Essay on Teaching Methods of Ethnic Folk Dance
I. Analysis of the Current Situation of Teaching Methods of Ethnic Folk Dance in China
Ethnic folk dance in China consists of natural inheritance and educational inheritance. Natural inheritance refers to the way of direct inheritance through the old folk artists, the inherited dance is completely from the production of labor, geographic environment, religious beliefs, history and culture, and other elements, closer to and in line with people's daily life customs, and completely untouched by the modification of the dance movements. But this kind of original traditional dance inheritance also has its shortcomings, because they lack of dance and ornamental. We are required to take the original folk dance as the foundation of folk dance cultural inheritance, so that the original dance can be enriched and developed continuously. Only by processing it and improving its skills can it be made more danceable and more ornamental.
The heritage of education refers to educators to dig deep into the grassroots, organizing, collecting some of the original dance and data and then processing, choreographing dance combinations and dance works suitable for teaching, on the basis of processing and innovation, and gradually formed a number of more scientific and systematic classroom teaching materials, so that the folk dance from the life of the classroom, on the stage. In our country's colleges and universities of folk dance classroom teaching are generally used in the Beijing Dance Academy, Mr. Pan Zhitao's "Chinese folk dance teaching materials and teaching method" and Mr. Luo Xiongyan's "Chinese folk dance culture tutorial" and on the basis of these dance teaching materials, we have also combined some of the Central University of Nationalities' teaching materials with some of the Central University of Nationalities' teaching materials, which have been used in the classroom. Based on these dance textbooks, we also combined some dance textbooks of the Central University for Nationalities, which have been used until now. We now have some deficiencies in the teaching of folk dance classes.
First of all, in the folk dance teaching has been using the traditional folk dance teaching materials, there is not much innovation in the teaching materials. Failure to keep up with the pace of the times and the characteristics of teaching. In the teaching of folk dance, teaching materials are very important. Only through continuous excavation, innovation and integration of new elements can students be more interested in learning folk dance and keep pace with the times. Secondly, the teaching mode is rigid. Traditional classroom teaching is mainly "oral teaching" teaching methods, is the teacher through the action of the demonstration and through the oral explanation to the students, although the oral teaching in colleges and universities must be used in this teaching method also plays a very important role.
But the students will imitate the teacher's movements without really understanding the background of Chinese folk culture and the culture and customs of different ethnic regions. This makes the students' knowledge narrow and their thinking ability not fully developed. Once again, the relevance of teaching to students is insufficient. The current classroom teaching mode is based on a collective form, in which there are shortcomings in the teaching of the targeted insufficient. The quality of classroom teaching is affected by the fact that the psychology and individuality of each student are not taken into account. Only let the students really understand the connotation of the national culture and folk dance, in order to make the folk dance have a better development and continue to innovate and breakthrough.
Second, the Chinese folk dance Mongolian dance classroom teaching method analysis
(a) stimulate students' interest in learning Mongolian dance
How to stimulate the students' interest in learning is an important way of teaching, and cultivate the students' interest in learning and the desire to learn is an important part of the study of folk dance. The part of the study of folk dance. China's ethnic folk dance is a variety of styles, ethnic folk dance is mainly Han, Tibet, Mongolia, Wei, Chao as the main folk dance. At present, in the teaching mode of "oral teaching", most of the students lack the knowledge of the content, meaning and purpose of folk dance. How to make students learn and master these folk dances is a test of teachers' teaching methods. Take Mongolian dance as an example how to stimulate students' interest in learning Mongolian folk dance. First of all, teachers should let students have a correct understanding of folk dance before teaching the movement of Mongolian dance. When students learn Mongolian folk dance, teachers can play multimedia videos of Mongolian dance for students to listen and watch, so that students have a direct perceptual understanding, and at the same time, teachers should tell students about Mongolian history, culture, geography, religion, customs, and the formation of the unique characteristics of the dance style. Secondly, when teaching the basic movements of Mongolian dance, teachers should analyze and explain the dynamic vocabulary and style of Mongolian dance movements in detail. It is important to let the students know which are the `focuses' of learning. Thus, the purpose of letting students watch the video before is also achieved which is to let students understand the Mongolian dance before learning it, and lay a foundation for the learning afterward. That is to mobilize students' curiosity and cultivate their motivation. Once again, it is extremely important for teachers to teach Mongolian dance by demonstrating the movement, which is the most intuitive to students and also the embodiment of beauty and style characteristics. This will allow students to better grasp the Mongolian dance of calm, dignified, dashing and free, strong and soft dance characteristics.
(B) Improvement of classroom teaching content
Teachers in accordance with the traditional Mongolian dance textbook for teaching seems reasonable, but for the foundation of the weaker students belong to the imposition of learning. The students have to memorize the combinations, styles, and rhythms of the Mongolian folk dance movements. This will only make the students only know how to imitate the teacher's movements without thinking about the connotation of folk dance, so they can't master the essence of folk dance well. Therefore, we want to improve the folk dance teaching materials to improve the quality of the traditional folk dance Han, Tibet, Mongolia, Wei, Chao and other materials on the basis of some other teaching methods to try, on the one hand, the teacher can be based on the quality of the student's own level to choose a different teaching methods. This is enough for most students to accept, but also to achieve the teaching effect. On the other hand, we should let the students know more about the cultural background and customs of the Mongolian people. At the same time, we can also organize students to go to the local area to pick up the wind so as to excavate and choreograph more and better Mongolian folk dance combinations. To enrich the content of the material, to promote the improvement and perfection of the folk dance teaching materials, so that the Mongolian folk dance can be better inherited and developed.
(C) Improve and develop students' observation and expression
Teachers in the process of teaching folk dance must require students to listen, watch and think more in the classroom. These three points are extremely important this is to identify the beauty and ugliness, wrong and right guidelines. However, imitation plays an important role in the teaching of folk dance, and good or bad imitation directly affects the students' strength or weakness, which is very helpful for students to learn folk dance. Therefore, in classroom teaching, we should let students learn to observe and learn to dance with their "consciousness". Improving students' observation ability is conducive to students' learning of folk dance. In the training of students' expressive ability is also very important, China's folk dance teaching content is rich and colorful. This should require teachers to take advantage of the richness of the teaching content of folk dance to cultivate students' expressiveness of the characters in the dance works and the characterization of the characters. Although many students in folk dance can well show the style characteristics of dance, but the dance lacks thoughts and feelings. It is difficult to highlight the connotation of folk dance, which requires students to experience life and feel life from the inner world of the characters to observe and thoughts and feelings, only their own personal experience to the characters of the psychological and ideological to go, it is possible to jump out of the different folk dance, so that their own dance expressive.
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