Ethnic folk dance creation of the "three elements"
Folk dance is a nation in the long-term social life in the formation of a kind of art, but also the nation's thoughts, feelings, customs, concepts and other artistic image reflection. The following is my search for you to organize the creation of folk dance about the national folk dance? Three elements? , welcome to refer to read, I hope to help you.
The creation of national folk dance, mainly in: the content should have the national spirit and the breath of the times; the form should highlight the national characteristics and aesthetic interests; style should have regional characteristics and new rhythms. Only in this way can the folk dance to give new life, in order to adapt to today's people's aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic interest in the diversification, to better meet the spiritual needs of the people.
The first element: the content of the national spirit and the breath of the times
Folk dance creation to highlight the main theme of the times, to focus on shaping the image of today's new characters, reflecting the ideals, aspirations, thoughts and feelings of the masses. To this end, we have to go deep into the life, deep into the masses, to understand and grasp the changes in the aesthetic consciousness of the emotional pulse of the masses and requirements, so that our works have the flavor of the times and the spirit of the nation. Otherwise, we will be detached from the masses, detached from life, the work is difficult to cause the audience's **** and produce the desired artistic effect.
The progress of human civilization and society, will certainly produce a strong collision with the old consciousness, customs and aesthetic point of view, which requires us to be good at identifying what should be abandoned, which should be further promoted. Only content, aesthetic awareness of the new, in order to reflect the concept of renewal. Famous Ansai waist drums in the folk dance out of the new, for us to provide valuable experience. Stirring feelings, magnificent scenes, resounding rhythm, majestic momentum, reproducing the spirit of the Chinese nation; rough and loose, dashing and robust performance, shaping the present-day living on the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi Province lads who dare to fight, dare to fight the heroic image of the audience with a great encouragement and motivation, highlighting the folk dance has the artistic charm. If the original folk drums are not refined, processed and standardized, improved, but the original pattern on the stage, it is difficult to achieve such an artistic effect today. Therefore, in the content, aesthetic awareness of the new, updated concepts at the same time, to grasp the basic tendency of folk dance art and the inner cohesion of this space and the unity of time, it constitutes the content of the spirit of art. This spirit is the national folk dance art of the 'basic composition, is a reflection of the excellent national folk dance tradition throughout the ages, reflecting the reality of the development of national folk dance art and the future.
In short, we need a new concept of ethnic folk dance, serious study and in-depth research, and give it new content, new ideas, new feelings and new artistic spirit, so that it can make it rich in the spirit of the nation and the breath of the times.
The second element: the form should highlight the national characteristics and aesthetic consciousness
Folk dance is a kind of art formed in the long-term social life of a nation, and it is also the artistic image of the national thoughts, feelings, customs, concepts, etc. reflected. An expert once pointed out: ? Dance can never leave the national consciousness and existence. Therefore, in the process of studying national folk dance, we should combine the characteristics of each national dance with national aesthetic consciousness, familiarize ourselves with their lives, understand their interests and their ideological beliefs, lifestyles, customs and historical and cultural backgrounds, so as to grasp the characteristics of the national dance itself.
The rich and colorful folk dance has long been active in the folk, passed down from generation to generation. From the beginning of the primitive clan social dance activities, folk dance will be its self-indulgent group (collective) way, the performance of laborers for hunting, fishing, farming and other labor and life between the tribal wars, as well as rituals and divinations and other utilitarian purposes. The ancestors of primitive society in the written language is not yet developed enough, often highlight the art of song and dance to express each other's feelings, and therefore, as soon as the feelings will unconsciously dance, so that the dance has become a figurative means of expression of emotions. With the development of society, folk dance has been passed down from generation to generation, and through the creation of countless artists and the masses, traditional dance forms with distinctive national styles have been formed. For example, the Yangge of the Han people is an extremely common form, which shows people's cheerful and joyful emotions through the dynamic features of twisting, swinging, walking and jumping and the rich changes of formations. Whenever the Spring Festival and the time of celebration, many people often can not help twisting and jumping up, simple rhythm, cheerful rhythm, exciting emotions, changing formations, so that people produce joyful emotions and a strong sense of participation, and become countless people with the song **** dance, vent their feelings of a unique form of expression. Tibetan potshuang dance is characterized by the side song and dance, each song is matched with dance steps, first slow and then fast, the lyrics of the content of the natural scenery and men and women in love and so on. Through the high-pitched tunes, lyrical movements and rich contents, it expresses the honest and unrestrained character traits of the Tibetan people. It can be said that folk dance reproduces a special feeling triggered by people's perception of life and things in labor, and expresses the imagery in people's hearts. Through the unique body of dance, the characters portrayed in the graceful dance language form a kind of visual and auditory organic combination of the art of time and space change, in order to express the thoughts, feelings, ideals, aspirations and traditional aesthetic consciousness of the nation. What did the ancients say? To see its shape and to know its virtues? is the function and role of the dance is highly generalized after the summary.
As society advances, dance creation is more colorful. Regardless of the depth of the ideological content it reflects, its form must not be detached from the national characteristics and the traditional aesthetic interests of the nation. Only vivid ideological content and perfect artistic form unity, in order to vividly express people's ideals, aspirations, as well as the joys and pains, and strive to make folk dance in the form of art and expression to develop and improve, and then become a distinctive national characteristics of the work of art.
The third element: in the style to highlight the regional characteristics and new rhythms
How to give folk dance into the modern consciousness, in addition to highlighting the spirit of the nation and the times in the content, in the form of national characteristics, but also to do the key to achieve the vocabulary of the new. In recent years, there have been many dance workers have made an attempt, they get a sense of real life caused by a variety of appearances, through their own emotions and imagination, into creative thinking, that is, by the organization of the specific appearance of the organization and artistic processing, the use of modern concepts of thought and artistic skills, means to create a work of art with contemporary characteristics. This makes China's national folk dance from theoretical research to dance works creation, have a rapid development, so that we see the national folk dance artistic style and distinctive atmosphere of the times, see the Chinese folk art continues to transcend and extend the hope.
I wrote the dance "caveman" (in Shaanxi Province, the second Arts Festival won the first prize for choreography, performance), the idea of creation initially came from the South Shaanxi folk dance "small field" revelation, I would like to put the form of this unique, regional folk dance (two people in less than one square meter on the square table performance) on the modern stage. At the beginning, there were two views: one was that we should fully express the traditional programs and techniques, turn the original characters once a clown into a modern man and a woman, and turn the performance on the square table into a performance on the stage; the props of the straw hat circle and the fan could not be changed, and the program of dancing while singing could not be changed, and the only thing that could be changed was the people's costumes and the content of the words sung. I don't appreciate this kind of copying. Secondly, the characters and performance programs can be changed, but the final effect should still make people feel that this is a folk dance, "Little Field", and the original appearance of the old performers should be preserved. This viewpoint of change but no change was not allowed, which made me feel incredibly confused. In the end, it was the teaching of several teachers that broadened my horizons, that is: to inject modern consciousness into folk dance, boldly innovate, breakthroughs, so that the traditional folk dance for the reality of the service. With this foothold, it is necessary to further study the aesthetic interests of modern people and familiarize themselves with their lives.
? The caveman? is a kind of folklore activities of our people regardless of region and level, with strong national flavor, cheerful and warm atmosphere, witty and interesting playfulness, showing people's joyful celebration of love and yearning for a better future. ? Caveman? is both a traditional and contemporary folk festive activity. And what we need is: through the performance of? The life of the caveman is a reflection of the modern youth's style. to reflect the style of modern youth. I have been reminded of many of these events. The scene of the "haunted house". scenes, so I conceptualized the structure of the dance "The Bridal Chamber". In a small farmhouse, with fragrant flowers and a full moon, a pair of newlyweds are in the bridal chamber, and a lyrical duo dance brings people into the bridal chamber full of festivities. A group of mountain village boys and girls peeping out of the window, this group of simple youth as dumb, can not help but rushed into the room playful. The cave appeared in the lively, cheerful group dance scene, the bride and groom full of joy and busy to the group scattered sugar. At the request of the crowd, the two newlyweds gave a wonderful and charming performance: eating apples, touching the groom, sitting in the sedan chair, dancing disco, small field and so on. Mischievous young people brought a table as a palanquin, first the bride and groom buckle under the table, and then put them on the table, a section of the small field? Small field? After the dance, the crowd wanted the bride and groom to kiss in person, when the bride blocked her face with a fan, the bridegroom eagerly, mysteriously, the bride kissed a mouthful, the bride was ashamed, in the crowd's laughter and playfulness, the dance reached a climax. Finally, in the midst of midnight laughter, the groom took the bride by the hand and blew out the lights (using cut light to produce?). Black? effect). The dance ends without music or light, leaving the audience with a lot of associations. After the structure of the dance, how to express the dance vocabulary? I further studied the folk dance of Ankang. Small field? I further researched the expression of Ankang folk dance "Xiaochangzi". Xiaochangzi? I refined the style, characteristics and traditional techniques of the dance, i.e. trembling, shaking, twisting, swinging, etc., into several basic rhythms, and then exaggerated, deformed and developed them according to the content. With? Tremor? Shaking? to express joy and happiness, and? Twist? Wiggle? Expression and shyness, this dance modeling exaggeration and inner emotional catharsis aptly expresses the modern rural youth on the pursuit of beauty and love yearning, showing the modern human body movement and unique dance skills, giving a kind of both traditional and contemporary, both popular and elegant new image, so that the dance will soon be with different experiences, different levels of the audience to produce **** Ming.
Practice makes me realize: engage in folk dance creation, first of all, close to the actual, close to life, close to the masses, it is mainly from the people's real life. People's life movements often have regional and national personality and cultural qualities, as long as we are diligent in capturing, the courage to break through, good at innovation, grasp the folk dance art creation? Three elements? , we will certainly choreograph a good dance work. China's folk dance from programmed to unprogrammed, from traditional consciousness to modern consciousness, from modern people's life to modern people's aesthetic interests, from regional to ethnic, from creative consciousness to performance consciousness, from folk customs to real life, from dance discipline to comprehensive discipline, all need to conduct comprehensive research and creation. Creation-practice-recreation-practice, this kind of practical activity of human consciousness, constantly establishes a new kind of ethnic folk dance and creates new characters and forms of expression. We should not only retain the essence of ethnic folk dance, but also transcend the limitations of ethnic folk dance, so that ethnic folk dance develops with the extension of modern human consciousness.
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