About the six types of Mongolian dance
The most distinctive feature of Mongolian dance is the fast rhythm, the dance step is light and quick, in a wave, a whip, a jump between the Mongolian people's simplicity, warmth, bravery, boldness and swarthiness, showing their cheerful and open-minded character and heroic temperament, with a strong national character. Below, I'll tell you about the six types of Mongolian dance, I hope to help you!
Top Bowl Dance
Ordos Mongolian traditional folk dance inherited from the Yuan Dynasty. It has a novel form, beautiful movements, elegant temperament, unique style and strong national characteristics. It occupies an important position in the development history of Mongolian folk dance. Ordos Mongolians who can sing and dance well dance in the wedding feast and festive gatherings with one or two people with a teacup or bowl-shaped small oil lamp or bowl, bowl full of water or milk wine; hands holding two wine cups or a bunch of bamboo chopsticks in the song and dance in the sound of music.
Top lamp, top bowl dance action is not a fixed number of sets, master the basic movements and hit the cup, hit the chopsticks after the law, the dancers improvise on the spot, the more exciting the mood, the movement, the more colorful the changes in the dance, the dancers to fully demonstrate the skills, wisdom and folk dance rich, flexible and changeable characteristics.
Chopstick Dance
One of the representative traditional folk dance forms. The performer holds a chopstick in each hand, holding the thin end of the chopstick and striking the thick end of the chopstick. The action has two hands in front of the chest to cross the chopsticks, can also hit the shoulders; two hands in front of the abdomen to cross the chopsticks; two hands in front of the chest to hit the chopsticks, then one hand to hit the shoulders of one hand to cross the legs; one hand to hit the shoulders of one hand to turn around to hit the ground squatting; two hands in front of the chest to hit the chopsticks to take one hand to hit the legs along the way, and then two hands in front of the chest to hit the chopsticks to take one hand to hit the shoulders of a cross, and so on. The footsteps of the dance are flat walking forward and backward, and also a bit of ground marching backward, or a variety of turning and jumping movements with the dancers improvise and do. Chopsticks dance condenses the Mongolian people's love of life and beautify the wisdom of life, is a part of the Mongolian people's spiritual life.
Andai
Traditional Mongolian folk dance. It is the evolution and development of the ancient forms of collective dance, such as "Tap Song and Dance", "Dance with Arms", and "Dance around the Tree". The performance form of the Andean Dynasty, dozens of people in the courtyard, hundreds of people, surrounded by a large circle, the circle by the two song and dance dancers to the song and dance, the crowd echoed the foot stamping, flap lapel dancing and singing, the formation of a warm, joyful scene.
After the liberation of the majority of dance workers through the collection, collation, adaptation, innovation, so that the ancient Andai developed into a new art form to reflect the life and performance of the times. There are basically two forms: one is a self-indulgent collective dance on the square, and the other is a performative one on the stage'.
Puushuur Le Dance
Also known as the Tophuur Le Dance. Bharat Mongolian folk dance in Mongolian is called Bey. Beile, Chinese means the rhythm of the body. Living in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Alxa League of Bharat Mongolia four major tribes: Jungar, Taolhu, Durbeit, and Shuket, each tribe has an extremely rich folk dance, they have an ancient two-stringed plucked instrument called Topshur, according to the custom of the Bharat Mongolia, Topshur will be accompanied by the sound of Bei Beile, Bei Beile must be carried out in the sound of the Topshur. The sound of music, therefore, Bharat Mongolian folk dance is also known as Topsyul music dance.
The more complete preservation of Topshur music 12-17 songs, to the content of each song has its own name and different actions and jumping, such as the Black Jima, Yuk old man, slow withdrawal of Bourdon, etc., Batla Mongolian folk dance reflects the content of life there is a manifestation of the performance of the labor of the shearer, felt, milking, etc.; there is a manifestation of daily life, such as combing, mirror, wearing headdresses, etc.; there are imitations of birds and animals, such as the eagle and the beast. Flying birds and animals, such as the eagle wings, goats jumping, walking horses, camels, etc.; there is a simulation of natural scenery, such as water waves, water waves, grass waves, and so on.
The form of unarmed and with props 2 kinds of props with the top bowl and hands holding a pair of chopsticks jump. Hand holding Topsy turvy jumping while bouncing, in addition to hard shoulders, shrugs, turn around in addition to rebound Topsy turvy dance and action.
Jumping method has Daler Lehn Beile (beckoning style, referring to the pressure wrist action), Odelehn Beile (winding jump, referring to the arm action), Acha Beile (support heavy and jump, nail with legs holding the waist of B, B support A, two people face to face jump), the whole dance throughout the around around the rhythm to the double Teng slightly trembling, the typical action: hard shoulders, shrugs, pressure lifting the wrist, shaking hands, around the arm, in the 2 people, In the two, three and more people in the dance in the movement improvisation can be changed in thousands of ways.
Circle dance Mongolian folk dance. The two feet alternately swinging step, bold and unrestrained jumping step, bright and dashing lower body or side body running and jumping step and other movements composed of. The upper body movements include shaking hands, holding hands with people behind the back, holding hands with people, and dancing in a circle, which is why people usually call Buryat folk dance a circle dance. The slow dance is lyrical and soft, and the fast dance is cheerful and agile, with strong jumping. The folk style is simple, with ancient colors, warm and unrestrained feelings.
Cup Dance
It is a kind of dance that has been handed down in Ordos. On the occasion of festivals and celebrations, when people are full of wine and food, they pick up the wine cups on the table and dance to express their joy. Each hand holding two cups, hit a variety of fast, slow, broken, shaking and other sounds, with the music of the hands dancing with the cups hit a variety of rhythms.
The action of the hands around the eight horizontal, the upper body with the left and right eight (Arabic) also swinging left and right; hands up, down, left, right cross-shaped hit cups, the body with the hands of up and down ups and downs; hands from the inside to the outside or from the outside to the inside of the circle; hands to the stage position of the two-point or eight-point jittery cups, the body with the hands of the rise and fall, the face and vision and the hands were in the opposite direction, the cup to which side, which side of the ear will be accompanied by the probe over to listen to the cups sound! ; around the circle movement law a hand on the head of the other hand in front of the body from inside to outside around the circle; hands from behind to the side of the slow swing, the action range in the crotch for the small, in the body of the side for the middle, a hand to the head of a hand in the back of the waist for the big, and so on left and right to do that is known as the horizontal pendulum twisting movement law.
The lower body movements are kneeling with both legs, and there are also a variety of dance steps such as the meandering step with it. The head can be on top of the bowl, also on top of the lamp. The dance is dignified and simple, and the flavor is steady and strong, strong and soft.
Jousting
A kind of simulation dance that has been passed down in the Xilingol Grassland, which is known as the home of wrestling in the Autonomous Region. By a person to perform the two people wrestling the dynamic of the fight, and performance than the life of the wrestling is more vivid, dexterous, humorous, funny, so by the masses of the favorite. Performers should wear special clothing, wearing Mongolian robes of two small dummy wrestling posture (hold waist) sewn together, so that the two robes into a tube set on the body, tie a good waistband on the upper body forward bowed 180 degrees, the two pasted together with a fake head just on top of the waist and back, with a set of boots on the hands as one of the feet, in the song or drums, do a variety of wrestling holds, kicks, limbs, hooks and other skills.
Expansion: Mongolian dance shoulder movements
Mongolian dance shoulder movements are mainly hard shoulder, shrug, soft shoulder, shoulder, and so on, these movements have a flexible and changeable, rhythmic, rich in form and other characteristics.
(A) hard shoulder.
The hard shoulder refers to the force of contraction of the chest and back muscles to drive the shoulder blades to do backward contraction forward, the wrist and arm should also cooperate with the shoulders in the process of alternating contraction of the back and forth swing. In the use of the shoulder movement, should pay attention to the strength of the stiff but not hard, to ensure that the toughness of the connection, according to the plot, mood and other needs, divided into two fast and slow, the body can also make the corresponding amplitude of the shoulder movement.
(ii) shrug.
Shrugging is the shoulders at the same time put down the upper end, not only can one shoulder alternately, but also can be two shoulders in succession. When doing shrugs, you should make sure that your shoulders are straight up and down, and the upward process should be full of power, and the downward process should return to the original position easily and naturally. The shrug is also known as the laughing shoulder, because it resembles the continuous shaking of the shoulders when a person laughs. Shrugging can show the characters in the dance works of bold and rough character traits and happy and relaxed mood.
(C) soft shoulders.
In this movement, the dancer's shoulders are moving softly in succession and alternately, showing a dignified and elegant beauty. In Mongolian dance, there are many works that utilize the soft shoulder movement to express the deep connotation of the main character, to express the interest, to describe the psychology, and to portray the character. For example, in the Mongolian Dance masterpiece "Cup and Bowl Dance", the dancer opens the dance with the horizontal pendulum, double pendulum, soft arm and soft shoulder movements with her back to the audience. As the dancers' backs are turned to the audience, the audience can not see their expressions and faces, but with the help of the dancers' back and shoulder movements, the audience can not help but imagine their pretty faces, happy moods, soft character, dignified form, which leaves the audience with an endless space for imagination.
(D) around the shoulders.
The shoulder movement is divided into two kinds: double and single. Double shoulder action is the dancer's two shoulders at the same time before and after the circle; single shoulder action is a shoulder before and after the circle. When doing this action, the dancer should keep the balance of neck and head, relax the shoulders naturally, and tilt the waist with the above action, showing a kind of subtle beauty. For example, in the Mongolian dance work "Wine Cup Dance", the dancers with the help of coherent and brisk shoulder movements, with the dynamic shape changes and horizontal swing, double swing, around the hand, soft arm rhythm, to make a beautiful alternating pressure wrist hit the cup, lift the pressure wrist hit the cup, the pressure wrist hit the cup and other movements, showing the characters in the work of the dignified, delicate, beautiful posture and joyful and happy mood, and also shows the unique style of the Mongolian dance dynamic, light and fast.
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