The prop that represents a horse in an opera performance is a horsewhip.
The horsewhip is a prop (a real prop) on the stage of opera. In traditional opera performances, the horsewhip is used instead of the horse, firstly, because the stage is small, and secondly, because it is afraid that the horse will lose control. This type of performance gives the actor endless freedom of performance.
Opera performance refers to the performance of traditional Chinese theater. The connotation of opera includes singing, reciting and playing, synthesizing a variety of performance styles such as dialogue, music, singing, dancing, martial arts and acrobatics, unlike the West will be opera, dance drama and drama.
Opera programmed, dramatized song and dance performances, the comprehensive use of the "four skills and five methods" - singing, reading, doing, playing, hand, eye, body, footwork, method and other means of expression in order to create a stage image of the art. The artistic language of opera is diverse.
Main Features
In terms of artistic assumptions, there is a program for every art, and the different nature of the material used by the artists, the different artistic languages, and the different national styles make the objective life reflected in different forms. Often said that the difference between the similarity of form and the similarity of God, the difference between the realism of the writing, the difference between the virtual copy of the real difference and so on.
It is the objective life through different artistic means, different artistic methods and different points of view in the creation of the performance, and thus there are different kinds of different degrees of program. The performance program of Chinese opera is a performance technology format that uses singing and dancing means to express life. Singing, reciting, acting, playing and musical accompaniment are all programmed, which is the main feature of opera performance.
This characteristic governs all aspects of image creation in opera, and it also permeates the structural system of stage performance. The natural form of life and any kind of performance factor, if not transformed into a program, cannot be unified in the stage performance style of the opera. From this point of view, program is the special artistic vocabulary for creating stage image in opera, without program, there is no performing art of opera.
The root cause of the program lies in the primitive plaza art and the direct communication of the masses, the folk artists use the traditional creation method, in the humble material conditions, absorbing the performing factors and performing techniques in the folk songs, dances, rap art, comical performances and martial arts acrobatics and other kinds of skills.
From the performance of a simple storyline to the performance of complex and varied life phenomena, from the various means of expression of simple adjustment to the complex synthesis and standardization of the results. This complex process of artistic processing, mainly through three points: song and dance, dramatization, rhythm.