Dance is a performing art that uses the body to accomplish a variety of graceful or difficult movements, usually accompanied by music, with rhythmic movement as the main means of expression. It is usually performed with the help of music, but also with the help of other props.
Dance itself has multiple social meanings and roles, including sports, socializing/courting, rituals, and ceremonies. Before the origin of human civilization, dance was important in rituals, ceremonies, celebrations and entertainment.
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The dance movements in a dance work should also have a certain degree of skill, and the dancers should have the ability to perform difficult skills such as jumping, spinning, flipping, softness, control, and so on. However, performing difficult skillful movements in dance works is not an end in itself, but rather a way to express the character's thoughts and feelings, and to shape the It is a means to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and to shape their character and mental outlook.
If in a dance work, the means as the end, the actor's skill is not to reflect the life, the expression of the character's thoughts and feelings as the prerequisite for its existence, or not to the content of the dance to select the appropriate dance movement skills, but to show the actor's mastery of the dance skills ability to start;
That would make the dance work due to the disconnect between the content and the form or the lack of artistic integrity, and the failure of the dance work.
Then it will make the dance work due to the disconnection of content and form, or the lack of artistic integrity, and fall into failure, the dancer's skill itself is reduced to acrobatic skill performance, and the loss of the basic character of the art of dance.
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