The Basics of Dance

Solo Dance:

One of the styles of dance. It means to perform alone, so it can also be called "solo dance". A solo dance can be a complete work, such as the men's solo dances "Hope", "Ocean Waves", "The Remains of Spring" and the women's solo dances "Bird's Spirit Sand", "Mulan Returns" and so on. These solo dances are complete and stand alone as a work. Solo dance can also be a dance drama or a dance work in the lead dance, such as "Swan Lake" in the Ojita, "Silk Road Flowers and Rain" in the Yingniang have expressed their own feelings of solo dance. This kind of solo dance in terms of its content is often just a dance or dance theater fragment, in the form of a group of dancers often accompanied in the back. This kind of solo dance is sometimes not alone on the stage, but refers to a character has a relatively complete, different from the other performers (i.e., do not need to move neatly -). There is also a category of solo dance refers to the ballet duo "variation" part of the dance, that is, after the duo ensemble, there are men and women to perform their own independent dance section. This is mainly used to show the actor's superior turn and jumping skills.

Trio:

One of the dance styles. It is named after the three dancers who perform the piece; however, dances that are not performed by three dancers can be called "trio dances". If the three dancers always perform in unison, it is only a small group dance. Most of the "trio dances" are small dance works with plots, and they are the smallest dance styles that can form character conflicts. For example, the trio dance "Golden Seed" shows the conflict between two siblings and the bad elements who destroy the production; the trio dance "Rope Wave" shows the couple's disagreement and the child's survival in the middle of the encounter. Designing the dance sections and stage composition according to the conflict of character, the movement of the trio dance is mainly asymmetrical and contradictory; making it a dance style with special characteristics.

Group Dance:

One of the dance styles. Generally refers to multi-person dances performed by more than three people. From the performance of the gender can be divided into men's group dance, women's group dance and men and women's large group dance; from the content composition can be divided into episodic group dance and lyrical group dance. Group dance can be an independent dance work, such as "Creek, River, Sea", "Nalinda", etc.; these group dances are mostly lyrical group dances, and group dances can also be a fragment of a dance drama, such as "Bow Dance" in "The Dagger Club", "Coral Dance" in "Fish and Beauty". These group dances are subordinate to the characterization and plot advancement of the dance drama, usually for the depiction of the scenes of the story and the expression of the crowd's mood. An important performance characteristic of group dance is neat movement and consistent style.

Collective Dance:

Usually, it refers to the dances performed collectively by the people in urban squares, campuses and factories. It is different from the self-indulgent and collective folk dance performed by villagers on the occasion of annual festivals; it is also different from the group dance performed by many people on the stage. Collective dance as a kind of urban mass dance, with a strong self-indulgence, dance steps are generally relatively simple, formation changes are not complex, is a relatively easy to carry out the "everyone jumps", for the active workers, students, the public's spare time and cultural life is extremely useful, now most of the collective dance movements, from China's folk dances or the West The dance of the ball.

Group Dance:

A dance genre. Usually it is a combination of several relatively independent, complete dance works to perform together. Combination of dance, some are based on **** the same theme, such as "moon buds five" is the expression of the theme of the black earth people living and working together, some are based on **** the same form, such as the "Han Feng" is to reproduce the Han portrait bricks dance of several works together; there are also based on the choreographer or performer's own creative or performance style for the combination of the former, such as Chen Huifen's "River of Stars" group dance, the former as the "River of Stars" group dance, the former as Chen Huifen's "River of Stars" group dance, the former as the "River of Stars" group dance, the former as the "River of Stars" group dance. The former, such as Chen Huifen's "River of Stars", and the latter, such as the five works of "Ding Jie Dance Gala". The group dance itself can be performed independently, or it can be a means of rendering the atmosphere and advancing the situation in the dance drama. Such as the dance drama "Fish Beauty", its "under the sea" a scene with the "Watercress Dance", "Coral Dance", "Goldfish Dance" and other groups of dance to render the atmosphere.

Song and dance:

A genre of performing arts. There are usually the following forms: First, the performer sings and dances to himself. Chinese opera and many folk dances take this form of singing and dancing. Secondly, the dancers occupy the main performance venue, the singers in the field or curtain side accompaniment. Such as song and dance "happy water" is so. Third, a singer as the core, the dancers with their songs and dances, the dance is in the accompanying position, this dance is also known as "dance with the song". Now many pop singers perform in this form.

Dance chorus:

A form of dance expression. Choreographers focus on dance and music correspondence, the dance team as a chorus team fully equipped with voice, drawing on the chorus in the chorus singing, singing and different voice mixing and other singing, to choreograph the dance space to be fully utilized to establish the concept of "space and sound", the United States master of modern dance Shawn in this regard has made achievements.

Live Newspaper Dance:

A form of dance. In terms of the nature of its performance, it is similar to the living newspaper drama; but no lines, more emphasis on action. Newspaper dance is the "news flash" of dance. It emphasizes the immediacy of the performance event, the authenticity of the performance content and the exaggeration of the performance means. Most of the live newspaper dances are satirical, using extremely exaggerated movements and gestures to satirize the object of their expression.

Lyrical dance:

Dance that directly expresses and expresses the feelings of the dancers. The artistic expression of lyrical dance mainly has the following ways. One is to reflect the life of strong feelings and simple moments, such as "Harvest Song", "Laughing Haha", etc. on the performance of the joyous celebration of the harvest lyrical dance. The second is to correspond to the expression of a certain emotion through the pure beauty of the dance form, the more typical are "red silk dance" and "flower encouragement", the two respectively through the red silk flying lines and long drums flying drums conveyed the joy, bold emotions. Third, through the simulation of certain natural objects to "sentiments", such as "waves" and "the spirit of the bird", is so. The former through the dynamic simulation of the waves of the sea to show the spirit of courage, the latter in the simulation of the peacock's dynamic expression of a pure, noble sentiments. Generally speaking, the lyrical dance focuses on writing in the expression method, the dance section is more complete and smooth, and the group dance movement emphasizes the neatness and uniformity. Due to the lyrical dance "dance" stronger, so that there is a "dance long in the lyrical, poor in the narrative" said.

Narrative dance:

Also known as plot dance. It refers to the narrative of certain events to portray the character, revealing the conflict and development of character. Thus showing a certain theme of the dance, compared with the dance drama, narrative dance is generally more simple, short, character relationships are more concise, and thus the composition of the dance itself is also relatively short. Since dance is a narrative in the language of movement, most narrative dances are based on a certain literary blueprint, which makes it easier for the audience to understand what the dance is about. In the narrative dance, the dance movement is required to have a distinctive character character, and the dance is not required to stray from the needs of the narrative; if necessary, it can be supplemented with mime dynamics and accompanying singing to make the dance plot clearer. Narrative dance is more realistic than lyrical dance; because it is richer than lyrical dance, it often produces stronger social repercussions.

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