What are the basic movements of classical Chinese dance

The basic movements of Classical Chinese Dance include spinning, turning and bouncing.

Rotation refers to the dance structure characterized by twisting and tilting forms, turning around in movement and shape. Turning is a flipping movement with the waist as the axis and the body tilted at the horizontal line, and the movement runs through the twisting, tilting, pitching and side lifting forms from the beginning to the end.

Bouncing requires lightness and drift, combining loose and tight during the movement, concentrating the force, and speeding up the process, paying attention to the force at the root, exerting force at the tip, and paying attention to the inch strength. In addition, there are also foot movements, such as ring movement, hook taut, standing down the palm of the foot and so on; leg movements, such as sucking the leg, swinging the leg, lifting the leg and so on. These movements have many differences in direction, rhythm and amplitude from the traditional opera dance.

Classical dance, dance form, named in the 1950s, is a representative branch of Chinese dance, the initial basic training combined with the ballet training system, on the basis of traditional folk dance through professional workers to refine, organize, process, create the classical dance passed down is considered to be characterized by Chinese style.

Many countries and nationalities in the world have their own unique styles of classical dances. In the world, each country has gradually accumulated and formed traditional dances with exemplary significance and unique styles during the long history of its own people.

Historical Origins

The name of Classical Chinese Dance was first proposed by Mr. Ouyang Yuqian in 1950, and then it was agreed by people in the dance industry and widely spread, and was finally confirmed. Contemporary Classical Chinese Dance has a blood relationship with ancient Chinese dance, but it is not synonymous with ancient Chinese dance.

Contemporary Classical Chinese Dance was founded after the founding of New China by Tang Mancheng, Li Zhengyi and other dancers of Beijing Dance Academy, who gradually summarized and generalized on the basis of Chinese Opera Dance and Chinese martial arts. The concept of Chinese classical dance has its own history, more stylized meaning, it is also a developing concept.