The aesthetic characteristics and social functions of dance determine the unique charm of this art form. With the continuous progress of human society, the art of dance has also been greatly developed. As one of the important contents of off-campus education, children's dance has a broad market and mass base for a long time. A considerable number of students have been promoted to key middle schools and universities with their dancing skills, and some students have been admitted to art colleges and become professional dancers with their dancing skills. They are all beneficiaries of off-campus education. But as far as the author has been engaged in off-campus education for nearly 20 years, I have also seen many unsatisfactory situations: during the four or five years of participating in dance classes, they only did basic training and never learned a dance, let alone expressed their feelings in dance. They even thought that leg press and Handan were activities in dance class. It can be seen that a reasonable grasp of the dialectical relationship between physical training and dance performance is the key to improve the quality of dance teaching and stimulate students' interest in learning dance.
One. ? Moving? With what? Love? Relationship between
Dance is an art with exquisite, organized and beautified human movements as the main means of expression. It requires dancers to have good figure and necessary dancing conditions. Anyone who learns to dance must receive basic skills training, so that his body has certain flexibility, stability, coordination and flexibility, but these are not enough, and he must be inspired by emotions in the dance. Ignoring this point will inevitably lead to the result that only body movements have no emotional connotation, which will make classroom teaching out of touch with stage performance. The purpose of our dance teaching is to train a body with dance performance ability, understand and be able to speak with body movements and express inner feelings.
China's ancient music and dance theory said: Emotion moves in the heart, and actions speak louder than words. Sighing is not enough; Lament its lack, so sing it; The disadvantage of singing is that you don't know how to dance with your hands. ? This vividly shows that dance is the product of expressing people's inner feelings. If we are not driven by emotions, but only pay attention to external tension, we will act for the sake of action and skill for the sake of skill, and we can only reproduce lifeless action combinations instead of dancing. Therefore, we must not take basic skills training as the whole content of dance teaching activities, but must pay attention to the training of students' body language to enhance the expressive force of limbs. Let them know that body movements are used to convey feelings. It is the charm of dance art to arouse the audience's emotional singing with the rhythm that can produce aesthetic feeling.
Second, after teaching, use dance to bring merit.
It is beyond reproach that both students in professional colleges and students who participate in off-campus education activities should first have a good basic training in learning dance art. However, the difference between professional and non-professional teaching purposes determines that the degree and requirements of basic skills training should be different. The purpose and purpose of off-campus education determines that it is impossible to conduct comprehensive and systematic training for students like professional art colleges. The instability of the educational target and the arrangement of two hours a week can not provide teachers with an education cycle of several years. Therefore, we must adopt teaching methods that conform to the actual situation of off-campus education. Basic training is essential, but we can't ignore the learning of dance performance because we emphasize the importance of basic training. In dance teaching, there should be a finished dance in class, which can promote and bring works.
(A) to extend the interest of basic training in finished dance teaching
? Solid basic skills are the key to learning dance well? . This is what teachers often say to students. The purpose is to warn and remind students to pay attention to the training of basic skills, and it is also difficult for teachers to teach finished dance well? Theoretical basis? . But the long-term single basic training really makes students feel boring. I think teachers can change their thinking, that is, take the completed dance teaching as an extension of basic training. On this issue, the author has made some attempts. For example, when students in elementary classes practice their arms (big and small waves). Explain and practice several movements repeatedly, such as big waves, small waves, front waves, side waves and so on. Although the standardization of movements has been improved to a certain extent, students' interest is not as good as it was at the beginning. So, I adjusted my activity plan. According to the characteristics of arm exercises, learn the dance "Little Swallow". Simple dance steps and simple formation changes are not difficult for students to accept, and arm exercises can still be the focus of teaching activities. All kinds of wave movements can be reproduced on the ground, in the middle and on the way, which extends the focus of training in dance. This little dance, which lasts only three minutes, is a complete work, although it is very simple. There are themes, characters, plots and situations, which provide space for performances. Swallows fly freely and play freely, which is far more interesting for students than just arm exercises. Through practice, I summed up three points: first, the finished dance can be used as an extension of basic training; Secondly, the completed dance can enhance students' awareness of body language; Third, the completed dance can make students feel a sense of accomplishment. (At the same time, it will also get the support of parents)
Psychological theory has such a sentence when analyzing achievement motivation:? Achievement motivation is to motivate individuals to do what they think is important or valuable. And strive for success? . Mr. Yang Zhenning, a famous physicist, summed up his success in this way: The secret of my success lies in my interests and hobbies, which are the driving force of emotion and the best teacher. ? It can be seen how important it is to stimulate and protect students' interest and let them feel the joy of success for students' learning and development and to promote the development of our teaching activities.
In dance teaching activities, teachers should not only have good subjective wishes, but also have the consciousness of being responsible for objective effects. We should have strict basic skills training and pay more attention to the characteristics of off-campus education. Don't overemphasize it? Professional level? Basic training impairs students' interest in learning.
In the practice of taking finished dance teaching as an extension of basic training, we should pay special attention to two problems; First, we should always grasp the teaching focus, and we should not dilute the teaching focus because we overemphasize the non-key content; Second, the choice of finished dance should be suitable for the degree of students' training: it must be difficult, but it is too difficult, and students will be afraid, lose interest in learning and leave school. Preventing the loss of students is also one of the tests for off-campus teachers.
(B) Body language training in the finished dance teaching carrier
Dance art emotion? Language? Narration is achieved through body movements. It needs more than physical contact? Talk? , but also to describe the deep meaning different from words. This is a difficult but very important mission for dance teachers. It is an incomplete teaching method to take simple physical training and imitation movements as the teaching content, but? Formal specification? With what? Emotional counseling? The combination of teaching methods is the pursuit and need of off-campus dance teaching activities.
In the book Chinese Folk Dance Art? Emotional counseling? There is such an explanation: what is the way to channel feelings? Internal force revelation? . ? Internal force? Refers to the power guided by consciousness, flowing inside the body and expressing emotional connotation. ? Internal force revelation? Does it depend on the role of thinking imagination to dominate the emotional consciousness of the inspired person and make the body reflect different forces? . Finished dance teaching is to provide students with this kind of scene and learn to imagine under the inspiration of the teacher. Emotion belongs to imagination and is expressed by body movements. In dance teaching activities, in addition to the necessary basic training and warm-up, students should be given more opportunities to exercise their body language skills. Especially for those students who lack performance opportunities, they should choose their own dances, even dance fragments, in a planned and purposeful way. Let them experience, feel, exercise and practice.
I remember when I first entered the off-campus dance class, a colleague told me: One dance can bring out a group of children, so how many rows of dances are there? . After more than ten years, I not only agree with the above views, but also have a deeper understanding. If summed up in one sentence, it is an effective way to improve the level of dance performance to take finished dance as the carrier of physical training.
Three. Several aspects of mobilizing emotions
In dance performances, the performances that can impress people are all from the heart first, and then from the inside out, and the inner feelings and body movements form a unity. The opera world loves to say this sentence: I didn't have it in my heart. Did I go for nothing? . Without inner feelings, actions lose their meaning. In teaching activities, in addition to teaching the importance of expressing emotions in theory and skills, we can also enlighten students from the following aspects.
(1) Inspired by people, plots and environments.
Characters are the main objects of description and expression in dance works. Plot is the evolution of characters' lives and events. Environment is the background of the characters, and it is the concrete life scene and space-time atmosphere in which the plot events occur in dance. When students learn dance, they should first be clear? Who am I and what am I doing under what circumstances? . Are tenacious young trees fighting against wind and sand? Is it a happy girl who grows up healthily in the sunshine? Is it a Beijing chicken frolicking in the garden? Enlighten students with vivid language and introduce them to a place? Imagine the situation? In the middle. Let them have an emotional support at the beginning of their study. When students feel this kind of emotion and can consciously integrate it into dance movements, they can express the theme and ideological connotation of dance works.
(B) the inspiration of music melody
The aesthetic characteristics of China's music are based on artistic conception, centered on rhythm, and expressing people's thoughts and feelings and real life with sound images. Music is an important part of dance. As the ancients said:? Dancing for pleasure? That is, music is the content of dance and dance is the representation of music. Good music will definitely enhance and contrast the atmosphere of dance and add luster to dance. However, the appeal of music is not only for the audience, but also for the performers themselves. For example, dance music is mostly in ABA form, which will give people a sense of intimacy when reproducing paragraph A. Especially when the tonality changes, there will be a contrast and sublimation effect. Students should be reminded to be good at combining music and dance performances to push the stage atmosphere to a climax.
Practice has proved that to seek scientific training methods, we must first overcome the blindness of teaching and learning. Any kind of art has its own characteristics. Dance also has the above characteristics. As a dance teaching in the off-campus education system, it is different from the professional training in art colleges and the group dance learning in schools. How to make the dance teaching of off-campus professional interest groups more scientific and more in line with the characteristics of off-campus education, the key is to interweave the emotional experience of basic training and dance performance, and every dance teacher should know it, study it, master it and use it.
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