Life dance includes: custom dance, religious sacrifice dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance, educational dance and so on. Folk dance, also known as festival dance, is a variety of mass dance activities held by many ethnic groups in China on festive festivals such as weddings, funerals, planting and harvest. In these dance activities, the customs, social features, cultural traditions and national personality characteristics of various ethnic groups are all shown. Religion and sacrificial dance are the dance forms of religion and sacrificial activities. Mainly used to pray for the protection of the gods, drive away disasters and diseases, turn evil into good, prosper people and animals, harvest crops, or thank the gods for their gifts; Sacrificial dance is a ritual dance form to sacrifice ancestors. In the past, people used to express their memory of their ancestors or hope that their ancestors and gods would bless them. Social dance is a kind of dance activity that people engage in social communication, enhance friendship and contact feelings. Generally, it refers to all kinds of ballroom dancing at the dance. In addition, the mass dance activities carried out by many ethnic minorities in various festivals in China are mostly social activities for young men and women to exchange freely and choose their spouses. So it can also be said that it is a social dance of all ethnic groups. Self-entertainment dance is a dance activity with the sole purpose of self-entertainment. Use dance to express and vent one's inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure. Sports dance is a new dance that combines dance and sports, exercises the body in an artistic and aesthetic way, and makes the body and mind develop in an all-round and healthy way. For example, various fitness dances, rhythmic gymnastics, discos for middle-aged and elderly people, ice dances, water dances and HI-HOP dances in China traditional martial arts, as well as sword dances, knife dances, pictographic boxing, wuqinxi and so on, which symbolize and simulate various animals and specific images. Educational dance refers to the aesthetic dance activities in schools and kindergartens, which can play a subtle role in cultivating and beautifying people's thoughts, feelings and moral sentiments, cultivating people's unity and friendship, strengthening etiquette and improving physical and mental health. Artistic dance refers to artistic creation by professional or amateur dancers through observation, experience, analysis, concentration, generalization and imagination of social life, thus creating dance works with distinctive themes, rich emotions, complete forms and typical artistic images, which are performed by a few people on the stage or square for the masses to watch. Due to the variety of artistic dances, they can be roughly divided into two categories according to different artistic characteristics.
First kind
According to the different styles and characteristics of dance, there are: classical dance, national dance, modern dance, modern dance and ballet. Classical dance: based on national folk dance, it has been refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to be a dance with certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics. Many countries and nations in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance. European classical dance generally refers to ballet. Folk dance: it is a dance form created, accumulated and developed by the broad masses in the long historical process and widely circulated among the masses. It directly reflects people's thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations. Due to the differences in people's life and work style, historical and cultural mentality, customs and natural environment in different countries, nationalities and regions, different national styles and local characteristics have been formed. Modern dance: it is a dance genre that rose in Europe and America at the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalistic tendency of classical ballet at that time, which was conformist, divorced from real life and simply pursuing skills; It is advocated to get rid of the shackles of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, and to express the true feelings of people freely with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and it is emphasized that dance art should reflect modern social life. Modern dance (new dance): a new dance style different from the above three styles. It is often based on the needs of expressing content and shaping characters, eclectic, drawing on and absorbing dance expression means and methods of various styles and dance schools, and eclectic for our use, thus creating a unique new dance style different from the various dance styles that have been formed. Ballet: It is a highly stylized theater dance, refined and processed by professional dancers in the court. The word "ballet" was originally a transliteration of the French word "ballet", which means "jumping" or "dancing". Its original meaning is only the floorboard of actions with legs and feet as moving parts. In order to rebuild Gu Xi's dramatic ideal of integrating poetry, music and dance, French court dance masters created "ballet", which is a comprehensive dance drama form integrating dance movements, pantomime gestures, facial expressions, theatrical costumes, music accompaniment, literary scripts, stage lighting and scenery. It has dominated the western theater dance art for more than 300 years and has been more than four centuries. It has been more than forty years since 1958 was established and introduced to ballets russes.
the second type
According to the characteristics of dance forms, there are: solo dance, duet, threesome dance, group dance, group dance, song and dance, musical, dance drama and so on. Solo dance is a dance performed by a person to complete a theme, which is often used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal their inner world. Double dance, two people perform the same theme dance. It is often used to directly express the communication between characters' thoughts and feelings, and to show the relationship between characters. Three people dance, three people perform together to complete a theme dance. According to its content, it can be divided into three different types: expressing a single emotion and an obvious plot, and expressing dramatic conflicts between characters. Group dance, any dance with more than four people can be called group dance. Generally speaking, it is to express a general complex or to shape the image of the group. Through the change and transformation of dance formation and pictures, as well as the development of dance movements, postures and shapes with different speeds, strengths and amplitudes, a profound poetic artistic conception is created, which has strong artistic appeal. Group dance is a relatively large dance work composed of several dances. Each dance is relatively independent, but it is unified in the same theme and complete artistic conception. Song and dance is a form of artistic performance that combines singing and dancing. It is characterized by being good at singing and dancing, being good at both lyricism and narration, and being able to express the complex and delicate thoughts and feelings of the characters and a wide range of life contents. Musical drama is a comprehensive performance form with song and dance as the main artistic expression means to express the drama content. Dance drama is a dance work with dance as the main artistic expression means, which combines music and stage art (clothing, scenery, lighting, props) to express certain drama content.
The third category
According to age levels, there are children's dances, children dance dances, teenagers' dances and middle-aged and elderly dances.
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Dance appreciation is a kind of spiritual activity when people watch dance performances, and it is the whole process of feeling, experiencing and understanding dance works. So it is essentially a cognitive activity. But it is different from the general cognitive activity, but a special cognitive activity of dance works. Dance appreciation refers to the audience's understanding of social life, characters' thoughts and feelings and dancers' aesthetic evaluation of this life phenomenon through the dance images created in dance works. In the process of appreciating dance works, the audience will often connect with their own life experiences, arouse emotional resonance and arouse relevant impressions and experiences in memory. As well as a series of imaginative thinking activities such as imagination and association, to enrich and supplement the dance image in the dance works and make it more complete, vivid and distinctive. Therefore, we can experience a broader life content and profound ideological implications in the process of watching dance works. People who appreciate this aesthetic activity must have certain subjective conditions, that is, they must have certain dance knowledge, dance appreciation level and cognitive ability, so that dance appreciation activities can be carried out normally and smoothly. This is just as Marx said: "If you want to enjoy art, you must be an artistic person." "Only music can arouse people's sense of music; The most beautiful music is meaningless to the ear that does not dispute melody, and music is not its object ... "Therefore, it is necessary for us to understand the characteristics of dance art, the relationship between dance and other arts, the various factors that constitute the dance image, and the production process of dance image. As we said before, dance is an art that expresses people's feelings and thoughts and reflects social life with exquisite, organized and beautified human movements as the main means of expression. Judging from the sensory characteristics of dance works that attract viewers, it is a performing art that combines hearing (temporality) and vision (spaciousness).
China has a very rich dance heritage, and there are many famous dance works in ancient times. Only some of the above-mentioned dance works can be said to be famous in history. Here are just a few representative dances for a brief introduction. First, Dawu is a music and dance work created by the Zhou Dynasty to praise the victory of King Wu, which belongs to one of the "Six Dances". * * * is divided into six sections: (1) After the drums, the dance team came from the north, and the dancers lined up with weapons to show their determination to cut the week with songs. (2) On both sides of the dance team, someone asked Zhen Duo to convey the military orders, and then the dance team was divided into two lines, making fierce stabbing movements and moving forward while dancing, indicating that the business was ruined. (3) Going south after destroying the business. (4) shows that the territory of the south has been stable. (5) The dance team is divided into two lines, indicating that the Duke of Zhou is on the left and Zhao Gong is on the right, assisting the reign of the King of Zhou. Then, after all kinds of complex formations were changed in an orderly way to form a neat team style, the dancers all sat down and held a quiet scene with a low posture, indicating that the country was well governed. (6) The dance team regrouped and arranged neatly to show respect for the King of Zhou. The whole dance is over. 2. Star Dance (also called "Elephant Teaching Field") is a music and dance dedicated to Hou Ji in the Han Dynasty. The dance, performed by sixteen boys and girls, shows the life of labor such as reclamation, cultivation, weeding, bird repelling, harvesting, threshing and chaff raising, in order to commemorate and praise the contribution of Hou Ji parishioners in farming. 3. "Encouragement" (also known as "seven-disc dance") is a highly technical dance in the Han Dynasty. Dancers bend over and kick drums at different rhythms on seven drum groups, sometimes leaping in the air, sometimes kneeling on the ground, skillfully stopping drums with their toes, and rubbing the drum surface with their bodies in a downward posture. Agile drum action, light dance steps, posture and state scheduling, closely combined with music, show a profound artistic conception. Four, "East China Sea Huang Gong" is a corner play performed by two people with certain plots and personalities in the Han Dynasty, which mainly shows the story of the struggle between man and tiger with actions. According to "Miscellanies of Xijing": "There are people from the East China Sea, Huang Gong. When he was young, he could fight snakes and tigers. He wore a gold knife, tied his hair crimson, walked in clouds, and sat in the mountains and rivers. And aging, physical exhaustion, excessive drinking, can not restore its operation. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, a white tiger was found in the East China Sea, and Huang Gong hated its red knife. Because the operation was not good, it was killed by a tiger. " Five, "Sword" is a widely circulated performance dance in the Tang Dynasty, and it is a solo dance by women in uniform. Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, recorded his feelings of watching this dance in "Watching Disciples Dance Sword": "Many years ago, there was a beautiful Gongsun who danced with her dagger and attracted her from all directions. The audience is like a mountain lost between them, and the world moves back and forth with her movements. It's like shooting for nine days, as fast as an angel in front of the dragon's wings. She began to be like a thunderbolt, venting its anger and ending the shining calm like rivers and seas. ..... "It can be seen from the description in the poem that" this dance has jumps, gyrations, changes, rapid advance and rapid retreat, crisp beginning and end, and clear rhythm; Or suddenly, or suddenly, moving like lightning and thunder, amazing and thrilling, like rivers and seas, clear and concise. " Sixthly, "Hu Xuan Dance" is a folk dance in Guo Kang in Tang Dynasty. Dance is dominated by rotation, hence the name Hu Xuanwu. Bai Juyi's Hu Shi vividly describes the characteristics of this dance: "Hu, Hu, the heart is the string and the hand is the drum." Double sleeves and drums, snow fluttering and dancing. The left and right hands never tire of turning, and thousands of turns are endless. Nothing is like human beings, and it is too late to run the wheels. " From this poem, we can see that Hu's dance movements and gestures and her inner feelings are closely combined with the melody and rhythm of accompaniment. When she rotates, her sleeves are lifted, light as snowflakes and dancing like grass in the wind. Her rotation, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, seems to be tireless forever. It is difficult to tell the face from the body in thousands of rotations. The speed of rotation seems to exceed the speed of speeding wheels and whirlwinds. Seven, "Step on the Ballad Mother" is a popular folk song and dance drama in the Tang Dynasty. According to Cui's "Jiao Fangji", "There was a man surnamed Su in the Northern Qi Dynasty, who was not an official and was a famous doctor; Indulge in drinking and hitting his wife every time he gets drunk. A wife was very sad and complained to her neighbor. When people do this. Husband wears women's clothes and walks in to sing; Each stack, others chorus and cloud,' step on a rumor, come on! "Come on!" Because it steps and sings, it is called' stepping on rumors'; It is called injustice, so it is bitter. When my husband arrives, he will fight and think he is laughing. "From this record, we can know that" Stepping on a Ballad Mother "is a satirical musical adapted from the true story of Beiqi. With different personalities and certain contradictions, composers have distinct emotional attitudes and ideological tendencies. According to legend, this musical was staged at a palace banquet and performed by folk artists in the street, which shows that it is a very popular musical with both refined and popular tastes. Middle Eastern belly dance originated in the Middle East. It was originally used as a religious ceremony to describe the endless cycle of nature and human reproduction, celebrate women's fertility and praise the mystery of life. This can explain why belly dancing takes the swing of the abdomen as the main action and requires barefoot in order to keep in touch with the land. This dance form gradually developed into a folk art, and eventually became a unique entertainment and performance form widely popular in the Middle East countries, and it is a wonderful flower in the mysterious Arab culture and art garden.