Thesis Keywords: popular dance; dance education; educational value
Thesis Abstract: Dance is an ancient art. Throughout the ages, popular dance has been y rooted in the masses of people and has been changing and developing with the changes of nature and society. As an activity to entertain the body and mind, develop friendship and maintain health, popular dance activities can make people relax and have fun at the same time; realize their self-worth while entertaining.
1 Characteristics of Popular Dance and Types of Activities
Popular dance includes a variety of popular dance types that are popular around the world and participated by the public. Its extension is very wide, including all community dance in society and all cultural phenomena including dance factors. Popular dance is a dance cultural phenomenon formed by the broad participation of people from all walks of life. It is produced and developed in the group, is based on human labor life, mutual communication and infection in the group, and becomes a form of artistic expression identified with the whole group, with the following characteristics: the broadness of group participation, self-indulgence of aesthetic activities and the fashionable nature of group participation are three characteristics [1]. According to the characteristics of popular dance can be summarized as follows:
1.1 Self-entertainment activitiesSelf-entertainment activities are the most basic content of popular dance activities. It is a popular dance activity that people directly participate in after work and labor in order to enrich their spare time cultural life, temper their spirit, and obtain aesthetic pleasure. Ballroom dance and fitness dance are the representatives of such activities. In the countryside, the popular dance of self-entertainment activities are often intertwined with customary activities. During festivals, thousands of villagers voluntarily join in the dance of dragon lanterns, lions, running boats, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, self-entertainment, self-indulgence.
1.2 Customary activitiesThe so-called customary activities refer to the activities held by people at a certain time according to certain customs. In traditional customary activities, religious activities occupy a certain position, and folk activities interpenetrate and develop together. Therefore, the customary activities of popular dance can be divided into two categories, namely, folk customary activities and religious customary activities.
1.3 Performance activities performance activities, refers to the non-professional dancers in their spare time engaged in dance, performance activities. In the popular dance activities, there will often emerge
many activists, their interest in dance and hobby, more than the general activities, so they participate in the popular dance activities, not only to meet the need for self-entertainment, but also hope that through the activities of mastering more performance talent, in order to achieve the purpose of self-fulfillment.
2 Education of Popular Dance
2.1 Teacher Construction of Popular Dance ActivitiesThe . The faculty consists of two parts: the mass dance professional team and the mass dance amateur backbone team. They have different characteristics and complement each other. Popular dance activities is a large cause, it has a large body of activities, in front of this large social demand, only rely on the professional team or only rely on the amateur backbone of the team, it is difficult to complete the task, it is necessary to carry out the organic combination of the two, in order to achieve optimal results.
In terms of the professional team of mass dance, firstly, we should constantly improve its organization and management ability to ensure that mass dance activities are carried out smoothly and in an orderly manner; secondly, we should constantly improve its cultural knowledge and professional knowledge; lastly, we should better improve the quality of the amateur backbone team and constantly develop and grow this team on the basis of the existing ones, so as to let it play its own advantages in the whole mass dance activities and to promote the development of mass dance activities.
To promote the development of popular dance activities, we will continue to develop and expand this team on the existing basis.
In terms of the amateur backbone team of popular dance, it is necessary to continuously develop and expand this team, so that it can play its own advantages in the whole popular dance activities, and promote the development of popular dance activities.
2.2 Schools should be the base of popular dance activities Speaking of popular dance activities, the first thing that comes to mind may be popular dance activities in the society, but in fact, schools are also an important position for popular dance activities, and school education plays a pivotal role in the prosperity and development of popular dance activities. On the one hand, as the most important base for training talents, school itself has the responsibility of training talents for popular dance. School is a place where intellectual groups gather, and the quality of school life can be said to be a microcosm of the quality of social life to a certain extent. On the other hand, there is an interactive relationship between the school and the society itself. Schools cannot be the paradise and independent kingdom of society; they are in the midst of society and operate in society. Students as well as their parents and families live in the society, and all kinds of influences in the school, whether positive or negative, are influencing the society all the time. Creating a good atmosphere for popular dance on campus can radiate to the popular dance environment of the whole society, thus promoting the prosperity and development of popular dance activities.
2.3 Educational pathways from the media point of view Dance art can only be confirmed in the dissemination of it is the objective existence of social entities. Only through dance communication can a nation's dance culture exist, be preserved, inherited and developed. A dance work is created, only through the dissemination, in the dissemination confirmed its social value, it will really become a social existence, so as to be retained; on the contrary, if the dissemination is interrupted, then it will lose its social existence value, and be eliminated by the society. In today's society, in addition to the traditional ways of spreading popular dance (i.e., popular dance activities during festivals, oral and heartfelt transmission, preservation and dissemination through the recording of dance), there is also a more rapid, broader and more effective way of spreading it, that is, the media communication. Television is one of the most popular forms of media communication.
3 Multiple Values of Popular Dance
3.1 The Cultural Value of Popular Dance As a carrier of emotional communication, popular dance is the best medium for communicating the human mind and the most direct way for members of the society to express their ideals and wishes for life, nature, society, and the goodness of mankind. [2] The members of the society at large are both the receiving body and the creating body, and they create a large amount of spiritual and cultural wealth for the society while participating in popular dance activities. Therefore, popular dance plays an inestimable role in passing on culture, promoting individual perfection and harmonizing the social environment.
3.1.1 Popular dance as a carrier of cultural heritage Popular dance as an art form, which carries the content is not limited to the dance itself, but has a very broad cultural connotation. We can even think that a history of the development of popular dance is a history of the development of human culture and civilization, from which we can glimpse the whole course of human development.
3.1.2 Communication and Diffusion of Foreign CulturesHuman beings are a group of mobile people who have been migrating and spreading in all directions since the emergence of human beings. However, it is this kind of migration and diffusion that makes the national culture of a place brought to a new area with the migration, so as to make the original national culture in the new environment to get new development and incorporate new contents, and at the same time, also makes the communication, impact, absorption, comparison, trade-offs, assimilation and fusion between various national cultures happen, and it is precisely in this kind of mobility that the popular dance is constantly expanding, mutating and renewing. Popular dance has a wide range of social and mass, so the acceptance and dissemination of foreign culture is very broad. The acceptance and dissemination of foreign culture is manifested in two aspects, one is the cultural exchanges and dissemination between ethnic groups and nationalities, regions and regions, and the other is the cultural exchanges and dissemination between different races and different countries.
3.2 The aesthetic value of popular dance? beauty? is the essential characteristic of dance art. Popular dance still follows the same aesthetic laws of dance art*** in terms of aesthetic way and aesthetic performance. [3] Popular dance is to use the kinesthetic sense to entertain itself and to entertain people with vision. Especially in the popular dance accounted for a large proportion of traditional folk dance, such as square folk dance dragon dance, rolling lion, rice-planting songs, waist drums, etc., which has a typical overall and comprehensive see the strengths of the characteristics of the Oriental culture aesthetic interest, the integration of self-entertainment and entertaining people as a whole. Some folk dances have obvious craftsmanship of their costumes and knives, gorgeous and colorful, exquisite craftsmanship, coupled with the performance of the participants' skills, has a high ornamental aesthetic value, enriching people's spiritual world, and embellish the whole society with more colorful and colorful.
3.3 The fitness value of popular dance is the pursuit of health is the whole of mankind **** the same goal, the 21st century, people's values have changed, the standard of health is no longer satisfied with a single body health, but in the pursuit of physical health at the same time, the pursuit of a greater degree of mental health. People in the public dance activities of self-participation, not only exercise the muscles, bones, joints and blood, but also due to the emotional and physical dependence, thus pleasing the body and mind, promote the healthy transformation of human physiological skills, regulating human emotions. At the same time, with the continuous improvement of social civilization, people's main aesthetic consciousness is increasing, people's pursuit of their own instrumentation, poise, temperament, and more so that the fitness function of the popular dance has been a deeper level of play.
3.4 Interaction Value of Popular Dance
3.4.1 Popular Dance can realize the true expression of people's inner feelings Popular dance is the most direct, specific, rich and graphic artistic way to express thoughts and feelings. When people want to express their feelings, when they have feelings, they must choose the most instinctive and direct way of expression, and materialize their telepathy to the objects they express. At this time, the popular dance may become a best outlet for people to express their emotions.
3.4.2 Popular dance helps to form artistic interpersonal relationships through the collective activities of popular dance, which can create a harmonious group atmosphere, so that people in this harmonious atmosphere unconsciously open their hearts, overcome the interpersonal barriers set by fame and fortune, deepen mutual understanding and trust, and form a kind of artistic interpersonal relationships.
Popular dance is the concentration of human culture and the crystallization of human civilization, which, as an art form, is not limited to the content of the dance itself, but has a very broad cultural connotation, reflecting the inheritance and development of culture. Popular dance is an invaluable treasure for education, which has a positive significance for promoting individual perfection, especially popular dance has a positive role in cultural value, aesthetic value, fitness value and communication value, etc., and the educational value it implies is enormous.
References
[1] Ou Jianping. My Opinion on the Development and Innovation of Mass Dance[J]. China Culture News. 2005-8-20
[2]Ou Jianping. Dance aesthetics [M]. Oriental Publishing House.1997
[3]Zhang Huada. Sociological Reflections on Sports for Health [J]. China Sports Science and Technology, 2000(6):44-46
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