In recent years, there have been a lot of square dance videos popping up online, but this kind of square dance doesn't seem to be quite the same as the traditional square dance of previous years. The difference lies in the fact that many of the dancers are young or middle-aged men, or some young women, accompanied by fast-paced background music, their feet constantly rubbing on the ground, their bodies dancing with the beat. They call this the ghost dance.
In fact, for the ghost dance (Mexican Trapeze) I know, when I went to school, often go to the Internet café to watch the video, the initial contact with the ghost dance is a masked French man jumped, the video of the man's pace of clouds and water flowing like a floating secretive, and then only feel breathtaking, the heart of the long time can not be calm, and then download the video to the cell phone to watch no less than a hundred times to learn, but always! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
So many years later to see the ghost dance in China's square re-emerged, with a curious mood point into the video to see, the dancers neatly and incongruous movements, coupled with the dj version of the network songs. It's a real joy to watch, and at the same time, I don't know if I should be happy or sad.
In fact, the square version of the ghost dance of the hot thanks to the development of the network, at first the beginning of the fire of a dance video is an old man with a child to dance together, an old man and a young tacit understanding of the cooperation of the audience amused the country, and then more and more people began to imitate this kind of dance, and now the news client on the ghost dance video as much as a lot of hair, at the flip is the dance video. I can't help but wonder: is this dance really that good?
From the dance movements, artistry does not seem to be high, the square version of the ghost dance can only be considered a castrated version of the dance, in which the shape of the spirit of the pace in fact has long been changed, and the real ghost dance is very far away, as well as its spiritual connotations, the ghost dance is about a kind of freestyle, everyone has their own style, and to talk about the freedom to play, there is no stipulated action. The square dance version of the Ghost Walk has developed into a team dance, with neatly organized movements. To me, it's more like a jumping exercise.
In fact, all this is not to criticize those who dance the square version of the ghost walk and discourage people from dancing. Dancing certainly doesn't have to be made into an uptight thing. In fact, I think most of the participants do not know the origin and development of the ghost dance, just think it's fun, exercise is enough. This is undeniable, and on the premise of not disturbing the public, it is certainly more worthwhile to promote than playing cards and gambling and other forms of entertainment.
But here I would like to make a small suggestion to the dancers, I hope that the next time I see them dancing they will be able to develop a few more moves, just a few moves are really a bit monotonous. Of course, in the dance of the ghost dance of leisure time, also hope to be able to our traditional folk dance also moved to the square to come, perhaps by then it will become the era of national square dance, all kinds of dances bloomed the unprecedented scene, is not it beautiful?