Song Dynasty team dance is a kind of Song Dynasty court dance.
I.Characteristics of Song Dynasty Dance:
During the Northern Song Dynasty, foot-binding for women became a trend, so Song Dynasty dance was far less gorgeous, flamboyant and unrestrained than Tang Dynasty dance, but showed an ancient, elegant and introverted style, which was characterized as Song Dynasty dance is characterized by "ancient, leisurely, slow, wonderful and beautiful". Song Dynasty royal family attaches great importance to the music of feast and sound, the court music and dance performances are grand, dancers compete to show a variety of dance skills, dazzling.
Song dynasty dance not only prevailed in the court, in the folk are also very popular, can be said to cover all levels of society. For example, Dashengfu was the official office in charge of music during the Northern Song Dynasty, where a kind of court dance, the Dasheng music dance, was formed. And the emergence of the Wazi Hooker made the Song Dynasty dance commercialized, with more diverse forms of performance and content focused on reflecting social reality.
In terms of dance movements, the Song dynasty court dance is gentle and delicate, while folk dance is lively and witty.
Two, the Song dynasty team dance expression
The Song dynasty court dance formed its own unique dance performance form. This new dance form is called "team dance", team dance in both the "Cudgel Dance", "Sword Dance" and other classic dance of the Tang Dynasty, but also added some of the Song Dynasty newly created music and dance.
It is mainly divided into "children's team" and "women's team" two teams, the performance of a large number of people, a large team dance can be up to hundreds of people.
There is a clear division of roles in the team dance, such as the "Flower Heart" who is the main actor, the "Jukanzi" who is similar to the host, the "Song and Dance Team" who is the main part, and the "Posterior Team" who accompanies the orchestra. The "backline" accompanied by the orchestra. The performance of team dance also has a relatively fixed program, which integrates singing, dancing, reciting, dialog and other forms, and various forms are interspersed with each other to form a new comprehensive performance form that is rich in content but very orderly.
And, in the Song Dynasty, there was a huge team of folk dancers, called the "social fire". This team will be music, dance, martial arts and acrobatics and other skills programs together, in the form of a parade to perform dance. This kind of folk dance performance activities, generally in the New Year, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other days.
In this period, the city has appeared in the specialized performance place "hook rail", "tile house". Folk dances were usually performed in the "Goulan", "Washa" or squares.
In the folk dance activities, there are a lot of hands of Sun Diehuai stunts, skillful programs, such as in a few feet high on the pole on a crossbar, and in the crossbar on the smoke and fire, pretend to be a ghost, the effect is thrilling.