Differences between Dunhuang and Opera Schools in Classical Dance

Differences between Dunhuang and Opera Schools in Classical Dance

In the long history of the development of Chinese classical dance, there have emerged the Chinese classical dance? four major genres? Below I have searched and organized for you about the differences between the Dunhuang school and the opera school of classical dance, welcome to read and enjoy, I hope you like it! Want to know more related information please continue to pay attention to our fresh graduates training network!

Classical Chinese dance is a category in the art of dance in China, which is the artistic crystallization of Chinese culture. As the development, exploration and innovation of Chinese classical dance deepens, its inherent style is also gradually refined, and slowly appeared in the opera (body rhyme) school, Dunhuang school, Han and Tang schools and is expected to become the fourth major school of Chinese classical dance Kun dance school branch.

A general introduction to the different schools of classical Chinese dance

1, opera school

The opera school of classical Chinese dance is inherited on the basis of Chinese opera dance and Chinese martial arts bodywork, and absorbed, borrowed from the training structure of the ballet was created. It is the foundation of classical Chinese dance. It is a school of significance, represented by Tang Mancheng and Li Zhengyi. Its development has gone through three stages:

(1) The original study of opera clips.

(2) Finding a way for Chinese classical dance and making preliminary organization.

(3) The Classical Chinese Dance Body Rhythm class ushered in the darkness and found a new way to organize and explore.

Therefore, the emergence of Classical Chinese Dance Body Rhythm Lessons not only laid a solid foundation for the establishment of its genre, but also made an epoch-making breakthrough in the development of classical Chinese dance.

2, Dunhuang school

Dunhuang dance dance image is from the ancient Chinese Dunhuang caves in the Dunhuang mural paintings in various periods, starting from the sixteen countries, the end of the Song and Yuan, up and down the continuity of more than a thousand years, with the change of different times and different forms. As early as 1920, there has been the creation of the theme from the Dunhuang mural works, like China's Peking Opera master Mr. Mei Lanfang's masterpiece, "The Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers", his creation is the use of Dunhuang caves in the eaves of the dance modeling; and in 1954, China's older generation of renowned dance artists, dance history scholars, one of the pioneers of contemporary dance, Mr. Dai Ailian creation of a duo dance "Flying", her inspiration and choreography, and the dance of the "Flying". The dance is a great example of how the dancers' inspiration and choreography can be derived from the Dunhuang frescoes, and in 1979, the Silk Road and Dunhuang frescoes were the subject of a large-scale folk dance drama called "The Silk Road Flowering Rain," which pushed Dunhuang dance to the world stage.

3. Han and Tang School

The Han and Tang dances are based on the culture of the Han and Tang dynasties, which were the most brilliant in the history of ancient Chinese civilization, and inherited the tradition of ancient dances, and took the more mature opera dances since the Ming and Qing Dynasties as the pivot to create a school, where a lot of images of dances in the dances originated from the Han dynasty's Han painting bricks, stone carvings, and some historical documents. The dance has a large number of dance images derived from Han dynasty Han painting bricks, stone carvings, and some historical records.

4. Kun Dance School

The establishment of the Kun Dance School is based on the oldest and most classic Kunqu Opera as the source of creation. The source is the Kunqu Opera, which is the oldest and most classic Chinese opera.

The different performance techniques of Dunhuang school and opera school

The Dunhuang school of dance pays great attention to the flow and curve modeling harmonization and perfect fusion during the performance. In Dunhuang dance, all the dance forms and figures are almost all derived from the mural prototypes, and many of the forms have three curved lines with an "S" shape, and there are even multiple curves, angles or curves, which is unique to Dunhuang dance, and it requires the dancers to twist their heads, shoulders, chests, hips, knees, and ankles in different directions, which is different from the feeling of the performance of the contacted opera genres. The opera genre emphasizes the circular 'art' in its performance, where the dancer's entire body movement, whether it be the hands or the upper body, should be as if it were a ? a millstone? The concept of roundness is emphasized throughout the performance, as well as in the interpretation of the dance performance. Form, spirit, strength and rhythm. and a high degree of integration of form, spirit, strength and rhythm in the interpretation of the dance performance. So this is one of the differences between the Dunhuang school and the opera school in terms of performance.

Three different artistic characteristics of the Dunhuang and opera genres

Different cultural backgrounds and different style characteristics have created different artistic characteristics of the Dunhuang and opera genres. In the long history of their development, with the continuation of culture, the passage of time, social change and the gradual change of customs and habits, their artistic characteristics have begun to enrich the subtle changes.

Four, Dunhuang school and the theater school of different aesthetic characteristics

With my understanding of classical dance and learning to deepen, performance techniques continue to improve, I feel that the theater school of dance in the performance of the performance, all the force, performance, the state of mind are looking for a kind of upward, lifting the gas condensation of the feeling; its school in the When it was established, in addition to drawing on elements of opera dance and martial arts, it also drew on ballet. It also draws on the ballet's quality genes of "open, taut, straight and standing". The quality of the genes, so it will be in the interpretation of their own characteristics of rowing round and ballet cohesion of the feeling of uplifting the clever fusion, the formation of a unique aesthetic characteristics.

Therefore, the cultural background, style, and performance of the two dances between different genres in the same genre are all different, so I'll summarize it in four words: ? Clarity, Accuracy, Preservation, Continuity? That is to say, only by sorting out their ins and outs, mastering the performance techniques accurately, preserving their own style characteristics, and continuing the classical beauty with Chinese characteristics, can we make them develop in two different routes, so that the Chinese classical dance can really reach the hundred schools of thought and blossom.