The 10 Most Influential Dance Productions

1, "The Jazz Singer" (U.S., 1927)

This film marks the arrival of the era of sound films, in the form of song and dance film breaks the sound barrier, although the sound of the film is nothing more than auspicious, but its pioneering work on the sound film is indispensable.

2. A Million Francs (France, 1930)

French filmmaker René Clair's early masterpiece was also a major success. The early masterpiece of French filmmaker René Clair is also one of the earliest sound films in France. With its perfect song-and-dance style, sparse and dense structure, rhythmic narrative and novel sound treatment, the film has enriched the means of expression of sound films.

3. The King of Song and Dance, Siegfried (U.S.A., 1936)

This movie records the entrepreneurial history of Florence Siegfried, the "King of Song and Dance" on Broadway. Siegfried's entrepreneurial history, and shows his design and choreography of seven large-scale song and dance programs and 23 songs, the scene is huge, luxurious sets, hundreds of male and female actors and actresses gathered in one hall, can be regarded as the 30's world cinema on the most influential, the most magnificent song and dance film.

4, "Swing Time" (also translated as "Wind and Moon", the United States, 1936)

This is the Hollywood song and dance movie "golden partner" Fred Astaire and Qin Shu. In the film, their graceful and elegant dance is like a ritual of primitive people, used to express their feelings and aspirations, and realize the communication of soul and heart rhythm.

5, "The Wizard of Oz" (United States, 1939)

This film is the world's film history of children's song and dance film of the immortal classics, since its inception, the people devoutly, year after year to watch it, which brought countless viewers into a rainbow-like splendor of the fairyland. The heroine of the movie, Judy Garren, is like a magical spirit. Like a magical elf, Jodie Galen has been spreading her enchanting dance and sweet singing voice to the earth.

5, "The Wizard of Oz" (United States, 1939)

This film is the world's film history of children's song and dance film of the immortal classics, since its inception, people religiously, year after year to watch it, it brought countless viewers into a rainbow-like splendor of the fairyland. The heroine of the movie, Judy Garren, is like a magical spirit. Like a magical elf, Jodie Galen has been spreading her enchanting dance and sweet singing voice to the earth.

6, "Song of Victory" (U.S., 1942)

The Hollywood "robber star" James Jacquenet, who became famous for his role in "Angels of the Stained Side," changed his path and became the first actor to play the movie. James Jacquenet changed his path and successfully played the role of the famous American entertainment artist George M. Cohan in the film, who was passionate, good at singing and dancing, which opened the eyes of the moviegoers. The film has been named "the greatest publicity song and dance film".

7, "Walk With Me" (U.S., 1944)

At the time of the victory of World War II, Hollywood's "saint of comedy," Leo McCarey, with his sharp and deep understanding of the world of comedy and the world's most important movie, was the only one who was able to make a movie about the world. With his sharp and far-reaching insight and warmth, McCarey filmed this amusing religious song-and-dance movie against the backdrop of a dull church, full of informal, free-spirited human feelings in such a simple background, and always looking a little lightweight comedian Ping Klusbyan. Crosby shows off his singing and dancing talents with an air of transcendent bravado.

8, "Red Rings" (Britain, 1948) This movie is directed by the famous British director Michael Powell, who was awarded the British Ballet Award. Powell directed by the famous British director Michael Powell, the British ballet community, the music industry fully supported the ballet film made the most brilliant works. The famous 13-minute-long "Red Shoes" ballet scene is like a flowing "Sistine Fresco", glorious and beautiful.

9, "An American in Paris" (also translated as "Flower City Dance", United States, 1951)

The film will be the modern dance, ballet, song, music, painting melted into a furnace, elegant, colorful and harmonious, beautiful picture, music, rhythm, Hollywood song and dance film is a model of the pure fire. Each scene of the film, each hall set, each prop is carefully carved, especially the artisan with reference to the different painting styles of the famous French school of painting, the whole film's modeling style for the overall design, the impressionist and realistic style into one, opulent and moving to the extreme.

10, "Singin' in the Rain" (also translated as "Ten Thousand Flowers Playing in the Spring", USA, 1952)

This film picks up a key period in the history of cinema - the turning period from silent movies to talkies - to lay out the plot, listing the Kelly's solo dance, "Singin' in the Rain," has become one of the classic scenes of Hollywood song-and-dance movies.

Ten Classic Han and Tang Classical Dance Programs

1. "Treading Song"

Treading Song is a traditional dance of the Han Chinese people. This ancient form of dance originated from the folklore, and it started as far back as the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and became even more popular in the Tang Dynasty. The so-called "people are happy in the year of abundance, and they walk in song on the Longshan River" is the mother theme of the folk's sense of "Da Huan", and although the classical dance "Song Treading" has accurately inherited the flavor of the "folk", it still sticks to the "classical". Although the classical dance "Tap Song" accurately inherits the style of "folk", its bias is still "classical" charm, so how can a group of women with "broken cherries in their mouths and low emerald drops on their hairs" enjoy their career in "Longshang"? Treading Song" aims to describe to the audience a picture of ancient lovers hand in hand in the spring of the trekking map, to the long-lost beauty of the beautiful imagery of sympathy for the disturbed modern beings.

2. The Song of Harmony

The Song of Harmony is an excerpt from the Bronze Bird Play, a pandora's drum dance that was most popular during the Han Dynasty.

3. Xuan You by China Opera and Dance Theater

4. Xie Gong Clogs

Xie Gong Clogs is a men's group dance from the Southern Dynasty. This program is the sister of the Female Treading Song, which can also be called the Male Treading Song. Currently, male dance is becoming more and more martial arts-oriented, with a single style orientation, but this program focuses on the expression of the "state of etiquette" men's gentleness and elegance. This is a change from the patterned image and style of male dance.

5. "Peach Premature"

The classical dance of the Han and Tang dynasties, "Peach Premature", which is full of the dreamy atmosphere of a young girl to be married, is from the "Classic of Poetry". Zhou Nan. The whole dance is full of youthfulness, and the dancers' delicate posture creates the image of a young girl like a small peach tree for the audience. The young girls jumped lightly, just like the elves of peaches, and the whole dance was filled with a joyful and happy atmosphere. In the dance song "Peach Premature", which is taken from the Book of Songs, the face of the maiden to be married is as colorful as peach and plum, which makes the audience feel as if they were in the peach forest in full bloom in April, and the young girls are playing around, and the sound of their laughter is accompanied by the fragrance of peach blossom, and the dance, which is full of vigor and vitality, is just like peach blossom on the branches of the branches, which is in the blossom of this beautiful world.

6. Beijing Dance Academy Women's Solo Dance "Drunken Fox"

7. "The Lady with the Fan"

"The Lady with the Fan" portrays the image of a lady in the Qing Dynasty who is a lady of great virtue, and it contains some of the features of ancient Chinese women's dances, which are mainly manifested in the gait, the roundedness of the movements, and the calmness of the cultural mentality. Chinese women's customs vary greatly from the ancient, middle-aged to the recent past, especially from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the centuries before the May Fourth New Culture Movement, when women's foot-binding had a profound impact on Chinese women's dance. This dance faithfully reflects this historical feature. In this dance, we can imagine the walk of the great ladies of the Qing Dynasty: a light step, subtle and restrained, calm and steady. In the dance, a dozen or so "ladies" step out, giving people a feeling of nobility and elegance. Shortly after the music tone suddenly changed, the ladies changed their reserved image, cheerful and lively, naive. On the stage, the skirt and veil fluttering, pleasing to the eye.

8. "Robbing the Drums"

The inspiration for "Robbing the Drums" came from the Han Dynasty tomb portrait stone in Yinan, Shandong Province, which depicts the recreational activities of the tomb owner during his lifetime, with the accompaniment of xiaojiao, drums and percussion, and the entertainers performing the Pan Dance. ...... This dance is also supported by the Han Dynasty Pan Dance unearthed in Taiping Township of Pengxian County in 1956, where the dancers are shown in the picture bricks. Picture bricks as evidence: dancers before the body of the six plates, plate each double set, the center of the two drums, just like Zhang Heng, "Watch Dance Fugue" in the "plate drums Huan and parallel columns" of the language, a woman waving a long scarf feet each standing on a drum, jumping, its dance "as if shocked, as if the dragons", and the disk dance is the most important dance of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pan dance for the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the feast in the most common song and dance, its tune is a miscellaneous dance song in the phase and song.

9. "Jade Rabbit Hunter" Dance introduced to the Central Plains from Guzi in the Northern Zhou Dynasty

10. "Chu Waist"

"Chu Waist" is a typical modern interpretation of ancient Chinese dance, which recreates the unique dance forms and flavors of the ancient Chu region of China. Imitating the ancient, but not mud ancient; innovative, but not kitsch; supported by a strong cultural background, it examines the traditional cultural spirit from the perspective of modern people's thinking and pursuing of history.

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