There is a cloud in "Le Ji": poetry expresses ambition; Song, chanting its voice; Dance and move your face. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that countries dance to see the rise and fall, which shows that dance is closely related to people's lives. The ancients created dance in labor and made continuous progress and development in dance. In a sense, the history of dance development is also the history of human development!
The dance art that keeps pace with the times has undergone numerous changes today. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China's dance developed with each passing day. Thanks to the efforts of dancers, many new excellent works have emerged, but they still can't meet the requirements of the development of the times. At this time, a new dance art form appeared, and digital dance is one of them.
First, what is the digitization of dance?
When the definition of "digital dance" was put forward, many people didn't understand it. Can dance be digitized? Can it still be called dance after digitalization? Why should dance be digitized?
In fact, "digital dance" is a broad definition, which should include the spread of dance through digital channels and the digital creation of dance.
Let's first classify the ways of dance communication, namely traditional communication and digital communication. Traditionally, it includes university education, offering training courses, holding dance competitions, issuing audio-visual materials and publishing written materials. Digital communication includes website setting, dance downloading, online forum, making and spreading dance by digital technology, etc.
Traditional communication is generally based on education, especially classroom education. This is the focus of dance teaching. There is no denying that dance must be based on classroom education, because the direct role of classroom education is the simplest and most effective for improving the level of dance students.
At present, qualified universities or art groups have set up their own websites to publish information about themselves at the first time and conduct cross-regional dance art exchanges. Dance is a visual art, and audio-visual materials are definitely the focus of dance communication. At present, network communication mainly spreads stills and appreciation of audio-visual materials. Generally, it takes tens of minutes to complete the network transmission of a dance track by compressing the file size. With the development of society and the continuous progress of technology, better file format and better technology are needed to improve the network transmission time. As a result, some people began to make use of the existing technical conditions to make new dance audio-visual materials. The most primitive dance should be in animation format, and it is basically done by hand drawing through simple animation technology. With the improvement of music production and editing technology and the improvement of dancers' level, a special dance music editing team has emerged, among which MIDI production is the most representative dance music production, which is also the most commonly used method at present. With more and more dancers and enthusiasts surfing the Internet and the improvement of computer technology, they are no longer satisfied with enjoying animated dances with only pictures but no sound. Gradually, other forms of dance audio-visual materials are produced and spread in various websites and forums. This is a very good phenomenon. Its appearance makes more people realize the wonderful charm of dance, which is conducive to improving the appreciation level of the national dance art and making more people care about and support the development of dance.
The popularity of "Northeast People Are Living Lei Feng" marks the arrival of the flash era. Since then, a large number of primitive digital dances have appeared, which are either dance fragments or music fragments, but all of them have stages, actors, beautiful women, etc., and attach great importance to visual impact. At this time, digital dance production began to appear.
We define it as "digital dance", which is made by pure digital technology, leaving traditional means and basic conditions (actors, lights, stage, etc.). ) and you can enjoy it.
The first step of digital dance is the production and dissemination of dance works, the second step is dance DIY, and the third step should be dance choreography software.
So what is the definition of digital dance? Comrades who have experience in music editing can better understand this definition.
In fact, music editing is only a small part of digital dance. The commonly used software for editing music is COOLEDIT. Music editing (and MIDI) is digital processing music. Ordinary music can only be accurate to the second, and digital music can be accurate to one thousandth of a second. It can also carry out special processing on sound to remove background noise and so on. In short, it is impossible only if you can't think of it. This is the definition of music processing function. We generally call music that is completely processed by computers digital music, which is also called digital processing music.
The principle of digital dance is the same. Its ultimate goal is to let a choreographer or dancer leave the stage, turn the imaginary dance performance into a virtual dance reality, and even display all the desired stage effects on the computer as a virtual demonstration. So accurately speaking, digital dance is a virtual dance demonstration, which uses computer technology to simulate dance effects (including music, stage, lighting, etc. ).
The second step of digital dance is dance DIY, which many people may not understand at present. In fact, people don't understand it mainly because the internet and computers in our country have not been popularized to a certain extent. Even most of us have no experience in editing music, let alone using computers to edit and process music to perform ourselves. Digital dance is the upper layer of music editing. It can be said that only those who are familiar with music editing can understand the concept of digital dance well. Dance DIY is the free combination of movements, that is, matching the required movements with music to make the dance you need. This technical feature is to accumulate a large number of basic movements and complete simple dance arrangement, thus reducing the workload of dance choreography and creation.
The highest goal of digital dance is dance choreographer software. Only by realizing the above two steps can this goal have the technical foundation and conditions needed for software production.
Second, the specific performance and works of digital dance
1. Website construction is an important part and the first condition of dance digitalization.
Beijing Dance Academy is a leader in the national dance art category. At present, the new website of Beijing Dance Academy has been completed and put into use. Among the institutions, Guangdong Dance School and Xiamen Vocational College of Performing Arts have also established websites. Professional groups such as the Central Ballet also have their own websites, and the most professional one among non-governmental organizations was founded in 2000, "Dance Shadow 2000" (/xiaozai/002.swf
3. Other digital dances
At present, some colleges and universities are trying video teaching, that is, transmitting videos through cameras to complete distance teaching. This is a new dance teaching method, but it is generally used in theoretical teaching at present, because the video teaching of basic training courses and rehearsal courses still lacks the interaction between teaching and learning. It is precisely because of the appearance of this form that many dance forums have issued the question "Can you open an online dance class?" Post.
In many FLANSH websites, there are also a large number of FLANSH works with high digital dance content, such as Qiu Yan's Fly and Jade's Rain Silk, all of which are well-known FLANSH works with dance movements on the Internet. There are many digital dances that exist or are developing in other forms, and we can't list them one by one.
Third, the significance of digital dance
There are 60 million people surfing the Internet in our country, and most of them are teenagers. Teenagers are the key objects of our dance education, which can be said to be related to the rise and fall of dance in the future. They are more likely to receive relevant knowledge education through the internet, which may be exactly what they lack in class, or even what they can't learn in class. Therefore, the significance of establishing a website and spreading dance through the Internet is undeniable.
On the other hand, there are a large number of China dance lovers in the world now. As we all know, it is difficult to buy audio-visual materials and teaching materials of China dance abroad, and even there are no dance teachers. At this time, the limitations of traditional dance communication are revealed. Network communication can just overcome this shortcoming. Through network resources, all dance lovers can spread freely without geographical restrictions and national boundaries. This kind of communication includes dance picture appreciation, dance video appreciation and dance music exchange. Through the Internet, a complete dance repertoire can be spread to any place in just a few minutes. There is no need to explain the savings of funds, but it is of greater significance for the first exchange of new works.
We assume that a dance work needs a lot of energy, money and material resources from arrangement to final work. Similarly, using FLANSH to make a digital dance, the director can complete the whole work only by working in front of the computer, and can clearly see the final effect of the work, and can also correct the shortcomings in the work at any time. On the one hand, it improves the speed of creation and the level of works, on the other hand, it greatly reduces the cost.
At the same time, with the popularity of the Internet, there are more and more dancers surfing the Internet, which also drives related industries, such as e-commerce and paid dance downloads.
With the continuous progress of digital technology, dance is no longer just a simple concept of performance and skills, and the new era has given dance more new content. Dance art needs new development and the efforts of a new generation of dancers. The new generation of dancers should inherit the traditional dance content and develop new dances. I hope digital dance has a broader development space!