Dunhuang Dance

The Three Schools of Classical Dance-Dunhuang Dance

Dunhuang Dance is a branch from Dunhuang Studies, and when it comes to Dunhuang Dance, we have to introduce Dunhuang Studies first. The exact name of Dunhuang Studies is Dunhuang Tulufan Studies, which is a new international discipline that involves history, geography, ethnicity, literature, folklore, archaeology, language, religion and many other disciplines. Dunhuang Dance is a very important discipline in the study of Dunhuang Studies. Dunhuang Dance is a brand new dance created by contemporary dance artists based on the results of refining and researching the many complicated murals in Dunhuang, through the research of ancient Dunhuang dances and the inspiration and enlightenment of Dunhuang music and dance murals. It is a new dance genre created through the study of ancient Dunhuang dances and the inspiration and inspiration of Dunhuang music and dance murals. It is a set of dance art system with a unique performance style formed by integrating the dance cultures of various nationalities and foreign countries. Dunhuang dance through the old generation of artists continue to explore as well as the development of contemporary dance artists, has become one of the main branch of Chinese classical dance, from its inception to the production of representative works, as well as teaching theory of the discipline of construction, has made the Dunhuang dance has a complete dance cultural form of the language system.

In 1979, the Gansu Provincial Song and Dance Troupe created a large-scale dance drama, Silk Road Flowers and Rain, based on the story of the Silk Road and the excavation of the world-famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes murals. But as far as the art of dance is concerned, "Silk Road Flowers and Rain" is a watershed in Chinese classical dance, creating a peak in the creation of the art of dance in the 1980s, which not only successfully resurrected the image of the dance in the Dunhuang mural paintings, but also made a greater achievement in that it created a new type of dance on the basis of inheriting the traditional Chinese classical dance--Dunhuang Dance. Dunhuang Dance, in which the "Pipa Dance" and the "Bouncing Pipa Kabuki" dance modeling has become a typical Dunhuang Dance action, as well as the Dunhuang Dance logo.

The appearance of the dance drama "Silk Road Flowers and Rain" not only caused a great sensation in the Chinese dance world, but also created a record of Chinese folk dance drama touring the world. Since then in China set off a wave of continuous "ancient music and dance revival" of the tide, a large number of "imitation of ancient music and dance", such as: "imitation of the Tang music and dance", "chimes music and dance", "the ancient style of the Western Xia", "Nine Songs", "Chang'an Music and Dance", "Han Feng", "Copper Bird" and so on. The dancers are very passionate about their work. The dancers devote themselves to the creation with great enthusiasm, which makes the ancient Chinese civilization inherited and developed in the form of dance.

Dunhuang Dance, as a new dance style, was born in 1979 in the large-scale folk dance drama "Silk Road Flowers and Rain", which made the dances in Dunhuang mural paintings come alive to the audience and attracted the attention of the world. Through the author's explanation and guidance in teaching, more young people understand Dunhuang dance, like Dunhuang dance, and love Dunhuang dance, so that everyone can experience the Dunhuang dance culture from their own different perspectives, **** with the excavation and exploration of this human civilization's artistic treasures.

Dunhuang dance "song", "round" clever fusion

First of all, Dunhuang dance inherited the Tang music dance, fusion of the western region of the various ethnic groups, Gansu, Xinjiang, Turpan tribal dance dance dance characteristics, thus forming a song in the search for the characteristics, so the Dunhuang dance is the most important thing. characteristics, thus forming the artistic characteristics of the circle in the song. First of all, the art of the circle is a very prominent artistic feature in classical dance, and Dunhuang Dance combines the use of curves in dance. The aesthetic standard of Dunhuang Dance is the "three curves", i.e., the head, shoulders, chest, hips, knees and ankles twisting in different directions. There is a clear difference between these three curves and the three curves in Dai dance. The creators of Dunhuang dance combined the leisurely and gentle feeling of the curve with the circle to make it more beautiful. The hand posture, foot posture, neck posture and waist posture are kept in "s" shape. The combination of "curve" and "circle", combined into a circle, divided into curves, composed of the beauty of the change of the "s" curve.

Through the analysis of Dunhuang murals, we can see that the dynamics of the dance is basically based on the "S", we can not judge and analyze the unique Chinese dance culture through foreign dance. Some people think that the "three bends" is mainly from India, because Buddhism and Buddhist art are from India, then the three bends in the mural modeling is bound to extend the Indian culture in the "three bends" modeling. In fact, Buddhist art came to China has been Chinese, to the Sui and Tang dynasties mainly reflect the Tang Dynasty dance style.

Image and Shape in Dunhuang Dance

The "three bends" are the external form of the dancer. The "elephant" in Dunhuang dance is the essence of Dunhuang dance. When we analyze the dance "Silk Road Flowers and Rain", it's not difficult to conclude that the choreographer created the body language of the dance differently from other dances through the long history of Dunhuang frescoes. Through the "elephant" to condense and sublimate the character's inner emotional expression, each posture, costumes, props, sets in the dance are inherited from the Tang Dynasty charm, Buddhist culture and other characteristics, is a contemporary expression of the Tang Dynasty graceful and luxurious temperament. Dunhuang Dance is not a simple portrayal of ancient dance scenes, not a simple simulation, but focuses on realizing the essence of life and other characteristics.

The stage of Dunhuang Dance is composed of two parts, through the combination of real and virtual worlds to make the whole dance and the audience produce ****sound. The "real" is to hide the life in the dance, so that the audience can get the information expressed by the dancers from the senses, and the "virtual" is to let the audience associate spontaneously through the scene as well as the dancer's dance. The "virtual" is through the scene and the dancer's dance posture can let the audience spontaneously associate. The "real virtual" and "virtual real" is the sublimation of the dance, so that the audience not only get the enjoyment of the senses, but also get the sublimation of the spirit. Such as the "Silk Road" in the "Neishang Yuyi Dance" elegant accompaniment music played, into the eyes of the stage scene is full of sunshine and white clouds, the dancers into a round shape, with red clothes, wearing a rocking crown, hanging tassel celluloid, sticking the gold flowers, Phi long veil, as if down to the earth nymphs, dance step lightly, dancing. It is light and delicate, gorgeous, elegant dance, moving soft, magnificent stage, misty as a fairy, as if people walked into the Tang Dynasty Palace, stepped into the Heavenly Palace, saw the wonderful performance of the Tang Dynasty Kabuki.

Dunhuang Dance Inheritance

Dunhuang Dance is not a simple dance form, it is more of a cultural inheritance, which contains rich regional characteristics and preserves a historical period. Life fragments and historical and cultural characteristics. As a traditional Chinese dance, Dunhuang Dance has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes and changes, and has now become an important bridge for the exchange of Chinese and Western national dance culture. It combines the Uyghur dance characteristics of "finger snapping" and "eyebrow raising", the Russian style of "hip twisting" and "prancing", and the Russian style of "prancing and rotating", as well as the Chinese traditional dance of "Dance of Dunhuang". Russian style of "twisting the hips and limbs", "prancing and spinning", "bare chest and bare arms" Indian dance style and the more distant style of Ancient Greek music and dance. The regional nature of Dunhuang dance can not only be clearly reflected in the body language, clothing and other appearances, from the tune, musical connotation can also penetrate out.

With the progress of history, the development of Dunhuang dance is more inclined to the integration of the characteristics of the distinctive strong national style intact preserved at the same time, with the Tang music and dance as the theme of the other dynasties with a variety of music and dance language convergence, enrich the dance language, and increase the artistic infectivity. Dunhuang Dance has formed a unique dance posture, namely the dancer's human form, hand shape, foot position, etc., and give full play to the creativity of the artists, in the dancers jumping, turning, flipping, rolling, spinning and other techniques and the use of walking, running, erratic, kicking, stepping, etc., when the steps, the "s" form is skillfully fused into it, the formation of the rich ethnic flavor of the Dunhuang Dance style language.

The representative work of Dunhuang Dance "Silk Road Flower Rain" is based on national music, through the processing and refining of "Ancient Folk Songs", "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Yangguan Sanjie" and other music, to create a heirloom song with strong national and regional characteristics. The perfect fusion of the seemingly disparate ancient Han Chinese tones and Central Asian musical tones has led to a qualitative sublimation of the artistic expression of this music. Dunhuang dance music maps a special culture of an era, making the whole dance gives a strong vitality.

With the rise and development of Dunhuang dance, the cultivation of reserve talents has also attracted people's attention. It can be said that the Dunhuang dance on the stage of the exceptionally hot performance, but also inseparable from the Dunhuang dance education and training system is built and perfect. At present, Dunhuang dance is divided into two streams, one is the performance team of the troupe, and the other is the teaching, teaching and research of the college team, most of them to Dunhuang dance as an opportunity to excavate and cultivate Dunhuang dance talents, but the real direction of the development of the Dunhuang dance should be more systematic. The founder of the Dunhuang dance teaching system, Ms. Gao Jinrong, through 30 years of fieldwork, from the Northern Liang, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties of music and dance mural paintings in the flying sky, Kabuki days, the sutra painting dance Bodhisattva, as well as secular dance music in the static and dynamic, to experience, analyze the movement of the rise and fall, from the law of movement to static, and then to explore the Dunhuang dance unique style and artistic charm.