What's the difference between China and ballet?

Ballet-European classical dance. Perform dramatic plots through music and dance skills. Ballet art was born in Italy, in the court of Louis XIV of France in the late17th century, perfected in France in the late18th century, and entered a prosperous era in Russia in the late19th century. In the long historical growth process of nearly 400 years, ballet has become an all-round development art form in all countries of the world.

China dance, as a kind of dance art in China, was once called "drama dance" by some people, and it is a mixture of drama and dance. China traditional opera and martial arts are the basis for the establishment of China classical dance training, and the basic training of China classical dance fully embodies the distinctive national characteristics of our Chinese nation.

2. Training methods

In ballet training, most movements are big joint movements, emphasizing opening, stretching and straightness, and the movements are straight, stretched and atmospheric; China dances with many skills, including neck, ankle and even fingers. Every national dance emphasizes the posture of "three bends".

Objectively speaking, the basic training of ballet is the most scientific, whether in shaping body shape or training human body function. Therefore, China Dance and other kinds of dances draw lessons from the experience of basic ballet training, and some representative movements of this major will be added for training.

3. Basic posture

The basic posture of ballet is to change the "S"-shaped arc of the human spine (that is, the four physiological bends formed by the neck, chest, waist and sacrum), correct the position of the spine, ribs and pelvis, and pursue the vertical standing of the human body from the feet to the top of the head as much as possible, and straighten the body arc as much as possible. Of course, the body posture will be more straight than in the natural form.

Many movements of China dance require femininity. The upper body movements include not only flexion and extension, but also gyration and lateral rotation. If it is contained, ashamed, rushing and leaning, it is the extension and flexion of the spine, and the torsion needs to be rotated; In addition to turning, the sleeping cloud needs to turn sideways.

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The relationship between China dance and ballet;

The aesthetic characteristics of China dance are quite similar to those of ballet, which is to enjoy stretching, stretching and opening outward. However, China dance has many body rhythms that ballet does not have, which makes the characters more vivid and the action content more colorful.

In ballet, stretching, opening, flexing, lifting and kicking are common in China dance. Those jumps, spins, and so on will also appear frequently in China dance, but China dance, with its unique connecting dance steps and the unique "lifting, sinking, containing, lifting" and "shape, spirit, strength and rhyme" of China dance, will be better than ballet in combination and drama.

China's dance draws lessons from the elements of western ballet. Ballet has a profound influence on China's dance. If five thousand years of China culture is regarded as the biological mother of China dance, then the scientific training system of ballet is equivalent to the wet nurse of China dance. Western ballet nurtured the young China dance with its own milk. Because of this, there is a close relationship between China dance and ballet.

With the long history of ballet and the constant exploration of experts, a correct human training system has been developed. It is precisely because of the formal training system of ballet that China Dance has added many basic elements of ballet to the basic training class.