Explanation of the essentials of Dai dance movements
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Explanation of the essentials of Dai dance movements Part 1
Dai dance is a characteristic dance for the Dai people to express their emotions. The Dai people live in subtropical areas. Due to the hot and humid weather and living in a "quiet pastoral", people do not like intense activities, so the dance movements are relatively stable, with a serene demeanor, less jumping movements, and the rhythm is mostly continuous in 2/4 beats. There is a constant rhythm. The basic movement of the dance is mostly to keep the legs in a semi-squatting state, beat down, and bend and extend the knees to move. The flexion and extension drive the body to tremble and swing back and forth; the feet are mostly kicked back and kicked up. Fast and powerful when landing, light and steady when landing.
"Three bends" are the typical basic features of Dai dance that are full of sculptural beauty:
The body movements are three bends: from the upright soles of the feet to the bent knees; Head to crotch; from crotch to sloping upper body.
The movements of the arms are also three bends: fingertips to wrists, wrists to elbows, and elbows to arms.
The movements of the legs are still in three bends: from the upright soles to the heels, from the heels to the bent knees, and from the knees to the hips.
This kind of "three-curved" body shape of body, hands and legs is related to the fact that they live in subtropical areas, wear tight tops and long skirts with girls, believe in Theravada Buddhism, and regard peacocks as their symbol. They are very fond of sacred birds and so on, which are all related, and these elements are more directly reflected in the dance of the Dai people. Explanation of the essentials of Dai dance movements Part 2
The basic hand shapes of Dai dance
Palm shape, curved palm shape, crown shape (imitating a peacock head), mouth shape (imitating a peacock's mouth), Claw type (imitating peacock claws), etc.; the basic foot type mainly includes a hooked foot forming three curves; the basic hand positions include: "low spread wings", "flat spread wings", "double closed wings", "embracing wings", " "JI quality spreads its wings" and so on. The "three curves" in its dancing posture imitate the natural three curves of a peacock perched on a tree stump, with its long tail wings hanging down.
Basic hand positions in Dai dance
One hand: the thumb is bent back and placed on the front of the thigh.
Next hand: The wrists of both hands are bent back, the hands should be slightly curved, the thumbs are bent back, and the arms are slightly bent, on both sides of the thighs.
The last hand: Put your hands behind your hips, not close together, slightly separated, not too far away from the body, hands should be slightly curved, thumbs turned back, arms slightly bent.
Hands on the side: Put your hands on the side of the body, almost like a hand. Explanation of the Essentials of Dai Dance Movements Part 3
Once upon a time, there was a little Dai girl named Aili Lanxi who loved dancing since she was a child. In the clan, her dancing is one of the best! No one knows her.
She joined a performance troupe that gathered dancers from all over the world. In that performance group, she was also one of the best. However, the performers there looked down on her because her family was poor, her father had disappeared many years ago, and her mother was still lying in bed, waiting for her to make money to recuperate. Unlike other actors' families, where her father and mother are both prestigious aristocrats, she is the only one who dances solo. However, she did not back down because others laughed at her, but worked hard to make all the performers admit that she could become a folk dance artist without being a prestigious aristocrat.
I didn’t just learn from someone that the city was going to hold a large-scale art party and invited Ellie Lanxi to perform a folk dance and let her go to the city to rehearse. Ellie Lanxi returned home, asked about her mother, then packed her clothes and quietly followed the special car that came to pick her up and hit the road.
In the city, the performance was about to take place within a few days of rehearsal, and people specially prepared a venue full of dandelions for Ellie Lancy. I also got a special set of clothes.
Soon, the literary evening began, and the first program was Ellie Lancy’s. Ellie Lancy was also dancing folk dance with a flower bowl on her head. The performers with Ellie Lancy were all in the audience, and they were stunned. They didn't expect that Ellie Lancy could dance so beautifully. If the host hadn't announced the performer, they wouldn't have known it was Ellie Lancy. After Ellie Lanxi finished her performance, she bowed deeply to the audience. The audience burst into warm applause, and the applause could not stop for a long time.
Since then, Ellie Lancy has become the center of attention, and her mother's illness has gradually improved. However, her missing father has not come back yet. How much Elle Lancy hopes his father can come back too. ! Just when she was making her wish, her father opened the door and came. Ellie Lanxi cried happily, because her father was also back! ;