Tap dancing originated in Ireland, but it was formally formed in the United States in 1920. Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their national dances to this immigrant continent, so American tap dance is considered as a stolen dance and a challenging dance. It originated from the bottom of society and is popular on farms and streets. In early America, almost all black people danced. On farms and plantations, black slaves were forbidden to perform traditional religious ceremonies such as dancing and drumming, so they secretly clapped their hands and tapped the floor with their feet instead of drumming. In the city, blacks can't go to dance school like whites, but often learn skills from each other, "steal" each other's dance steps and compete with each other. This form of competition still exists in today's performance of River Dance.
Irish tap dance combines dynamic dance steps with elegant dance steps, and its magnificent performance style makes people see things in a blur. It is a national sport suitable for men, women and children. At the same time, as a popular dance form all over the world, it can not only improve people's artistic accomplishment, but also be an important way to develop their intelligence, which is conducive to the all-round development of individual body and mind.
Secondly, from the psychological point of view, this paper discusses the positive role of Irish tap dance in personal intelligence development.
Irish tap dance is a unique and creative sports art, with diverse steps and high requirements for dancers' skills. Its fast pace requires the coordination of all functional organs of the whole body, such as hands, feet, eyes, ears and brain. This has a good training effect on Irish tap dancers' observation and learning ability, imitation ability, memory ability and action coordination ability. Based on Howard gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, this paper discusses the positive effects of Irish tap dancing on people's physical and mental development.
Human intelligence is a comprehensive embodiment of wisdom and ability, which mainly includes sensibility, observation, memory, imagination, thinking and creativity, among which sensibility and creativity are its core. Although there is no significant difference in intelligence scores between people, people from different cultural backgrounds have obvious differences in intelligence composition and performance characteristics. Irish tap dance, as an important part of Irish traditional culture, has had an important impact on people's intellectual development during its inheritance.
(A) to cultivate and improve people's ability to feel
Perception, called perceptual ability in psychology, is the basis of human intelligence and behavioral ability. The human sensory integration system is divided into visual integration system, auditory integration system, tactile integration system, balanced integration system and ontological integration system. Through the brain, people organize and analyze the sensory information from various sensory organs of the body for many times, make correct decisions, and make the whole body work harmoniously and effectively. Different parts of the brain must work in a unified and coordinated way to complete advanced and complex cognitive activities of human beings, including attention, organizational ability, self-control, generalization and understanding. When there is a problem with the integration of sensory information in the brain, it will make the body unable to function effectively. This situation is called sensory integration disorder, so sensory ability is the basis and premise of people's various abilities
Irish tap dancing is relatively free in form without too many additional restrictions. However, it stipulates technical requirements, focusing on the rhythm of hitting toes and heels. Performers wear special tap shoes, rub and slap on the floor with various parts of their feet, make various tap dancing sounds, and add various beautiful dances of dancers to form their unique humor, humor and expressiveness. Irish tap dance emphasizes "stepping" and "stepping", keeping the upper body motionless and only relying on the vibration of the lower body to create audio-visual effects. In the process of practice, dancers' external analysts and internal analysts should always keep a high degree of tension, deal with all kinds of internal and external information in time, then combine these information with sports experience in the brain, and then issue instructions to control actions through psychological processes such as analysis and comprehensive judgment. Irish tap dancing not only requires people to have a high sense of ability, but also cultivates and exercises their sense of ability. The two promote each other and develop together. As philosophy says, "Without feeling, we can't know any form of physical objects, and we can't know any form of movement." The training of Irish tap dance is helpful to improve people's perceptual ability, and then expand and deepen people's understanding of the objective world.
(2) Cultivate people's keen observation.
Observation refers to the advanced perceptual process of conscious, planned and purposeful use of sensory organs, accompanied by thinking activities. The ability to connect oneself with the outside world through observation, feeling and perception, and to understand the objective world with personality characteristics. People's observation ability is innate, and it is formed in the process of constantly using their own sense organs such as vision, hearing and taste and the inside of the body. The process of intergenerational transmission of national culture is also a process in which individuals exercise and develop their observation ability in learning and application.
Love-style tap dance is rich in form and content, such as: stepping, a basic action of wearing soft shoes, with varied rhythm forms; Flash dance combined with acrobatic movements is particularly amazing, usually used at the end of the dance; Fixed movement and fusion, highlighting the contrast between fixed posture and sudden rapid jump. The dance rhythm is compact, the pace is accurate, and the heel movements are more, forming a rhythmic beat. Only by observing, imitating and using can learners gradually master various technologies. If the practitioner does not have a good observation ability and carefully observes the characteristics of these movements, it will be difficult to master these dance skills. Learners with poor observation often have vague memories of dance movements, so that the accuracy of dance movements is low, the learning process is slow, and it is impossible to be fast and accurate. It is in the process of learning, practicing and performing tap dancing that dancers effectively cultivate their keen observation.
(C) shaping people's rich imagination
Imagination refers to the ability of the human brain to process and transform some representations formed in the past and establish new images. It plays the role of accelerator and catalyst in creative activities. Modern science reveals that imagination or fantasy is a special function of the human brain and a unique ability of human beings to redesign existing information and combine it with new information. Artistic performance is inseparable from imagination. Only by imagining various scenes, plots or characters in your mind can you properly interpret the beauty of art, and dance learners and performers need both artistic creation imagination and rich artistic appreciation imagination.
Generally, dance expresses feelings through body language and facial expressions, while love tap dance is a rhythmic dance with legs, which expresses the theme through the rhythm of leg hitting. This rhythm includes different factors such as speed, priority of sound, crispness and dullness. For example, in the first act of riverdance, "Dancing with the Sun", a group of performers' thunderous kicks and passionate music bring people a pleasant experience. The ninth chapter "Hometown is in My Heart" is different from the crisp voice and fast pace in front. The sound changed from sparse, dull and slow to dense, smart and brisk, expressing the dancers' love for their hometown and yearning for a better life. Dancers need to ponder the development of characters' feelings and stories according to their movements, thus showing a rich emotional world, which is actually a process of cultivating people's imagination. If dancers lack the imagination of creation and artistic expression, they can't appreciate the inner beauty of love tap dancing. Even if he is skilled in dancing, he is just a simple imitator, not a dancer with both form and spirit. Love-style tap dancing puts forward higher requirements for people's imagination, and also greatly improves the imagination of dancers.
To sum up, Irish tap dancing is conducive to developing people's intelligence, enhancing perception, cultivating observation, improving memory, enriching imagination and developing thinking ability, thus promoting the all-round development of intelligence.
Irish tap dance, like other dances, takes emotion as the core, body as the tool, artistic body language as the form of expression, combined with a certain musical beat, constantly moves in a certain space, vividly expressing people's inner thoughts and feelings and venting their spiritual demands. For those who love Irish tap dancing, dancing this kind of dance is not only a sport, but also a pleasure. Develop and explore your own spiritual world in a rich sense of rhythm and rhythm. Its energetic dance steps keep one's fighting spirit high at all times and bring joy and positive attitude to life. Irish tap dancing often requires both form and spirit, keeping the unity of body movements and inner feelings. Such exercises will undoubtedly promote the psychological development of people's personality.
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tap dance
Tap dancing is a modern dance. Formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to the United States and gradually merged to form the dance form of tap dance.
In dance movements, tap dancing focuses on the rhythm of toes and feet following the ground. Performers wear special tap shoes, rubbing and tapping on the floor with various parts of their feet, and making various tapping sounds. Coupled with the graceful dancing of the dancers, tap dancing has formed a unique sense of freedom and full rhythm.
Tap dancing is a kind of listening dance, and a great tap dancer is a great musician. In the early tap dance competition, the judges even sat under the stage without looking at the dancers, only listening to the priorities of their tapping rhythm. For an excellent tap dancer, no matter how fast the rhythm is, how complicated the steps are and how light the voice is, it can be clear and clean.
After nearly a hundred years of development, tap dance has formed different styles, and the two main branches are American tap dance and Irish tap dance.
1 American tap dance
American tap dance is a combination of Irish tap dance and African traditional dance. Dance pursues the complex expression of rhythm in the form of freedom and relaxation. In the era of Hollywood musicals and movies, American tap dance, as the most fascinating dance part on the big screen, is familiar and loved by people all over the world. From the lovely Shirley Temple to the famous Hollywood dancer Jim Carrey, their dance performances in the film fascinated hundreds of millions of audiences.
Irish tap dance
Tap dancing is the characteristic of Ireland and the quintessence of Ireland. It combines artistic performances, elegant dance movements and dancers' amazing physical strength. However, unlike American tap dancing, Irish tap dancing is more formal and pure. During the performance, Irish dancers always keep their hands hanging down their hips naturally, and there is no unnecessary movement in their upper body. They complete their movements through the rhythm of lower body and foot landing. If American tap dance is good at showing off its skills, then Irish tap dance is good at showing the grandeur of group dance. From riverdance, Dance of Kings, Dance of Flames to Dance of Destiny, which will be staged in the National General Hospital, Irish tap dance shows the characteristics of uniformity and grandeur.
In addition, there are English tap dances and China Tibetan tap dances. The unique tap dance type makes tap dance more diverse and rich.