The origin and development of China classical dance.

China classical dance, which originated in ancient China, has a long history and is profound. It combines the movements and shapes in many martial arts dramas, and pays special attention to the role of eyes in the performance, emphasizing the coordination of breathing, with a sense of rhythm and shape. It is intoxicating with its unique oriental beauty of combining rigidity with softness.

The development of classical dance in China: Its origin can be traced back to the court dance in ancient China or the folk dance in more distant times.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, specialized music and dance institutions have been set up in the courts of the Han, Jin and Tang Dynasties to train professional music and dance personnel to organize, research, process and develop popular folk self-entertainment dances, religious dances and even foreign dances, thus forming court dances.

After the founding of New China, in the early 1950s, in order to develop and innovate the national dance art, dancers extracted dance materials from rich China opera performances, studied, sorted out and refined China Wushu, and established a set of China classical dance teaching materials with reference to ballet training methods.

At the same time, he arranged and performed a series of dance dramas and dances with the style of China classical dance, such as Lotus Lantern, Knife Meeting and Moonlight Night on the Spring River. With the reform and opening up in 1980s, China classical dance is also changing constantly, and it has begun to expand from appearance to connotation to a new space.

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China's Classical Dance Skills

1. The spinning technique in the basic training of China classical dance is mainly characterized by twisting structure, which is quite different from the spinning technique in the basic training of ballet.

The rotation in the basic training of China classical dance, besides the straight rotation, is characterized by the figure rotation in the twisting and tilting dances, especially the balance center of gravity rotation in the tilting dance, which is shaped by the vertical composition of the upper and lower parts.

2. With the waist as the axis, the basic training of China classical dance is varied, most of which are in the process of moving. Such as striding, sweeping the hall and exploring the sea.

3. In the basic training of China classical dance, the national dance has a strong "style", and some national dances turn, which can be said to be the continuation and exaggeration of the style.

4. The movements of national dances are relatively fluid and complex, with great spatial changes, such as bottom-up or top-down movements, and the characteristics of combination and flow of various dances in the process of turning.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Classical Dance