What is Dai Dance

What is the Dai Dance

The Dai are a people with a culture of the ancient people and a people who can sing and dance well. Dance of the Dai ethnic group has many varieties and forms, and the popularity is also very wide, and each has its own characteristics. The representative programs can be divided into three categories: self-indulgence, performance and ritual. Self-entertainment programs are? Gaguang? The Dance of the Elephant's Foot Drum Elephant Foot Drum Dance and the "Yelahui" dance. Yelahui and? Shouting and Shouting? The most representative of these dances is the Gagwang Dance. Gagwang? and the most representative of them are the Ga Kwang and the Elephant Foot Drum Dance. The most representative of these dances are the Ga Kwang and the Elephant Foot Drum Dance. Performing dances include Peacock Dance and the Elephant Dance. Elephant Dance and the Fish Dance. Fish Dance What's that? Butterfly dance? The Butterfly Dance Gomer Hat Dance, etc. The most representative dance is the Peacock Dance. The most representative is the Peacock Dance. The Peacock Dance is the most characteristic performance dance among the Dai dances, which has been circulated in the Dehong area, Xishuangbanna area and Jinggu, Menglian, Gengma and other counties. The Dai ritual dances are only a few in the ethnic mixed areas. Some ritual dances, such as the "Jumping Willow God", have been passed down in the Dehong area in the past. The Dance of the Willow God and the Beima Dance popularized in Jiangcheng County. Beima Dance? Now there is no one to dance.

Artistic Characteristics

Dancing and singing, free and lively. One of the main features of Chinese folk dance is the close combination of dancing and singing. This singing and dancing ` form, free, lively, lively, can be easier than pure dance to show more life content, and easy to understand, so very much for the masses of Chinese people love. The skillful use of props and the combination of skills. Many Chinese folk dances use props skillfully, such as fans, handkerchiefs, long silks, tambourines, single drums, flower sticks, lanterns, umbrellas and so on, which greatly strengthens the artistic expression of the dance, and makes the dance movements more rich and beautiful, colorful and varied.

The plot is vivid and the image is clear. Chinese folk dance is very important to the content, most of them have certain stories and legends as the basis, therefore, the character image is distinctive, outstanding character. Although some dances only show a certain mood, but it is also mostly as a complete storyline of the fragment and appear. For example, Guangdong's "Ying Ge" is a performance of Liang Shan Po heroes and heroes attacked the story of the Da Mingfu; Fujian's "Big Drum Liang umbrella" legend is a performance of Zheng Chenggong against foreign invaders practicing the activities of the army.

Self-entertainment, unity of purpose. Many Chinese folk dances are often self-entertainment and unity of performance. Some dance activities, for the dancers, he is self-entertainment, but also to perform to the audience, so the dancers pay close attention to their own dance skills, so the Chinese folk dance has been a high degree of development.

The feeling of improvisation. Folk dances from all regions of China have been passed down in a certain format and norms, but there is also a tradition of improvisation, especially in some folk dancers this point is particularly prominent. In their most emotionally charged moments, it is often the time when a dance can emerge that shimmers with a unique luster.