According to the development of modern dance, it can be basically divided into several basic stages, such as foundation stage, development stage, new pioneer stage and post-modern dance theater stage at the beginning of the 20th century. However, in different periods, due to the differences in artistic concepts, value orientations, creative styles and performance training skills, different styles and schools have been formed.

Basic period

At the turn of the century, modern dance was founded on the basis of opposing classical ballet, and its thoughts mainly emphasized the liberation and freedom of human nature with romanticism and idealism. In artistic creation, it is subjective to explore unrestrained emotional expression. The main representative of this period is isadora; Duncan, Ruth. Saint. Dennis. Ted. Sean, Mary. Weigmann and others, whether Duncan's. Dance of freedom? Or saint-denis's application of oriental dance forms and religious philosophy, although each has its own aesthetic thought and artistic practice, is generally an expressionist school centered on Laban's system theory. Like other expressionist artistic thoughts, it advocates feeling first and regards intuition as the only way to know the world. Method. Wiegman is a representative of expressionist dance, and her dance has one of the most prominent characteristics, that is, enterprise; The picture cuts off the relationship between dance and music, and makes dance exist independently as an art.

early stage

The modern dance art in this period advocates that form obeys function, and pays attention to revealing human value and dignity in values, revealing the spirit of the times and real life. In artistic creation, the expression in the sense of emotional expression is regarded as the skill of artistic creation. In artistic thought, it advocates truly reflecting the world, reflecting the goodness of human nature and exposing the evil of human nature. In the exploration, we should pay attention to personal style and create personalized and systematic action systems and technical schools. Among them, the most representative schools are as follows:

Psychological Expressionism: Martha Graham's? Contraction and extension? (shrink & ; Release) is how it works. The main idea is to expose the dark side of human heart and emphasize? Introspection; ? Psychology. She stressed that dancers should? Express self-confidence objectively with body image; Reading? ,? Dance should strip off the clothes that hide human behavior? ,? Expose an inner person? .

Symbolism: Han's technique is characterized by "falling &; ; ; Recovery) as its action principle, she believes that it not only covers the whole range of human actions, but also is the root of all dramatic effects. When people fall down in the face of violence, they must support, resist, and so on. This conflict exists in these operations.

Humanistic dance: Jose's skill training principle is based on Han's skills, and then injected with personal research experience. He regards all parts of his limbs as a single musical instrument. When he moves around, it is like a symphony, and many musical instruments play a human melody together.

Relaxation skill: a form of contact improvisation caused by continuous exploration and experiment of physical potential.

Horton's Skills: Inspired by the images of primitive groups or ancient ruins, such as the body in two-dimensional murals in ancient Egypt, it has evolved into one of its basic action training. Show the world your pride in identity and tradition? .

These schools and techniques greatly enriched the connotation of modern dance and made it develop to a new height and stage, representing the value orientation and artistic thought in the world at that time.

Xin Xianfeng

So-called? New pioneer? In the middle and late 20th century, modern dance art was influenced by post-modernism, and its art had obvious post-modernism tendency. In terms of artistic concept, he advocates the further liberation of the body, and thinks that the form of dance art is self-sufficient and closed, and can express itself and test itself. Enthusiastic about formalism, he believes that form is everything, and action is an end in itself, not a means to express feelings. In artistic creation, it is embodied in irrationality and intuition, and refuses to explain his works to the audience. What you see is what you get? . Tend to be anti-traditional, anti-aesthetic, anti-culture, anti-rationality, anti-art, [1] anti-dance. Even the elements of dance are disintegrated, various choreography techniques are experimented, and concepts from other fields are introduced into creative works to create a series of choreography methods. Cubism, abstraction, motivation and other schools have emerged, and skills have formed a free form. When post-modern dance emerged in 1960s, the fixed form of modern dance skill training was gradually criticized by avant-garde dance artists, and turned to free play as the main form of action training. Free-form physical training not only highlights the professor's personal style, but also includes various explorations of time, space and energy.

The representative figure of this period is Moss. Merce Cuninghan and his Chance Dance School: Does he object to people's consistent views? Dance moves must be meaningful? This basic requirement. He said:? What ideas are there that I don't have in my dance art? . Its artistic method is pursuit? I have to move? . Any movement can be part of the dance. He believes that human life is often bound by habits, and if accidental elements are used in choreography, it is possible to find the most instinctive and attractive way of human action.

Abstractionism: Abstract modern dance expresses the so-called pure spiritual world with abstract language and pursues novelty and strangeness: Alvin Nicholas, the representative figure. He believes that the greatest natural instinct of human beings is abstract thinking ability and transcendental existence ability.

postmodernism

Dance drama art, which mainly originated in Europe, pursues the return of drama tradition and expressionism tradition to dance again, not on the premise of technical perfection, but on how human limbs dance and why human beings dance, and dance begins to inject humanistic atmosphere in another way. Modern ballet is also one of the schools of modern dance in this period.

Dance theater

Dance Theater: The representative figure is Pi Na? Bosch. Dance drama originally refers to a kind of dance that combines classical ballet with new dance and can fully express the plot. There are three main artistic features: 1, the broken dance theater, which deeply expresses gender and violence and prefers repetition. The main concern here is why people move and dance, which reveals the theme of eternal interaction between the two sexes and shows the ultimate humanistic care.

Modern ballet: Modern ballet is also one of the schools of modern dance. It is between modern dance and classical ballet; This form is modern dance in concept, but ballet in technique. The earliest representative of modern ballet is K. Jos, who used to be a student and collaborator of Laban. He is a ballet dancer, so he practices; There is a foundation for the combination of the two.

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