Dance choreographer is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to music and dance major. This major trains compound and innovative talents who have the knowledge and ability of choreography and can engage in the creation, teaching, scientific research and choreography of dance and ballet in literary and art units, cultural centers, primary and secondary schools, publishing, radio and film departments. The following is how the choreography I brought was created. I hope it will help you.

I. Choreography (Overview)

1. What is choreography?

Is the choreographer of dance works.

2. What is the difference between a drama director and a dance director?

A drama director is all the work needed to put a literary script on the stage.

But this is not an ordinary job, but a creative job-that is, the re-creation (also called re-creation) of turning literary scripts into performance programs.

In the art of drama, the playwright is only responsible for writing plays. The re-creation (performance) of stage art is the director's business.

In dance art, the director is not only the creator of all scripts and "lines" (dance movements), but also the director who puts them on the stage. Shoulder the dual mission of editing and directing. For dance works, it is impossible to "direct" without participating in "editing", and the director is also editing.

Because of the particularity of dance, a dance creation should be considered at the same time from the beginning, which originally belongs to many parts of "choreography", such as body, expression, lines, scene scheduling, and special requirements for composition, art design and dance beauty.

As a choreographer, only by mastering certain dance performance skills and knowledge of dance creation can you start creative work. First of all, we should have a deep understanding of the artistic characteristics, means and skills of expression and types of dance. In order to master the special laws of dance creation and arrange dance programs, otherwise there is no way to start.

Second, the origin of dance

The history of dance art in China is the youngest, and professional dancers really came into being in the early days of liberation. Forty-nine years later, 54-year-old Shanghai Dance Academy engaged in dancing, female1-13 years old, male 12- 14 years old, with low education level and weak dance theory.

Dance originated from labor: primitive society, ancient ancestors learned to dance before they had words and perfect language. Such as: hunting, praying, falling in love, Korea imitating the movements of cranes, Dai imitating the movements of peacocks and so on.

Later, for entertainment, it gradually developed from labor to high society, such as "social dance".

Working life creates dance, which is used to reflect people's life, ideals and ambitions and serve the society. Without social life, there would be no dance.

The production of dance works is not the product of personal intention, but belongs to the superstructure, reflecting the ideology of human social life, which is the universal principle of all literature and art, and also the universal principle of dance art.

Third, the artistic characteristics of dance

1. Dance is the art of human action;

The main expression means of dance art is to rely on human movements.

In Europe and America, the word dance comes from the word DANS in highland Germanic language, which means "stretching and pulling".

In Asia, both Japan and North Korea call dance "dancing". "Jump" means jump. In ancient China, the movements of the upper limbs were called "dancing", and the movements of the lower limbs were called "dancing", which together was called "dancing".

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First, dance creation should fully reflect the dance image with the spirit of the times and national spirit.

Image is the concentrated expression of the idea of any artistic work. Dance image is the "central" expression of dance works, and the director can fully show his ideological connotation through this "central" expression. The appearance of behavior is the emotional reflection of human instinct, and emotion is the spiritual carrier of human beings. Therefore, in dance creation, you must first integrate the people, things and things reflected in the spirit of the times and the national spirit, so that it can be accepted by the broad masses of the people.

From the director's point of view, the idea of dance creation is a "dance image" with typical characteristics, with both form and spirit. We know that dance always uses its own rhythm to express people's thoughts and feelings. It is the single movements of dance that are gradually combined into sentences, which we call "dance sentences". These "dance sentences" constantly evolve in a certain time and space, making them dance paragraphs, expressing a kind of meaning and emotion with the accompaniment of music, and making people see the beautified, rhythmic and natural movements different from the human body in life. This is the dance image we pointed out. In general, the dance image expresses the content of the work, which is closely combined with the theme of the work. It is not only reflected in the attribute, but also directly reflected in the task of expressing feelings in the form of a nation. Jia Zuoguang, a famous dance performance artist, dance theorist, educator, choreographer and social dance activist, clearly stated when defining "dance image": "Dance image should be different from the natural movement of human body in life in action, vivid in expressing the content and theme of works, and the task should be to express feelings in the form of a nation". According to the rarity of Mr. Jia Zuoguang, I take image design as an example to talk about my personal views on dance creation in our region, especially some excellent works produced in recent years.

The women's solo "Frankincense Gone with the Wind" shows the beauty of a Mongolian woman in shaping and grasping the image. It highlights the spirit of the times, completes the task of emotional expression, and shows the vivid image endowed by the content of the work. In the bold innovation of dance movements, holding a milk bowl in hand is created as a difficult modeling movement to put the bowl on the lower chest and waist, which makes the dance flow quickly and express its special feelings and profound meanings. Especially at the end of the dance, the extremely bold head bowl was used, with the unique curvy beauty (three bends) and rapid rotation of women, which reflected the strength and difficulty of the skills, brought unprecedented visual impact to the audience, and saw the unique personality and image beauty of Mongolian dance art. The dance skills vividly reflected and highlighted the special feelings between the choreographer and the milk, and set up the image of Mongolian women with great fanfare, showing the theme of frankincense floating. The success of the dance "Frankincense Gone with the Wind" is mainly manifested in her popularity. Both the national style and the individual characteristics of dance appear in front of the audience with a strong new feeling. Because dance is a visual art, the information she radiates is a unique, real, vivid and flesh-and-blood stimulus, which makes you feel your heartbeat, a living beauty emerges in front of your eyes, and the constant impact of feelings and associations makes you feel excited. These are undoubtedly the feelings that the inherent art of dance brings to people. This kind of dance image is distinctive in personality, novel in vision, rich in content, deeply rooted in people's hearts and aroused your infinite reverie. Of course, there are many excellent dance works like Frankincense Gone with the Wind. For example, the men's solo dance "The Sound of the Qin", "Mi Li Ga" and the women's solo dance "Ilule" all well integrated the national spirit and the spirit of the times in shaping the dance image. From the above examples, I can say that it is one of the director's first tasks to grasp the national spirit and blend into the spirit of the times. In other words, only by grasping the core elements and closely surrounding this "core" can we create dance images and works that the broad masses of the people like.

Secondly, dance creation should proceed from life and fully reflect the dynamic beauty characteristics of dance.

Artistic creation-life is the first source, which is an absolute truth. Dance creation consciously makes life feel, and through the shaping of dance image, it has the beauty of this special attribute of dance. The beauty of dance is an unparalleled model of any art, because dance is an act, a vivid sculpture art, which has the function of making people feel directly and directly. The prototype of life is the foundation of dance beauty. The beauty of dance and life are interactive. Only by grasping the true beauty in life can dance have more beauty. I firmly believe that dance choreographers must experience, observe and analyze from real life, and then process and carve the beauty of the human body in a natural form to create a beautiful dance image. Just like a piece of pure jade, its value can only be shown through exquisite carving. The professional function of dance choreographer is very clear: the application of "dancing eyes" to analyze life feelings will always reveal a kind of "action power" In addition, it also emphasizes "entrusting feelings to things", which requires going deep into the inner character from the external image of things and giving them imagination. Dance choreographers should also have the ability to imitate extraordinary figures, which is a way for choreographers to point their creative ideas to reality and an important means for choreographers to complete the "second transformation" from literary feelings to action feelings. These are the special requirements for choreographers. Dance creation is absolutely different from the simple technique of making a handicraft, but from the moment the dancer enters life, it is integrated into every link of the dancer's daily observation of life, understanding life and even creating dance works. This is a dance director's ability to grasp reality and express life with the eyes of "action sense" unique to dance art; But at the same time, behind these "action sense" eyes is a strong spiritual foundation of people's outlook on life, art and aesthetic taste in a society.

Of course, when going deep into life, observing life and feeling life, the most important thing is to find the starting point of life that initially caused the emotional impulse of the director, which depends on the director's observation ability. We call it the eye of dance creation. Such eyes should have the professional characteristics of dancing, that is to say, there is always a sense of action in the analysis and feeling of life, so as to achieve subjective memory. For example, for Mongolian "horse dance", the movement of feet is the key point, and this part of the performance is one of the characteristics of Mongolian dance. There are countless trainings of "looking at the horse stance just look". In the basic training course of Mongolian dance, there are as many as 20 kinds of "just look at the horse stance just look" in chapter 12, each of which has unique modeling and training value, especially the content of "just look at the horse stance just look" is very detailed, which can be basically summarized into three types: 1. Second, Ussen barks everywhere like a flowing horse; Third, Taurbut is called around the horse in Taurbut dance. These steps vividly show the Mongolian character, whether walking like a sheep; Still flowing like water; Pentium jumps have a strong sense of rhythm, showing a distinctive style and rough horse-riding rhythm. I think the formation of these dance movements objectively reflects a very important professional function of dance choreographer, that is, to have accurate "imitation ability" in the process of transforming life movements into dance movements and even dance images.

Isadora duncan, the founder of American modernist dance, believes that "all creative activities that express thoughts and feelings through body movements are dance art". Therefore, dance is the plastic art of human body, and dance expresses thoughts and feelings through human body movements.

People's first reaction is often an involuntary action, or an action accompanied by sound. Therefore, when language (even shouting) is not enough to express people's strong feelings, as a special means of dance-human movements-it has a distinct and powerful artistic expression ability.

The human movements required by dance art are not natural or purely physiological, but very emotional movements with specific time and space and beautification.

Therefore, people sum up the composition of dance into three elements: movement (space), rhythm (time) and expression (emotion), all of which are indispensable.

Space: stage, venue;

Time: music, a certain time;

The artistic feature of dance is the art of expressing feelings with body movements in a certain space and time.

It is precisely because of the characteristics of this artistic means that dance is good at "lyricism".

Therefore, the choreographer should be familiar with and understand the special means of dance, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and choose the theme and content suitable for expressing human movements.

2. The unique expression of dance:

Dance takes human body movements as artistic means, so it has a set of corresponding unique artistic expressions.

To sum up, dance movements (dance posture, action combination, footwork), dance formation, picture (composition) and some pantomime skills (such as gestures and facial expressions) must be mastered.

A. dance movements:

The words and phrases in dance language are "dance movements".

This kind of action is different from life action and needs artistic modeling-that is, "dancing".

The combination of beautifying action and carving dance is "action combination".

There is also a "dance footwork" that connects action combinations. Dance footwork helps or highlights the key points of dance language.

Dance action is more important to shape characters. Skill movement is also the main "vocabulary" to shape the role or express a specific plot in dance.

B. formation and picture:

The formation and picture of dance is called composition in the process of dance creation. It is the link between dance to express the content of the work, to deal with emotional changes, and to connect dance movements and steps. The formation and pattern formed by the position or scheduling of actors on the stage is called stage scheduling. A good formation is like a moving picture.

C. pantomime:

Mime is also a means to express the plot without language, using human movements, gestures and facial expressions.

As a gesture (expression action) in dance, of course, it comes from life first. But it also needs to be beautified, concentrated and summarized, and a content can be clearly expressed with a short gesture or gesture.

Dance is different from music, painting and sculpture. It is spatio-temporal. Dance is good at expressing people's strongest feelings.

3. Dance choreography is a comprehensive art;

It combines the factors of sister arts such as literature, music, art and drama.

A. the relationship between dance and literature:

In the specific creative process, whether it is the structure of the work, the laying out of the plot, the description of details, the depiction of characters, the setting of the environment, the application of artistic techniques such as reality, analogy, exaggeration and contrast, we all need to draw nutrition from literary works.

B. the relationship between dance and music:

Dance music not only gives dance length and speed, but also makes dance vocabulary accurate, concise and concentrated. At the same time, the development and deepening of the language and emotion of dance movements are also reflected through the melody and rhythm of music.

Only in the organic combination of dance and music can we create a complete dance image. Therefore, in dance works, both music and dance * * * shoulder the task of depicting characters and expressing ideological content.

Dance rhythm: Different rhythms can highlight different thoughts and emotions. The gap or pause in music accompaniment is also a kind of music rhythm. Usually when the scene of surprise and tension is highlighted, it becomes a "dumb field" or a "static field".

C. the relationship between dance and art:

Painting and sculpture are the pursuit of dynamic effects in static modeling. Dance, on the other hand, requires sculpting in motion. "Dance is a moving painting, a living sculpture", "Dancers paint with human bodies".

Choreography should sublimate those natural things into artistic shapes.

Like every moment of dance, like painting and sculpture as much as possible, which has a strong appeal and makes dance works become moving paintings and living sculptures. It also includes the creation of stage art (such as scenery, clothing, makeup, props, etc.). ).

D. the relationship between dance and drama:

Dance and drama are both stage performance arts, but the difference is that drama (song) mainly depends on the actors' speech or singing, while dance uses the body movements of meta-actors to complete the task of shaping roles.

E. Since it is a comprehensive art, dance is also closely related to gymnastics. Not much to say here.

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