Characteristics of classical dance

The characteristics of classical dance are cultural characteristics, technique characteristics, rhythm characteristics.

1, cultural characteristics

Classical dance puts great emphasis on the "form and spirit, physical and mental integration, internal and external unity" of the body rhyme. Charm is the soul of classical Chinese dance. God is in the middle and the form is outside, and the idea and emotion of "leading the form with God and transmitting God with the form" creates the real connotation of the body rhythm. Classical Chinese dance costumes are ancient, according to the specific requirements of the dance also has its own characteristics, most of the Han and Tang dances use the traditional Chinese dress.

2. Technique Characteristics

Rotation: The rotation technique in the basic training of classical Chinese dance is mainly characterized by the twisting and tilting form of the dance structure. The rotation in the basic training of Chinese classical dance, in addition to the straight body rotation, is characterized by the rotation of the body shape in the twisting and tilting dance posture, especially the "tilting" of the balance of the center of gravity on the turn, which is a three-dimensional composition on the basis of the upper and lower body into the meridian phase of shaping the image.

Turning over: Turning over is a unique form of technique in the basic training of Chinese classical dance, which is to take the waist as the axis, and the body is turned over in the state of tilting at the horizontal line. The movement runs through the forms of tilting, bending and side lifting from the beginning to the end.

Bouncing: The bouncing in the basic training of Chinese classical dance requires lightness and drift in the method of exertion, and requires the combination of looseness and tightness in the process of movement, concentration of force, and quickness in the process, and pays attention to the "force at the root and force at the tip" and the "inch strength".

3. Rhythm characteristics

Classical dance is also very prominent in the rhythm characteristics, which is inseparable from the characteristics of our national music, our national music is rarely the same as Western music, the same intensity, regular uniformity, pulsating rhythm, generally characterized by elasticity of the rhythm and combination of dots and 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, etc. Therefore, the movements formed are inherently the same. As a result, the inner rhythm of the movements formed, such as the soft, static, slow and urgent, put and take, stuttering, staccato, point and line combination, which produces our specific rhythmic characteristics and sense of rhythm.

The significance of classical dance

Chinese classical dance has initially formed a set of training system of our own, and this system has a relatively strong national identity, with our national aesthetic characteristics and aesthetic norms, and our difficulty and artistic expression, which can not be replaced by other training systems. Through a full understanding of the national characteristics of these techniques and skills, in order to better grasp the main points of their movements in the training process, but also able to give us confidence.

Classical Chinese dance, as a category in the art of dance in China, is a dance with certain exemplary significance and characteristics of classical style that has been handed down through generations of professional workers on the basis of traditional folk dance, refined, organized, processed, and created, and through a long period of testing of artistic practice.