How to learn Chinese classical dance?

(1) The specificity of the development of Chinese classical dance

Classical dance is based on the traditional dance of national folk, which has been refined, organized, processed and created by professional workers through the generations, and has been passed down through the test of art practice over a long period of time, and is regarded as a dance with a certain exemplary significance and characteristics of classical style. Generally speaking, classical dances have strict programs, standardized movements and superior skills. Many countries and nationalities in the world have their own unique styles of classical dance.

China's Han classical dance, the dance movements handed down, most of them are preserved in the opera dance; some dance gestures and modeling, preserved in the country's extremely rich grotto murals, sculpture, painted elephant stone, painted elephants, terracotta figurines, as well as a variety of excavated artifacts on the paintings, decorations, the dance image modeling; China's rich literary and historical materials also have a large number of specific descriptions of the dance image in the past. Since the 1950s, Chinese dancers have made great achievements in researching, organizing, reproducing and developing classical Chinese dance, establishing a set of teaching materials for classical Chinese dance, creating a large number of dances and dance dramas in the style of classical Chinese dance, and forming the aesthetics of delicate and roundedness, rigidity and softness, blending of emotions and feelings, combination of skills, and perfect harmony and high degree of unity of essence, vitality, spirit, and the hand, eye, body, method and steps. The aesthetics of the work is characterized by a high degree of harmonization and unity.

The historical direction of China's classical dance in the 21st century is to keep abreast of the times on the basis of adhering to and developing the excellent national traditions, and to face modernization, the world and the future.

Facing modernization means that our dance art should beat with the rhythm of socialist modernization in China, and the dancers should have a close connection with the contemporary social life and the thoughts and feelings of the contemporary people, and our dance works should strengthen the reflection of the real life of the contemporary Chinese people, and express the ideals, aspirations, and aesthetic pursuits of the Chinese people in the construction of socialist modernization. Our dance works should be adapted to the aesthetic needs of the contemporary Chinese people. Chinese classical dance, like folk dance and ballet, is one of the popular performing dances around the world today. This kind of dance is called modern dance because its founder's concept of dance aesthetics was to break away from the movement system and aesthetic norms of traditional dance, and to focus on the expression of modern people's thoughts and feelings. The modernization we are talking about pays special attention to the spirit of the times, and we believe that the dance should be contemporary, and the modernization of Chinese dance should have national characteristics: national content, national form, and national aesthetic interest.

Facing the world, first of all, we should be based on the best dance of the Chinese nation to the world, so that people from all over the world can understand and recognize the socialist dance art of China, so that they can get the greatest satisfaction of aesthetic feeling, so as to make our Chinese dance art stand on its own among the world's nationalities. Secondly, we should let the world know more about China through the various forms of Chinese dance, in which we have a very good track record and will have better performance in the future. Facing the world is a two-way street. While we promote the excellent dances of our nation to the world, we should also learn from the advanced experiences and rich cultural knowledge of foreign dances. However, learning should be selective, learning is not a wholesale westernization, not to be melted and assimilated by foreign dance, "words must be called Greece" era is long gone, not to Europe and the United States to distinguish between the standards of art and evaluation of the level of our dance works, and more alert to the decay, the decline of the dance culture of infiltration and pollution.

To face the future is to establish and develop socialist dance with Chinese characteristics, so that the art of dance in our country can get greater development and prosperity. This is to establish and develop the national scientific popular dance art. By national, I mean that it should have a national style and national characteristics, and that it should be developed and created on the basis of national dance traditions; the new development of national dance will gradually break the boundaries of classical, folk and modern styles, and will draw on all the strengths of the various styles and use them for its own purposes according to the need to express the new contents of life and to portray new characters. In this way, the fusion and unification of all kinds of dances to produce new styles is an inevitable part of the historical development of the new dance creation of the Chinese nation. And the exchange with other countries and national dance culture, learning and borrowing from foreign excellent dance culture, is to promote the development of our national dance culture is indispensable to the nourishment and impetus.