--Chongqing children's dance award-winning impression
Chongqing children's dance, with its strong aroma has attracted the attention of the dance world. In 1975, Emei film production for Chongqing children's song and dance shot a "we are all sunflower" children's song and dance art film released nationwide; in 1984, to participate in the National Children's Song and Dance Video Competition, all twelve programs were awarded: the first prize of five, the second prize of three, the third prize of four. In 1989, it took part in the National Children's Song and Dance Competition, and won all the prizes for four programs: one first prize for creation and performance, and three third prizes for creation and performance. In 1990, Chongqing Children's Dance "Playing in the Rain" went to Beijing to participate in the XXth China Arts Festival, and was unanimously praised by the dance community. To this day, Chongqing children's dance in the national children's dance competitions, still enjoys its honor. The choreographers and directors of these award-winning works have made some valuable explorations for the creation of children's dance. This article on the artistic characteristics of children's dance creation, make some discussion.
First, the creation of children's dance
The main body of children's dance is adult, the main body of the performance and reception of the main body is a child. Therefore, the creative body of children's dance is subject to the constraints of its performing and receiving subjects, which has led to the problem of the childization of children's dance. The childization of children's dance creation refers to the fact that the choreographer of children's dance must correct himself with children's psychological state, way of thinking, aesthetic pursuit and character traits, so as to observe, experience and condense the performance of children's life. Children's dance in the creation of children, deliberately pursuing the "three children".
1, the perspective focus of the child's heart
Children's dance is the self-expression of children's life, which is like a prismatic mirror, reflecting a pure child's heart, reflecting their knowledge and grasp of the world. The focus of a child's perspective is the starting point for the development of that perspective. Before choreographing, it is very important to determine the focal length of the perspective of the child's heart. From the point to the line, from the line to the surface, not only can constrain the performance content of children's dance, but the connection of point, line and surface can also determine the connotation of children's dance rhythm. The perspective focus of children's heart is the basis of children's dance creation. Therefore, the choreographer's gaze on children's life should be the perspective of children's heart. The "Chicken Duckling", which won the first prize of the national children's dance, captures the psychological characteristics of preschool children in the perspective focus of the child's heart: starting from perception, while acting, thinking, and inducing rich imagination in concrete image thinking, which is manifested in the liking of imitation, the love of listening to fairy tales, and the good game, and so on. The choreographer of the dance seizes this characteristic and injects the theme of unity and love with the help of the fairy tale of chickens and ducks helping each other, externalizing the psychological characteristics of young children in the dance movements of the chickens and ducks, and shaping a complete and touching image as a kind of visual dance language. The whole dance is like playing a game, with a strong self-indulgence, which arouses the great interest of the children in performing. The dance movements of the chickens and ducklings are imitated, and their characteristics are exaggerated between the elephant and the unimaginable, so that their dance image is rich in young children's emotions. Chicken duckling to young children's enlightenment, in essence, is the discovery of young children to their own heart.
2, childish emotional radiation
Children and young people are innocent, lively and lovely, and they treat the world around them with sincere emotion. Their fantasies can make the sun become his father-in-law, the moon become his mother-in-law, the colorful clouds become his aunt, and he himself becomes the little angel of the family. Puppies, kittens, goats, and beetles can all become his little friends, and be connected with them in mind and emotion. In short, whether animate or inanimate, children can talk to them, talk, play, and radiate their sincere emotions to them, so that they have the aura to become the children's emotional world. Children's true emotion. It is the basis of children's dance movement language. Action, is the physical carrier of emotion, is a visual aesthetic reflection of the change of mind. Children's true emotional radiation, is the subject of the child's care of the object, but also the object of the subjectification of the performance. Therefore, it can be said that children's emotional radiation is the source of children's dance art. The choreographer and director of "Sleep, Doll", which won the first prize of the national children's dance, has seized the above mentioned emotional characteristics of children, reflecting the reality of one-child families in modern society - mothers and fathers dedicate themselves to their careers and often do not come home late at night, leaving no time to take care of the children, and the children have to be accompanied by toys at home. The child's nature gives life to the toy, personalizes it, and talks, sings and tells stories with it. In the emotional exchanges between children and toys, so that people feel strongly that the child to mother teach and love their own emotions, to care for the love of toys, everywhere showing the child's childish emotions of childish and lovely.
3, children's interest in the meaning of the feeling
Children's interest is the children's dance with artistic vitality, is different from the adult dance of the special sign. The sense of children's interest is an intuitive reflection of the children's psychological quality, the special nature of the way of thinking, is a different kind of aesthetic interest from that of adults. The sense of children's interest originates from the children's psychological mechanism, innocence and mischievousness are its main performance characteristics. Such as well-intentioned "mischief", ugly and beautiful exaggerated performance, etc., an aesthetic interest. The choreographer who has a strong sense of the meaning of children's interest is good at discovering the interesting details from children's life and refining them with children's aesthetic pursuit scale to express the connotation of the work. Catching Loach", which won the first prize of the National Children's Dance, is a work that is full of children's sense of meaning. Through the laughter of chasing loaches, the joy of water fights, the custom of meat even sky, and the fun of tickling and teasing, the dance pushes the portrayal of the naughty and lovely image of village children to the climax. The work will be the meaning of children's fun throughout the "holding", "catching", "shaking", "teasing", "Touch" in the dance action, like a red line, connected to the village children's joy of the playful picture, so that the work has artistic vitality.
Second, the dance conception of the "three beauties"
Artistic creation, is the generalization and refinement of life, which requires conception. The conception of children's dance is the artistic conception of the choreographer in order to express the theme of thought and emotion, in the choice of life wheat material, image shaping, structural arrangement, the use of skills and so on. However, children's dance is accepted by the main body of children, this feature determines the artistic conception of children's dance, is the children's thinking ability to understand the premise of the pursuit of children's aesthetic interests, to create the children's fascination with the mood, vivid image of the charm of artistic beauty, caused by the children's emotional **** song. Children's dance in the artistic conception of the aesthetic point of view, the pursuit of "three beautiful".
1, the children's poetic flavor of the mood of the United States
From the children's aesthetic psychology, deliberately pursuing the dance of the children's poetic flavor of the mood of the United States. Children's dance works are composed of love (emotion, thought, theme) and scenery (realm, scenery, image). Choreographers in the artistic conception, the two aspects must be organically united together, become a scenario of blending, with a strong infectious art realm, this art realm with children's interest, to achieve the children's poetic flavor of the mood of the United States. The "Little Geese Learning to Fly", which won the first prize of the National Children's Song and Dance Award, has a children's poetic mood on the conception of the dance. The choreographer uses anthropomorphic techniques to find a symbolic dance image that expresses young children's emotional colors and rhythms in the image of small geese learning to fly and fighting with nature. The dance images of "foraging", "playing", "practicing flying", "fighting", "soaring" and so on are simple and beautiful. Soaring" and other simple and clear dance language, the image of young children's thinking ability to understand the choreographer assigned to the work of thought, the theme. The work in the melding of love and scenery - thought and emotion and dance image of the unity of the formation of life through the storm of the children's poetic beauty of the mood.
2, children's emotional style beauty
Style, refers to the level of aesthetic pursuit. Children's emotional style of beauty must start from the children's life, or naive, or naughty, or elegant, or vulgar, pay attention to the children's emotional flavor, healthy style, funny and beautiful. Won the National Children's Song and Dance Festival creation, performance of the first prize "play rain", is a rich children's emotional tone of the beautiful works. The choreographer of this boys' dance, good at the boys' impulsiveness, competitive psychological characteristics, externalized into an interesting dance image: in the "rain" shouts rushed out a group of boys, let the rain drench themselves, the beginning of this shows the naughty personality of the boys. The following sequence of dance language, such as throwing off shoes and playing in the water barefoot, pouring rainwater on the faces and necks of their companions, splitting into two rows for a water fight at the sound of rushing, and ending with the rainy "mama-ma-shoulder," are extracted from children's lives. It is exaggerated and concise at the same time; it is clear and dynamic at the same time, showing the children's spirit and shape, love and interest. Especially the details of pouring rainwater on the faces and necks of their peers may be a kind of mischievous "bad behavior" in the real life of children. But through artistic processing, as a dance vivid details appear, but the boy's mischievous, curious, active nature rendered really taste, giving a strong children's emotional tone of beauty.
3, children's paintings proposed color
Color beauty, is the first to form the children's perspective on the artistic image of the performance of the form, is the first step into the children's aesthetics, is the first element of the children's dance art conveyed. The beauty of color can stimulate children's excitement source, and then start aesthetic thinking activities. Therefore, the action of the dance works, styling images pay attention to the children's paintings of the sense of color, lively sense of flow, which is another feature of the conception of children's dance. The "Sedan Chair", which won the first prize of the National Children's Dance, is a children's dance with folk life flavor and local characteristics. The choreographer selects folk material - folk short dance material with children's aesthetic psychology. The styling design of the group dancers is to wear a big and embroidered tiger hat with the word "king" on their heads, a big-headed doll's mask on their chests, and their long shirts covering their feet; the dance movements are designed with the folk dance of the dwarfs as the dynamic rhythm, incorporating children's physical movements; the two main actors are each wearing two tangled braids facing the sky, and their big talking eyes are exchanging emotions, and their naughty and funny dance posture gives the children a sense of humor and a sense of humor. The funny dance posture gives people the beautiful color of folk children's New Year's paintings, especially the two little actors' "changing face" trick and several sounds of the dog's "woof woof" barking, which makes the whole dance lively with a strong sense of flow, and highlights the artistic beauty of the color of children's paintings and the children's childishness. The dance is a great way to make the whole dance lively and flowing.
Third, the dance performance of the "three pure"
The performance designer of children's dance is an adult. However, the main body of children's dance performance is children, and is subject to the limitations of children's psychological activities and aesthetic interests. The first step is to make sure that you have the right tools for the job, and that you have the right tools for the job. The performance design of children's dance should be emotionally simple, emotionally focused, fast-paced, simple movement skills "fine and pure" principle. The choreographer of the children's dance in line with this principle, the performance design should pursue the "three pure".
1, pure
Children's dance in the performance design, pay attention to show the innocence of children's hearts. As a result, the story was told in a colorful way and the performance was natural and real. The performance design of the "phone call": first tiptoe, then go to dial the phone, and then use the hand as a microphone to talk to mom. This coherent action was thought up by the actors themselves, especially the tiptoe action, simple, smooth, highlighting the characteristics of children. During a rehearsal break, a child unfolded a small handkerchief flatly and neatly as a small quilt and gently covered the doll, and also pressed the edges of this quilt under the doll with his hands. The choreographer notices this subtle and realistic movement of the child and recognizes it as the performance design of the quilt for the doll in the program. The above performance design is full of children's innocence, which increases the artistic impact of the work.
2, pure love
Children's dance in the performance design in general, should not pursue the difficulty of the action, should not pay attention to the dance language of multi-dimensional, multi-sense. Instead, they should focus on the simplicity and comprehensibility of the movement and the simplicity of the performance. Without relying too much on the melodrama of the dance structure, the children's pure emotions are deliberately expressed in the diluted plot. Won the third prize of the National Children's Dance Creation "We are eight or nine years old", the dance is based on a group of male and female students leaving school after school, on the way home encountered rain, forget to bring an umbrella students, some of them put their schoolbags on top of their heads; some of them use palm leaves or handkerchiefs to cover their heads; some of them simply let the rain drench them. At this time, from far and near came the students with umbrellas, took the initiative to take care of the students without umbrellas, and together they walked from near to far. The structure of the dance can be described as one that downplays the plot. But the performance of the dance expresses the pure friendship between male and female classmates like a lyrical poem, and works on it. In particular, the dance design of approaching from afar, and approaching from near and far, makes people realize that this pure emotion from the children's heart, into your heart, and from your heart, towards the children's world, so that you can feel the flow of pure friendship emotion.
3,Pure and simple
Pure and simple refers to the simple and simple language of children's dance, the dance style of the soil color Shi Xiang, the character of the simple and unadorned, to give a person close to the "white description" of the aesthetic point. Dragon Gate Formation", which won the first prize of National Children's Dance, is a dance with pure and simple characteristics. The work uses Sichuan dialect and Sichuan lanterns to sing and dance while talking and dancing in the form of performance, showing a summer moonlit night, a group of mountain village children in the courtyard dam to take a cool Dragon Gate Formation, and everyone is competing to talk about their grandparents and the new things that happen at home, praising the affluent life in the new countryside. The Sichuan lanterns with big bushels sing and dance with distinctive rhythms, adding to the local color of this dance. The Sichuan dialect of the soil color and smell, and the small actors and actresses simple and simple, lively and funny countryside flavor of the performance of the integration, giving people a pure and simple countryside. Another example is the National Children's Dance Third Prize "twisted even twisted", works from the folk material of the lotus sky, the choreographer's performance design is in the lotus sky on the basis of the rhythm of the performance, exaggeratedly hit the shoulders of the body caused by twisting, in order to show that the children's rustic naughty character of the mountain villages and the dance rhythms of the vernacular flavor.
Fourth, the three consciousnesses of children's dance innovation
Chongqing children's dance creation, in the exploration of artistic innovation innovation, attention to the "three consciousnesses": First, the cultural consciousness of children's dance. As mentioned earlier, the main body of children's dance is an adult, and the main body of performance and acceptance is a child. Therefore, there may be a psychological and cultural awareness gap in the creation. The choreographer of children's dance pays attention to returning himself to childhood, returning to the children's world, observing, experiencing and expressing their lives from the children's psychological perspective; and displaying the children's mind with the children's cultural consciousness - aesthetic interests and character traits, in order to refract the real society and present the values of their cognition of the world. The disappearance of adult psychological gap and the childization of adult cultural consciousness make children's dance works have children's aesthetic value and produce strong artistic infectious force, which achieves the purpose that the main body of the performance is happy to perform and the main body of the acceptance is happy to accept. Secondly, the intuitive consciousness of children's dance. Children's intuition, not easy to grasp the complexity of things, or a thing of multiple meanings, not good at the abstract philosophical understanding, comprehend the profound connotation. But sensitive to the image of singularity, accuracy, visibility, comprehensibility. Therefore, the choreographer pays attention to the children's intuitive consciousness characteristics, so that the connotation of the work has its image of the externalization of the support, thus causing the children's intuitive aesthetic associations. Thirdly, the modern consciousness of children's dance. Children's dance should reflect the spiritual direction of modern society - this is the modern consciousness. However, the modern consciousness of children's dance is not to show the staged political education and the dynamic life archetype. It should be the spirit of the modern society and the fashion of the times, materialized in the children's life, acting on the children's psychology, and expressed through the children's aesthetic values of thought, emotion, morality, character of the social significance of the social significance of the children's individuality, with the children's personalities characterized by the social significance of the children's mind, so as to evoke the aesthetic reflection. The choreographer of children's dance shapes children's image from the new level and new perspective of modern society, expresses their beautiful heart artistically, and refracts the modern life flow of society through the beautiful heart, which is the place of modern consciousness of children's dance.
Chongqing children's dance creation, with its own artistic characteristics, has won the praise of the community. The innovative exploration of Chongqing children's dance by the hard-working people is still going on. Through their unremitting and persistent pursuit, this little flower of children's dance will bloom in the magical world of children's hearts to be more colorful and fragrant.