Dance is a performing art, which uses the body to complete various elegant or difficult movements, usually accompanied by music, and rhythmic movements are the main means of expression. It usually uses music and other props.

Dance itself has a variety of social significance and functions, including sports, social/courtship, sacrifice, etiquette and so on. Before the origin of human civilization, dance was very important in ceremony, etiquette, celebration and entertainment.

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Dance movements in dance works should also have certain skills, and dancers should have high-level skills such as jumping, rotating, tumbling, softening and controlling. However, performing high-level skills in dance works is not an end in itself, but a means to express characters' thoughts and feelings and shape their character and mental outlook.

If the means is the purpose in dance works, the superb skills of the actors are not based on reflecting life and expressing the thoughts and feelings of the characters, or the corresponding dance action skills are not based on the dance content, but on expressing the dance skills and abilities mastered by the actors;

That will lead to the failure of dance works because of the disconnection between content and form, or the lack of artistic integrity, and the dancers' skills themselves will fall into acrobatic performance, thus losing the basic character of dance art.

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