Differences and similarities between square dance and theater dance

In summary, the "folk dance" (actually theater folk dance) referred to by the domestic dance industry is actually not "folk". Because as mentioned above, theater folk dance has already possessed cultural and aesthetic properties independent of folk culture, and it is a kind of product taken from the folk, purified, refined, rationalized, standardized, technologized and aestheticized. In this transformation process, the original folk dance has undergone a process of cultural filtration and foreign cultural input, after the process, the original folk dance has been transformed into a purely theatrical aesthetic form with a considerable distance from the original state of the folk-theater (including the academy) folk dance.