Life dance includes six categories: custom dance, religious sacrifice dance, social dance, self-entertainment dance, sports dance and educational dance.
Artistic dance can be divided into the following three types:
First, according to the different styles and characteristics of dance, it can be divided into four categories: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new style dance.
Second, according to the genre and style characteristics of dance expressions, it can be divided into eight categories: solo dance, duet, threesome dance, group dance, song and dance, musical and dance drama.
Thirdly, according to the method of reflecting social real life and the characteristics of shaping dance image, it can be divided into three categories: lyric dance, narrative dance and drama dance.
Section III Artistic Features of Various Dances
First of all, the dance of life
Life dance generally refers to a wide range of mass dance activities that are directly and closely related to people's lives, with clear utilitarian purposes and everyone can participate.
The dance of life includes the following categories:
1. Custom Dance (Festival Dance Only)
Many ethnic groups in our country often hold various mass dance activities during festive festivals such as weddings, funerals, sowing and harvesting. In these dance activities, the customs, social features, cultural traditions and national personality characteristics of all ethnic groups are displayed. It is an indispensable part of the spiritual life of people of all ethnic groups.
For example, the wedding dance popular in Hunan is a farewell activity accompanied by the bride before marriage. It usually starts two nights before the wedding and ends at midnight. On the last night, we will sing and dance all night, until the next day, after the wedding dance, the bride gets on the sedan chair and sends her new mother to the groom's house. The wedding dance is composed of 12, such as Dancing with Lights, Riding, Fire Away, Changing Letters, Mothers Calling Women Back, Spinning Cotton, Rowing, Dancing with Water, Selling Wine, Grinding Meteors and Singing and Dancing. Dancers sing and dance, reflecting women's working life and rich thoughts and feelings.
Tujia funeral dance is a form of duet dance in Tujia funeral ceremonies in Hunan and Hubei. There is no limit to the number of dancers, and they can combine freely. Dancing in front of the mourning hall: the singer sings with drums, and the dancers dance with the rhythm of drums to mourn.
Spring cattle, which spread in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan and other places, are mostly held during the "beginning of spring" every year. Generally, two people put on bull-shaped props to perform various actions of plowing cattle, and the other person plays the role of a farmer, performing labor such as plowing, plowing and sowing, and singing while dancing. Most of the lyrics are about welcoming the spring, persuading farmers and praying for a bumper harvest.
Korean people living in Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and other provinces in China, after the harvest every autumn, people dance "farm music dance" in street squares. Generally, it consists of "small encouragement", "children's dance" and "elephant hat dance". When the dance reached its climax, all () dance teams and onlookers joined the dance floor to express their joy and joy after harvest. The Miao people living in Hunan and Guizhou provinces are also dancing in the harvest season. Four dancers stood around the drum, each holding a drum and dancing together. The main actions are: beating drums, combing hair, rounding hands, carrying swords, wiping body, turning over, plowing, harrowing fields, transplanting rice seedlings, pulling weeds, picking millet and collecting drums. The action range is large and the style is unrestrained, which shows the cheerful mood of Miao youth after the harvest. ③
2. Religious and sacrificial dances (including witch dances)
Religious dance is a kind of dance form to express, publicize and carry out religious activities. Religious dance is a vivid representation of supernatural and supernatural mysterious power-God, which makes the invisible God become a tangible body that can be perceived and a personification of mysterious power. This is an indispensable part of religious ceremonies. It is 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. This kind of dance activity is found in religious ceremonies of many regions and nationalities in China. For example, folk witchcraft dance, teacher dance and curtain dance, Buddhism's "dressing up as a ghost" and Shamanism's "jumping to the gods" are all examples.
Sacrificial dance is a ritual dance form to sacrifice ancestors and gods. In the past, people used it to express their memory of their ancestors or hope that ancestors and gods would bless them. China Six Dances in Zhou Dynasty is a famous sacrificial dance. Six dances are: (1) Cloud Gate is used to worship the gods; (2) "Xianchi" is used to worship the land god; & lt3) The spoon is used to worship the four gods (the sun, the moon, the stars and the sea); (4) Heroes used it to worship Shan Chunchuan; (5) Zhong Da was used to worship the first batch (female ancestors); (6) Great martial arts are used to worship ancestors. Besides, the Qin dances in Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places have been developed from the ritual dances in the ancient Qin Festival, and most of them still retain the main characteristics of "exorcising ghosts and eliminating epidemics".
3. ballroom dancing
Social dance is the most popular and mass dance activity in people's cultural life. It is a dance for people to communicate socially, enhance friendship and connect feelings. Generally, it refers to all kinds of ballroom dancing at the dance. In addition, many ethnic minorities in China, such as the Torch Festival of the Yi nationality, the Lusheng Festival of the Miao nationality, the March 3rd of the Li nationality, the June 6th of the Buyi nationality, the Bitterness Festival of the Hani nationality and the Water Splashing Festival of the Dai nationality, are mostly social activities in which young men and women interact with each other and choose their spouses freely.
Entertain oneself, dance
Self-entertainment dance is the simplest dance in people's dance activities. There is no other purpose than entertaining yourself. Not for dancing, nor for infecting or influencing others' feelings and thoughts. Only through dancing to express and vent their inner emotional impulses, in the process of expressing and venting emotions, get full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure. Of course, sometimes this kind of dance will inevitably arouse the passionate reaction of onlookers or fellow dancers, and this objective reaction will naturally affect and stimulate the dancers' own emotions, thus further inspiring the dancers to improvise, making their dances exude unique brilliance and making them feel the joy and joy of greater dance aesthetic activities. For example, the China Han folk dance "Yangko" and some minority folk dances, as well as the western "disco" and "break dance" are all popular self-entertainment dances.
5. Sports dance
Sports dance, because dance is an art of human movements, has always played a sports role in fitness. More recently, people have further combined dance with sports to create a new variety of sports dance that exercises the body artistically and aesthetically and makes the body and mind develop in an all-round and healthy way. Such as various fitness dances, rhythmic gymnastics, discos for middle-aged and elderly people, ice dances, water dances and so on. In addition, in a broad sense, in China's national martial arts, elephant boxing, Wu Qin opera, swords and other symbols and simulations of the movements of various animals and specific figures can all belong to sports dance. In recent years, ballroom dancing, an international standard ballroom dance, is very popular in China, and various competitions are constantly taking place. Some sports departments classify it as sports dance and set up sports dance organizations. Of course, ballroom dancing can't be said to have no certain fitness function, but its main function is not to exercise, so this title is inaccurate. )
6. Educational dance
Educational dance refers to dance activities and dance courses offered by schools and kindergartens for aesthetic education. It is understood that schools in many European and American countries attach great importance to aesthetic education for students. In addition to music and art classes, they also offer dance classes for students to choose from. Some schools also have dance departments, which not only train professional dance talents, but also teach dance culture to dance lovers. Therefore, they formed a special educational dance discipline. Some colleges and universities in China generally pay insufficient attention to aesthetic education. Except for a few colleges and universities that offer dance classes, this course is generally not offered. Students who like dancing can only dance in amateur art groups. So the so-called educational dance in our country refers to children dance and children dance. In fact, our ancestors still attached great importance to the dance education of children. For example, about three thousand years ago, the Zhou Dynasty stipulated the learning content and course flow of music and dance education for aristocratic children. Zhou Li musician's note: "It refers to the dance I taught when I was young, but it says: thirteen scoops of dance, dancing like a child, and twenty dances of Daxia." Generally speaking, "dance spoon" refers to "small dance", which belongs to the category of literary dance, including six famous sacrificial dances in Zhou Dynasty: Zhuang dance, feather dance, emperor dance, Xi dance, dry dance and human dance. "Dancing like an elephant" belongs to martial arts dance, "Dancing like a soldier" and "It may imitate the fighting action of breaking the elephant array. "Daxia" is one of the six dances, which is said to express and praise Yu Xia's great achievements in water control. It was used to worship mountains and rivers in the Zhou Dynasty. That is to say, at the age of thirteen, he learned to dance in literature, at the age of fifteen (when he was a child), and at the age of twenty, he learned to sing praises to clan leaders.
The reason why educational dance can't be widely popularized in China is that many people don't know enough about the function and function of aesthetic education, and some people lack the knowledge of dance culture. They don't understand that dance art is a national culture, which has an important influence on cultivating and beautifying people's emotional thoughts and moral sentiments, (1) cultivating people's unity and friendship, strengthening etiquette and improving physical and mental health. I believe that with the improvement of China people's cultural quality and the deeper understanding of the role of art aesthetic education, dance education will be paid more and more attention. Therefore, looking forward to the future, educational dance will have a broader development prospect.
Artistic dance refers to the artistic creation of professional and amateur dancers by observing, experiencing, analyzing, concentrating, summarizing and imagining social life, thus producing a dance work with distinctive theme, rich emotion, complete form and typical artistic image, which is performed by a few people on the stage or square for the masses to watch. According to their different artistic characteristics, they can be roughly divided into the following three categories.
The first category, according to the different styles and characteristics of dance, includes: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new style dance.
1. classical dance
Classical dance is based on traditional folk dance, refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties, and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to have certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics. Generally speaking, classical dance has strict procedures, standardized movements and relatively superb skills. Many countries and nations in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance.
The classical dance of Han nationality in China, the dance movements handed down from generation to generation, are mostly preserved in the opera dance; China is rich in grotto murals, sculptures, stone reliefs, brick reliefs, pottery figurines and paintings on various unearthed cultural relics, all of which preserve some dance postures and shapes. China's rich literature and history materials also contain a large number of detailed descriptions of past dance images. Since 1950s, China dancers have made great achievements in the research, arrangement, reproduction and development of China classical dance. They set up a set of China classical dance teaching materials, and created a large number of dance and drama works with China classical dance style, forming a delicate and mellow, rigid and flexible combination, scene and skill blending, essence, spirit, hands, eyes, body, method and steps.
Indian classical dance is composed of six traditional dance departments: balata, Kartak, Kadakali, Manipur, Odisi and Kuchipudi. Its main artistic features are clear rhythm and rhythm of dance movements, strong modeling, colorful dance sign language, delicate facial expressions and rich connotations.
European classical dance is generally called ballet. Ballet is a transliteration of French ballet. The classical dance dramas of European countries are collectively called ballet, which is a kind of dance variety with European classical dance as the main means of expression and integrating music, drama, stage art and other artistic forms. Because an important feature of its performance technique is that actresses have to wear special tiptoe shoes and dance on tiptoe, it is commonly known as "tiptoe dance". According to legend, ballet originated in Italy, formed in France, and was introduced to Russia in the18th century. It became an independent and complete art form at the end of18th century19th century. ) created toe dancing skills, developed various flying and spinning skills, produced a set of training methods, and gradually formed Italian, French and Russian schools with different styles and characteristics. Modern ballet schools appeared after the 1920s, and many ballet schools were derived one after another, which became popular in Europe and America.
Secondly, ballet art was introduced into China in the 1920s. But it was still limited to a few people at that time. Since 1950s, China dancers have been able to formally and systematically learn the excellent ballet art from all over the world, set up professional ballet companies, introduce the world's excellent ballet repertoire to China audiences, and create a number of ballet works with the theme of reflecting the life and struggle of our people in the form of ballet art. ..
2. Folk dance
Folk dance is a dance form created, accumulated and developed by working people in the long historical process and widely circulated among the masses. Folk dance is closely related to people's lives. It directly reflects the life and struggle of working people, and shows their thoughts, feelings, ideals and wishes. Due to the differences in people's way of life and work, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits, and natural environment, different national styles and regional characteristics have been formed.
Every country and nation in the world has its own folk dance with different styles and characteristics. The folk dance in European ballet is generally called representative dance or figure dance, which has been professionally treated to make it harmonious and unified with the style of ballet.
China has a long history, many nationalities and a vast territory, so folk dances are particularly colorful. Its main artistic features are:
(1) Singing and dancing, free and lively. One of the main characteristics of Chinese folk dance is the close combination of dance and singing. This kind of song and dance form is free, vivid and lively, and it is easier to express more life content than simple dance, and it is easy to understand, so it is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people in our country.
(2) Using props skillfully and combining skills. Many folk dances in our country skillfully use props such as fans, handkerchiefs, long silks, tambourines, single drums, Hua Gun, lanterns, umbrellas, etc., which greatly enhance the artistic expression ability of the dance and make the dance movements more beautiful and colorful.
(3) The plot is vivid and vivid. China's folk dances are very content-oriented, and most of them are based on certain stories and legends. Therefore, the characters are distinct and prominent. Although some dances only express certain emotions, they often appear as fragments of a complete story. For example, the "Ying Ge" in Guangdong is a story about the hero of Liangshanpo attacking Daming Mansion. The legend of Fujian drum umbrella shows Zheng Chenggong's resistance to foreign troops.
(4) entertain yourself and have a unified purpose. Many folk dances in China are often the unity of self-entertainment and performance. Some dance activities, for dancers, are for self-entertainment and performance for the audience, so dancers attach great importance to the improvement of their dance skills, so the folk dance in China has been developed to a higher degree.
(5) improvise when in love. Although there are certain formats and norms in the spread of folk dances in various regions of China, there is also a tradition of improvisation, especially among some folk dancers. In their most emotional moments, there are often unique and glorious dances.
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Since 1950s, China dancers have conducted extensive investigation, in-depth research, meticulous arrangement, meticulous processing and creative adaptation of folk dances of various ethnic groups, and produced a large number of outstanding folk dance programs, such as red silk dance, Erdos dance, flower inspiration, straw hat dance, peacock dance, grape picking and so on. This is not only for the vast audience in China.
3. Modern dance
Modern dance is a dance genre that rose in Europe and America at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalism tendency of classical ballet, which is conformist and divorced from the phenomenon-single life and pure pursuit of skills. It advocates getting rid of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, freely expressing people's true feelings with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and emphasizes that dance art should reflect modern social life. Its founder isadora duncan (1877- 1927) is recognized as an American dancer. She believes that practicing classical ballet will cause abnormal development of the human body. She yearns for the simplicity and natural innocence, and advocates that "dancers must integrate body and soul, and their body movements must develop into the natural language of the soul", expressing their inner feelings sincerely and naturally. It was the Hungarian Rudolf Fronlaban (1877- 1968) who systematically established a relatively complete theory and training system for the modern dance school. He created a training method called natural method, which summarized the composition of human movements as "chopping, pressing, rushing, twisting, sliding, flashing and knocking". His Labannot is still one of the most influential dance music in the world. Ruth St. Denis (1877- 1968), a contemporary dancer with Duncan, is a pioneer of American modern dance. She has widely absorbed the dance cultures of Egypt, Greece, India, Thailand and Arab countries, and formed a modern dance with oriental mystery and religious spirit. Her student Martha Graham (1894- 199 1) is an outstanding representative of contemporary modern dance. She believes that since human beings have beauty, ugliness, love and hate, goodness and evil, dance should not only praise beauty and goodness, but also show sin, regret and jealousy, so she particularly emphasizes using dance to cover up people's feelings. She also created a set of dance techniques called "Graham technique". In recent decades, the dancers of this genre have developed independently and formed many factions with different styles and artistic opinions. Some have made great achievements in the innovation and development of dance, while others have completely violated the basic ideas and artistic ideas of the early modern dance school, divorced from the objective social reality, and developed to the point of grotesque and obscure, which cannot be understood and accepted by the broad audience.
4. New dance
The new dance is a new dance style different from the above three dance styles. For example, some new dance works created by some dancers in China are often eclectic based on the needs of expressing content and shaping characters, drawing on and absorbing various dance styles, dance expression means and expression methods of various dance schools, and eclectically using them for our own use, thus creating a unique new dance style that is different from the various dance styles that have been formed. This new dance style is characterized by many dance works that express the theme of China's contemporary new life, such as "The Scream of War Horse", "Cutting String" and "Boys and Girls Stepping on Smoke".
The second category, according to the characteristics of dance forms, can be divided into eight categories: solo dance, duet, threesome dance, group dance, song and dance, musical and dance drama.
1. Separate
Solo dance, also called solo dance, is a dance performed by one person to complete a theme. It is often used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of characters and reveal their inner world. Most of them express a complete thought and emotion, or embody a certain content of life and create a more vivid artistic conception. It can be roughly divided into two categories: one is an independent dance work with complete structure; The other is an important part of ballet and large-scale dance, which is the main means to portray characters. The solo dance in ballet is similar to the aria in the opera or the inner monologue in the drama. Solo dancers require good physical fitness, solid basic skills, high performance skills and strong characterization skills. Usually performed by actors with high artistic expression.
2. Double dance, where two people (usually a man and a woman) perform the same theme dance. It is often used to express the exchange of thoughts and feelings between characters and to show the relationship between characters. It can also be divided into two categories: one is an independent dance work with complete structure; The other is an important part of large-scale dance drama and dance. The duet in ballet, similar to the duet in the opera or the dialogue in the drama, is an important means to shape the characters and promote the development of the plot. In classical ballet, couples dance mostly to show their love, and there is a set of fixed procedures: first, the hero and heroine dance together; Secondly, men and women perform solo dances; Finally, the two danced together again. In the solo dance for men and women, most of them are technical performances, and the lift technique is generally used in the joint dance.
3. Three-person dance
Three people dance, three people perform together to complete a theme dance. Generally speaking, it can also be divided into two categories: one is an independent dance work with complete structure; The other is an important part of large-scale dance drama and dance. According to its content, the three-person dance can be divided into three different categories: expressing a single emotion, expressing a plot, and expressing dramatic conflicts between characters.
Dance in groups
Group dance, any dance with more than four people can be called group dance. Generally speaking, it is to express some general emotions or 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 in large-scale dance dramas is often used to set off the artistic atmosphere, show the national style and local characteristics, and is sometimes used as a foil for solo or duet to serve the characterization.
Step 5: Group Dance
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. For example, the Kazakh group dance "Happy Grassland" is danced by girls with a lively "veil"; Old people's humorous "shoe dance"; Mothers' peaceful and cordial "cradle dance"; The simple and mighty "shepherd dance" of herders and the "girl chasing dance" of young men and women are composed of five comparative dances and the last big group dance. * * * all show the joyful scene of kazakh steppe's material exchange activities and the happy life of grassland people. In large-scale dance dramas, some scenes adopt the structure of group dance, which links a certain number of dances together to express specific content, which is also one of the ways to enrich the color of dance dramas, improve and strengthen dance. For example, in the sixth scene of China's national dance drama Rain on Silk Road, the 27-country market in Dunhuang organized dances of eastern countries on the ancient Silk Road, which highlighted the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
6. Singing and dancing
Song and dance is a form of artistic performance that combines singing and dancing. It has a long history in China. From ancient music and dance to today's folk dances of all ethnic groups, song and dance have always been an important artistic style. Song and dance are not only good at lyricism, but also good at narration, which can show people's complex and delicate thoughts and feelings and extensive life content. Can let the audience get aesthetic feeling from both visual and auditory aspects. Therefore, it has a strong artistic appeal and is very popular with the audience in China.
7. Musical
Musical drama is a comprehensive performance form with song and dance as the main artistic expression means and dramatic content. Song and dance dramas in ancient China are generally called operas. It has a long history, many kinds of plays and tracks, and is one of the most popular and favorite forms of drama in China. Some modern musical dramas in China have absorbed the artistic forms of traditional China dramas to show new life and new characters. Others express the content of drama on the basis of folk songs and dances. For example, The Wedding of Lantern Man is a musical with Anhui "Flower Drum Lantern" as the main dance, supplemented by singing, which shows some dramatic content.
8. Dance drama
Dance drama is a dance work with dance as the main artistic expression, combined with music, stage art and so on. To show some dramatic content. About its artistic features, we will discuss it in detail below.
The third category can be divided into lyric dance, narrative dance and drama dance according to the methods of reflecting social real life and the characteristics of shaping dance images.
1. Lyric dance
Lyric dance, also known as emotional dance. Its main artistic feature is to express the dancer's thoughts and feelings directly with vivid dance language in a specific environment, thus expressing the dancer's feelings and evaluation of life. Excellent lyric dance often has both the personality characteristics of dancers and the common emotional characteristics of the times and the people. It is the unity of personality and * * *, so it can arouse the emotions of the audience. For example, "HongLing Dance" is directly expressed through the colorful picture composed of HongLing with various lines constantly dancing in the hands of dancers.
The excitement and joy of the free people in China, as well as the high spirit and high morale. The men's group dance "Haiyan" shows the courage and determination of the people of China in the new period by symbolic means through the dancing image of Haiyan spreading its wings and flying against the storm.
Chinese dancers often use the expressions of "comparing people with things" and "expressing feelings with things" in traditional national art to express and express their feelings by simulating natural scenery and anthropomorphic dance images. For example, "Lotus Dance" expresses people's pursuit of noble sentiments and yearning for peace and freedom with the lotus's character of "emerging from the mud without being stained"; Dance of Sunflowers, on the other hand, shows people's attachment to the motherland through the sunshine characteristics of sunflowers.
Lyric dance can be divided into lyric group dance and lyric sketch dance in the form of expression: lyric group dance creates a poetic artistic conception by changing the movement, posture, shape, formation and picture of the group, by comparing the strength, amplitude and rhythm, and by typical and generalized expressions of different emotions and feelings, giving people a strong aesthetic feeling; Essays of lyric dance (mostly solo dances) create vivid dance images and profound artistic conception through the superb dance skills and exquisite performances of the actors, giving people aesthetic enjoyment.
From the aesthetic form, lyric dance mainly includes: graceful dance (lotus dance, sunflower dance); Gorgeous type (Haiyan and sword dance); There are three kinds of joy (HongLing dance and long-winded happiness).
2. Narrative dance
Narrative dance, also known as plot dance. Its main artistic feature is to shape the characters and express the theme of the work through the plot events formed by the actions of different characters in the dance.
Narrative dance and ballet have different roles and feelings, but they have their own characteristics. The former is generally short in length and simple in plot, unlike ballet, where the plot structure is tortuous and complicated and the dramatic conflict is sharp and intense. For example, Liang Hongyu, a famous woman in the Song Dynasty, led two children to watch the battle, beat drums, shoot arrows, pull out arrows, swear to heaven, beat drums and fight again until the battle was won. Through dancing, Liang Hongyu's national integrity and high-spirited fighting spirit are vividly displayed.
Many narrative dances of China are based on fables, fairy tales and legendary stories, and often use exaggeration, metaphor and personification to express a certain philosophy of life with vivid plots and vivid dance images. For example, "Pumbaa Conflict" advises people not to let others take advantage of internal disputes; "Mr. Dong Guo" and "The Farmer and the Snake" warn people not to trust the soft begging of the wicked, lose their vigilance, and finally suffer from it.
Narrative dance, with its exquisite structure, vivid details and vivid characters, adapts to the traditional aesthetic habits of China people and is a popular dance form in China.
3. Drama and dance
Drama dance, we collectively call it ballet. Dance drama is a dance work that takes dance as the main artistic means and expresses certain drama content. It is a stage performance art integrating dance, drama, music and stage art, and its * * * nature, like other forms of drama art, reflects social real life through the actions of different roles on the stage and their personality conflicts; And its different artistic features are different means of artistic expression and many artistic features arising therefrom. The main means of expression of drama and traditional opera are language and singing, and the main means of expression of dance drama is dance.
Dance is an art that is good at expressing people's feelings. It has great limitations in describing the specific concepts of things, and some dramatic content that dance drama wants to express requires dance to have certain narrative ability. How to solve this contradiction and realize the unity of opposites is the key to the success of dance drama creation. Therefore, this requires: on the one hand, the limitations of dance expressive force should be properly considered in the selection of materials, and too tortuous and complicated plots and complicated contents should not be arranged; On the other hand, the artistic structure of ballet is required to be more general, concise and concentrated than other forms of drama, and attention should be paid to the detailed and profound description of the characters' thoughts, feelings and inner world in the development of plots and stories and the actions of characters. From some excellent dance drama works at home and abroad, we find that in the structure of dance drama, "narrative in lyric" and "lyric in narrative" are better used to realize the unity of lyric and narrative, so as to solve the contradiction between the Excellence and limitation of dance performance.