What is the difference between Chinese dance and folk dance

Chinese dance includes Chinese folk dance and Chinese classical dance. Folk dance is further divided into Chinese folk dance and foreign folk dance, and it should be said that every country will have its own folk dance.

1, Chinese dance, as a category in China's dance art, is on the basis of traditional folk dance, through successive generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process, create, and after a longer period of artistic practice of the test down to a certain exemplary significance of the characteristics of the classical style of dance.

2. Folk dance refers to the dance forms that are produced and circulated in folklore, subject to the constraints of folk culture, improvised but relatively stable style, and with the main function of self-indulgence. Folk dance is not lacking in simplicity, form, rich content, vivid image and other characteristics, has always been the countries of classical dance, folk dance, court dance and professional dance creation indispensable source of material.

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Characteristics of Chinese Dance

1. The rotational technique in the basic training of Chinese Dance is mainly characterized by the twisting and tilting form of the dance structure, which is very different from that in the basic training of ballet. The rotations in the ballet basic training are straight, and most of them are three-dimensional composition and modeling based on the frontal plane, therefore, the movements are long and stretching, with a strong sense of extension.

2. The rotation in the basic training of Classical Chinese Dance, in addition to the straight body rotation, is characterized by the body shape in the twisting and tilting rotation of the dance posture modeling, so the movement shows the slenderness in the gracefulness, the continuation of the rapid band in the air, and the change of the rotating conchoidal shape, such as the reverse tucking of the legs back to the chest, backward and sideways turn.

3. The characteristics of the waist with the movement of the turn, the formation of Chinese classical dance basic training in the turn of the starting method of a variety of ways, and more generally in the process of moving up the body method.

4. In the basic training of classical Chinese dance, the "body method" is very strong, and some of the national dances can be said to be the continuation and exaggeration of the body method.

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