What is Chinese Dance

Chinese dance is a general term for classical Chinese dance along with Chinese folk and ethnic dances.

Expanded information:

Chinese classical dance was founded in the 1950s. After the reform and opening up, Chinese classical dance combined with the ballet training system, and fusion of Chinese martial arts, traditional opera, folk acrobatics, such as hand, eye, body, foot and other technologies, techniques and fusion;

Chinese classical dance has the national characteristics of our country, the turn over is the national skills of Chinese classical dance, in the process of jumping to present: twisting, tilting, flipping, flashing, spreading, prancing, moving. Nowadays, the lateral turn in the air also has a new development.

Chinese classical dance has initially formed our nation's own set of training system, and this system already has a relatively strong national identity, with our national aesthetic characteristics and aesthetic norms, with our difficulty and artistic expression.

By fully understanding the national characteristics of these techniques and skills, in order to better grasp the main points of their movements during the training process, can also give us confidence.

Professor Li Zhengyi said in his interpretation of "classical dance" that it is not a replica of the ancient dance, but a new classical dance based on the strong aesthetics of the traditional dance and adapted to the appreciation habits of modern people.

It is based on the principles of national aesthetics, such as opera and martial arts, and absorbs the beneficial parts of foreign arts, such as ballet, so as to make it an independent dance genre and system with national and contemporary characteristics.

Classical dance is also characterized by its rhythm, which is inseparable from the characteristics of our national music, which is seldom as strong as Western music, with the same strength and weakness, and has a regular uniform, pulsating rhythm, and is generally characterized by elastic rhythms and dotted lines.

The rhythm is reflected in the attachment point (stretching - rushing) or cut (rushing - stretching) or the two ends of the stretching in the middle of the rushing, or the two ends of the rushing in the middle of the stretching, or the tight playing and slow doing, or the slow playing and tight doing and so on.

Thus, the formation of the inner rhythm of the action, such as the soft, static, slow and urgent, put and take, through the ...... staccato, point and line combination, which produces our specific rhythmic characteristics and sense of rhythm.