The social functions of dance are as follows:
1. Entertainment and appreciation
Dance is a performing art, dancers use their own body to complete a variety of elegant, difficult movements, through jumping, rotating, tumbling and other movements, or the body's soft control of the expression of thoughts and feelings. Through jumping, spinning, tossing and other movements, or the soft control of the body to express the thoughts, feelings, mental outlook, storyline, so that the spirit of the people to get pleasure, be infected. In ancient times, the nobility of the palace to watch the song and dance as a kind of highest spiritual enjoyment, some indulged in it, ignoring the dynasty, do not ask political affairs.
This influence is negative, decadent. There are also some hedonists, this entertainment as the pursuit of the goal, entertainment above all, and even vulgar, corrupt yellow colorful dance to meet the enjoyment of the senses, to the point of embarking on the road of destruction. On the contrary is the vast number of working people in the hard after work, with positive, can inspire people to progress in the form of songs and dances to entertain themselves or entertain people, reflecting the optimism of the spiritual outlook.
For example, workers and peasants choreograph their own labor movements into a dance, entertainment performances after work, workers holding hammers, steel Xuan to do the work, farmers holding a sickle to harvest crops, herdsmen on horseback with a long whip to graze and other labor movements dance are very fascinating. In our revolutionary army in the Red Army period of the hats dance, the anti-Japanese war period of the sword dance, steel gun dance, Yan'an period of mass production movement, brother and sister to open up the land, husband and wife literacy and so on.
And the waist drums and rice-planting songs to celebrate the victory are all cheerful and inspiring. Even when material conditions were poor, the Party relied on the rich and vivid songs and dances to motivate and inspire people, and eventually won the revolution. With the development of society and the improvement of living standards, people are well-fed and clothed without the suffering of war.
Healthy entertainment is more sought after, so social dance, square dance, street dance and so on have more people to participate in, active life, entertainment, physical and mental, and enhance the sense of happiness. As a higher art form of dance has a stronger ornamental entertainment. For example, China's ancient Lu Shang Yuyi Dance, Flying Dance, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers, Bouncing Pipa and so on.
Foreign ballet, tap dance and so on. China is a multi-ethnic country, each ethnic group has embodied the distinctive characteristics of their own dance, such as Xinjiang's shoulder dance, the Mongolian, Korean hat dance, Dai's Lusheng dance, etc. are very fascinating, delightful.
Dancer Yang Liping's "bird of the Prancing Horse Dance, Tibetan" Bazaar Hi "Spirit", but also the peacock's movement is exquisite to the stage, the spirit of life, the harmony of nature, the beauty of the harmony between man and nature fully expressed, watching such dances can make people feel the spirit, the harmony of nature and the harmony and unity. Viewing such a dance can make a person's soul to be purified.
Some dances incorporate storylines to make them more enjoyable. For example, Swan Lake, Snow White and so on, glorifying the truth, goodness and beauty, and expressing the same feelings of human beings ****, has become a world language.
2, rituals and celebrations
Rituals and celebrations are very important social functions of dance. In ancient times, due to the low productivity, mankind's understanding of nature, their own knowledge are in the obscurity period, out of fear of natural disasters, the fear of nature, commonly used rituals to express their feelings, and heaven and earth dialogue with the natural communication. Therefore, the ritual dance is very sacred and important.
After that, there have been different sacrificial ceremonies from the temple to the folk in different dynasties to express the reverence to the gods and the hatred to the "evil ghosts" and "demons" that represent plague, disease and disaster, and to drive them away and destroy them with dance movements. The rituals express the hatred of ugliness and the desire for a better life.
From ancient times to the present day, people have used songs and dances to celebrate various festivities. Such as the anniversary of the founding of the country, the party, the celebration of major festivals, the victory of the battle, the completion of the project, the harvest and production. Vivid and lively dance expresses people's joyful mood, cheerful and unrestrained melody inspires people to move forward.
For example, the annual watch festival party, Lantern Festival party, National Day celebration, etc. Once broadcast the whole country and even the whole world will know, showing a more powerful social function. At these celebratory galas, various forms of dances glorify the wise leadership of the Party and its leaders, the great achievements of the motherland, the enthusiasm of the people for revolution and construction, and the great changes brought about by reform and opening up.
At the party commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Long March, dances extolling the Red Army's arduous struggle in the Long March expressed the spirit of the Long March in which the Chinese people, under the leadership of the Chinese ****productivity party, defied difficulties and dangers and fought bravely to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
3, the function of friendship and love
Dance is also the language and tool to convey friendship and love. Many of the content of the healthy dance and dance drama are in the expression of affection between people, love and friendship, celebrating the world of touching feelings of truth, goodness and beauty, but also whipped the false and ugly, so that the dance has a strong educational function, can make people in the viewing touched, shocked, from the depths of the heart of the subtle, silently.
For example, we watched the dance drama "The White-haired Girl", and are still touched by the unyielding spirit of struggle and resistance of Xi'er. Watching "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" of the butterfly dance, and for their loyal love infected. Many of the dances of ethnic minorities are expressions of love, in which young men and women meet, get to know each other and fall in love by dancing to songs. In addition, originating from the West spread all over the world of the fellowship dance.
It is a direct carrier for men and women to communicate their feelings and get to know each other, and it has been passed down for centuries without fail. In recent years, the rise of square dance, the same hobby so that everyone came together, in the song music accompaniment unrestrained free jumping, physical and mental relaxation, by the exercise, each other closer.
4, the integration of cultural and sports functions
Dance's powerful social function is also expressed in its integration into the people's cultural and sports activities, which in turn enhances the vividness of these activities, performances, ornamental and artistic infectivity. For example, singing, if just stand there singing will seem very boring and monotonous, with lively dance accompaniment, will make people feel pleasing to the eye, so the song and dance has become an inseparable partner, and then the big singers singing will be accompanied by dance.
In our country's traditional opera is integrated into many elements of dance, greatly improving the artistic expression of opera. For example, the Peking Opera "Farewell My Concubine" in Yu Ji's sword dance, "Drunken Concubine" in Yang Guifei's drunken dance, "the long silk dance" in the long silk dance, and so on, and its soft and graceful dance makes people intoxicated.
The combination of sports activities and dance is also very close, making sports more popular. Swimming program in the water ballet, ice skating in the figure skating, gymnastics in the art of gymnastics and so on are very fascinating sports program, not only let people appreciate the sports of the strong, but also let people appreciate the sports of the soft.
Now very popular all kinds of square dance, aerobics, dance and fitness completely integrated, both entertainment and exercise the body, by hundreds of millions of people's favorite, from the south to the north, from the city to the countryside, everywhere you can see the figure of the dancers, or three five people, or ten eight people, there are more people in the same, a small stereo music, we jumped up soundly!
A scene of peace and prosperity, every time I see this scene, my heart will be overflowing with the happiness of the country and the people. As a dancer, whether you are a choreographer or dancer, or group cultural workers, should pay attention to the social function of dance, through our efforts to expand the dance of the art of infectious, expressive for the masses, for the community to choreograph more excellent programs.