The four schools of classical Chinese dance

The four major schools of classical Chinese dance are:

1, the school of body rhyme

The school of body rhyme of classical Chinese dance is a school with the significance of classical Chinese dance. Body rhyme from the opera body and Chinese martial arts, in the preparatory period, from the opera to retain the dance began to study and organize the Chinese classical dance. The logic of the original dance movements in the opera was deconstructed, the movements were analyzed into parts and then fitted onto the framework of the ballet structural method.

2. Han and Tang School

Han and Tang Dance is created with the spirit and temperament of Han and Tang, the most splendid ancient history of China, as the main body, and with the music and dance culture represented by Han and Tang and the mature form of opera dance since Ming and Qing Dynasty as the fulcrum. As a must for professional dancers, Body Rhythm not only has its own system, but also provides a methodology for the cultural construction of classical Chinese dance.

3. Dunhuang School

The image of Dunhuang dance mainly includes the music and dance of the Heavenly Palace, mural paintings of folk songs and dance scenes, and images of national dances such as the hu whirling, hu teng, and cudgel. Dunhuang Dance inherits the foundation of this tradition, adheres to traditional Chinese aesthetic principles, absorbs and borrows from various ethnic dances, utilizes the rhythm and rhyme of classical dance, and combines static postures with its stylistically unified course of action.

4. Kun Dance School

Kun Dance was created and developed on the basis of the study of the art of Kunqu, and it is the distillation and processing of the essential spirit and charm of Kunqu. It is not only in the constraints of Kunqu, but also a new style of classical Chinese dance expanded with dance concepts.