The Long Silk Dance is the traditional water-sleeve dance of Chinese Peking Opera.
"Water sleeve" refers to a section of white silk attached to the sleeve of the opera costume, the general "water sleeve" is about one foot and three inches long, now according to the needs of the performance, has developed to three feet, five feet, seven feet or even longer.
The coordination and unity of the fingers, wrists, elbows and shoulders is the key to a good water sleeve dance. This is the key to harmonizing the "three sections" and "six harmonies".
The water-sleeve dance is also summarized in ten words, namely, hook, pick, brace, punch, pluck, raise, dust, fling, hit, shake, and within these ten words, the skills of each action are different.
The use of cross action
1, hook: to make the water sleeve folded up to reveal the hand, you have to use 'hook'. Stretch out your thumb, align the fold of the water sleeve upward hook, immediately hook up!
2, pick: the index finger is the main (force), the water sleeve towards the top of the throw out, mostly used for the water sleeve to fly upwards.
3, brace: mainly with the middle finger (force), while the two arms brace out. Without this 'brace', when turning around and crouching down, one can only pose with both arms outstretched very early, so that the whole body will appear dull, which is called: 'posture without potential'.
4, rushing: two hands hold the sleeve, two arms a first and a back upward. This stance is mostly used to show the emotional excitement of the 'next' time. If you don't use 'rushing', you will be playing with the sleeves in an irregular manner.
5. Yang: turn over the sleeve and raise the arm.
6, dial: after raising the sleeve to put down the sleeve, restore the 'dial'. Mainly with the little finger force, as if dialing something.
7. Dusting: the restoration action after raising the sleeve. However, the movement is a little bigger than the 'dial', as if to dust off the body.
8, fling: first turn the sleeve, and then fling it out, this action is bigger than the 'dust' and more used in anger.
9, hit: slightly the same as 'fling', but more straight to some, with the force is also more fierce.
10, shake: that is, the general use of 'shake sleeve', action than 'dust', 'dial' are smaller, only a little wrist movement can be.
Expanded informationIntroduction of the characteristics of the water-sleeve dance:
Our today's Chinese classical dance draws on and inherits the unique and distinctive style and form of opera dance. Water sleeve is also part of the inheritance and development. The two "forces" we are going to talk about in this article - force and expression - are complementary and inseparable.
If the correct "force method" is not trained, the water sleeve on the stage is like two disobedient cloth, can not take back, can not get out, the actors and the audience are sweating, there is no sense of aesthetics to speak of, and even more can not talk about the "expressive power".
The opposite is also true. If only mastered the technique of the sleeve, but not through the body's expressive power to reflect the sleeve that is like "running clouds and water" like beauty, then the sleeve is just a skill, not only can not reflect the beauty of the rhythm of the dance, but also feel redundant, far-fetched. I think the relationship between these two "forces" is that I have you, you have me, complement each other, inseparable.
The two can also be merged into one, understood as the same "force" of the two phases: beginning with the "method of force", i.e., using the body's coordination and performance to drive the sleeve correct force skills; into the "expressive force", using the sleeve correct force skills; into the "expressive force", using the sleeve correct force skills. Expression", using the sleeve's slenderness and versatility to express the human form and thoughts and feelings.
Mr. Cheng Yanqiu, who is famous in the history of art, had integrated martial arts techniques into the play and created the unique dance steps and the outstanding water-sleeve dance, which left a valuable artistic treasure for the future generations.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Shui Sleeve Dance