This series of dance teaching programs is a very complete set of Beijing Ping Si tutorials by Mr. Yang Yi, the founder of Beijing Ping Si and known as the "Prince of Ping Si", who has combined his years of teaching and creative experience. Here you will learn hundreds of Ping Si patterns and feel the joy and beauty of Chinese social dance!
Beijing Ping Si - Introduction
Ping Si dance, depending on the pace of the dance beat, the current international ballroom dance in the "blues" commonly known as "slow four-step" dance, waltz is divided into the Vienna Waltz that is, the fast three-step waltz and slow waltz. The waltz is divided into the Viennese waltz, which is a fast three-step waltz, and the slow three-step waltz, while the name of the Ping Si dance depends on the speed of the flat four-step ballroom dance for short. Although the name "Beijing Ping Si" is called Beijing, it is actually a slice of life of multi-ethnic dances and folklore of our country. For example: "Grapes are ripe", "Kazakhs take relatives", "Peacocks open the screen", Mongolian marriage proposal, Tibetan blind date, etc., all of them are married in Beijing Ping Si, which requires the dancers in the process of dancing, "the spirit of the form is not dispersed," "the dance of the true feelings are more true. According to different styles of dance music, choose the appropriate pattern, in the moment according to its basic laws, improvisation, random combination, jump out of your style, dance out of your confidence.
The music of Beijing Ping Si Dance is 2/4 beat, about 44 bars per minute, and the rhythm is pong, chong, pong, chong, one beat and one step, without any difference between fast and slow, but in the pattern modeling, you can put four steps in one bar to jump three steps, and the first three beats are one step per beat, and the fourth stops to be modeled after the step. In this way, the third step occupies two beats, fully demonstrating the beauty of the dance modeling, "rebound pipa", "picking grapes" and other patterns is this dance step.
Beijing Ping Si - The Basic Steps of Beijing Ping Si
The basic steps of Beijing Ping Si were borrowed from the familiar "Cross Steps" of Yangge and innovated. While "four" naturally means four steps, "Ping" has its own interpretations: ●"Ping" is the original name of Beijing, Beiping, and the rice-planting dance is a product of the era before and after the liberation of China; ●"Ping" is the ordinary heart of an ordinary person, and ●the ordinary year; and ●"Ping" wishes all those who like to dance peace and prosperity, and good luck! ●"Ping", the calm earth from now on is no longer calm, plain life from now on has a few colors, ●ordinary people began to look for love to find an extraordinary life ......
Beijing Ping Si divided into the men's basic step and women's basic step, men's step is relatively simple, left and right, left and right beat on the right, driven by the man dancing partner, changing out of the shape of many of them. The men's steps are relatively simple and the women's basic steps are relatively simple and the men's steps can be changed into many shapes by the men driving their partners
Beijing Ping Si - Aesthetic Characteristics
Beijing Ping Si Dance, in addition to the character, characteristics and charm of the general ballroom dances, also has the unique aesthetic characteristics of the creation of China, which is embodied in the aesthetic characteristics of the "clever combination of the steps and the flowers", the "combination of gestures and the shape of the figure", and the "combination of the movement in the static, and the static in the moving". Its dance steps are standardized, elegant and free, flexible and steady, fast but not chaotic, fast but not hurrying, steady but not dragging, and the dance posture is beautifully shaped and elegant, novel and chic, and its beauty greatly exceeds its simple name.
Beijing Ping Si - Representatives
Yang Yi is one of the pioneers of Beijing Ping Si Dance, and he created the Ping Si Dance pattern, which is a school of its own, with a unique style, and has developed from the first pattern of 10 years ago to the hundreds of patterns nowadays, and has now formed a relatively large pattern series. With its unique charm, Beijing Ping Si Dance, by virtue of its lively and cheerful, easy to learn, and constantly renovated patterns, has gained a strong foothold in the social dance field, and has been favored by the majority of social dance enthusiasts. People who dance the social dance all praise it as having the special effects of fitness, intelligence, amusement and nourishment. The birth of "Beijing Ping Si Dance" ended the history of China not having its own social dance.
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