Life dance includes: customary dance, religious ritual dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, educational dance and so on.
Customary dance, also known as festival and ritual dance, is a variety of mass dance activities held by many ethnic groups in our country in the marriage, funeral, planting, harvesting and some other festivals. In these dance activities, the table view of the customs and habits of various ethnic groups, social style, cultural traditions and national character traits.
Religious, sacrificial dance, is the dance form of religious and sacrificial activities. Mainly used to pray for divine blessings, remove disasters and illnesses, turn misfortune into good fortune, people and animals flourish, a good harvest, or to thank the gods for their gifts; ritual dance, a ceremonial dance form of ancestor worship. In the past, people used to express their nostalgia for their ancestors or hope that their ancestors and the gods and Buddhas would bless and give blessings to them.
Social dance is a dance activity for people to have social interactions, promote friendship and contact feelings. Generally refers to a variety of social dance in the ball. In addition, many of China's ethnic minorities in a variety of festivals carried out by the mass of the dance activities, mostly young men and women for social interaction, free choice of spouse social activities, therefore, can also be said to be the social dance of the various ethnic groups.
Self-indulgent dance is a dance activity in which people entertain themselves for the sole purpose of self-indulgence. Use dance to express and vent their inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure.
Sports dance, is a combination of dance and sports, artistic and aesthetic way to exercise the body, so that the physical and mental development of the new varieties of dance. Such as a variety of fitness dance, rhythmic gymnastics, middle-aged and elderly disco, ice dance, water dance, street dance HI-HOP, as well as China's traditional martial arts in the sword dance, sword dance and symbolic simulation of a variety of animals, a specific image of the Elephant Boxing, Five Birds, etc. are.
Educational dance, refers to schools, kindergartens and other aesthetic education dance activities, as well as the opening of the dance course, used to cultivate and beautify people's ideological feelings, moral character, cultivate people's unity and friendship, strengthen etiquette, as well as to promote physical and mental health, can play a role in the subtle.
Artistic dance refers to professional or amateur dancers, through the observation of social life, experience, analysis, concentration, generalization and imagination, artistic creation, so as to create a distinctive thematic ideas, rich in emotion, the form of a complete, with a typical artistic image, by a small number of people on the stage or the square performances to the masses to enjoy the dance works. Because of the many varieties of artistic dance, according to the different artistic characteristics, can be roughly divided into two categories.
The first category, according to the different styles of dance features to distinguish, there are: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance, contemporary dance and ballet.
Classical dance: on the basis of national folk dance, through generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process and create, and after a long period of artistic practice, the test, passed down, is considered to have a certain exemplary significance and classical style characteristics of the dance. Many countries and nationalities in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance. Classical dance in Europe, generally referred to ballet.
Folk dance: is created by the masses of people in the long-term historical process of collective creation, continuous accumulation, development and formation, and in the masses widely circulated in a form of dance. It directly reflects the thoughts and feelings, ideals and aspirations of the people. Because of the countries, nationalities and regions of the people's way of life and labor, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits, as well as the differences in the natural environment, and thus the formation of different national styles and local characteristics.
Modern dance: is the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and the United States the rise of a dance genre. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the classical ballet at the time of the old-fashioned, detached from real life and the pure pursuit of skills of the formalist tendency; advocating to get rid of the classical ballet is too rigid action program of the bondage, in line with the natural laws of dance movement, free to express the true feelings of the people, and emphasize that the art of dance to reflect the life of the modern society.
Contemporary dance (new creation dance): that is, different from the above three styles of new styles of dance, it is often based on the content of the performance and the need to shape the characters, unconventional, drawing on and absorbing the various styles of dance genres, various means of dance expression and methods of expression, and eclecticism, so as to use for me, so as to create a different from the various styles of dance has been formed with a unique new style of dance.
The ballet is the most important dance in the world.
Ballet: is a court of professional dancers to refine the processing, highly programmed theater dance." Ballet" this word is the French "ballet" phonetic translation, meaning "jump", or "dance", its original meaning is only to legs, feet for the movement parts of the action in general. French court dance masters in order to rebuild the ancient Hitchcock integration of poetry, music and dance in one of the theater ideal, created a "ballet" such a blend of dance movements, mime gestures, facial expressions, theatrical costumes, musical accompaniment, literary tableau, stage lighting and scenery and other ingredients in one of the comprehensive form of dance theater, in the Western theater dance art dominant position for more than 300 years, has been four centuries. In 1958, the Beijing Dance School was established to introduce the Russian ballet, and it has been more than 40 years since then.
The second category, according to the characteristics of the dance expression to distinguish, there are: solo dance, duo dance, trio dance, group dance, group dance, song and dance, song and dance theater, dance theater.
Solo dance, performed by a person to complete a theme of the dance, mostly used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal the inner world of the characters.
Double dance, performed by two people *** with the completion of a theme of dance. Mostly used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters exchange and show the relationship between the characters.
Trio dance, performed by three people to complete a theme of the dance. According to its content can be divided into three different categories, including the expression of a single emotion and the expression of a certain plot, as well as the expression of the dramatic conflict between the characters.
Group dance, where more than four people dance can be called group dance. Generally for the performance of a generalized complex or to shape the image of the group. Through the dance formation, the picture of the iteration, change and different speed, different strength, different amplitude of the development of dance movement, posture, modeling, can create a deep poetic mood, has a strong artistic infectivity.
The group dance, composed of a number of sections of the dance of a relatively large dance works. Each of these dances has a relative independence, but they are unified in the **** the same theme and a complete artistic conception.
Song and dance, is a combination of singing and dancing form of artistic performance. Characterized by singing and dancing, it is long in lyricism, but also good at narrative, and it can express the complexity of the characters, delicate thoughts and feelings and a wide range of life content.
Dance and song drama, is a singing and dance as the main means of artistic expression to show the dramatic content of the comprehensive form of performance.
Dance drama, dance as the main means of artistic expression, and a combination of music, stage art (costumes, sets, lighting, props), etc., to show a certain dramatic content of the dance works.