The body rhythm of classical dance. That is, the general term for body technique and rhythm. Stance belongs to the category of external technique, and rhythm belongs to the connotation of art
Body rhythm is the combination of form and spirit, body and mind, internal and external unity. Form, spirit, strength and rhythm are the basic elements of body rhythm.
Shape refers to the external movements, including posture and the route connecting the movements, and God is the divine mind, which plays a dominant role. Jin refers to the force, including the artistic treatment of the relationship between lightness, weight, urgency, strength, weakness, length, rigidity and flexibility. The law is the operation of the movement itself.
The relationship between the four elements, through the strength and law to achieve both God and shape, internal and external unity. The law is that the heart and the mind are in harmony, the mind and the qi are in harmony, the qi is in harmony, the force is in harmony, and the force is in harmony with the form.
Classical dance refers to the traditional folk dance, through generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process, create, and after a long period of artistic practice of the test, passed down is considered to have a certain exemplary significance and classical style characteristics of the dance.
China's classical dance was founded in the 1950s and was once called "opera dance" by some people. It was itself a mixture between opera and dance, that is to say, it hadn't yet completely metamorphosed from opera and was called opera.
Expanded Information:
Chinese Classical Dance Basic Skills Training in the form of ground training. The content can be summarized as flexibility training (commonly known as soft opening training), strength training (also known as ability training), technology, skill movement training three aspects. Flexibility, strength, technical skills are the three main technical components of the dancer's career, but also a professional dancer must have and achieve the basic conditions of the body and technical conditions.
The ground training is a basic, comprehensive and systematic training for the dancers' flexibility, strength and technical skills. The reason why ground training has become an integral part of the basic training of classical Chinese dance is determined by the special characteristics of ground training.[4]? [4]?
(I) Sitting Posture
The sitting posture in basic training is: sitting on the ground with legs straight and taut, torso erect, breath loosely stored in the abdominal diaphragm, shoulders sunk, hands placed on the ground on both sides of the body with the tips of the fingers as the point of a posture. Its specific requirements are:
(1) The back is upright and remains so during the movement.
(2) Sit with the legs stretched flat and tense, with the force concentrated on the toes of the feet and the thigh muscles relaxed.
1. Tensing the foot and hooking the foot
Tensing the foot and hooking the foot is an important part of the ground training, which not only involves the basic form of the action, but also more importantly, the method of exertion and awareness of the action. Tensing the foot and hooking the foot in the process of training includes hooking the toes, it is a group of movements that have an intrinsic logical relationship, generally speaking, tensing the foot and hooking the foot to be practiced together.
(1) Tensing the foot: exert force from the ankle, push the arch of the foot straight and then push the toes to tense to the far side of the oblique.
Preparation: seated
Movement: from the ankle joint to push the arch of the foot to the diagonal downward extension, and then from the arch of the foot to the toes, the formation of tense foot. The tensed foot can be positive, open, single-legged or double-legged in the form of movement.
(2) Hook foot:
Preparation: seated position
Movement: from the ankle joint, after hooking the toes and the foot, the power will be concentrated at the ankle joint. Hook foot in the training form can be positive, open, double foot, single foot. The decomposition of the hook foot can be handled in a way that you can do the hook toe first and then the full hook foot.
2. Pressing the front leg
Pressing the front leg is a basic posture of sitting, legs straight and flat, legs in the hook and taut form, combined with the flat hand, double palm position, to stretch flexibility for the purpose of training a basic action. On the ground with the hip joints as the fulcrum, the torso is stored upright and the breath is stored loosely at the diaphragm, while extending forward and pressing down.
Preparation: seated
Movement: torso upright, breath loosely stored, hands through the flat extension hand to the double palms of the hand position, and drive the torso toward the legs close.
Teaching requirements: the whole process of movement emphasizes to keep the legs straight and torso extension.
3. Pressing the back leg
Pressing the back leg is to sit as the basic posture, the front leg tense foot suction leg, the back leg out of the open, taut form on the back to the far stretch. Upper body to remain upright, both eyes looking straight ahead, with the front leg on the same side of the arm placed diagonally down position, support the ground in order to maintain the balance of the body. The arm on the same side as the back leg forms a palm dance position, driving the body backward and downward.
Preparation: (take the left leg as an example) sit in a sitting position, facing 3 or 7 o'clock, suck in the left leg, straighten the right back leg, hold the palm with the right hand and the left hand on the ground.
Movement: take the palm resting hand as the leader, drive the body to press down to the front and back, to reach the backward and far extension to the maximum.
4. Pressing the side leg
There are two basic ways to press the side leg:
(1) The legs form the suction leg and the side leg, respectively, and the hand position becomes the buttress, pressing the palm hand position to press the side leg.
(2) Pressing the side leg in a horizontal fork stance.
Preparation: (take the left leg as an example) sit in a sitting position, the right leg sucks in the leg, the back is upright, the left leg is straightened out to the side and away, the hands are in the toto and press palm dance position.
Movement: In the prepared posture, lead with the palm hand and drive the body to the straight knee straightening a leg close.
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