Basic Action Essentials of Tibetan Dance

The basic movement essentials of Tibetan dance include Qi Mei's shaking hands, shaking hands and paddling his hips forward.

1, Qi Mei waved. Specifications and essentials: hands droop, wrist and elbow bend when moving, wrist drives, hands shake alternately on the chest. Draw a circle clockwise with your right hand and counterclockwise with your left hand. This action can be divided into big, medium and small. Smaller than abdomen and chest; The height of sway is higher than that of Qi Mei; Larger than the front top.

2. shake your hand. Specification and essentials: shake with one hand, bend your wrist with the other hand, and wipe with your palm, so that the upper arc flows from side to side through the upper arc. One-handed skin flap is also common in the waist and front of abdomen.

3. Row your hips forward. Specifications and essentials: hands droop, and the left and right hands draw circles from the inside out to the front of the buttocks. Draw a circle on the plane with your right hand clockwise and your left hand counterclockwise. Hip forward rowers shake hands with Qi Mei regularly.

Tibetan folk self-entertainment dances can be divided into "harmony" and "excellence". "Harmony" is mainly a form of collective song and dance that spreads among Tibetan people, and it can be divided into four types: over-thanking, over-excelling (that is, Guo Zhuang), heap-thanking and thanking. Later, simple upper limb movements, in-situ rotation and formation changes were added, which became a labor song and dance form of alternating men and women, singing and dancing. This kind of labor song and dance has been put on today's stage, becoming a memorial of labor art in history.

Generally speaking, Tibetan dances can be divided into two categories: ethnic and folk self-entertainment dances and religious dances. These two kinds of dances have rich cultural connotations, beautiful and unique dances and unique dance styles and forms. Among them, Qiangmu belongs to the most important temple sacrifice dance in the category of religious dance.

The emergence and spread of temple dance Qiangmu is closely related to the emergence and development of Tibetan Buddhism. At the same time, due to the existence of different factions of Tibetan Buddhism, Qiangmu, commonly known as "Dancing Mother", has different characteristics and differences in dance forms, props use, performers' costumes and many other aspects.