing the cheerfulness and joyfulness of the Miao youths after getting a good harvest. ③
2. Religious and Ritual Dance (including Witch Dance)
Religious dance is a form of dance that expresses religious concepts, proclaims religious ideas and carries out religious activities. Religious dance is a supernatural, supernatural and mysterious power - a visual reproduction of the gods, so that the invisible God can be perceived as a tangible body, is the mystical power of the personification. It is a part of religious rituals. Mainly used to pray for divine blessings, remove disasters and illnesses, turn bad luck into good fortune, people and animals flourish, a good harvest, or to thank the gods for their gifts. Many regions and ethnic religious rituals in our country, there are such dance activities. Such as folk dance, dance, dance, curtain dance, Buddhism, "playing ghosts", shamanism, "jumping god" and so on are.
Sacrificial dance, is to worship ancestors, God against a ceremonial form of dance. In the past, people used to express their nostalgia for their ancestors or hope that their ancestors and gods and Buddha's blessings on themselves. The Six Dances of the Zhou Dynasty in China is a famous ritual dance. In addition, the "Bo Dance", which has been passed down in Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, is the development of the ritual dance of the ancient Bo Festival, and most of them have retained the main features of "driving away ghosts and epidemics".
3. Social Dance
Social dance is the most widely circulated and popular dance activity in people's cultural life. It is a dance for people to have social interaction, promote friendship and contact feelings. Generally refers to a variety of social dance in the ball. In addition, many ethnic minorities in China, such as the "Torch Festival" of the Yi, "Lusheng Festival" of the Miao, "March 3" of the Li, "June 6" of the Buyi, "June 6" of the Hani. June 6", "Bitter Zaza" of the Hani people, "Water Festival" of the Dai people and other festivals in the mass dance activities, mostly young men and women to interact with each other, free to choose a spouse of social activities, so it can be said to be the social dance of each ethnic group, so it can be said to be the social dance of each ethnic group. can be said to be the social dance of various ethnic groups.
4. Self-entertainment dance
Self-entertainment dance is a kind of dance with the purest purpose in the dance activities of the people, which has no other purpose except self-entertainment and self-pleasure. It is neither to dance to wear the dark people to see, but also not to give others in the emotion and thought to infect or influence, just with the dance to express and vent their inner emotional impulse, and in the process of expressing and venting emotions, to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure. Of course, sometimes this dance will not inevitably cause bystanders or the same dancer's passionate response, and this objective response, naturally, will give the dancer's own emotions to influence and stimulate, which will further stimulate the dancer's improvisational dance inspiration, so that the dance radiates a unique luster, so that the dancer can feel the greater dance aesthetic activities of pleasure and joy. Such as China's Han folk dance "Yangge" and some ethnic minority folk dance, as well as Western "disco", "breakdancing", etc., are people's favorite self-indulgent dance.
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5. Sports dance
Sports dance, because dance is a kind of human body movement art, so it has always been fitness sports. Recently, people have further combined dance and sports to create an artistic aesthetic way to exercise the body, so that the physical and mental health development of the new varieties of sports dance. Such as a variety of fitness dance, rhythmic gymnastics, middle-aged and elderly disco, ice dance, water dance and so on. In addition, in a broad sense, China's national martial arts, symbols, simulation of a variety of animals and specific figures of the image of the Elephant Boxing, five birds and sword dance, sword dance, etc. can be part of the sports dance. (In recent years, ballroom dance, international standard ballroom dance, in our country popularity and popularity is very wide, a variety of competitions constantly, some sports departments it is categorized as sports dance, and set up a sports dance organization. Of course, the social dance can not be said that there is no certain role of fitness, but its main role is not exercise, so this title is inaccurate.)
6. Educational Dance
Educational dance refers to the dance activities of schools and kindergartens for aesthetic education and the dance courses offered. It is understood that many schools in Europe and the United States attach great importance to the aesthetic education of students, in addition to music, art classes, but also set up a dance class, optional for students; some schools also have a Department of Dance, both to train professional dancers, but also to dance enthusiasts to teach dance culture. Therefore, they have formed a specialized discipline of education dance. Some of our universities and colleges generally pay insufficient attention to aesthetic education, except for a few institutions to open a dance class, generally do not set up this course, dance-loving students can only be in the amateur art groups for dance activities. Therefore, the so-called educational dance in our country refers more to early childhood dance and children's dance. In fact, our ancestors still attach great importance to the dance education of their children. For example, about three thousand years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, the content of the study of music and dance education for the children of the nobles, as well as the course of the process. "Zhou Li - musician" note: "said to teach the dance at a young age, the internal rules that: thirteen dance spoon, into the child dance elephant, twenty dance "Daxia"." "Dance spoon" is generally believed to mean "small dance", is a literary dance, including the Zhou Dynasty, six famous ritual dance: "Block Dance", "Feather Dance", "Royal Dance", "Eeni Dance", "Dry Dance", "People Dance". The "Dance of the Elephant" belongs to the category of martial dances, "the dance of stabbing and cutting when the elephant is used in battle", "probably imitating the combat movements of breaking the elephant formation. The Daxia, one of the Six Dances, is said to express and glorify the great achievements of Xia Yu in ruling the water, and was used to worship the mountains and rivers during the Zhou Dynasty. That is to say, at the age of thirteen one learns the literary dance, at the age of fifteen (an adult child) learns the martial dance, and at the age of twenty one learns the musical dance, which glorifies the chiefs of the clans.
The reason why our country's educational dance cannot be widely popularized lies in the fact that there are still a lot of people who do not know enough about the functions and roles of aesthetic education, and there are people who lack the knowledge of the dance culture and do not understand that the art of dance is a kind of national culture, which is important in cultivating and beautifying people's emotional thoughts and moral sentiments, cultivating unity and fraternity, strengthening etiquette, and improving physical and mental health have the important works of subtlety and influence. . I believe that, with the improvement of the cultural quality of our people, the role of art aesthetic education to deepen the understanding of dance education will be more and more attention, therefore, looking to the future, educational dance will have a more broad prospects for development.
Art dance refers to the professional and amateur dancers, through the observation of social life, experience, analysis, concentration, generalization and imagination, artistic creation, so as to produce the theme of distinctive ideas, emotionally rich, complete form, with a typical artistic image, by a small number of people on the stage or the square performances for the general public to watch the dance works. According to its different artistic characteristics, it can be roughly divided into the following three categories.
The first category, according to the different styles of dance features to distinguish, there are: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new style dance.
1. Classical Dance
Classical dance is on the basis of traditional folk dance, through generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process, create, and after a longer period of artistic practice test, passed down is considered to be a certain exemplary significance of the dance and the characteristics of classical style. Generally speaking, classical dances have rigorous programs, standardized movements and superior skills. Many countries and nationalities in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance.
China's classical dance of the Han nationality, the dance movements handed down, most of them are preserved in the opera dance; some of the dance gestures and modeling, preserved in China's extremely rich grotto murals, sculpture, painted stone, painted bricks, terracotta figurines, as well as a variety of unearthed artifacts on the paintings ), decorations in the modeling of the dance image; our country's rich literary and historical materials also have a large number of specific descriptions of the past dance image. China's dancers have made great achievements in researching, organizing, reproducing and developing Chinese classical dance since the 1950s, establishing a set of teaching materials for Chinese classical dance, creating a large number of dances and dance dramas in the style of Chinese classical dance, and forming the aesthetics of delicate and roundedness, rigidity and softness, scenario blending, combination of skills, and perfect harmony and high degree of unity of essence, vitality, spirit, and hand, eye, body, method and step. The aesthetics of harmony and high degree of unity.
Indian classical dance, by the Brahmaputra, Kathak, Kadakali, Manipuri, Odissi and Kuchipudi six traditional dance system. Its main artistic characteristics are dance movements rhythm, rhythmic distinctive, stylized, with rich connotation of colorful dance mime hand style and delicate facial expressions.
European classical dance, generally referred to as ballet. Ballet, the Department of French Ballet phonetic translation. European countries of classical dance drama collectively known as ballet, is a European classical dance as the main means of expression, integrated music, theater, stage art and other art forms of dance varieties. Because of its performance technology, an important feature is that actresses should wear special pointe shoes and dance on the ground with their toes, so it is commonly known as "pointe dance". According to legend, ballet first originated in Italy and was formed in France before being introduced to Russia in the 18th century. At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, ballet became an independent and complete art form, creating pointe dance techniques, developing a variety of aerial jumps and rotational techniques, and producing a complete set of training methods, gradually forming different styles and characteristics of the Italian school, French school and Russian school, etc. In the 1920's, the modern school of ballet appeared, and gave birth to many schools of ballet, which became popular in Europe and the United States. Ballet school, popular in Europe and the United States.
The art of ballet was introduced to China in the 1920s. However, at that time, only limited to a small number of people. 50 years later, China's dance workers have the conditions to formalize and systematically learn from the world's excellent ballet art, set up a professional ballet group, the world's excellent ballet repertoire introduced to the audience in China, and in the form of ballet art created a number of dance works reflecting the life of the people of our country and the struggle for the theme of the dance drama.
2. Folk Dance
Folk dance is a form of dance created collectively by the laboring people in the course of long-term history, accumulated and developed, and widely circulated among the masses. Folk dance has the closest connection with the people's life, and it directly reflects the life and struggle of the working people, and expresses their thoughts and feelings, ideals and aspirations. Due to the differences in the way of life and labor, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits of the people of various nationalities and regions, as well as the natural environment, thus forming different national styles and regional characteristics.
Each country and each nation in the world has its own different styles and characteristics of folk dance. In the European ballet folk dance, generally known as representative dance or character dance, it is through the professional processing of dance, so that it is harmonized with the style of ballet, unified together.
China's long history, many ethnic groups, vast territory, so the folk dance is particularly colorful. Its main artistic characteristics are:
(1) singing and dancing, free and lively. China's folk dance is one of the main points of special ( ), is the close combination of dance and singing. This form of singing and dancing, free, lively, lively, can be easier than pure dance to show more life content, and easy to understand, so it is very popular for the masses of our people.
(2) skillful use of props, skill combination. Many folk dances in our country use props skillfully, such as fans, handkerchiefs, long silks, tambourines, single drums, flower sticks, lanterns, umbrellas and so on, which greatly strengthens the artistic expression of the dance, and makes the dance movements more rich and beautiful and colorful.
(3) Vivid plot and distinctive image. China's folk dance is very important to the content, most of them have certain stories and legends as the basis, therefore, the characters are distinctive, outstanding character. Although some dances only show a certain kind of emotion, but it is also mostly as a complete storyline pieces and appear. For example, Guangdong's "Ying Song" is a performance of the story of Liang Shanbo heroes and heroines attacking Da Mingfu; the legend of Fujian's "Big Drums and Cool Umbrellas" is a performance of Zheng Chenggong's activities of practicing to defend himself against foreign invaders.
(4) Self-entertainment, unity of purpose. Many folk dances in China are often a unity of self-entertainment and performance. Some dance activities, for the dancers, he is self-entertainment, but also to perform to the audience, so the dancers pay close attention to the improvement of their own dance skills, so China's folk dance has been a high degree of development.
(5) Improvisation of feelings. Folk dances in various regions of China in the circulation, although there are certain formats and norms, but also have the tradition of improvisation, especially in some folk dancers this is particularly prominent. At their most emotionally charged moments, it is often the time when a dance can emerge that shimmers with a unique luster
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Since the 1950s, our country's dance workers have carried out extensive census, in-depth study, serious organization, careful processing and creative adaptation of folk dances of various nationalities, thus producing a large number of excellent folk dance programs, such as the Red Silk Dance, Ordos Dance, Flower Encouragement, Grass Hat Dance, Peacock Dance, and Picking Grapes, etc., which have not only been welcomed by the China's audience, but also with its unique style by the world's people love and appreciate.
3. Modern Dance
Modern dance is a dance genre that emerged in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the classical ballet of the old-fashioned, detached from the phenomenon of life and the pure pursuit of skills of formalist tendencies, and advocates getting rid of the classical ballet is too rigid action program of the boundaries of the natural laws of motion dance movements, free to express the true feelings of people, emphasizing the art of dance to reflect the life of modern society. Its founder, recognized as the American dancer Isadora Duncon (Isadora Duncon, 1877^-1927 ), she believed that the practice of classical ballet would cause deformed development of the human body. She aspired to primitive simplicity and natural innocence, and advocated that "the dancer must unite the body with the soul, and the physical movements must be developed into the natural language of the soul," and that she should express her inner feelings sincerely and naturally. And systematically for the modern dance school to establish a more complete set of theory and training system, is the Hungarian Rudolf Laban (RudolfVonLaban, 1877-1968), he created a known as the natural law of the training method, the human body movement is summarized in the composition of the "chopping, pressing, rushing, twisting, sliding, flickering, point to hit, floating He summarized the composition of human movement into eight elements, such as "chopping, pressing, twisting, sliding, flashing, pointing, floating", and believed that by correctly handling the relationship between each element, various movements could be composed. He created the "Laban Dance Score", which is still one of the most influential dance scores in the world. Ruth St. Denis (1877 ^-1968), a dancer contemporary with Duncan, was a pioneer of modern dance in the U.S. She extensively absorbed the dance cultures of Egypt, Greece, India, Thailand, and the Arabian countries, and formed a kind of modern dance with oriental mystical colors, which expressed a religious spirit. Her student Marthe Graham (1894-1991) is an outstanding representative of contemporary modern dance. She believed that since human beings have beauty and ugliness, love and hate, goodness and evil, dance should not only celebrate beauty and goodness, but also express sin, remorse and jealousy, so she put special emphasis on the use of dance to peel away the veneer that hides human behavior and to "expose an inner man." She also created a set of dance techniques known as the "Graham Technique". In recent decades, the dancers of this school have developed their own, forming many different styles and artistic propositions of the faction, some ) made great achievements in the innovation and development of dance, while some completely contrary to the basic ideas and artistic propositions of the early school of modern dance, away from the objective social and real-life, the development of the bizarre, grotesque, obscure, for the majority of the audience can not understand and accept.
4. Newly Created Dance
Newly Created Dance is a new style of dance that is different from the above three styles of dance. Such as China's dancers to create some new dance works, often according to the performance of the content and the need to shape the characters, unconventional, drawing on and absorbing the various dance styles of dance schools, a variety of dance means of expression and method of expression, both for my use, so as to create a different from the various dance styles that have been formed with a unique new style of dance. This new style of dance, and to express the new life of our contemporary dance works for more subjects, such as "war horse neighing", "cut the strings", "stepping on the smoke of men and women..." and so on are. Children" and so on are.
The second category, according to the characteristics of the dance expression to distinguish, can be divided into solo dance, double dance, triple dance, group dance, group dance, song and dance, song and dance drama, dance drama and other eight categories.
1. solo dance
Solo dance, also known as the single dance, is performed by a person to complete a theme of dance. Mostly used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal the inner world of the characters. Most of them are the expression of a complete thought and feeling. Fragment, or embodies the content of a certain life, creating a more distinctive mood. Roughly can be divided into two categories: one is a complete structure of independent dance works; the other is an important part of the dance drama and large-scale dance, is the main means of characterization. The solo dance in dance theater is similar to the aria in opera or the inner monologue in drama. Soloists are required to have good physical fitness, solid basic skills, high performance skills and strong ability to portray characters. Usually by actors with a high degree of artistic expression.
2. Double dance, performed by two people (usually a man and a woman) *** with the completion of a theme of dance. Mostly used to show the exchange of ideas and feelings between the characters and show the relationship between the characters. Can also be divided into two categories: one for the structure of a complete independent dance works; the other for large-scale dance theater and dance in the important parts. The duo dance in dance drama is similar to the reprise song in opera or the dialog in drama, which is an important means to shape the characters and promote the development of the plot. In the classical ballet in the double dance, most of the expression of love, and has a set of fixed program: first of all, is the male and female protagonist together in the joint dance; secondly, by the male and female each dance a solo; finally, the two together again **** dance. In the male and female solo dances, mostly skillful performances, and in the ensemble dances, generally use lifting techniques.
3. trio dance
Trio dance, by three people to cooperate in the performance of the completion of a theme of the dance. Generally can also be divided into two categories: one for the structure of the complete independent dance works; the other for the large-scale dance theater and dance an important part. Trio dance, according to its content can be divided into the performance of a single emotion and the performance of a certain plot, as well as the performance of the characters of the dramatic conflict between the content of three different categories.
4. group dance
Group dance, where more than four people dance can be called group dance. Generally for the expression of a generalized mood or to shape the image of the group. Through the dance formation, the picture of the iteration, change and different speeds, different strength, different amplitude of the dance action, posture, modeling development, can create a profound poetry of the mood, has a strong artistic infectivity. Group dances in large-scale dance dramas are often used to accentuate the artistic atmosphere, show the national style and local characteristics, and sometimes used as a solo or duo dance accompaniment, for the shaping of characters.
5. Group Dance
Group dance, composed of a number of dances, a relatively large-scale dance works. Each dance has a relative independence, but they are unified in the **** the same theme and complete artistic conception. Such as the Kazakh group dance "happy grassland" by the girls of the light, lively "veil ) dance"; the old man of the humorous, funny "shoe dance"; mothers of the peaceful, gracious "cradle dance "The five contrasting dances and the final group dance are composed of the simple and majestic "Shepherd's Dance" and the joyful and free "Girl's Chase Dance" of young men and women, which ****together express the joyful scene of the Kazakh steppe. It is composed of five contrasting dances and the final group dance, ****simultaneously showing the joyful scene of the material exchange event and the happy life of the grassland people. In large-scale dance drama, some scenes use the structure of group dance form, a certain number of dances together, showing specific content, is also rich in color, improve and strengthen the dance drama, one of the techniques of choreography. Such as China's national dance drama "Silk Road Flowers and Rain" sixth scene, Dunhuang twenty-seven countries will be organized into the ancient Silk Road dance of the Oriental countries, in order to render the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
6. Song and dance
Song and dance, is a combination of singing and dancing form of artistic performance. In our country has a long history and a long history. From the ancient music and dance to today's folk dance of various ethnic groups, song and dance has been an important position in the art style. Singing and dancing are good at both lyricism and narrative, and can express people's complex and delicate thoughts and feelings and a wide range of life content. From the visual and auditory aspects of the audience to get aesthetic perception, therefore, has a strong artistic infectivity, is very happy for the majority of our audience.
7. Song and Dance Drama
Song and Dance Drama is a kind of song and dance as the main means of artistic expression to show the dramatic content of a comprehensive form of performance. China's ancient song and dance drama, generally known as opera. It has a long history, numerous types of plays and repertoire, and is one of the most popular and popular forms of drama in the vast areas of China. China's modern song and dance drama, some absorbed the artistic expression of opera to express new life, new characters; some in the folk song and dance ) based on the performance of the content of the drama. For example, the wedding of the lamplighters is a song and dance drama with the dance of Anhui "flower-drum lanterns" as the main theme, supplemented by singing to show certain dramatic content.
8. Dance drama
Dance drama is a dance work that takes dance as the main means of artistic expression and synthesizes music and stage art to express certain dramatic content. About its artistic characteristics, we will discuss in more detail below.
The third category, according to the method of reflecting the social reality of life and the characteristics of shaping the dance image to divide, can be divided into lyrical dance, narrative dance and dramatic dance three categories.
1. Lyrical dance
Lyrical dance, also known as emotional dance. Its main artistic characteristic is in a specific environment, with a distinctive, vivid dance language to directly express the character - the dancer's thoughts and feelings, so as to express the dancer's feelings and evaluation of life. Excellent lyrical dance is often both with the personality characteristics of the dancers, but also sums up the times and the people's general emotional characteristics, is the unity of personality and ****, and thus can evoke the feelings of the audience **** song. Such as "Red Silk Dance" through the dancers in the hands of the red silk constantly fluttering flow of various lines composed of colorful images, directly expresses the freedom of the Chinese people to get
Excited about the mood and spirit of the Chinese people and the spirit of exhilaration, spirit, fighting spirit of the spiritual outlook. The men's group dance "Sea Haiyan" shows the courage and determination of the Chinese people in the new period of time through the dance image of the sea oats facing the storm and soaring on their wings in a symbolic way.
China's dancers also often use the traditional national art of "metaphor" and "sentimental" expression, through the simulation of natural scenery, anthropomorphic dance image, to express and express the feelings of the dancers. For example, "Lotus Dance", with the lotus "out of the mud and not stained" character, to send people to the pursuit of noble sentiments and the pursuit of peace and freedom; and "Sunflower Dance" sunflower by sunflower characteristics, to show people's feelings of attachment to the motherland.
Lyrical dance can be divided into lyrical group dance and lyrical dance sketches from the form of expression: lyrical group dance to the group's constant flow of changing dance movements, gestures, modeling and formation, the picture of the iteration of the change to the strength, amplitude, rhythmic contrast, different emotions, emotions, a typical, generalized performance, to create a poetic mood, giving a person a strong sense of beauty; Lyrical Dance Sketches (mostly solo dance) is through the actor's superior dance skills and delicate, exquisite performance, created by the vivid, distinctive dance image and deep meaning, giving people a sense of beauty to enjoy.
Lyrical dance from the beauty of the form of the main: beautiful (Lotus Dance, Sunflower Dance); magnificent (Haiyan, Sabre Dance); joyful (Red Silk Dance, Happy Shivering) three types.
2. Narrative Dance
Narrative dance, also known as plot dance. Its main artistic characteristic is through the action of different characters in the dance composed of plot events to shape the characters, the performance of the work's thematic content.
Narrative dance and dance drama have different characters and certain situations, but they have different qualities. The former is generally shorter, the plot is also relatively simple, unlike the dance drama, there are twists and turns of the complex plot structure and sharp and intense dramatic conflict. For example, through the famous female general of the Song Dynasty, Liang Hongyu led two children at the foot of the Jinshan Mountain, where the Song army and the Jin soldiers were fighting, in front of the battle, watching the battle, beating the drums, hitting the arrows, pulling out the arrows, swearing an oath of allegiance to the sky, beating the drums and fighting again until the victory of the battle, the use of dance, the image of the Liang Hongyu defying the enemy's national moral integrity and the spirit of the battle, for a vivid artistic expression.
In our country, there are many narrative dances which are based on fables, fairy tales and legends, often using exaggerations, metaphors, anthropomorphisms, vivid plots and distinctive dance images to show some kind of philosophy of life. For example, "Peng and Mussels" is a metaphor for people not to let others reap the benefits of internal disputes; "Mr. Dong Guo" and "The Farmer and the Snake" warn people not to trust the soft words and begging of the wicked and lose their vigilance, which will eventually lead to their own harm.
Narrative dance, due to the delicate structure, vivid and vivid sections, distinctive characters, and the traditional aesthetic habits of the people of China, so it is a kind of dance style that the masses in China are happy to see.
3. Dramatic dance
Theatrical dance, we collectively referred to as dance drama. Dance drama is to dance as the main artistic means of expression of certain dramatic content of the dance works. Is a synthesis of dance, drama, music, stage art stage performance art. It and other forms of dramatic art **** nature, are through the actions of different characters on the stage () and their personality conflicts to reflect the social reality of life; and its different artistic characteristics, is the different means of artistic expression, and the resulting many artistic features. The main means of expression in drama and opera are language and singing, and the main means of expression in dance drama is dance.
Dance is an art that specializes in expressing human emotions, and it has relatively great limitations in narrating the specific concepts of things, while a certain dramatic content to be expressed in dance drama requires that dance has a certain narrative ability. How to make this contradiction resolved, so that it reaches the unity of opposites, is the key to the success of the creation of dance drama. Therefore, this requires: on the one hand, in the selection of materials to take into account the limitations of dance expression, do not arrange too many twists and turns of complex plots and complicated content; on the other hand, it is required in the artistic structure of dance drama than other forms of drama with a high degree of generalization, condensation, concentration, pay attention to the development of the plot of the story and the characters of the actions of the characters, focusing on the character's thoughts and feelings and the inner world of the meticulous and profound depiction. The character's thoughts and feelings and inner world are carefully and profoundly depicted. From some excellent dance works in China and abroad, we find that the use of "narrative in lyric" and "lyric in narrative" in the structure of dance drama to achieve the "unity of lyric and narrative" is the best solution to the problem of the limitations of dance expression. A better solution to the contradiction between excellence and limitation of dance expression.