What is square dancing

Square dancing has a long history. According to art historians, the earliest art produced by mankind is dance, and square dance is the mother of dance. Square dance originates from social life, produced in the people, the masses are the creators and performers of square dance. In the long river of history, the people not only created the square dance, and the development of the square dance, so that the flower of folk art y rooted in the social life of the masses, generations of inheritance, generations of the same, everlasting. Square dance is one of the largest subsystems in the art of dance. China has more than fifty nationalities, single Han nationality has thousands of square dance forms. Each ethnic group has its own unique form of square dance, square dance in almost every corner of the motherland. Take Shanxi to speak, the county have their own square dance, the village have square dance activities. So square dance is a very important art form in China and even in the world. Square Dance Definition How do people define square dance? Many people say that square dance is folk dance, which is an incorrect statement. Square dance should be divided by the form of performance, not by the type of dance. Can't modern dance and ballet be performed in square dance? Society is developing and so is the art of dancing. In the past, people defined square dance as a type of dance itself is a narrow definition. I think square dance is a form of performance, not a type of dance, but the proportion of folk dance in the square dance is relatively large. Of course, square dance has its own performance form and structural characteristics. In today's square dance, there are various forms of square dance that utilize various kinds of dances. For example, Shanxi has held four consecutive square art festivals, in which folk dance, ballet, modern dance and so on appeared in many dance programs. These dances are very suitable for square performance. But no matter what dance is called square dance is also not proper. All dances can be danced in the square, but not all dances can be called square dances. Commonly referred to as urban squares, campuses, factories by the people of the collective performance of the dance. Distinguished from the countryside villagers on the occasion of the annual festival of self-indulgence, collective folk dance; also distinguished from the stage by a number of people performing group dance. Collective dance as an urban mass dance, with a strong self-indulgence, dance steps are generally relatively simple, formation changes are not complex, is a relatively easy to carry out the "everyone jumps" for the active workers, students, the public's spare time and cultural life is extremely beneficial to most of the collective dance movements, from China's folk dances or the West! Now most of the group dance movements come from China's folk dances or western ballroom dances. Often refers to urban squares, campuses, factories by the people's collective performance of the dance. Distinguished from the rural villagers on the occasion of the annual festival of self-indulgence, collective folk dance; also distinguished from the stage by a number of people performing group dance.